Croydon Buses Update

Croydon Buses has ceased trading. The assets have been seized by the administrators, and the business is awaiting a buyer.

EDIT 03/11/14
The assets have been bought by New World Holdings HK (trading as New Citybus in London) and SR (East Croydon-Southern Station) and P (Old Kent Road) are now under New Citybus ownership.
All commercial services have been discontinued, and all TfL services are being administered by L1/Group using the existing buses, until 8th November 2014, when New Citybus takes over.

Routes 64 and 409 will be as per normal, using the current buses.

Route T31 will have existing E25H/Enviro 200 hybrids ex-L1/Group replacing Citaro Ks, which will transfer to L1/Group. The Enviro 200s ordered by Croydon Buses are for sale.

Route 412 - the new buses for the route are now E45H/Enviro 400MMCs, contract will still start in January 2015

Routes 663/689 - as intended, existing Enviro 425H/Enviro 400 Hybrids will operate the routes.

EDIT 05/11/14:
The fleet (note the ex-L1/Group buses gain their old fleet numbers back):

Routes 689, 663 (ADL E42H/Enviro 400):
TE270 LN59DST
TE271 LN59DSU
TE272 LN59DSV
TE273 LN59DSW
TE274 LN59DSX

Route T31 (ADL E25H/Enviro 200):
DE2 LN58END
DE3 LN58ENE
DE4 LN58ENF
DE5 LN58ENG
DE6 LN58ENH
DE7 LN58ENJ
DE8 LN58ENK
DE9 LN58ENL
DE10 LN58ENN
DE11 LN58ENO
DE12 LN58ENP
DE13 LN58ENR

Spare non-London Buses (Mercedes Citaro):
MCN910 KX54TBX
MCN911 KX05TBA
MCN912 KX05TBB
MCN913 KX05TBC
MCN914 KX05TBD
MCN915 KX05TBE
MCN916 BX09ABA
MCN917 BX09ABB
MCN918 BX09ABC 
MCN919 BL59ABD

Route 64/N64 (ADL E40D/Enviro 400) (under L1/Group coded TENC):
T2 LT63LPH
T3 LT63LPG
T4 LT63LPJ 
T5 LT63LPK
T6 LT63LPL
T7 LT63LPM
T8 LT63LPN
T9 LT63LPO
T10 LT63LPP
T11 LT63LPR
T12 LT63LPS
T13 LT63LPT 
T14 LT63LPU
T15 LT63LPV
T16 LT63LPW
T17 LT63LPX
T18 LT63LPY

Route 409 (Volvo B5TL/Wright Gemini 3) (under L1/Group coded VTNC):
WVL1 BX63MPA
WVL2 BX63MPB
WVL3 BX63MPC
WVL4 BX63MPD
WVL5 BX63MPE
WVL6 BX63MPF
WVL7 BX63MPG
WVL8 BX63MPH
WVL9 BT63MPJ
WVL10 BT63MPK
WVL11 BT63MPL 

An introduction to Croydon Buses

Whether you like the place or not, Croydon is home to high numbers of people who need buses. We are a operator trying to run TfL bus services around Croydon, Sutton, Bromley, Lambeth, Merton, Southwark and Lewisham. We started in 2003 by local resident Tim Bale, who was fed up of the poor service, and dirty buses around Croydon, Sutton, Bromley, Lambeth, Merton, Southwark and Lewisham. We therefore started to buy some old buses, and opened up a depot in Dingwall Road, East Croydon (garage code is DR) to run and maintain our services from. The first buses we bourght were some old Leyland Titans and some Volvo Olympians, and very soon are buses started running Rail Replacement services and soon became a common sight at bus rally's across South East England as well as in the local area. Our livery is generally, maroon with mustard yellow, having been upgraded earlier this year.

Old logo used from 2003 to 2013. This has been applied to our Volvo Olympians and Leyland Titans.

Our new logo used from 2013 onwards. This will be applied to our future bus orders/acquisitions. Our breakthrough came on the evening of the 27th of September 2013, when TfL announced we had won the contracts for Route's 64, 409 (Converted to TfL operation), T31 and N64. We shall be buying new buses for these routes, which our first ever wins. We shall be buying 9 10.5m Citaro K's for Route T31. These will carry standard white Johnson electronic smart-blinds. We shall be buying 14 10.2m E40D  for Route 64. We shall be buying 9 Wrightbus / Volvo B5TL Streets Ahead for the 409. These shall carry standard white Johnson smart-blinds. Route N64 will be using existing E40D from the day route 64. We are extremely grateful to TfL for winning these contracts, and we look forward to winning more contracts! We can confirm we have placed a bid with TfL for Route's 54 and 75, and we've given them the options of: Existing buses sourced from company's such as Southdown PSV and Ensign Bus. Brand new hybrid buses, more than likely to be E45H built by L1/Group at Heathrow North Garage. So, that's it from us, we'll update you in a month's time, thanks for reading!