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Post by joefrombow on Aug 9, 2018 7:07:15 GMT
A bit of a random few questions but ones that have always interested me , most Routemaster operated routes up until the late 90s only used RM's on Monday to Saturdays and not in the evenings , so were drivers and conductors on a 5 day rota with the Saturday as overtime ? Or did everybody on a RM rota work 6 days a week and no Sundays ? Were the EU domestic driving hours in use back in the late 80s ? Were Drivers always paired up with the same conductors ? And does anybody have any old duty cards or rotas from the late 80's early 90's ? would be really interesting to see to compare to nowadays .
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2018 9:35:28 GMT
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Post by joefrombow on Aug 9, 2018 20:29:38 GMT
Your a gentleman thanks very much will have a look . |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2018 20:31:30 GMT
Looking at those running times compared to today was interesting!
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Post by busaholic on Aug 9, 2018 21:38:41 GMT
A bit of a random few questions but ones that have always interested me , most Routemaster operated routes up until the late 90s only used RM's on Monday to Saturdays and not in the evenings , so were drivers and conductors on a 5 day rota with the Saturday as overtime ? Or did everybody on a RM rota work 6 days a week and no Sundays ? Were the EU domestic driving hours in use back in the late 80s ? Were Drivers always paired up with the same conductors ? And does anybody have any old duty cards or rotas from the late 80's early 90's ? would be really interesting to see to compare to nowadays . I'm not able to answer most of your questions, but I'll have a go at a couple. No, EU domestic driving hours didn't apply in the late '80s; no, drivers weren't always paired up with the same conductors, particularly when a garage still operated two or three crew routes, but they could ask to be e.g. there were at one time many married couples as crews, although I never heard of one where the wife was the driver! Norwood had the highest preponderance of these back in the 1960s, as I have a London Transport Magazine, produced for staff, from the period featuring some of them, on routes recognisable today like the 137 and the 3. More (!) recently there is a video on YouTube featuring the last day of crew operation on the 8 at Bow, heavily featuring a husband and wife crew who operated the last journey, and they revealed they'd been working together on the buses for decades. Sorry, I'm useless at links, but if I found it easily enough you'll be able to. Hope that's a little useful. |
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Post by paulsw2 on Aug 9, 2018 22:15:55 GMT
A bit of a random few questions but ones that have always interested me , most Routemaster operated routes up until the late 90s only used RM's on Monday to Saturdays and not in the evenings , so were drivers and conductors on a 5 day rota with the Saturday as overtime ? Or did everybody on a RM rota work 6 days a week and no Sundays ? Were the EU domestic driving hours in use back in the late 80s ? Were Drivers always paired up with the same conductors ? And does anybody have any old duty cards or rotas from the late 80's early 90's ? would be really interesting to see to compare to nowadays . I'm not able to answer most of your questions, but I'll have a go at a couple. No, EU domestic driving hours didn't apply in the late '80s; no, drivers weren't always paired up with the same conductors, particularly when a garage still operated two or three crew routes, but they could ask to be e.g. there were at one time many married couples as crews, although I never heard of one where the wife was the driver! Norwood had the highest preponderance of these back in the 1960s, as I have a London Transport Magazine, produced for staff, from the period featuring some of them, on routes recognisable today like the 137 and the 3. More (!) recently there is a video on YouTube featuring the last day of crew operation on the 8 at Bow, heavily featuring a husband and wife crew who operated the last journey, and they revealed they'd been working together on the buses for decades. Sorry, I'm useless at links, but if I found it easily enough you'll be able to. Hope that's a little useful. Crews were normally paired up on a Rota we used to work a 5 day week with split rest days Sun mon sun tues sun we’d sun thurs sun fr sat sun and repeat |
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Post by joefrombow on Aug 10, 2018 1:41:27 GMT
