The 90's London Bus: Every colour except red!

Not surprisingly with tourism in mind, as the red London double-decker is one of the capital's biggest icons Transport for London was rather concerned that with deregulation and the tendering of routes new operators were overlooking that heritage. As you can see in this view only the glimpsed Routemaster is in traditional red whilst the London and Country, Grey Green and Kentish buses wear their rather attractive new designer colours. So others had to follow the lead of operators like Stagecoach who had retained red for it's Selkent buses and maybe in hindsight it was no bad thing as the once almost universal British urban red bus is now something of a rarity, and at least in London not only do we see them in all their glory we get away from the bland ultramarine and sandstone of Arriva and the grey and Barbi pastel hues colours of First Bus which make our provincial city streets so much the same and visually uninspiring. Also for the record in this view is a Plaxton bodied Volvo coach belonging to Kentish which was previously registered H832 AHS and I expect new to Park's of Hamilton.