was blakey's moustache real?

They recently took the last one out of service in London. They still have double deckers there and all over the UK, but not like the ones in On The Buses. The ones in use now are totally enclosed and usually with one door at the front. Some variations have another door in the middle, but the open entrance/exit at the back is now dead :(

There are some open platfrom double decker buses, Routemasters, still used on heritage routes through the centre of the capital past the famous landmarks. These are scheduled normal bus services but shorter duplicate versions of the number 9 and 15 routes and use nothing but Routemasters.

Although these buses are operated under contract to TfL, and accept standard Travelcards, Oystercards or cash fares, they are not considered part of the regular Tfl bus network, and only operate for a limited time during the day duplicating short sections of two regular London bus routes. The Heritage routes operate around 10 buses each[20], with 5 each in reserve.

Heritage route 9: Royal Albert Hall — Hyde Park Corner — Piccadilly Circus — Trafalgar Square — Strand — Aldwych.
Heritage route 15: Trafalgar Square — Strand — Aldwych — Fleet Street — Cannon Street — Monument — Tower Hill.

From January 1st 2017 it will no longer be legal to operate a double decker that is not fully accessible by a person in a wheelchair. Routemaster buses will by then have been out of production for forty-nine years.