12/03/2016

Little Lites on the 463

Hello! This is my first actual post! Yippee!

Streetlites that started their life with London General on the gain of Route 192. However, there was something wrong with this batch of buses, allegedly to do with flywheel fitting, so newer Streetlites were brought in to replace these now permanently diesel buses.

London General WS33 on Route 192, Tottenham Hale Bus Station
London General WS33 on Route 192, Tottenham Hale Bus Station (© Aubrey)
(Now it's WS01 with Quality Line)

Quality Line soon gave these buses a new lease of life, as they gave them a new home on Route 463, a little route from Coulsdon Town to Pollards Hill.

Quality Line WS09 on Route 463, Therapia Lane
Quality Line WS09 on Route 463, Therapia Lane (© Anthony)

The previous allocation for this route was 53 reg Optare Solos (OP) with occasional strays of any other single decker that can fit on the route. Also, there is a school working that is normally an Enviro 400 (DD) running Monday-Friday.

Quality Line OP19 on Route 463, Wallington
Quality Line OP19 on Route 463, Wallington (© Anthony)

But now, these have been, at the moment, have been replaced by Streetlites (except the school workings). Route 463 is weird in having such short buses yet full sized double deckers also ply part of the route at times.

Quality Line WS01 on Route 463, Wallington
Quality Line WS01 on Route 463, Wallington (© Anthony)

The 192 Streetlites now have buses with flywheels able to be fitted, so this lot of buses needed and have what seem to be a suitable, quieter home on the 463.

Quality Line WS05 on Route 463, Wallington
Quality Line WS05 on Route 463, Wallington (© Anthony)

Meanwhile, the Optare Solo isn't really a too popular "small bus" for London, and neither is Wrightbus's Streetlite, as this sector is where ADL seem to reign king in London at the moment. Notably though, the number blinds always have the numbers slightly just too large for the blind box, as seen with both operators! It does seem weird though that only two years ago, they were with a different operator running a totally different route.

And that it was Streetlites that replaced Streetlites on the 192!

London General WS55 on Route 192, Tottenham Hale
London General WS55 on Route 192, Tottenham Hale (© Aubrey)

So it's just a cascade of Streetlites.

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