Buses of Scotland 1989-Strathtay Routemasters in Dundee

Another provincial Routemaster bus vid now, this time Strathtay Scottish Routemasters at work in Dundee and Monifieth including shots in the bus garage in Dundee. This era was the time ex London Routemasters were at work all over the UK. Dundee and Perth were about as far north as they worked, in a eye catching livery. If you liked the video please subscribe to my channel, there are lots more transport & quirky vids to upload!

[@MrStabby19812]

Excellent. I remember seeing that red RM sitting near the door for years I think it was still there until they shut the depot.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Yes, it appeared to be their spares bus and never worked for them.

[@degg101]

Beautiful!!

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Thank you, i will have to get my Perth Routemaster vid uploaded soon.....

[@jimpatrickson5708]

This is great footage thanks for sharing it.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Thank you, Perth Routemasters to follow soon.....

[@robertofraser101]

Thank you very much great footage appreciated a lot

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

My pleasure...Have you seen the one i did in Perth ruclips.net/video/LMX9vlp2c2U/видео.html

[@borderlands6606]

The destination blind appears to be in the same typeface as LT. Presumably London buses had their own printer, or did companies outsource the job to a specialist? I'm imaging a bloke in Elstree writing down the names of Dundee pubs and cemeteries for the route blind.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

London Transport did indeed make their own blinds, at Aldenham Works in Elstree. They were silk-screen printed paper labels (called bills) that were glued onto rolls of linen with an industrial glue called Vinelac (now bannned!) on giant machines in the Blind Shop. If you get an unused LT made blind even today you can smell the glue! There was a rack with a lot of commonly used bills already printed (Victoria, Aldwych ect) but others were made to order as garages need blinds, so the Scottish ones would have been made to order. In the mid 80s LT started to have Tyvek (a paper-ry plastic type of blind) made by McKenna's and after Aldenham/Chiswick shut they then made most London blinds.

[@borderlands6606]

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus That's very interesting. thanks. As a printer early in my working life, I often wondered how the blinds were put together.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

@@borderlands6606 Other companies used to print straight onto linen until the early 1980s when Tyvek made an appearence and polyester has also been used.

[@jamessimpson6138]

This is great footage. How did you come across it?

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

I filmed it! (as most of the uploads on my channel are, even today i'm still out & about filming). I read a book about where all the ex London Routemasters were working and chased them around the country. I have other places to upload in the future and have three other non London vids up already. A Glasgow one is here ruclips.net/video/nvDs1i7ggBs/видео.html, enjoy!

[@jamessimpson6138]

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus I work for the local paper in Dundee (Evening Telegraph) we'd be really keen to highlight it.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

@@jamessimpson6138 Feel free, i am more than happy for more people to view it. I also have some from Perth, my next stop after Dundee. They also had Routemasters there and as i had come that far it was rude not to film them as well. It helped i was working on the railway then and had a rail staff discount travel card. I will get the Perth one up in due course.

[@trainandbusfan5706]

Looking forward to seeing the rm,s in Perth.Keep up the good work with your superb videos.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

@@jamessimpson6138 Hello again, hope you had a good Christmas? If it's of any interest i have uploaded my other Strathtay Routemaster vid of them at work in Perth. Please feel free to share it wherever you see fit. It is here ruclips.net/video/LMX9vlp2c2U/видео.html, thanks.

[@danielholmes9392]

Where is that i saw an underground sign in Scotland??

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

On my Dundee upload here ruclips.net/video/ew8qzyXHrag/видео.html

[@stephendines1936]

You can tell they are not Ex London Transport as they have Scottish number plates.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

They are all ex London Transport buses but the old reg numbers were transfered off and onto coaches or magagers cars! Some of those running still have their LT reg, ie VLT 26 which is RM 26. Apart from London Transport only British Airways and Northern General had Routemasters and those ones had door behind the engine and no rear platform.

[@articeddie5494]

Some of these came back to London in the 90’s

[@articeddie5494]

RM38 used as a spares bus ? What garage code was ED ?

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

@@articeddie5494 Yes, RM 38 never worked for them. ED was the garage code for Elmers End which shot at the end of the 1980s (if i remember correctly).

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

@@articeddie5494 Possibly, (i can't really tell without cross-checking the re-reg'd RMs to see what their RM numbers are) as Red Ken went around buying up some for re-use.

[@barrypotter5751]

The underground sign that you saw must have been the nightclub the old Hong Kong it is now named industry

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Yes, it had a pub look about the place. And being in the morning, it was shut!