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the london bus page in exile the london bus page lives on the london bus page in exile tuesday 11 march 2008 goodbye blog hello books filed under announcements book londonbuspageinexile 6 45 pm you ll have figured out by now that i m pretty much done nothing else to say really that last post in december was the last time i even went to london and i ve found i don t miss it interests change and london s present scene just doesn t interest me any more to which end instead of traipsing up to town to risk my sanity taking photos in the current climate of police harassment and unfriendly travelling conditions i ve stayed at home to write books that s what really matters to me they ll last longer after all the london titan hits the shelves tomorrow and this time next year it ll be followed by the london metrobus thanks for visiting both this site and the last you can continue the interest better than i can by starting your own blog i do recommend wordpress which this was based on i promise i ll visit matt comments 30 thursday 20 december 2007 roundabout roundabout filed under companies routes service changes londonbuspageinexile 10 29 pm from metrobus the vehicle to metrobus the company on 8th december they acquired the entire first orpington buses network buses and all demonstrating a number change at a bitterly cold orpington station forecourt that first afternoon is 10 1 metre dart 381 lk51 jyl renumbered from dml 41412 and displaying both numbers twelve years ago the award of much of the orpington area network from roundabout latterly part of stagecoach selkent to what was then centrewest came as one hell of a surprise but it demonstrated that the newly independent former subsidiaries of lbl didn t have to be constricted by their geographic fate with first selling off what remained of that network maybe expanding far from their roots is not such a good idea after all of course tendering was what made it no longer viable the loss of the t31 and t32 to arriva london south not long ago and the 61 to selkent before that weakened the st mary cray operation with the inevitable result it is a shame tendering has always failed to take into account local needs in that staff are likely to have ambitions and commitments lasting for longer than five to seven years in this case however the staff as much fixed assets as the buses have been transferred themselves ensuring a little more stability however demonstrating the further lunacy of tendering or at least the whims of whoever makes that decision one we ve never been allowed to see metrobus has now taken a hiding itself losing three of its original routes comments 48 thursday 22 november 2007 last of the london buses filed under companies historical uncategorized vehicles londonbuspageinexile 8 23 pm yes the metrobus is a london bus if it was new to london transport and that covers everything that was delivered up to 10th january 1995 the date of the completion of south london s sale to the cowie group it s a london bus the upton park slws delivered right across the cusp of their subsidiary s privatisation thus find themselves in two camps everything after is only half valid it s a bus in london in the way that transport for london only obliquely counts as london transport found a picture of m 1353 c353 buv that s been talked about a fair bit while hammersmith bridge was undergoing another protracted period of repair during 2000 a route numbered 509 was commissioned to take people from the station to the north side of the bridge the fact that the route had to come seven miles from hounslow just to take people a hundred and fifty yards was spectactularly wasteful but it was worth photographing so i have a few shots of the route this one is at hammersmith on 29th october 2000 i remember m 1353 best as a sidcup crew bus allocated to convert the 21 from rm in november 1985 alongside the garage s existing ts representing an extremely rare mixed type operation that became more common as standards slipped once ls came to replace the ms it was off to stamford brook and settled in what became london united territory eventually working from hounslow as here fulwell and hounslow heath comments 50 wednesday 7 november 2007 the m defended filed under announcements book historical routemaster uncategorized vehicles londonbuspageinexile 8 56 pm would the pair of you that s been arguing fit to burst over the merits of the routemaster versus the metrobus shut up a minute and pay attention i thought of deleting your posts outright because they ve been getting on my nerves but i can do better than that having just finished and handed in the london titan the book i ve written on the type to come out in april next year i ve since been given the nod for one on the metrobus in the same style so there goes another summer spent sat in front of a computer where my standpoint lies is pretty much exactly in between the old guard of solid open platform fans and the younger generation that has felt quite rightly that its own favourite vehicles have been ignored or belittled i had the best of both worlds in that there were still plenty of rms around when i was getting into this crazy pastime while the very last of the london transport stuff was coming on stream the ts and ms both of which i was hugely fond of even the dms which i grew up taking to school and back didn t give me any trouble they all deserve writing about and now that i ve done two rm books it s given me a bit of credibility to pursue the newer stuff that just hasn t been tackled the titan book is the first manifestation of that and now i m getting to do the m so everyone wins comments 91 thursday 18 october 2007 new route 332 filed under routes service changes londonbuspageinexile 7 46 pm new route 332 was introduced last saturday operated by new enviro400s from metroline s cricklewood garage or the temporary outstation across the road at least it links paddington not marylebone as i said the other day sorry about that with neasden via the 16 and 316 here leaving paddington on sunday 14th october is te 835 lk57 axp comments 20 monday 8 october 2007 will the 316 gain double deck buses filed under companies routes service changes londonbuspageinexile 9 23 pm from time to time i look at my search statistics and see if anyone s asked questions that brought them here and whether i might be able to answer them one i just saw is will the 316 gain double deck buses no and yes from 13 october it s being split in two and the northern section handed over to new double deck route 332 which will provide a further link towards town as far as marylebone the 316 was already part of a split route the old 16 which was curtailed at cricklewood garage this time ten years ago once the white city complex is in place the 316 will be projected southwards towards it the 316 started under thorpe s late in 2002 but the subsequent movement of that company under metroline brought in its existing darts like dld 110 t39 kld seen swinging into ladbroke grove sainsbury s on 3rd march 2007 comments 49 friday 21 september 2007 showbus 2007 part 3 filed under companies special events vehicles londonbuspageinexile 6 52 pm i m a fan neither of route branding tacky patronising impractical nor of the enviro400 dull dull dull but this stagecoach cambus trio manage to make both look really good the last set of schemes for the cambridge park ride was pretty decent as well and ray stenning s taken care to adapt the new version to the lines of the bus from left to right are 19298 ae07 kyy 19314 ae07 kzr and 19302 ae07 kzc comments 29 thursday 20 september 2007 showbus 2007 part 2 filed under companies historical special events londonbuspageinexile 7 11 pm blazefield was an outfit that knew what it was doing elegant liveries decent blinds look how they ve actually used all the wasted space and competent buses transdev who took over their operations a while ago haven t damaged them too badly so far sticking to a plain fleetname keighley district volvo b7tl 2701 y701 hrn demonstrates comments 3 wednesday 19 september 2007 showbus 2007 part 1 filed under historical special events londonbuspageinexile 5 58 pm a superb day wall to wall sunshine sufficient to cause sunburn not a hint of rain and perhaps a few buses less this year making it easier to photograph throughout the enormous expanse of duxford this is west midlands pte mcw metrobus 6832 sda 832s forerunner of the second biggest fleet of metrobuses outside london transport it s been restored to the original livery based loosely on birmingham city s colours but unfortunately due to the lack of imagination in legislation the registration number characters are incorrect more showbus a little later comments 4 friday 7 september 2007 ken livingstone is a filed under politics londonbuspageinexile 7 38 pm from 7th september s currant bun and there was i thinking painting bus roofs white was a waste of time top marks to the painters comments 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