Route 367 Observations

On Saturday the 19th of March 2016, Route 367 transferred to Abellio London from Metrobus. Route 367 runs between Bromley North and West Croydon and has a PVR of 9. The route began in 1990 and ran between West Croydon and Beckenham Junction and was run by South London from their Streatham depot. In 1994 the contract was awarded to London & Country and the route was extended to Bromley North. The route used Mercedes 811D's from their Beddington Farm depot. In 1995 Beddington Farm became part of londonlinks so the route was run by them. In 1999 the operation was rebranded as Arriva London South. In October 2000, due to staff shortages Arriva subcontracted 7 vehicles to Blue Triangle of Rainham in Essex. This continued until March 2001 when Metrobus won the contract from their Orpington depot and used brand new MPD's on the route. In 2005 the route was rerouted between East Croydon and Shirley to replace withdrawn route 494 and transferred to Polhill depot whilst Orpington was being rebuilt. In 2006 the route was retained with new Darts with ELC Myllenium bodywork and the route transferred to the new Croydon depot in Beddington Lane. In 2008 the route once again was transferred back to Orpington and in 2011 was retained with existing vehicles. In 2014 the route transferred to Croydon to replace route 54/75 there which had been lost to Stagecoach Selkent. In July 2015 TfL awarded the new contract to Abellio London on the basis of new Euro6 single deckers beginning in March 2016. Abellio have decided to lease 10 brand new Enviro 200 MMC's with Lazzerini seats and Allison gearboxes and are rather nice vehicles to ride on. The route however is twisty and turny and takes a long time to get anywhere. The service yesterday did not seem great and I had just missed a 367 and had to wait for 45 mins for one, not good for a route that should run every 20 mins on a Saturday. I wish Abellio every success with the route and hope you enjoyed reading this post.