Seen here on South Street, Romford, near Romford Station, in late 05/1992, this Olympian was new to Ensign, Purfleet, the wellknown bus dealership, in 11/1989, following on from four delivered a month earlier. Ensign were operating tendered LRT services and the London Pride sightseeing operation under the Ensignbus banner. Capital Citybus was formerly known as Ensignbus and was the trading name of Frontrunner South East and Walthamstow Citybus Ltd. Ensignbus had been involved in tendered operations since 06/1986 with Fruntrunner South East being acquired from Stagecoach three years later with the LRT and commercial services becoming known as Ensign Citybus in 07/1990. Frontrunner was then sold to Hong Kong based CNT Group in 12/1990. The separate Walthamstow Citybus operation began in Autumn 1991. All these changes meant that this visit to Romford was a colourful if not confusing scene as there was also a change with some County Bus & Coach operations transferring to Grey-Green, of which more later.
The camera being a Praktica MTL3 with the film being the excellent 'Fujichrome' colourslide.
I would request, as with all my photos, that they are not copied or downloaded in any way, shape or form. © Peter Steel 1992.
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