Croydon Buses Update

It has been a busy few months at Croydon Buses behind the scenes. We have been busy preparing for the new contract's on routes 64, 409, T31 and N64. We also gave noted extreme demand for our commercial route 445 from Croydon to Biggin Hill via Coney Hall. Since October, when we started the route with 2 Dart's running hourly. We have since placed an order for 6 11.4 metre E25H's built by L1 Group at Heathrow North Bus Garage for our Route 445, which from the 3rd of March 2014 will have a frequency increase to every 12 mins Monday to Saturday day times, and the frequency on Sunday's, evenings, and early mornings will increase from every 2 hours to every 20 mins.  The Dart's will be sold on & scrapped.

The new buses on order for our expansion and contract wins are: 7 Enviro 250H's for commercial Route 445 (Croydon to Biggin Hill via Addington),due to arrive in February 2014.
These shall be registered:
HDE1 LT63LPA - 11.4m, ordered to provincial specification
HDE2 LT63LPB - 11.4m, ordered to provincial specification
HDE3 LT63LPC - 11.4m, ordered to provincial specification
HDE4 LT63LPD - 11.4m, ordered to provincial specification
HDE5 LT63LPE - 11.4m, ordered to provincial specification
HDE6 LT63LPF - 11.4m, ordered to provincial specification
HDE7 LT63LPG - 11.4m, ordered to provincial specification
LK55KJV, a Enviro 400, has been purchased from Metroline Travel Limited to act as a spare bus, and will carry the fleet code T1.

15 Enviro 400's for TfL route 64 and N64 (Thornton Heath Pond to New Addington via Croydon & Selsdon), due to arrive in January 2014.
These shall be registered:
T2 LT63LPH - 10.3m, ordered to TfL spec
T3 LT63LPG - 10.3m, ordered to TfL spec
T4 LT63LPJ - 10.3m, ordered to TfL spec
T5 LT63LPK - 10.3m, ordered to TfL spec
T6 LT63LPL - 10.3m, ordered to TfL spec
T7 LT63LPM - 10.3m, ordered to TfL spec
T8 LT63LPN - 10.3m, ordered to TfL spec
T9 LT63LPO - 10.3m, ordered to TfL spec
T10 LT63LPP - 10.3m, ordered to TfL spec
T11 LT63LPR - 10.3m, ordered to TfL spec
T12 LT63LPS - 10.3m, ordered to TfL spec
T13 LT63LPT - 10.3m, ordered to TfL spec
T14 LT63LPU - 10.3m, ordered to TfL spec
T15 LT63LPV - 10.3m, ordered to TfL spec
T16 LT63LPW - 10.3m, ordered to TfL spec
T17 LT63LPX - 10.3m, ordered to TfL spec
T18 LT63LPY - 10.3m, ordered to TfL spec

11 Volvo B5TL/Wright Gemini 3's for TfL route 409 (Croydon to Caterham via Selsdon), due to arrive in January 2014.
These shall be registered:
WVL1 BX63MPA - 10.5m, ordered to TfL spec
WVL2 BX63MPB - 10.5m, ordered to TfL spec
WVL3 BX63MPC - 10.5m, ordered to TfL spec
WVL4 BX63MPD - 10.5m, ordered to TfL spec
WVL5 BX63MPE - 10.5m, ordered to TfL spec
WVL6 BX63MPF - 10.5m, ordered to TfL spec
WVL7 BX63MPG - 10.5m, ordered to TfL spec
WVL8 BX63MPH - 10.5m, ordered to TfL spec
WVL9 BT63MPJ - 10.5m, ordered to TfL spec
WVL10 BT63MPK - 10.5m, ordered to TfL spec
WVL11 BT63MPL - 10.5m, ordered to TfL spec

11 Mercedes Benz Citaro K's for TfL route T31 (Forestdale to New Addington via Fieldway), due to arrive in January 2014.
These shall be registered:
MCK1 BW63REA - 10.5m, ordered to TfL spec
MCK2 BW63REB - 10.5m, ordered to TfL spec
MCK3 BW63REC - 10.5m, ordered to TfL spec
MCK4 BW63RED - 10.5m, ordered to TfL spec
MCK5 BW63REE - 10.5m, ordered to TfL spec
MCK6 BW63REF - 10.5m, ordered to TfL spec
MCK7 BW63REG - 10.5m, ordered to TfL spec
MCK8 BW63REH - 10.5m, ordered to TfL spec
MCK9 BW63REJ - 10.5m, ordered to TfL spec
MCK10 BW63REK - 10.5m, ordered to TfL spec
MCK11 BW63REL - 10.5m, ordered to TfL spec

That's all from us, we'll update when we have exciting news!