Tuesday 30 June 2015

Moar Major Models!

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After the 109/N109 and 415 which gained MMCs, we have more routes that have received Enviro400MMCs and 499 with expected Enviro200MMCs..

ADL E20D 10.4m Enviro200MMC:
Stagecoach East London, London Bus Route 499:
The batch numbers are 36601-8. There are also no public photos I can find of them online. These buses are delayed and yet to be in service for route 499, the route will temporarily be using a mix of 62 and 296's Enviro200s for the time being.

Metroline West, London Bus Routes 331 and U10:
There are no news of the buses for 331 and U10 except their numbers will be DEL2122-2132.
Yet again, there are no publich photos I can find of them online.
ADL E40D 10.3m Enviro400 MMC [Diesel]:
Stagecoach East London, London Bus Route 498:
Even though 10301-7 were ordered for Stagecoach East London route 498, they are late for service and Tridents from 175 fitted with white-on-black-blinds had a rush in. They have still not entered service yet.

The only registrations that are found on London Vehicle Finder (LVF) are:
10301 YY15OYS
10302 YY15OYT
10303 YY15OYU
10304 YY15OYW
These buses are inside of North Street, Romford (NS) and are yet to begin service. Whereabouts of the rest are not known for the time being.

Abellio London, London Bus Route 415:
However, we have Abellio London 2400 (YY64GXG), a Enviro400 MMC bodied Euro6 E40D 10.3m demonstrator with only red paint, no garage code, no operator logo and is assumed it will be with 415 until the end of the contract since the speculated two extra E40H MMCs that were supposed to be ordered did not arrive, so 2400 and 2515 (YY64TZO), a 407 bus for the SDO journey on weekdays are the cover for the extension of 415 to Old Kent Road Tesco.

These diesel versions of the E400MMC look like the hybrid version (E40H chassis of course), but the vents for the rear are ontop of the blinds, or in other words the blindbox is on the bottom of the vents.

ADL E40H 10.3m Enviro400 MMC [Hybrid]:
After 109/N109 and 415, the 350 being the third route with MMCs, and the third Abellio route with MMCs as well as the third batch to have entered service as opposed to Metroline's ones being in the garage and late to be out in service.

Abellio London, London Bus Route 350:
Previously allocated Euro4 Enviro200 Darts, then converted to Euro3 Trident 9.9m Alexander ALX400 spared from the 3, which converted to Euro5 ADL E40H 10.2m Enviro400 hybrid (standard model) in 2012.

A whole rennovation, 322, 415, 432 and G1 receive newer buses.

This post will mention 415, 432, 322 and G1, which had their service changes in the February-May corridor.

Let's start with the earliest of changes.

Route 415:
DLA227 (X427FGP) by Brixton Police Station


DLA273 (Y473UGC) also passing Brixton Police Station
but towards Elephant & Castle

Created on 3rd March 2008 to reroute 333 to Stockwell as residents on the Brixton Hill corridor desperately needed one and replaced the 333 between Brixton to Kennington via Brixton Road aswell as create a new link to Elephant & Castle from Tulse Hill estate which would increase the amount of buses passing along the Tulse Hill section which was from 12.5bph offpeak and 17.5bph peak to 17.5bph offpeak and 20bph peak.

VLA22 (LJ53BFL) by Tulse Hill Tavern
Abellio 2404 (SN61DFU) used on 415's first day with Abelliobecause there were only 2 MMCs ready for service.
Arriva lost the contract of this route for bidding the route with existing Euro2 DLAs.


Route 432:
  
Arriva London VLA2 (LJ03MYR) nearby the old West Norwood Fire Station


VLA75 (LJ54BEO) by West Norwood Library
Created on 15th February 2003 to replace the congested section of route 2 between West Norwood Bus Garage and Crystal Palace. By 26 July 2003, it got extended to Anerley to open up some links and free some space at Crystal Palace Bus Station. By 2nd April 2005, the route was given low floor buses in the form of a mixture of Alexander ALX400 bodied Volvo B7TL 10m/10.6m (VLA) and DAF DB250LF 10.2m (DLA) buses, formerly allocated Leyland Titans (L). In 2014, it was announced Arriva have lost the route, and were rumours about it being bidded with existing VLAs (by Arriva), however the successful bidder of the route was Go-Ahead London General with existing 60/61reg Wright Eclipse Gemini 2 bodied Volvo B9TL (WVL380-4/435-9) from route 12 which received New Routemasters.