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I assume it'll be news to many, especially those at Go-Ahead, that ComfortDelGro own Metrobus. :lol:

I appear to be in the minority here as I'm 100% in favour of getting Thamesmead onto the tube and rail map by any means necessary. Thamesmead's had good bus links for 60 years in the form of the 177, 229 and 472 and it's done nothing for the neighbourhood As someone on a railway forum, I look...

Routes 227 and 358 in Bromley are restricted to single deckers due to the low bridge at Shortlands. The 227 probably doesn't merit deckers anyway due to it being so short, but the 358 is getting those frankly ridiculous ieTrams...presumably at some point before the heat death of the universe :lol:

Aye, that was the original 395, which lasted until spring 2006. It was barely used iirc and I partially think it was withdrawn because the Sprinters would have been swamped when the East London Line upgrade began the following year. The smallest vehicles on TfL service nowadays must be the...

I thought I'd open this thread to cover an interesting period in London bus history, covering tendering, privatisation and the lead-up to the formation of TFL, plus copious talk about bus types after all. :lol: I have a few questions relating to MTL London Northern. Was the London Northern...

I imagine this is to replace the last 05-plate B7RLE at Ipswich (69010). Indeed, it appears Eastern Counties is now the last bastion of Euro3 B7RLE operation anywhere in the First empire, which is incredible given the sheer size of some of the batches they had back in the day.

These are lowheight diesel Streetdecks, the same age and type as the batch new to Ipswich last year. The complete electrification of First York has meant these buses are redundant. Five are due, which will retire the last quintet of B7TL/ALX400s.

I remember this company being all over the railway magazines back in the mid-2000s, with their 31s, 33s and 47s popping up almost everywhere on the network (and on Top Gear in the case of 31107!). They seemed to be prospering with the Wessex Rail contract and giving old BR locos a new lease of...

One of London General's Metrodeckers has gone up in flames this morning. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-67944657 By process of elimination on London Vehicle Finder and Bustimes the bus in question was Me12 (YJ21EYP)

I believe most of the 08/58/09 reg Enviro400s at Stagecoach are Euro6 compliant, so while they're getting up there in years they're probably still acceptable for Bee Network. There's a reason why Stagecoach are hanging onto these batches while thinning out the ranks of the Enviro400H which...

I'm a very simple person. Regulation = good, deregulation = bad. It's why I'm fully behind the Manchester and Liverpool plans. Helps that I am a Londoner of course :lol:

I will never understand why the Aldwych branch was only accessible from the northbound/eastbound line. It limited whatever limited potential the line had from the get go. Strictly into the realms of fantasy, but had the branch had a proper connection from the southbound/westbound line, it could...

Outside of the East London Line running overnight at weekends and sleeper services, are there any scheduled passenger services nowadays which reach their terminus after 2am and before 5am in the morning?

I appreciate it probably isn't possible, but I'd like to see the off-topic rule softened a bit, sometimes decent discussions which have branched onto a slightly different but related subject (for example comparisons of different bus operators) end up being cut off at the roots or sent into a new...

Are there any scheduled services for SWR 455s on the Hounslow loop services nowadays, or are these completely booked for 450s? Would be nice to get a 455 through Chiswick and Isleworth before they are finally withdrawn. I appreciate they still appear on the southern part of the loop between...

JAA708 was FoKAB's flagship vehicle, it's an absolutely devastating blow to the charity. Clutching at straws I know, but I wonder if the front of the vehicle could be salvaged as a display piece, quite like the B7TL/Gemini front at the London Transport Museum. There was a fire a few years ago...

A lot of people originating from the northern extremities of the Piccadilly heading into town will often change at Finsbury Park to the Victoria.

Heading between Waterloo and Bank you can briefly see the old tunnel to the Armstrong lift to the left shortly after leaving Waterloo. Has anyone actually visited the tunnel and taken photos? I assume the tunnel is now plugged with concrete since the Eurostar development.

Not overly surprising re the U4 - its allocation is a batch of 14 year old Enviro 400s, probably among the oldest buses left with Metroline.

I had an appalling X1 journey about 12 months ago with a driver who quite frankly should be in a different profession. The first half of the journey was fine between Norwich and Yarmouth, save for the driver driving a bit too fast and close to other vehicles on the A47 (bearing in mind it was a...