<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arriva_London" class="extiw" title="w:Arriva London">Arriva London</a> special purposes fleet <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Routemaster_bus_RM2217" title="Routemaster bus RM2217">Routemaster bus RM2217</a> (reg. CUV 217C), operating <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Buses_route_159" class="extiw" title="w:London Buses route 159">London Buses route 159</a> on 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>. As part of the special fleet, RM2217 was chosen to operate the official last Routemaster journey on the day, preceeded by two duplicates, operated by red <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Routemaster_bus_RM5" title="Routemaster bus RM5">RM5</a> and gold <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Routemaster_bus_RM6" title="Routemaster bus RM6">RM6</a> also drawn from the special fleet. This last service was to be a run from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marble_Arch" class="extiw" title="w:Marble Arch">Marble Arch</a> to <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streatham_Hill" class="extiw" title="w:Streatham Hill">Streatham Hill</a>, Telford Avenue</i>, a short working of route 159 terminating at the last stop before Arriva's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brixton" class="extiw" title="w:Brixton">Brixton</a> bus garage, rather than the usual terminus of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streatham_railway_station" class="extiw" title="en:Streatham railway station">Streatham Station</a>. With RM5 and then RM6 leaving a few minutes ahead of it, RM2217 was due to leave at 12.10. It's pictured here operating the last service, at the bottom of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_(London)" class="extiw" title="en:Haymarket (London)">Haymarket</a> in Westminster, heading south.
<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@N00/72104804">The Final Routemaster, 9th December 2005.</a>