On the 13th of April 2014, London Bus Museum hosted the annual Spring Gathering, which was host to a variety of vehicles. The highlight for me was the display of one of the brand new Metrobus Fastway buses, which have since entered service. These are built to a high specification, including free wifi, leather headrests and audio and visual announcements. Another highlight for me was the display of London General E282, a brand new 10.9 metre Enviro 400, for the Commercial route 773 from Kingston to Brighton. They will also be used for Private Hire and event shuttles. Also present was YN03WRL, now with Southern Transit of Sussex. This was formerly with Metrobus, with the fleet number 539 and was used for Crawley FaStway and the X26. However loss of the X26 contract in 2012 to Quality Line resulted in this and other Omnicites were redeployed to the then recently acquired Anglian Bus. This was renumbered to 450 and allocated to several routes from the Beccles depot. There was also several others old and new buses present, and all in all, a nice mix of buses. Thanks for reading this post!
