A Trivial Question

[pitdiver]

A very trivial enquiry
. On the old Green Line Coaches than ran through and around London were the conductors allowed to sit down as they were long journeys?

 

[PeterC]

I have only travelled on 2 person operated routes on types RT and RCL. These were heavily used services stopping at roughly every second or third stop in the outer suburbs. Conductors would generally be too busy on the 721 which was my regular service.

Not Green Line but on the old 247 it was common for conductors to sit in the open country section from Warley to Harold Wood. I have no idea if LT had rules either way

 

[Jon_jpwh]

A very trivial enquiry
. On the old Green Line Coaches than ran through and around London were the conductors allowed to sit down as they were long journeys?

As a boy I remember travelling on a Green Line using a single deck RF and the conductor sat on, what I think was, a single seat which was behind the drivers cab.

 

[izvor]

Rule 79: Except when engaged upon the collection of fares, answering enquiries and the performance of other such duties conductors must be on the platform of their vehicles, ready to assist passengers and on the alert for intending passengers. (LT Country Buses & Coaches Rule Book, 1967)

A rule clearly designed for open-platform double-decks. There wasn't really a "platform" as such on the RF single decks so I would suggest that rule was open to interpretation!

I commuted to/from school on a Green Line in the 1960s and I seem to remember the conductor would usually stand in the staircase well by the door, at the front beside the driving cab or, as @Jon_jpwh says, sit on the single seat behind it at quiet times.