A very nice visit to EC Garage

Last Saturday (7/7/12) since not much bus-wise was going on we decided to visit Arriva's EC Garage, we had let them know we would be visiting them prior to turning up (George popped in there week before to see what was there and had a chat with the people there) 

If you don't know much about EC garage here is a very brief bit of information about it, In 2005 the garage was adapted for bendy-buses on route 149, in addition to Routes 397 and W14 transferring in from Arriva's former Debden base. In addition, the garage also took over route 29 with more Citaros in January 2006.

On 24 March 2012, Edmonton (EC) was closed.

An Overview of  EC Garage

You might be wondering why we are visiting a closed garage, its not actually closed permanently. It's only closed operationally.Therefore they store buses here for various reasons such as Olympic work - before they are sold or moved to Arriva provinces.

I managed to get some great shots due to the dramatic weather and here they are, there were mainly refurbished DW's from the former Route 19 batch and the older VLW's with a small mix of DLA's not forgetting the repainted Bendy's from the 29 and The New Citaros for Arriva Midlands.

On the Left we have refurbished DW's, Left Top we have the new Citaros for Arriva Midlands and next to them on the right we have the London Bendy's after repaint and lastly on the right we have refurbished DLA's and VLW's .

This is/was VLW9, this bus has had a full refurbishment including engine work and a new 6 fan cooling system fitted which we may soon see in Arriva London's fleet of Volvos. The system is already in use by Metroline and The Go-Ahead Group.

Note they still carry Arriva London Legals, this is because the buses will be used on Olympic work this is also the reason they don't have vinyls applied yet.

A View showing the refurbished VLW's and DLA's 

A view showing the refurbished DW's that were used on the 19 before the route passed to Go-Ahead 

A View showing them together 

Now on to the Citaros

MA29 fresh from repaint part blinded for the 29

A view showing most of the Ex London Bendies after repaint 

Arriva new Citaro's for the Midlands 

A view of both types of citaro's parked next to each other 

Hope you have enjoyed this post, the day was great as it stopped raining just as we arrived but started again as soon as we left, we really had fun visiting the garage as we did see some buses that we did not expect to see parked up there including the famous DLA1 Also a bit thanks goes out to the staff that gave us permission to get these pictures.
There are far to many shots to post on here but if you check my flickr ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/snakeydave/  ) you will find a lot more that we hope you will enjoy.


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