From North to South on 28th April 2012: Route C2

Whilst checking out Route 43, I thought it was vital to check out Route C2 first before it transfers to Abellio's Queenstown Road Garage in Battersea, South London. Route C2 is currently ran from Metroline's Highgate (HT) Garage in North London. The route operates between Victoria and Parliament Hill Fields (Gospel Oak) which is approximately 6 miles long and holds a firm Peak Vehicle Requirement of 18 buses. Likewise with Route 43, Route C2 also uses a variety of buses, which contain:
 -10m Dennis Trident/Plaxton President's
-10m Volvo B7TL/Plaxton President's
-10.6m Dennis Trident/Plaxton President's
-10.6m Volvo B7TL/Plaxton President's
-10.1m Dennis Trident/Enviro 400's

TP414/LK03CFJ seen at Parliament Hill Fields-Route C2


TE906/LK58CNX seen at Parliament Hill Fields- Route C2
Note: Route C2 was curtailed to terminate at Berkeley Square/Conduit Street due to a St Patrick's Day Festival dominating the heart of London today.

Route C2 was succesfully won by Abellio London and is set to run with their operations from Saturday 28th April 2012, with 20 brand new diesel Enviro E40D's. These will be the first diesel E40D's for Abellio London to gain which is built to the new WTA specification. The fleet numbers are numbered between 9524 and 9543.




So lets wish Abellio good luck with C2 I have a feeling the operations may be better than Metroline's but thats my opinion. Which is very different from others

Posted by Rhys

15 comments:

  1. Anonymous10:45 pm, March 18, 2012

    Do you know what buses the 350 will use when it's converted to double deck?

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    1. Rhys12:09 am, March 20, 2012

      51reg Tridents off the 3/157

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    2. Anonymous9:25 pm, March 22, 2012

      Thanks, just found that out as well! Also heard the E200s will be going to the 490. Was hoping to see them on the H28

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    3. Rhys4:38 pm, March 23, 2012

      I doubt it as they are ran from different garages. But you never know

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    4. Unknown10:01 pm, August 03, 2012

      they will be using the decomissoned dennis tridents ALX400 buses previosely used on abellios route 3.

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  2. Jay11:00 pm, March 18, 2012

    Why would you post news on tendering??? Do you know if someone from TFL stumbles across this, then Metroline could be in big trouble? Furthermore that source is totally wrong!

    Also the Dennis Trident Presidents are 9.9m and 10.5m not 10m and 10.6.

    Jay :)

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    1. Tom5:06 pm, March 19, 2012

      That will teach Metroline!

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    2. Anonymous10:59 pm, March 19, 2012

      That will teach Metroline what? Tom do you even know the first thing about tendering?

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    3. Rhys12:09 am, March 20, 2012

      Okay thanks Jay will edit it once on my PC

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    4. Tom6:46 pm, April 23, 2012

      Yes I do know the first thing about tendering ' Anonymous '.

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  3. Chris9:47 am, March 20, 2012

    Erm, why on earth would Metroline be in trouble, i very much doubt the source is correct,

    Metroline can submit two tenders,
    exsiting buses and new buses. C2 is a very profitable route being a zone one / central route I cannot see why Metroline would want to lose this route they have had this for ages running under London buses, London Northern, MTL London Northern. out of HT. TFL will look at all bids submitted, and will gauge what they think is the best tender submitted for the public purse .... unless you go for a FOI request to TFL i doubt you will ever find out the real reason.

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    1. Rhys10:22 pm, March 20, 2012

      Thanks Chris mate for clearing a lot up. I gained the sources of Jay and since his blog is one of the biggest and he loves MTG I was lead to believe it. Next I will double check my sources before posting

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  4. Chris5:07 am, March 21, 2012

    No prob mate,

    please keep posting source's it is good knowledge for us all, dont forget once a tender has been won it doesn't matter TFL know the reason's for wins loses ... having thought about it I think it is possibly correct they over bid for the route with old buses. abelio are tendering cheaper than other companies ... hence why the win and Metro lost it.

    I moved to Australia, so sadly i do not get to keep up with the changes so much and this site is fantastic got to see the new W11 W15 etc from the change over great site mate

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  5. Chris7:15 am, March 24, 2012

    LOL, make sure you do your best to get route 20 on here and 257 all the old routes where i lived in east london. chingford/walthamstow.

    really like this

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