Life on the Routemaster relived in photo tribute

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For the final 18 months of the Routemaster's service he photographed life on the buses and now the results are being published in a book called Last Stop.

Mr Obergfell, 37, said: "I had been attracted to the Routemaster ever since I saw it on television at my parents' house when I was growing up in Germany.

"There was the design of the bus, the rounded curves and the chrome, and the fact there was an open platform and conductor - it was really unusual. Then, when I came to London 16 years ago, I loved riding them so decided we needed to create a tribute to the bus. They were a design icon, a piece of London's street furniture."

Many of the photographs in the book were taken on the 19 and 38 routes, which run from Finsbury Park and Hackney to the West End and on to Knightsbridge and Chelsea.

These are the routes Mr Obergfell himself uses most regularly from his home in east London.

"I came across lots of different people - Londoners as well as visitors," he said. "There was some kind of communal spirit on the bus. It felt safe."