London Buses at Night

Ever wondered how the BBC and other program makers get street scenes in London during the evening with little or no traffic….? Well generally it’s because the filming is done late into the night and in the early hours of the morning.

Not content with one bus, this time we will have an RT from the collection at Brooklands, RTL 139 and a privately owned RM, RM 1962. While both buses are from different eras of LT the overlap in service was so great that during the 1960's and early 1970's both types would have been regularly seen pounding the streets together. As with our previous trips we will be visiting various location around the City of London after dark, this time starting in the west of London and then heading to Parliament Square before moving on to places like Tower Bridge, St Pauls the Embankment. With a reduced number of participants we are planning to visit some locations like Russell Square and Westminster Bridge, otherwise not possible with a larger group.

These buses are London icons as famous say Flying Scotsman or Buckingham Palace, RT's were finally withdrawn from service in the mid 1970's with the RM's holding onto their streets well into the 21st Century with two tourist routes still operating them to this day.

Our evening of photography will start at the London Bus Museum, Brookland’s, Weybridge at around 7.30pm where we will board RTL 139 and travel in style to our first destination in the Capital. From here we will take in as many locations as possible before heading back to Brooklands for an arrival back at around 3.00am (Sunday morning). We will, where possible pose our buses up to allow slower shutter speeds and will use our RM to hold/block traffic from behind to allow more period correct photography. In addition to having these icons back on the streets of the Capital we also plan to have some of our re-enactor friends come along to add to the scenes where possible.

Our night of photography will run for approximately 6 hours and will see us return to Brookland’s at around 3.00am.

Event cost £69.00 per person.

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Event location, Meeting at Brooklands Museum, Weybridge, Surrey, UK.