All Over London Bus Blog: The All Over London Blog Post

First I would like to apologize for the delay in this post

Secondly I would like to apologize for all the spam comments that have been posted on this blog, the problem has now been sorted :)

Third of all Last Saturday I (Dave) met up with Jamaal from The circle of London Blog , First of all we went to Metrolines CELF centre to see if one of there new TE's was there but with no luck we left after getting a few pictures and decided to check out the new VW's as they were straying on to the W7.

Metroline - DLD707 - LK55 KMF - Back from refurb at Metroline's CELF Centre
This bus will be used for Olympic work

Line up of MM's at Perivale West Garage

Also because the central line was not running between Bethnal Green and Marble arch we had to walk from Marble Arch to Oxford Circus to get the Victoria line and on the way TA1 passed me along with the first "First" coded DNH to enter service on route 23

Stagecoach London - TA1 - S801 BWC - Route 55

First London - DNH39127 - SN12 ATV - Route 23

Now we also paid a visit to HT garage to find out some information on the early TP's and what ones were going, I can also tell you that route 24 should be getting Volvo B9TL's but noting is confirmed yet, TP36 has also been withdrawn from service. We then quickly made our way to Muswell hill and just as we got there a VW turned up so we did a quick rounder on the route to see how the cope with the hills and I can tell you that they find Muswell hill no problem and climb it better than Wood Green's new Enviro 400's (I had T265 a few days ago on the route and after getting to the top the overheating alarm was going off and various lights flashing on the dash board)

Metroline - VW1258 - LK12 AEF - Route W7

While we were at the top I had a good chance to finally get a picture of the new VW's on routes 43 and 134 together and this is where Jamaal left me to make his way home

Metroline - VW1254 - LK12 ADV - Route 134 / Metroline - VW1251 - LK12 ACO - Route 43

Now this is strictly not an all over London post as we kinda forgot about South London... Sorry

but I did cover Romford and Brentwood Even though both these places are in Essex they do receive London bus services and since there were some rare workings it was a good time to get some pictures even if it was Half 9 at night when they were taken

First off is Stagecoach London - 19739 - LX11 BBE - Route 294, These are for the 496 on paper but do stray a bit

Second is Stagecoach London - 19853 - LK12CZG - Route 5 These are for the 101 on paper but they do and have strayed a bit since being delivered only recently

Now off to Brentwood to get home and I get one of the friendly driver from DM who was quite happy for me to get a picture of his bus on stand in Brentwood.

First London - DML44073 - YX58 HVC - Route 498, On paper these are for the 165 but for some reason they seem to spend more time on the 498.

Below is one of the buses intended for the 498 and is the first one in the batch and the first one ordered for first which has been coded incorrectly DM44001 which should be in fact DML44001, The only difference between the 57 and 58 Plates is the first batch has Manual blinds, Yellow logo's and the old First seat moquette.