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London's Zero Emission Buses Part 5

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London's Zero Emission Buses Part 4

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London's Zero Emission Buses Part 3

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London's Zero Emission Buses Part 2

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London's Zero Emission Buses Part 1

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London's Zero Emission Buses Part 7

To celebrate the relentless onward march of the electric bus in London, here we have yet another part of my video survey of TfL bus routes converted to emission-free vehicles. Filmed between January and July 2024, at locations as diverse as Totteridge and London Bridge,, this video features the following routes: 35, 86, 377, 251, 133, 384, 363, W7, 379 and W11.
I hope you enjoy this part - it contains a preponderance of my favourite new vehicle types.

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London's Zero Emission Buses Part 6

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Welcome to Part 6 of my review of London's Emission-Free Buses. I might just as well call it "London's Electric Buses," as there has been no further investment in hydrogen propulsion in the Capital (although, who knows, it might turn out to be the best option one day!). But battery-electric is the name of the game and will be so for the foreseeable future. I put my camera away in the autumn, bu...

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London's Zero Emission Buses Part 5

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Welcome to the last part (for this year, anyway!) of this five-part video review of London's zero-emission buses. This one goes from about February to October 2023 and covers the following routes: 111, 359, 353, 142, 80, 93, 154, 213, 163, 164, 433, 108, 204, 366, 339, D3 and 40. I round off the video with a look at the new Irizar ieTram which - as I write - has still not entered service on the...

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London's Zero Emission Buses Part 4

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Welcome to Part 4 of this video review of London's zero-emission buses. This part covers services converted to electric traction between February 2022 and January 2023. The Transport for London routes specifically looked at are: 371, 33, W15, 49, U5, 322, 132, 28, 72, 125, 295, 264, 119 and B13. We also have a quick look at Go-Ahead's HereEast contract in Stratford, which received battery buses...

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London's Zero Emission Buses Part 3

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Welcome to the third part of (initially) five videos telling the story of the zero-emission bus in London. This installment covers the routes which converted to zero-emission buses roughly between May 2021 and January 2022, namely: 7, 245, 200, 17, 319, 65, 281, 71, X140, 160, 290, H9, H10, 398, 395, 413, 180, 63 and 183. Enjoy!

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London's Zero Emission Buses Part 2

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Welcome to Part 2 of this video review of London's battery- and hydrogen-powered buses. This part features the following bus routes, in the order in which they were converted from diesel-power: 100, 94, 212, C10, P5, 106, 230, 323, 317, 357, 699, C3, 174, 173, 184, 23, 484 and 69. I hope you enjoy it.

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London's Zero Emission Buses Part 1

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Welcome to the first of (probably) five videos telling the story of the zero-emission bus in London. The specific routes covered are: RV1, H98, 312, 98, 507, 521, 360, 153, 70, C1, 46, 444, 43, 214 and 134. Actually, Part 1 mostly re-uses footage from my older videos, as there seemed little point in going back and re-filming what I already filmed a few years ago. But from Part 2 onwards, you wi...

London Buses - Alexander ALX400 Retrospective

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London Buses - Alexander ALX400 Retrospective

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Welcome to this retrospective of the ALX400 bus type. I have scoured my archives for all the footage of Tridents, DAFs and Volvos with this type of bodywork. The ALX body was one of my all-time favourites, due in no small part to seeing literally hundreds of them on visits to Hong Kong. At the time of writing, the very last ALX500-bodied Volvo Super Olympian is working out its final few months ...

London Buses - Scania OmniCity Twilight PART 2

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London Buses - Scania OmniCity Twilight PART 2

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Welcome to Part 2 of my retrospective on the stylish Scania OmniCity, as used in London. As in Part 1, the sections are arranged roughly in the order in which the vehicle type was introduced to each particular bus route. Filmed in Autumn 2022 unless otherwise indicated. Part 2 features routes: 97, 103, 116, 203, 207, 252, 262, 277, 281, 365, D7, E1 and H98.

London Buses - Scania OmniCity Twilight PART 1

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London Buses - Scania OmniCity Twilight PART 1

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As the time approaches when the eye-catching Scania OmniCity will take its final leave from London bus operation, I believe the time is right for a retrospective of sorts. Part 1 and Part 2 of this video showcase footage of the Scania OmniCity taken both recently as well as over the last seven years. The OmniCity has been dismissed as a “cheap foreign import,” but in that respect it is no diffe...

London Buses 2022 - Go-Ahead London Central PART 2

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London Buses 2022 - Go-Ahead London Central PART 2

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RE-UPLOADED DUE TO PROCESSING ERROR. This is Part 2 of a three-hour video review of the daytime operations of Go-Ahead London Central in south-east London. Filmed between April and August 2022, this part covers routes 129, 132, 171, 172, 176, 178, 185, 188, 225, 244, 286, 291 and 321. To my mind, the highlights of this video are probably: (1) the batch of un-repainted Volvo B9TLs (WVL350-357) o...

London Buses 2022 - Go-Ahead London Central PART 3

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London Buses 2022 - Go-Ahead London Central PART 3

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Welcome to the last hour of my 2022 video review of Go-Ahead London Central. Filmed between April and August 2022 (except where otherwise indicated), this part covers routes 343, 360, 363, 386, 436, 453, 469, 484, 486, B11, B12, B16, P12 and X68. In my humble opinion, the highlights of this video are: (1) The assortment of old/second-hand vehicles working the 486. These include E131 and E133, s...

London Buses 2022 - Go-Ahead London Central PART 1

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London Buses 2022 - Go-Ahead London Central PART 1

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Welcome to the first installment of a 3-hour video review of the operations of Go-Ahead London Central. Filmed between April and August 2022, the video studies the company’s daytime routes operating out of its south-east London garages. Please forgive the inconsistency of coverage - some routes, like the 51, are only sparsely covered while others (like the 37) are quite saturated! It was just i...

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2022 Ensignbus Local Bus Service Review

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Welcome to my video review of the local bus services of Ensignbus in their 50th anniversary year. Their iconic blue and silver buses have become a well known feature of London's eastern fringe. Recent intakes of new double deckers have resulted in a very low age profile which - coupled with good bodywork maintenance - means a fleet of vehicles that is never less than smartly turned out. As well...

London Buses 2022 - Go-Ahead London General PART 3

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London Buses 2022 - Go-Ahead London General PART 3

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Welcome to the third and final part of my video review of Go-Ahead London General in Spring/Summer 2022. This video covers routes 219, 280, 322, 337, 378, 413, 424, 430, 485, 493, 507, 521 and G1. These are mostly single-deck routes, but you will see plenty of double-deckers on the 280, 337 and 430. You will also see electric vehicles galore, serving routes 413, 507 and 521. Of particular inter...