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Look around London: The London bus
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We take a look at the iconic red double decker.
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Hello and welcome to another edition of Look Around London. Today we're looking at the
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iconic London Bus, which is one of the city's most recognisable symbols, but its story goes
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back nearly 200 years. In the 1820s, London's first horse-drawn buses, called Omnibuses,
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began carrying passengers through crowded streets. By the early 1900s, these were replaced
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by motorbuses, making travel faster and more reliable. In 1956, the iconic red double-decker
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routemaster was introduced, designed to carry large numbers of people while navigating narrow
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roads. It quickly became a global symbol of London. Today, London's buses are modern,
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accessible and increasingly electric, carrying millions of passengers every day, while continuing
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a tradition of public transport that has shaped the city's life for generations.
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