Route U9 Observations

Today sees Route U9 transfer from Arriva The Shires to Abellio London with 3 existing Dennis Dart SLF single deckers. These buses were previously with Thames Travel in Oxford but have been left vacant in recent times.
More buses like this will be coming for Route 455, but will be Caetano Nimbuses not Dennis Dart SLF's. This is also 2011's last service change, with the next being Route 160 in late January 2012.

Welcome Aboard Arriva London Route 264

People who use Route 264 will know that people treat the buses like they own the things, people put their feet up on the blindbox, they spill all their fizzy drinks on the bars and treat them horribly. This bus is DW40 and regular people that read the blog will know that DW40 had a suspension failure on the 1st December 2011 see http://tomlondonbus.blogspot.com/2011/12/dw40s-failure.html for more info.

Observations At Stratford City Bus Station

Today, I went to Stratford City to take some pictures of the buses there. Stratford is an area where we have not been on Tom London Bus Blog. Hope you enjoy.

Odd Working's

Yesterday, whilst in Bexleyheath, I noticed an odd working on Route 492. I saw an Enviro200, a bus which is usually on Routes 286 and 428. I hope you like this post.

New E400 Hybrids For Abellio London

As most of us will know, Routes 3 and 188 will be gaining some brand new E400 hybrids. These buses are now currently in the process of being delivered to WL and QB garages. The buses have been built at Alexander Dennis' factory in Falkirk,Scotland before being transported to Leyland Business Park near Preston,Lancashire before they get delivered to London. Credit to Gregg Collins for allowing me to use his picture. If you would like more high quality pictures then I would suggest you take a look at his fantastic flickr photostream. http://www.flickr.com/photos/gcbp/

Observations And Odd Workings 23rd December 2011

Today I went to Lewisham to do some observations on the buses, I also found some pictures that I have taken on Uxbridge Road, East Acton whilst doing Route 207's conversion.

Merry Christmas And A Happy New Year!

Hi everyone. We would like to inform all the people that look on the blog, we wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! We hope all the enthusiasts that look on the blog,follow it and comment on it reguarly have a nice bus filled Christmas! The next update should be on Friday and this will be the last post until the 31st December. Next year should be a very big year in the London bus world and we hope to visit some different areas of London to do observations.

Many Regards

Tom Bowell,Tom London Bus Blog admin.