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Latest
update:
29
January
2012
Forthcoming
Conway
Hall
meetings
Meetings are held monthly (except January, July & August) and usually commence at 19:30. Doors open 18:00 with sales stands available from 18:30. Meetings usually finish by 22:00. There is no charge. The next meeting is on Monday 20 February: John Parkin will present a slideshow 'London's red and green buses over 40 years with interesting or scenic backgrounds'.Monday 19th March: Rev. Nicholas Molony with pictures "Ancient & Modern", themes including 'routes with different types' and 'various operators on the same route (mostly country ones)'. Later meetings in 2012 on Mondays 23 April, 21 May, then 25 June (AGM plus Bus Rides). No meetings in July and August, then Mondays 24 September, 22 October, 19 November & 17 December. The LOTS ATS will again be at Harrow, but at an earlier date than before, on Saturday 13th October. Conway Hall
is located at Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL. The London Bus (TLB) TLB 568
was posted on Tuesday 17 January. The closing date for reports for TLB
570 is 3 February and it is due for posting on Tuesday 14 February. New sales items from LOTS We have two new Supplements. Both SUPs are dated for November, both have 48 pages and both are £3.50 each: SUP-36BB London's Major Operators Fleet Allocations and SUP-24E London's Service Vehicles. London Bus Magazine 158 Winter 2011/12. Main articles are Route 21 history part 2 by Malcolm E Papes and The 41st and final year of the SMS family in service in Malta by Mick Bruce. £5. Orders can be sent
to LOTS Postal
Sales
at
Unit
N305
Westminster
Business
Square,
1-45
Durham
Street,
Vauxhall,
London
SE11
5JH.
See the Sales Page
for full list of sales items. Advertisements Non-members
may wish to look at a sample issue of TLB. Latest news Sunday 29 January 1) From recent deliveries to London, those for routes 16/139, 160 and 199 are now all in service, while the batch of Go-Ahead E400s (E229-245) entered service on route 89 on the 28th. Routes 15, 23 and 188 continue to receive more of the same, type conversions now being just past the halfway mark on all three. The next new double-deck batches are of the E400Hs for Abellio routes 3/N3 during February and the large batch of 78 E400s for Arriva London North, delivery of which has begun. 2) On the single deck front, Abellio are expecting six E200s for route 290 within the next week, and they should be followed by a flood of E200s into London during February, 52 of them to First for routes W14, W15, W16 and 308 and another 16 to Arriva for the W11, 397 and 379. 3) Carousel Buses at High Wycombe has received three new MCV bodied Mercedes-Benz OC500U buses (classified MBA) to upgrade part of the A30/A40/740 routes and they are expected into service in the coming week.
1) Increasing numbers of new buses into service in the past week on routes 15, 16, 139, 188 (all E400Hs), 160, 199 (E400s) and 23 (B9TLs). Sullivan's six new E200s are now being delivered ready for take-up of route 298 on 4th February, and all of Go-Ahead's E400s for route 89 are delivered awaiting service imminently. The first one or two E400s for Arriva London North have appeared on delivery. There will be 78 of these to convert routes 144, 279 and W3 over the next month.
1) The past week has seen a few more E400Hs on Stagecoach East London route 15 and the first E400H on Abellio 188. Also, around seven E400s so far on Arriva 160 and a few E400s on Selkent 199. The first half-dozen VNs have also entered service on First's route 23. It will probably take a few weeks for the full batches to appear, though. Delivery is now well under way of London Central's E400s for route 89, and entry into service is awaited. 2) A
StreetLite demonstrator
(BRZ9662) is currently being trialled at Arriva's Northfleet Garage,
normally
used on route 408 at Swanley. Meanwhile, First London's
StreetLite
WM 47400 which has been in stock since early December, is still
awaiting service
from Willesden Junction Garage.
LT Museum, Acton: Guided
Tours Friday/Saturday 24/25February,
Friday/Saturday 23/24March. The next Open weekend is due on
10/11March.
See www.ltmuseum.co.uk Saturday 25th February: NLTS Enfield Spring Transport Bazaar at St Stephen's Church Hall, Park Avenue, Bush Hill Park, south of Enfield Town on bus routes 329 and W8. Open 11am-3.30pm, admission £2.00, accompanied under 16s free. Saturday 31st March:
A major event by the M&D and East Kent Bus Club
on their 60th anniversary, at the Kent Showground at Detling, on the
A249 near
Maidstone, featuring large numbers of former M&D and East Kent
vehicles.
See www.arrivabus.co.uk/MDEK60
and www.facebook.com/MDEK60
for
any updates and links for stand bookings. Sunday 15th April: Country Bus
Rallies - East Grinstead running day. Saturday 21st April: NLTS event at Theydon Bois. Transport Bazaar in the Village Hall 11am-3.30pm, admission £2 (accompanied under 16s free). Bus display nearby and vintage bus rides locally. Sunday 29th April: London
Bus
Museum's
(formerly Cobham Bus Museum) Spring Gathering
returns to Wisley Airfield. Admission £10, free parking,
300 buses
expected, bus service link from Weybridge Station and very many local
'out and
back' trips from Wisley. This year, Wisley is a 'free standing' event,
i.e. the
admission price does NOT include the Museum at Brooklands (normal
£10 entry
price). Further details on www.londonbusmuseum.com.
Sunday 13 May: Country Bus Rallies - running day at Sevenoaks Sunday 27th May: Aldershot
&
District
Centenary
event at Farnborough
at the 'Air Show Bus Station'. Sunday 3 June: Country Bus Rallies - running day at Hertford Sunday 10th June: AEC
Event
and Pageant in Walthamstow to celebrate the
"Centenary of the builders of London's Buses". Based at
the Pump House Museum, plus a vehicle display nearby. Saturday 13th October: LOTS ATS at
Harrow Leisure Centre. ATS
organiser Colin Brazier is taking bookings
by e mail at southmet@hotmail.com.
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