Routemaster Relic

Today's image was taken an on another wwwwmb (weekend winter walk with my brother). It is of a London Transport Routemaster bus halfway along our walk between home and the village of East Malling. It has been slowly rotting, over at least the past 20 years, in the front garden of a house near a housing estate called Four Acres (literally four acres of land with houses built on it). At one time it still had a good deal of it's red livery still intact but over the years it has faded and peeled off to such an extent that this image only really makes sense in black and white. There never appears to have been any attempt at a restoration so it does seem a mystery why the owner bought it in the first place.
My second image is of the unmanned railway crossing at East Malling Station. We also have one of these in my home village of Aylesford. It does seem strange that these still exist - you literally open a gate straight on to the railway track, look both ways to check a train is not coming, cross the track and close the gate on the other side.
My brother was in a rather pensive and quiet mood today. He has to return to work in London tomorrow despite someone at his workplace testing positive for Covid-19 - a fact which the management tried to conceal from the rest of the employees. He only found out by another employee including this in passing in the last line of an e-mail on a completely different subject. Unbelievable! Employers should not be taking any risks whatsoever with their employees health and safety at any time but especially in the midst of a pandemic! He did take this up with his direct manager but was more or less told to stop making a fuss! He did then get so-called assurances from his HR team but this only extended to confirming they were still following government guidelines and that someone testing positive was confidential! Nowhere near good enough.