Around 9.00 pm on New Year's Eve and Oxford Street is as congested as ever. I walked with this
President of Metroline from Baker Street to Regents Street. It is seen here outside Selfridges.
There were plenty of buses around with
good loads on - even before the free fares started. Regents Street and all streets south of Oxford
Street were traffic free areas and many buses were terminating at Oxford Circus.
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 The last minute of the old millennium |
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It took some time for the crowds to disperse, so it was gone 2.00am when Marylebone High Road
was reached. Oxford Street was virtually busless and those that did pass by were well laden!
So the first bus picture of the New Millennium is this Volvo/Jonckheere Deauville of premier
London operator Clarke's - complete with the most appropriate message on its digital display -
'Happy New Year'
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The first real bus of the night was yet another President, a Trident on the N139.
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The first real bus of the night? Certainly the first Routemaster of the New Millennium, an RMC of
Leaside, clearly not wishing all the fun of the night to be left to those new fangled buses....
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...... like yet another President of Centrewest on the N18.
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Olympians were about too, this Alexander bodied example was being used on the N16 by Metroline -
this one's actually in service!
One of the last NCME bodied Olympians of Centrewest, normally found on the 83 was too quick for the
camera as it went by on the N139.
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