All Over London Bus Blog: First London's VN's

First London have ordered nine new Volvo H39/23D B9TL Wright Gemini double deckers (UW 11920kgs) which have been delivered to top up the resources for route 295 alongside the 61reg buses which are based at Westbourne Park Garage [X] .

In case your unaware, a handful of these 61 buses moved for use on 266 as route 23 has been allocated new DN's/DNH's (post to follow) whilst the rest have of the VN's have been used on the recently retained 295.

As well as this, they have swapped multiple buses (61reg VN's whch were originally used on 23) from Atlas Road (AS) to Willesden Junction (WJ) for use on route 18 and (60reg VN's which were originally used on 18) from Willesden Junction (WJ) to Atlas Road (AS) for use on route 266 which was won from Metroline earlier this year.

The swap is due to a fuel consumption comparison between the newer and older buses and is expected to last for 6 months!

The buses swapped have also swapped Destination Blinds (seeming that 60reg buses didn't have 2012 blinds including the recently gained 266)!

Now these new buses for 295 have now entered service, as well as straying onto the 23

Here's the fleet list for the new buses for use on 295:

VN37988 - BF62UYB - body no. AH050

VN37989 - BF62UYA - body no. AH051

VN37990 - BF62UYC - body no. AH052

VN37991 - BF62UYE - body no. AH053

VN37992 - BF62UYG - body no. AH054

VN37993 - BF62UYD - body no. AH055

VN37994 - BF62UYH - body no. AH056

VN37995 - BF62UYJ - body no. AH057

VN37996 - BF62UYK - body no. AH058

Buses swapped from Atlas Road to Willesden Junction:

VN37964 - BN61MXP - body no. AF746
VN37965 - BN61MXM - body no. AF747
VN37969 - BN61MXT - body no. AF751
VN37970 - BN61MXU - body no. AF752
VN37971 - BN61MXY - body no. AF753

Buses swapped from Willesden Junction to Atlas Road:

VN37910 - BF60UUV - body no. AE562

VN37913 - BF60VHR - body no. AE565

VN37915 - BF60VHU - body no. AE567

VN37916 - BF60VHW - body no AE568

VN37942 - BF60VJP - body no. AE594

Without further ado, enjoy the rest of the pictures!

A special thanks to all whose pictures feature above!

Thanks for Reading!

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7 comments:

Steve5:37 pm, October 23, 2012
Good to see a return to bonded glazing. :-)
Anonymous5:53 pm, October 23, 2012
i like these 62 reg gemmi's but the 61 reg ones on the 266 are the worst ever
Unknown9:56 pm, October 23, 2012
how
Anonymous5:12 pm, November 08, 2012
I like Volvo B9TL and all, but I don't like the newer versions on 266, 295 and so on. I prefer the old version on 297 and 18. I don't like any Volvo B9TL in the First Centrewest interior.
Anonymous4:37 pm, December 14, 2012
the 266 was better with metroline first you are rubbish

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