<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Blackpool_Transport_Routemasters" title="Blackpool Transport Routemasters">Blackpool Transport Routemaster</a> bus 522, ex-<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Routemaster_bus_RM848" title="Routemaster bus RM848">RM848</a> (reg. WLT 848), pictured opposite the North Pier operating route 5A to Grange Park. RM848/522 was one of the first 5 bought by the company from London Transport in April/May 1986, joining the trial bus (522) which had arrived in January 1986. As seen here in this image, some of them entered service still in London Transport's classic red livery - all had received Blackpool's own half red half white Routemaster livery by September 1986.
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