Today, I visited Metroline's CELF centre. Metroline's CELF centre is situated in Perviale and usually holds most of Perivale West Garage's buses as there is a lack of space inside Perivale West. The CELF centre is there to help repair, refurbish and prepare new buses entering service into London with Metroline.
Frequent visitors of the CELF centre are London Sovereign, First London and sometimes Metrobus. Although I didn't see any of those operator's buses at the CELF centre. I mainly went to see the brand new TEH's bound for route 139.
Route 139 operates between Waterloo and West Hampstead via Baker Street from Cricklewood Garage. The New Batch of TEH's are convert the route from a partial diesel and hybrid operation to just a fully hybrid operation.
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| Metroline (W), TEH1242, LK61BMO seen at the CELF Centre |
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| Metroline (W), TEH1235, LK61BKZ seen at the CELF centre |
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| A line up of the new TEH's (TEH1227, 1235 and 1242) seen at the CELF Centre |
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| Metroline (W), TEH1235, LK61BKZ seen at the CELF centre |
The new TEH's weigh 11900KGS and are limited to 39MPH. This set of Enviro400Hybrid's were built at ADL Falkirk in Scotland.
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| Metroline (W), TEH1236, LK61BLF seen at the CELF centre |
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| Metroline (W), TEH1241, LK61BLZ seen at the CELF centre |
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| Metroline (W), TEH1233, LK61BKV seen at the CELF centre |
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| Metroline (W), (From Left to right) TEH1234/LK61BKY, TEH1225/LK61BKE, TEH1223/LK61BKV |
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| Metroline (W), TEH1237, LK61BLJ and TEH1240, LK61BLX |
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| TEH1237's interior (Lower Saloon) |
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| TEH1237's interior (Lower Saloon) |
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| TEH1237's interior (Upper Saloon) |
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| TEH1237's interior (Upper Saloon) |
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| TEH1232's start up from cabview |
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| Metroline (W), TEH1232, LK61BKU |
I had a little mess around with the blinds on TEH1232.
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| TEH1232's Power Blind control |
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| TEH1232 changed onto route 32 |
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| TEH1232 changed onto route 632 |
Other shots from the CELF and Perivale Bus Garage
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| Damage DE864, LK08DWX seen at the CELF |
I am unsure of what happened to this bus but I stumbled across DE864 whilst at the CELF. DE864 looks like it was in a road accident as both of the front doors are smashed in really bad. Lets hope to see this bus back on the road really soon!
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| Close up of the damage on DE864 |
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| interior of DE864 and the damage |
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| Metroline Training Vehicle. LN51KXE seen at the CELF |
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| Metroline, TP412, LK03CFF entering the workshop at the CELF |
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| Metroline (PV), SEL743, LK07BAA seen at the CELF |
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| Metroline (PA) VW1180/LK11CXP and DLD142/W142ULR seen at Perivale West Garage |
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| Metroline (PA), DE1172/LK11CXE and DLD137/W137ULR seen at Perivale West Bus Garage |
Thank you for reading this post. I really hoped you enjoyed this post. Myself and the team would like to wish you a wonderful Christmas and a superb new year!!
As always, great post!!!:) You do me proud! One question: How come's on the powerblind device it says '32 Edgeware' instead of '32 Edgware'?
ReplyDeleteIt must be a spelling mistake in the programming!
DeleteLawrence :)