I'm not able to answer most of your questions, but I'll have a go at a couple. No, EU domestic driving hours didn't apply in the late '80s; no, drivers weren't always paired up with the same conductors, particularly when a garage still operated two or three crew routes, but they could ask to be e.g. there were at one time many married couples as crews, although I never heard of one where the wife was the driver! Norwood had the highest preponderance of these back in the 1960s, as I have a London Transport Magazine, produced for staff, from the period featuring some of them, on routes recognisable today like the 137 and the 3. More (!) recently there is a video on YouTube featuring the last day of crew operation on the 8 at Bow, heavily featuring a husband and wife crew who operated the last journey, and they revealed they'd been working together on the buses for decades. Sorry, I'm useless at links, but if I found it easily enough you'll be able to. Hope that's a little useful. Crews were normally paired up on a Rota we used to work a 5 day week with split rest days Sun mon sun tues sun we’d sun thurs sun fr sat sun and repeat Thank you that must of been a pain in the backside having split rest days , but makes sense now thinking about it I guess it was a bit hard for management to do a rota over 6 days any other way . |
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Post by moz on Aug 10, 2018 17:37:57 GMT
I'm not able to answer most of your questions, but I'll have a go at a couple. No, EU domestic driving hours didn't apply in the late '80s; no, drivers weren't always paired up with the same conductors, particularly when a garage still operated two or three crew routes, but they could ask to be e.g. there were at one time many married couples as crews, although I never heard of one where the wife was the driver! Norwood had the highest preponderance of these back in the 1960s, as I have a London Transport Magazine, produced for staff, from the period featuring some of them, on routes recognisable today like the 137 and the 3. More (!) recently there is a video on YouTube featuring the last day of crew operation on the 8 at Bow, heavily featuring a husband and wife crew who operated the last journey, and they revealed they'd been working together on the buses for decades. Sorry, I'm useless at links, but if I found it easily enough you'll be able to. Hope that's a little useful. Crews were normally paired up on a Rota we used to work a 5 day week with split rest days Sun mon sun tues sun we’d sun thurs sun fr sat sun and repeat Hated those split rest days. However, at RA it was simpler - every weekend off! Moz |
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Post by RM5chris on Aug 14, 2018 20:28:38 GMT
My Partner was a 73 driver on the RMLs (and later the bendies at AR and LV) at Tottenham. In the 00s if you were a crew driver you could go and work Sundays at Clapton on the 38s as their RMLs worked on Sundays
I have got a 00s Crew timecard and a 2010 bendybus timecard for the 73's I can upload to Flickr if your interested.
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Post by joefrombow on Aug 16, 2018 0:06:10 GMT
My Partner was a 73 driver on the RMLs (and later the bendies at AR and LV) at Tottenham. In the 00s if you were a crew driver you could go and work Sundays at Clapton on the 38s as their RMLs worked on Sundays I have got a 00s Crew timecard and a 2010 bendybus timecard for the 73's I can upload to Flickr if your interested. Yes please that would be great , just find it interesting seeing how things worked back then and how traffic has drastically changed in the last 10/20 years . |
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Post by RM5chris on Aug 16, 2018 17:49:44 GMT
My Partner was a 73 driver on the RMLs (and later the bendies at AR and LV) at Tottenham. In the 00s if you were a crew driver you could go and work Sundays at Clapton on the 38s as their RMLs worked on Sundays I have got a 00s Crew timecard and a 2010 bendybus timecard for the 73's I can upload to Flickr if your interested. Yes please that would be great , just find it interesting seeing how things worked back then and how traffic has drastically changed in the last 10/20 years . 73 Dutycard for RML buses dated 2001 Route 73 Duty 60, 2001 mon-fri card |
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Post by RM5chris on Aug 16, 2018 19:53:41 GMT
My Partner was a 73 driver on the RMLs (and later the bendies at AR and LV) at Tottenham. In the 00s if you were a crew driver you could go and work Sundays at Clapton on the 38s as their RMLs worked on Sundays I have got a 00s Crew timecard and a 2010 bendybus timecard for the 73's I can upload to Flickr if your interested. Yes please that would be great , just find it interesting seeing how things worked back then and how traffic has drastically changed in the last 10/20 years . Route 73 duty timecard for 'bendy-buses' dated 2010 Route 73 Duty 115 Mon-Fri 2010 |
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