The deal saw around 500 members of staff and 160 buses transfer, along with leases on depots at Ash Grove and Walthamstow Avenue.

This was replaced by a new standard bus livery of a dark blue skirt and orange and light blue swirl at the rear, with Stagecoach's standard off-white replaced by red to conform with Transport for London contractual requirements for buses on TfL services to be 80% red.

Barking garage was opened in 1924 by the London General Omnibus Company to cater for the increased demand from the new housing estates springing up in Becontree.

Barking was the last London Transport garage to operate AEC Regent III RT buses in revenue-earning service, the type being withdrawn following a final running day on route 62 on 7 April 1979.

[12] However, the Chadwell Heath complex would not be built due to the land for it being contaminated, resulting in only Seven Kings garage closing.

Opened as a tram depot by the north Metropolitan Tramways Company in 1908 on land once occupied by an asylum, it was converted to operate trolley buses in 1939.

The garage has had a long association with the AEC Routemaster, receiving its first examples in the early 1960s, some of which remained right up until August 2004 when the type was withdrawn from route 8.

In December 2007, Bow took over the running of route 15H from the closed Waterden Road garage until this moved to West Ham in June 2009.

The garage was the first to receive post-war AEC Regent III RTs, 78 of which were allocated by 1947, with a further 30 added for the trolleybus conversion program in 1959.

Built in the post-war style of a London Underground station, it was initially able to house 115 buses, although only 67 were allocated when opened.

[17] It is the biggest bus garage in England and is the new location for Stagecoach London's head office and training centre.

It was a large yard on an old industrial estate by the River Lea, opposite the Hackney garage which was owned by First London.

[18] The route 30 bus was replaced in October 2005 by the first Alexander Dennis Enviro400 off the production line, which was named "Spirit of London".

[19] Stratford garage closed in February 2008, with operations transferred to West Ham, to allow the site to be redeveloped for the 2012 Olympic Games.

[17] Waterden Road garage opened early in 2004 with space for approximately 100 buses, mainly articulated Mercedes-Benz Citaros for route 25.

Prior to West Ham being built Upton Park was the largest garage in the east end of London.