The 84 may be entirely commercial now, with the appropriate fares and passes accepted within Hertfordshire and Greater London respectively, but little has changed to make it anything other than a red London bus service. After a four-year interlude with London Country, Potters Bar garage resumed operations in 1986 and only the buses have changed, progressing through Metrobuses and Volvo Ailsas, via Scanias and Metrobuses (again) to today's Volvo Olympians with occasional Darts, and Tridents on Sundays.

The route has linked St Albans with New Barnet for generations, but until the 1970s it continued on to Walthamstow, Crooked Billet. So, just for today, the first and last journeys of RT 3062 started and finished there, and this is where the bus is pictured at six o'clock. Even then the bus and its crew's working day was not over, as it was decided to head into town and take up a journey on the Jubilee Line rail replacement mounted over the weekend between Baker Street and Kingsbury. Blue Triangle, as always, had large numbers of its buses out on such work, and yesterday saw both RT 3062 and its stablemate RT 3871 used.

Thanks to Blue Triangle and Metroline for another enjoyable day out. And RT 3062 is scheduled to be the fifth of eleven special buses commemorating the 36's last day as a crew route on Friday 28th January. It may not be able to replicate its very nimble North Circular Road performance on the busy 36 roads, though!