Yesterday myself and the other Blog team members, Rohan and Tyreece visited a secret location in London to gain shots of London Sovereign's new DEs for Harrow Garage (SO) for the conversion of the Routes: H9,H10,H11,H14 and H17. Three of this batch are already at Harrow Garage with two,DE71 and DE74 reported as already in service on the H13 and H14 respectively. London Sovereign DE99 YX11 CNJ and DE90 YX11 FSZ The new DEs weigh...

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Today I visited Dockland's Buses Silvertown Garage (SI) with the permission of the Go Ahead London staff as I had received some information that some WVLs for the D7 and SEs for the 276 had been delivered to the Garage. When I got to the garage there were half a dozen SEs all 10.8m and registered with LX11 plates and there were about 8 WVLs, most of them blinded for the D8 and only one blinded for the D7! Docklands Buses...

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After spending the best part of two hours at Metroline CELF Centre, I made my way to Stamford Brook Garage located in West London. I decided to take The Central Line to North Acton, change at for the Ealing Broadway Train, then transferred onto the District Line to Stamford Brook Station. I arrived at the Garage at 4pm and with the permission of the London United Stamford Brook staff, I was allowed on the premises to take pictures...

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Today with the permission of the Metroline CELF Centre staff, I had the pleasure of being allowed the walk around the premises of this truly state of the art facility.However whilst there just by chance I had the shocking yet pleasant surprise of meeting one of the industry's most well known faces; Ian Rivett, for those who don't know he is a very well know photographer and meeting him was surely the highlight of my...

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Metroline VP487 LK03 GMV Go Ahead London PVL374 PJ53 NKL London United VLE5 PG04 WH...

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Below First London's new DM44197 YX11 FYV stands at Woodfield Way Bus Stop near Bounds Green en Route to Muswell Hill. This is one of 9 new Alexander Dennis Enviro 200 Buses for the Route that was runs from Muswell Hill Broadway to Cockfosters Station as part of a new 5 year contract for First. The new E200s are 9.3m Long nevertheless they still have the standard dual door feature which is praised by TFL as they enable quicker...

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Today I visited Arriva London's Lea Valley Garage located in Northumberland Park, North London. The reason for this visit was due to the fact I gained some first hand information that a 'handful' of some new DB300 (DW) had been delivered to this location for commissioning prior to starting work on the Route 73 (Stoke Newington - Victoria). The new DWs are part of a batch of over 57 vehicles for the Route 73 with 20...

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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....

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