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Confirmed on londonbusroutes.net that the transfer of Tower Transit Lea Interchange garage to Stagecoach will take place tomorrow with the routes and likely all the buses currently based there.
Potters Bar currently only have Optare/Switch electrics which there are 28 Metrodeckers allocated to the 134 (not counting the two destroyed in the fire and the one that returned to Optare in 2020) and the solitary non-TfL spec 8.7m Metrocity used on the Potters Bar local PB1 route.
That part of East London and bits of North London is one of the most competitive areas of London when it comes to tenders in the recent years where it is common for some of the routes in the area to receive 5 bidders for that tender and even when Lea Interchange goes to Stagecoach, you still got...
OME46031 has returned into service on the C3 this evening and there are a couple of OME's are out on the 23 this evening. For some reason the 23 have suddenly stopped tracking on LVF around 18:30, but the route can still be tracked on bustimes map.
Kielder Close stop in Hainault is only served by the night N8 that terminates at the next stop on Manford way by The Lowe and it even has a shelter that no one will ever use to board a bus from that stop (unless any buses stop there on diversion), though the shelter was there from the days when...
If it's a TfL branded bus stop pole, then it is TfL's responsibility of maintaining that stop and will have a standard TfL timetable even outside of the Greater London boundary.
For Surrey, there is a mixture of TfL stop poles and Surrey County Council poles on stops served by a TfL route, SCC...
Does anyone know if there are going to be any fleet changes i.e. withdrawals and transfers from other First divisions as part of Essex changes this Sunday?
I would imagine that the likes of Tridents, Darts and the Euro 3 Volvos would be withdrawn from Essex at some point, though I'm not too...
Optare does offer the 8.7m version of the Metrocity EV with Abellio have 11 of them on order for the 322 when they gain the route from Go-Ahead next month. I believe ADL are currently working on making a 9m version of the E200EV which should hopefully be available not too far in the future.
Both the 88 & 91 was LT operated and now uses standard hybrids instead, the 88 was swapped with the 87 in 2019 when the 88 was extended to Parliament Hill Fields to replace the withdrawn C2 and the 91 was swapped with the 17 & 332 last year after there were various incidents with the roundabout...
Tower Transit Westbourne Park (X) garage is being transferred to RATP on Saturday 11th December as part of the new joint venture between RATP & Kelsian Group (Until recently was known as SeaLink Group who owns the TT parent group) under the new London Transit licence of which RATP having the...
It should do, but despite that RATP still haven't been able to finish the electrification works at Fulwell and Harrow garages despite the tender announcements for the EV routes at those garages was announced this time last year.
S & X are both electrified so it shouldn't be too much of an...
The latest tender results for London from today:
LBSL intends to enter into new contracts for the following routes with the operators listed below:
Route
Current Operator
New Operator
PVR
Vehicles
70
London United
London United
19
Existing electric single deck
135
Docklands Buses...
I'm referring the Omnidekkas that used to be based at Croydon (C) garage on the 405, though I won't be surprised if any of the Olympus's being reinstated back in service as well.
So far I know that E60, E94 and EN33 (ex Tower Transit DN33625) are definite write off along with the 3 Citaros.
I'm hearing the recently withdrawn 07 reg Omnidekkas are going to be reinstated back in service to replace the fire damaged E400's.
Also a ex 293 SD Omnicity 561 just reinstated in service on the 358 today with few other ex 293 SD Omnicitys expected to be reinstated back in service to replace...
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