Route 390 NBfL Conversion 07/12/13

Time for Borismaster conversion number four. Route 390, formerly half of route 10 and part of C12, was a former Routemaster route. The last "new" Routemaster route. Those Routemasters were taken on the "Black Friday" of Routemasters - where the 9, 73 and 390 all lost their Routemasters, on 03/09/04. Low floor Volvo B7TL/Plaxton Presidents replaced the Routemasters. Since then, the route has been extended from Marble Arch to Notting Hill Gate, on November 2004 to replace the bendy-bound 12, and nothing else. Except from it passing between Holloway and King's Cross (now closed) depots. Now it's subject to long Borismasters roaring past, OPO on weekends and Monday-Friday evenings. At least one of them is LT111. And another is called LT114.

Metroline LT96, LT10 on Route 390, Notting Hill Gate (Au)
Au went to Notting Hill Gate firstly to get these two buses.


Metroline LT96 on Route 390, Notting Hill Gate (Au)


Metroline LT10 on Route 390, Notting Hill Gate (blind blunder) (Au)


Metroline LT105, Route 390, Marble Arch (Au, edited)

 
Metroline LT96 on Route 390, Oxford Street (Au)


Arriva London DLA335 (159), Metroline LT10 (390), Oxford Circus (Au)


Metroline LT110 on Route 390, Oxford Circus (Au)

Afterwards, Au met with Josh and Tom at Orpington, and we came back to Marble Arch:


Metroline LT109 on Route 390, Marble Arch (Au)

Then the inevitable happened...


Metroline LT111 (LTZ1111) on Route 390, Marble Arch (Au)

Josh, Tom and I then split ways, and I went to Notting Hill Gate for night 390 observations. After oversleeping on a 52!


Metroline LT108 on Route 390, Notting Hill Gate (Au)


Metroline LT97 on Route 390, Notting Hill Gate (Au)


Metroline LT112 on Route 390, Notting Hill Gate (Au)


Metroline LT113 on Route 390, Notting Hill Gate (Au)


Metroline LT115 on Route 390, Notting Hill Gate (Au)


Metroline LT114 on Route 390, Notting Hill Gate (Au)


Metroline LT101 on Route 390, Notting Hill Gate (Au)

Next on NBfL conversions: 148 in 2014.