Amid all the riots and other things going on today I managed to visit Abellio's Twickenham Garage in West London.
The Garage holds 71 vehicles which is excellent considering the size of Garage. The Garage remained under lease of Travel London operations until the company was taken over by NedRailways (Abellio) in 2009. Abellio from this site run multiple West London Routes from this locations and these are routes;
235, 481, 490, 941, 969, H20, H25, H26, R68 and R70. The Garage is home to a healthy fleet of Enviro 200s for the R68 and R70, Dennis Ceatano Nimbus' for the 235 as well as some Trident ALX400s for Surrey operations, Dennis Pointer Darts for the Route 235,481,490,H20,H25 and H26 and the sole East Lancs Spryte Dennis Dart for Abellio's Surrey operations. I must give a shout out to all the welcoming Abellio London staff who were kind enough to allow me on the Garage premises.
More Photos Below
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| Abellio London 8465 RL02 ZTC |
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| Abellio London GM03 TGM |
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| Abellio London 9735 Y235 HWF |
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| Abellio London 9715 V315 KGW |
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| Abellio London 8532 YX10 FEJ |
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| Abellio London 8106 LJ56 VSY |
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| Abellio London 8550 YX10 FFM |
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| Abellio 8451 RD02 BJX |
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| Abellio London 8453 RA51 KGE |
4 Comments:
at: Tuesday, August 09, 2011 3:44:00 am said...
Erm... Not quite right. The garage that you visited is the former London Transport Fulwell Garage, which is well over 100 years old. The London United half of this garage is coded FW and does not operate the 33, 419 or 493. Routes operated from FW are the 65, 71, 131, 216, 267, 281, 290, 371, 671, 681 and 691. Tellings-Golden Miller (Travel London's predecessors) moved into the eastern half of the garage [TF] in 1999 or 2000.
London United's Twickenham Garage [NC] is on a completely different site, close to Twickenham Stadium. NC is the garage that NCP Challenger opened in 2005, and which operates the 33, 419 and 493.
at: Tuesday, August 09, 2011 6:10:00 am said...
Shutup anon! Leave Jamaal alone.
at: Tuesday, August 09, 2011 9:16:00 am said...
LOL Oh snap, I've just realized my mistake.
at: Tuesday, August 09, 2011 12:36:00 pm said...
@Rhys - I don't understand your attitude. I wasn't having a go at Jamaal at all. He made a couple of mistakes in the original text, I pointed them out, and he corrected them. End of story. If, like me, you want to support Jamaal in running this blog, then surely pointing out any errors is a more constructive way of helping than telling people to "shut up".
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