London Bus News Roundup - October 2021
Abellio London This months tender results have seen Abellio gain their first ever school route in the form of the 671, it will use an existing hybrid double deck from Fulwell (TF) depot. Meanwhile the orders for routes 322 & 433 have been announced, the 322 will be getting 8.7m Optare Metrocitys and the 433 will be getting Caetano e.Citys Transfers: 2459 WS > QB LT700 WL > QB LT786 WL > TF Arriva London This months tender results has seen route 264 lost, adding to the growing collection of lost routes. It will pass to Go Ahead: Metrobus Croydon (C) depot in the second half of next year. On the other hand this set of tenders has seen Thornton Heath (TH) route 198 retained with existing hybrids, with a +1 PVR increase. In other news the 10 Volvo B9TLs bought from Tower Transit in 2018 are now being withdrawn and returned off lease, this is as a result of the 349s conversion to LT releasing DWs to AR, in turn releasing the 63 reg DWs over to EC. Meanwhile the 160s Ts are in