Bus conductor
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A bus conductor is a person responsible for collecting fares from bus passengers and issues tickets to passengers. Bus conductors may also be responsible for helping passengers to board, keeping the b
Traditional British open-platform AEC Routemaster bus in 2005, operated with a conductor
In the post-World War II decades, some countries introduced seated conductors. On this double-decker bus—which operated in Vienna, Austria from the early 1960s—passengers boarded at the rear, passed the conductor and exited through the middle or front doors.
A bus conductor in uniform (1917)
New Routemaster
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The New Routemaster, originally referred to as the New Bus for London and colloquially as the Borismaster or Boris Bus, is a low-floor hybrid diesel–electric double-decker bus operated in London, Engl
Bus conductor
…in York, Leeds and Swansea. As of 2020 however, these have all been withdrawn. Conductors also returned to London in 2012 with the introduction of the New Routemaster. Some of the routes served by the New Routemaster did not have conductors, so the service were driver-only operated, in which the driver controlled the…
Arriva London New Routemaster at Battersea in 2024
Passengers alighting from the rear platform in 2012
Curved rear as inspired by the AEC Routemaster
Boris Johnson with a model of an original AEC Routemaster bearing a political slogan during his 2008 London mayoral campaign