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Harrow Weald bus garage from the High Road, September 2017. As of April 2024, Harrow Weald garage operates routes 140, 182, 186, 292, N98 and N140. Harrow Weald garage was opened in 1930 by the London General Omnibus Company to replace the much smaller South Harrow garage. The new garage had to be extended over the forecourt just two years ...
Garage Operator London Buses Code Opened Closed Picture Reference T Leyton: East London: T 1912 [4] TB Bromley: Selkent: TB 1924 TC Croydon: Arriva London: TC 1916 TF Twickenham: Transport UK London Bus: TF 1904 (tram) 1931 (trolleybus) 1962 (bus) TH Thornton Heath: Arriva London TH 1879 (horse tramway) 1901 (tram) 1951 (bus) TK Tramlink ...
The route operates at a frequency of a bus every 12 minutes on weekdays and Saturdays and a bus every 15 minutes on Sundays. [11] Between the hours of 23:00 and 07:00, the route is covered by an all stops night service, numbered N140, running every 30 minutes between Harrow Weald bus garage and Heathrow Central bus station .
White City bus station: Metroline: Extended from Cricklewood bus garage to Brent Cross West railway station on 10 December 2023. [76] 317 Enfield Town: Waltham Cross: Metroline: 318 North Middlesex University Hospital: Stamford Hill: Arriva London: 319 Sloane Square: Streatham Hill: Arriva London: 320 Biggin Hill Valley: Catford Bridge railway ...
Metroline AEC Routemaster on Oxford Street in March 2004 Metroline Plaxton President bodied Volvo B7TL in Kilburn in September 2007. Route 98 commenced on 18 July 1992 to replace route 8 between Willesden bus garage and Oxford Circus, before continuing to Holborn. The route has always been operated by Metroline's Willesden bus garage.
In 2014, the route briefly operated a New Routemaster painted in red and silver livery to promote the Year of the Bus. [11] [12] To mark the First World War centenary, the London Transport Museum restored one of only four surviving LGOC B-type buses. The bus being restored used to run on route 9 between Barnes and Liverpool Street from 1914 ...
A serious incident occurred on 13 June 1957, when a RTL-type bus on route 7A ran into a queue of waiting passengers on Oxford Street, killing eight people. The driver had collapsed with heat exhaustion. [13] [14] On 30 July 1966, Routemaster RM1768, operating on route 7, caught fire at Marble Arch. The cause was an overheated flywheel.
On 5 March 2005, a 5-year contract was awarded to Metroline with increased frequencies resulting in an allocation of 31 TPL buses on Monday-Friday, 24 TPL buses on Saturdays and 21 TPL buses on Sundays from Holloway garage. [6] On 4 February 2012, another 5-year contract was awarded to Metroline. [7]