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The W12 Solos are also 7.8m like the ones Metroline have for the Hampstead Garden Suburb routes, while the W5 Solo batch are longer at 8.8m so those ones are basically the same length as a short E200.
SL1 is operated by Arriva's Palmers Green garage like the 34 & 102 as such the driver changeovers take place at the stop by the junction to Green Lanes.
All of the Go North West Scanias are Euro 6 as they were modified while they were with RATP London as TfL required all of their buses to meet Euro 6 standards from March 2021 (With few covid related exemptions where in place until that Summer for school services).
That will depend on when the infrastructure works at Southall for the chargers are complete as the GB Kites for the E7 which are also due to be used out of Southall are currently being stored across various Abellio garages in the meantime until the chargers are ready to be used in daily service.
HK is Stagecoach/HCT share of Ash Grove garage, while the Arriva part of Ash Grove garage is AE.
For those of you who don't know, Ash Grove is one of the few London garages that is shared between two different operators along with Edgware that is shared between Metroline & RATP and Fulwell that...
New to Romford Garage, so always been part of the Stagecoach London fleet since new in 2012.
It is not the first time Stagecoach London had their buses registered in Essex as their pre-2001 buses like the Y NHK/FJN, X NNO/WNO, V MEV/OWC/KJN, T KPU, S BWC to new a few are actually Chelmsford...
108 is actually run by Morden Wharf garage in Greenwich with the exception of two weekday trips that is run by New Cross using ex 507/521 SEe16/17 in the meantime and those trips were used to be done by 2015 Irizar electrics EI1/EI2 until they got withdrawn.
Apart from a few out of service runs along the 390 route from a few months ago, the electric convert LT11 still isn't being used in normal service unless it has gone somewhere for further testing related developments.
RATP Park Royal was used by First/Tower Transit from 2011 to 2017 as an outstation to Westbourne Park while the Crossrail works were taking place and then RATP took the same site a few months later when they won the 18 from Metroline.
Fittingly both Park Royal and Westbourne Park garages are...
All of that batch except Ee75 have already entered service on the 119 & 264 in the last few weeks. About 9 of those hybrids that these electrics replaced are likely due for River Road when they gain the 368 from Arriva at the end of April, while the rest are also likely to move onto another...
You're right both Kent and East Scotland did receive some Omncitys in 2019, to be fair I was referring to the second time Stagecoach planned to send some outside of London in 2021 when Rainham received the electrics on the 174.
East Scotland and Kent were meant to receive a handful of London's 58reg Omnicitys in 2021 and planned for a single-door conversion, but in the end that didn't happen and most of those Scanias ended up staying in London as an open top for the City Sightseeing service to supplement the former...
https://tfl.gov.uk/forms/13796.aspx?btID=1967 - Comes under the notes section as specified with new electrics bearing in mind that it mentions HCT Group as the successful tender as the tender announcement for the W5 was long before HCT in London was sold to Stagecoach.
If we include London, then they have 12 9.4m Metrocitys that were ordered by Tower Transit due for the 339 route in early-mid 2023 and also about 8 or so small electrics around the 8.9m length (The exact number and type are yet to be confirmed) for the W5 route as part of their acquisition of...
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