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17430 LX51 FKD on route 208 with 395 C395 DML in hot pursuit up the hill that is Crofton Road
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395 C395 DML climbs the hill out of Orpington en route to Fairfield Halls
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About 5 mins later, AEC Reliance JTM 109V (the last AEC built bus), is in hot pursuit of 395
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395 C395 DML follows Trident 17430 up the hill
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AEC Reliance JTM 109V in the Forestdale estate, once the roots of the Metrobus original bus network
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Whilst in Forestdale shortly after the procession was ENL7 LJ07 EBO on route T31
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395 C395 DML turns left into Bardolph Avenue under the greenery that is Forestdale
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395 C395 DML in Courtwood Lane, Forestdale bound for Fairfield Halls
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JTM 109V about to depart Orpington after the running day
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JTM 109V and her owner Peter Larking, former MD and co founder of Metrobus in 1983, stands beside me
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JTM 109V with the mighty Orpington College building in the background
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JTM 109V with Orpington police station overlooking the bus stand
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JTM 109V on her way back to her home in East Sussex pulls away from Orpington this was the last photo of the day of this bus, I wonder when she will return to the area again!
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JTM 109V at Gravel Pit Way, once the stand for route 357, although the original stand was Mortimer Road which is now a cul-de-sac a few hundred yards behind the wall