Another visit for today was Go Ahead London's New Cross Garage located in New Cross, South London. The reason for this visit owed to the fact that I had received word that the fire damaged WVL302 was at this location following a gruesome fire attack during the London riots.
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Go Ahead London PVL345 PF52 WPV |
New Cross Garage is arguably one of Go Ahead's biggest Garages, holding just one short of 150 Buses. It runs routes; 21,108,129,171,225,321,436, School Route; 621 and night routes N21 and N171. The Garage has a vehicle variation worthy of its size too, which is quite uncharacteristic of GAL Garages. It has Dennis Pointers for the Route 225, MCV Evolution Darts for the 129, Mercedes Citaros for the 436 which will soon be replaced by some E400s, E400s for the 36, Volvo Plaxton Presidents for the 36, 321 and 621, Wright Gemini2 B9TLs for the 21 and 171 and some DAF Wright Merits for the Route 108. Not to mention a small batch of E400 Hybrids for the 436 are set to be introduced in November. Nothing really special to see here apart from a silver Optare Solo which I have no clue why its here as well as a dozen Routemasters. But credit to the Go Ahead Staff for allowing me onto the premises.
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Go Ahead London MAL45 BD52 LMY |
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London Central PVL348 PF52 WPY |
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JJD 4720 , JJD 520D , CUV 318C and VLT9 |
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London Central WVL302 LX59 CZV |
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Panoramic view of NX |
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London Central PVL405 LX54 GZT |
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Go Ahead London PVL264 PN02 XBM |
I Do Like Those New Geminis
ReplyDeleteYour photo of DRM2516 above is actually pictured in Camberwell.. otherwise good job!
ReplyDeleteThanks SLR! Feels good coming from you!
ReplyDeletePVL348 belongs at BX now.
ReplyDeletePoor WVL302! Which bus has covered it? Was it a WVL from the 171, or a Q bus from the 68/468/X68 batch?
ReplyDeleteWVL 302 is From 21 batch.
ReplyDeleteWhen Is this bus going on the Road back Again ?
The Bus has been Withdrawn.
ReplyDeleteTom, I think it's back with Wrightbus to be re-bodied
ReplyDeleteGiven that WVL302 is only a year old,it would be daft to withdraw it permanently. More likely,as the poster above has said,that the bus is back across the Irish Sea to be rebuilt.
ReplyDeleteNope it said in Buses magazine that it has been withdrawn.
ReplyDeleteTom
17872 had been on fire and that was withdrawn.
ReplyDeleteIs WVL302 really, really withdrawn
Yes Luke WVL302 is withdrawn.
ReplyDeleteWVL302 was on route 63 when it got set alight in peckham
ReplyDeleteI saw WVL302 yesterday at my garage (NX)and it looked brand new... it's awaiting it's final inspection before it is back out again...
ReplyDeleteWVL302 is in service again.. I just happened to catch it on the 171 on the way home
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