My Picture Archive Post 5 and some iBus Messages

Seeming as I may not get a post in for this weekend, I've decided to put another picture from my archive...

East London/ELBG 18270 (LX05 BWC) on Route 8, Victoria, 17/06/07

This picture cannot happen again as Stagecoach has now re-bought its London operations, Terminus Place and Victoria Bus Station area is being rebuilt, and 8 no longer runs to Victoria (which is a shame)... Now, 8 runs only to Oxford Circus... 

Five years since, and places have changed a lot...

Transport for London have put messages on the iBus system fairly recently. One was spotted by the blog reporter Matt, and the other spotted by me.

Sorry about quality - both were taken from our mobile phones, and my mobile phone camera is not to a good standard...

The first one showing the message telling where to get bus information. On a bus...

Thanks to Matt for that! Well, there was an E10 on diversion (which neither me nor Matt got to photograph) ahead of this bus... Shown 03/07/12

The next photos & video shows the message showing the bus strike not going ahead on 05/07/12

Well, Unite, well done for calling off the strikes!

Routes 465 and 211 30/06/12

Business as usual then. Epsom Coaches Group win the 465 from Metrobus with the Optare Versa, and Abellio shove new buses onto the 211:

 Epsom Coaches/Quality Line OV11 (YJ12 PKY) on Route 465, Kingston

 Company address and roundel on OV11

 Fresh interior of OV11

 iBus and 'Stopping' sign

 CCTV Screen

 Epsom Coaches leaflets. They seem to be in all Quality Line buses...

 Wheelchair space, colour coded...

 More interior, from the rear this time.

 This is the 465. Quality Line trying to say hello to customers...

 Information sheet

 High backed seats on OV11

 Quality Line OV10 (YJ12 PKX) on Route 465

 Rear of Quality Line OV10 (YJ12 PKX) on Route 465

 OV11 at Surbiton Station

OV11 at Surbiton Station

After meeting with the other blogger of the team on the Emirates Air-Line (covered in separate post), I went to Hammersmith to cover the 211 new buses.

 Abellio London 9539 (SN12 ACV) on Route 211, Hammersmith

 Abellio London 9547 (SN12 AOU) on Route 211, Hammersmith

 iBus and lower deck interior of 9539

 So, to break the glass to get the hammer to break window glass, what hammer do we need to break the glass to get a hammer?

 Rear of 9539

  Abellio London 9538 (SN12 ACU) on Route 211, Charing Cross Hospital

Upper deck of 9538

Abellio London 2440 (SN12 AUH) on Route 211, Hammersmith Bus Station.

iBus on 211 (9538)

Overall, a good day, with many things covered within this trip, and it went to schedule, for once... My 120 trip was a nightmare, missing ALL my connections, but here, I made all of them. For once!

Route 70 New Buses and HOV1 30/06/12

Hiya, Jake here with my first post on the WLTM Bus Blog. I'm here to talk about the 70's transfer to FirstGroup and the Optare Versa Hybrid bus on London General.

The new E200's have been running for over a week now but I nor Au had time to do a blog post for various reasons. After an "exhausting" cable car ride with Au, I managed to go to South Kensington to catch a 70:

A (very blurry) shot of DML 44319

Interior looking forward

Oyster Reader

CCTV Screen (still having the plastic covering)

Information and blind changer

DML44322 at Hyde Park, Queensway

DML44314 (YX12 AEA) Not in Service at Queensway

DML44316 (YX12 AEF) at Queensway

iBus of DML44319

Before I took the pictures of the 70 though, I spotted HOV1 (OP07 ARE), the Optare Versa Hybrid belonging to London Central, on Route 360. Here are the pictures (Sorry if there are no interior shots)