Hi,
Welcome to my You Tube channel, I have been interested in buses for as long as I can remember, growing up as I recall in Crystal Palce before moving to Abbey Wood, later on to Hounslow/Southall then up to Birmingham for a little while, now back down in London in East Ham.
On this channel I aim to cover a whole range of London Transport modes, such as the Tube, Overground, DLR, Trams and ofcourse the London Buses which this channel mostly focuses on.
In terms of the buses, I will try to film every main location with in London aswell as doing some one of trips to places such as Slough, Amersham/Chesham (Always a nice ride on the tube to the country side), Lakeside.
I will filming routes that change operator and have new buses.
I also like planes, so maybe a couple of videos a year at London City Airport and Heathrow.
If any one has any questions, locations in mind, feel free to comment.
Thanks for watching, enjoy.
The London Transport Droid
State of these buses operated by Arriva from Thornton Heath Garage as the shunters do not run them through the wash daily as contracted to do so Monday to Saturday.
For some reason the ES/EKL buses run into the garage but don’t run in to the new wash lane? Which they need can be driven through the wash, instead Bidvest they park buses up on the forecourt and on the wash lane as this is convenient for them to do so. Even though Arriva management and engineers have told them that they must wash them.
Photos below show from 7pm they park buses in the wash lane instead and forecourt.
Another screen shot from a member of Bidvest that was sacked there for trying to do the job properly.
Bidvest at this garage are an absolute shambles.
They don’t know how to clean buses at this garage and even Arriva can’t get Bidvest to comply properly, once the Arriva management team and engineers go home around 6pm/7pm they stop running the buses going through the wash and instead park them across the forecourt and wash lane and behind the wash because it’s more convenient for them…
I attached screen shot here of what Bidvest shunters told Peter Simmonds who was there for a while.
Peter Simmonds was then sacked and removed from the garage for trying to do he’s job properly.
The night running shift engineer Dexter has also tried to tell Bidvest many times of what is expected and they never listen.
Bidvest dismissed Peter Simmonds from he’s post due to trying to do the job properly and due to the fact that he is not one of there kind.
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The London Transport Droid
Notification of Tender Results
23rd June 2026
LBSL intends to enter into new contracts for the following routes with the operators listed below:
Route
Current Operator
New Operator
PVR
Vehicles
28/N28
Metroline West
London United
16
New electric double deck
191
Arriva London North
Arriva London North
20
New electric double deck
260
Metroline
Metroline
19
New electric double deck
302
Metroline
Metroline
17
New electric double deck
E3
London United
London United
21
Existing hybrid double deck
New electric vehicles may enter service after the contract start date, dependent on infrastructure and/ or vehicle delivery timescales.
The hybrid vehicles detailed above will meet Euro VI emissions standards.
The start and end dates for the above contracts are detailed in the following table:
Route
Contract Start Date
Contract End Date
28/N28
1st May 2027
28th April 2034
191
5th June 2027
2nd June 2034
260
26th June 2027
23rd June 2034
302
26th June 2027
23rd June 2034
E3
29th May 2027
30th May 2031
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Well, that’s another bus off the road for DX Garage! Just as well they have plenty of old DW in the yard to use instead.
You do have to wonder why buses keep crashing on a daily basis?
I for one don’t buy this noise by the unions saying fatigue, bus drivers do chose what shifts they get, all garages have early, middle and late rotas, so it’s not as though they are being forced to work shifts they don’t want to.
I think it’s poor driving these days, poor training.
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The London Transport Droid
I see Go Ahead recruit drivers this like as usual
Tonight at Walthamstow Bus Station, 23:02, this 69 pulls off the bus stand, even he did not hold back before the crossing to allow the 257 in front to move off so he could serve the bus stop properly.
Instead he did not serve the bus stop properly, he even blocked the entire traffic light crossing, the old man couldn’t board the bus, the bus driver being the idiot he is did not even bother to move forward to the kerb, he drove off, the man then went in front of the bus and held a protest.
I don’t know what kind of bus drivers Go Ahead employ, Go Ahead seem to employ all these idiots at Northumberland Park, River Road garages.
This is going to TFL in a email just now and also CC on the Ops manager at NP.
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Arriva DW551 (LJ13 CDY), Route 60, Old Coulsdon, 14th May 2025
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Changes to buses from Saturday 12 April 2025 :
The following changes will take place from Saturday 12 April 2025:
A temporary timetable will be introduced on route 182 widening the frequency of the service to every 9 minutes during the daytime on Monday to Saturdays and to every 13 minutes during the evening and all day on Sundays. The temporary timetable will be in place to help with reliability during works on Watford Road.
Route 427 will have a new timetable on all days of the week with minor changes to times.
Route H14 will have a new timetable on all days of the week with the frequency restored to every 10 minutes during the daytime on Monday to Saturdays and every 15 minutes during the evenings and on Sundays.
Route SL5 will have a new timetable on all days of the week with minor changes to times.
Route SL7 will have a new timetable on all days of the week with minor changes to times.
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tfl.gov.uk/info-for/media/press-releases/2025/janu…
Silvertown Tunnel, extended 129, new SL4 and Cycle Bus routes launching Monday 7th April. Associated tolling for Blackwall and Silvertown tunnels also launching that day.
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Notification of Tender Results
18th November 2024
LBSL intends to enter into new contracts for the following routes with the operators listed below:
Route Current Operator New Operator PVR Vehicles
46 Metroline Metroline 17 Existing electric single deck
D8 Stagecoach Lea Interchange Stagecoach Lea Interchange 7 New electric double deck
N5 London Sovereign London Sovereign n/a* Existing hybrid double deck
N20 Metroline Metroline n/a* Existing New Routemaster
N550 Stagecoach East London Stagecoach East London n/a* Existing hybrid double deck
N551 Stagecoach East London Stagecoach East London n/a* Existing hybrid double deck
* Night only routes using buses sourced from day route allocations.
New electric vehicles may enter service after the contract start date, dependent on infrastructure and/ or vehicle delivery timescales.
The hybrid vehicles detailed above will meet Euro VI emissions standards.
The start and end dates for the above contracts are detailed in the following table:
Route Contract Start Date Contract End Date
46
21st June 2025
18th June 2032
D8
13th September 2025
10th September 2032
N5
26th July 2025
28th July 2028
N20
26th July 2025
28th July 2028
N550
30th August 2025
1st September 2028
N551
30th August 2025
1st September 2028
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