Routemaster bus RM1562

English: Routemaster bus RM1562 (reg. 562 CLT) was delivered to London Transport in April 1963. It was used in London until withdrawal in March 1994. For the next 4 years it was in the London Transport reserve fleet at Hatfield, before in 1998 being bought by the Friends of London Transport Museum for preservation. In 2001 however it was one of a batch of buses bought back by London Bus Services Ltd, being rebuilt and re-engined (Cummins) by Marshall's of Cambridge, for further use in London. It went into operation on route 13 for Sovereign Bus & Coach in December 2002, before being finally withdrawn in October 2005. After being returned to LBSL, it was selected as one of the few buses to continue in service on the Routemaster Heritage Routes, going into service allocated to First London on London Buses heritage route 9 from November 2005.

Heritage route 9

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  22 March 2007
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  1 April 2007
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  7 October 2007
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  7 December 2007
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  10 April 2008
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  25 April 2009
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  8 April 2010
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  25 June 2011
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  27 August 2011
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  27 August 2011
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  27 August 2011