Preserved <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Routemaster_bus_RM980" title="Routemaster bus RM980">Routemaster bus RM980</a> (reg. USK 625) pictured in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament_Square" class="extiw" title="w:Parliament Square">Parliament Square</a>, London, on 9 December 2005. It is heading clockwise around the north east corner of the square, in the small curved slip road from Great George Street to St Margret Street, with the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Churchill_statue,_Parliament_Square" title="Category:Churchill statue, Parliament Square">statue of Winston Churchill</a> to the left, and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HM_Revenue_and_Customs" class="extiw" title="w:HM Revenue and Customs">HM Revenue and Customs</a> building in the background. While the bus looks like it is still in London service, it's pictured here running as a private vehicle (ie not in passenger service), one of several doing the same to mark the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/London_Routemaster_last_day" title="London Routemaster last day">last day of non-heritage Routemaster operation in London</a> (see the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Preserved_ex-Stagecoach_East_London_Routemaster_bus_RM980_(USK_625)_Parliament_Square_9_December_2005_cropped.jpg" class="mw-redirect" title="File:Preserved ex-Stagecoach East London Routemaster bus RM980 (USK 625) Parliament Square 9 December 2005 cropped.jpg">closer cropped image</a> of the bus for more specific information on the history of the bus and the occasion).
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/35765599@N00">Jon Bennett</a>
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originally posted to <b><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Flickr" class="mw-redirect" title="Flickr">Flickr</a></b> as <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/35765599@N00/72084647">Winston looks on, bemused...</a>