Aviation Specials – June 2018

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128 The London Bus


RIGHT: RML2314
at work in Halifax,
Nova Scotia with
advertising for the
Canadian Museum
of Immigration. It is
calling at Fairview
Lawn Cemetery
where 121 of the
1,500 victims of
the 1912 Titanic
sinking are buried.
This was originally
a green Country
Area bus and ended
its London service
with Go-Ahead
London General
at Putney. It
was fitted with a
Cummins engine
in 1992.


Lives after London


Routemasters in Canada


The world’s largest operator of London Routemasters is neither in London nor


anywhere else in the UK, but in Canada’s maritime provinces where Absolute


Charters has 26 of these iconic London double-deckers used mainly to carry


cruise ship passengers on sightseeing tours


ABOVE: Nine Routemasters, eight of them in Big Pink Sightseeing livery in support of the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation,
parked on the docks in Saint John, New Brunswick on a day when no cruise ships were calling. PICTURES: ALAN MILLAR
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