An Ex Metrobus MCV stands outside the CELF workshop. The vehicle is unregistered and the fate of this vehicle is unknown.  Today was a beautiful day in which it provided perfect photographing opportunities. Now a lot of us may be wondering why this MCV pictured above is at the workshop today, well there's an interesting story behind it. It was originally ordered by Metrobus for the Route 202 contract, however when...

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Today by special request I visited Perivale East Garage (PV) to view and take photos of the new Metroline DEs for the newly retained C11 and 143 Contracts that start in August.  The new Buses are part of a 37 strong batch numbered between DE1115 and 1151, these are the second batch of Metroline buses to gain powerblinds  and it seems to be generating into a standard practise by the company. The routes are set to operate...

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After an interesting visit to CELF, I made my way to Perivale West Garage (PA) which is literally 1 minute away, the garage is home to the Route 70,143,297,326,C11 and E6. The garage arguably has some of the best performing buses in the company due to the fact CELF Centre, which is Metroline's central engineering facility is just 1 minute away so PA Buses always get seen to as soon as a defect is reported on the log card.  The...

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It was nice to see some sort of different activity going on at CELF today, as I got to witness DE876 in the middle of a partial repaint. The vehicle is allocated to the Route E6 that was won off Wings Buses in 2007 with shorter 8.9m E200s, however due to an increase in the use of the service, TFL and Metroline decided to give the Route E6 and PVR increase and longer vehicles. I was told that a repaint for a vehicle this size...

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