On the 12th of December 2015, route 159 transferred from Arriva to Abellio, and gained 34 New Routemasters, which are the first for Abellio. The route runs between began in 1934 and ran between South Croydon and Camden Town. Since then the route has been shortened several times and now runs between Marble Arch and Streatham. The route has also been run from several depots such as Streatham (AK), South Croydon (TC), Brixton (BN), Camberwell (Q), Old Kent Road (P), Clapham (CA), and Thornton Heath (TH). Of these depots, only BN, Q, TH and TC are still in use. The route also had a night service, N159, which began in 1999 replacing the N109 an was initially operated by London Central between between Coulsdon and Marble Arch from Q, until being diverted to New Addington in 2000. Arriva took over operation in 2001 and ran it from TH until 2006, when it was split between TC and TH. The route remained this way until 2010, when it was withdrawn, and replaced by a 24 hour 159 service, a N109 service between and a N64 service (now withdrawn). The route now runs from Battersea (QB) and driver changeovers will take place at Kennington. I hope you enjoyed reading this post.
