Bexleyheath also operates the Kent Thameside portion of the Fastrack bus rapid transit network on a temporary basis.
[3] Bexleyheath garage is a large and imposing building, slightly set back from the main Erith Road to enable parking on the forecourt.
Bexleybus had a varied fleet of 107 buses painted in a cream and blue livery, ranging from Robin Hood-bodied Iveco Daily and integrally-constructed MCW Metrorider minibuses to ex-LRT Daimler Fleetlines and Leyland Nationals as well as 28 new Northern Counties-bodied Leyland Olympians leased to the operator.
[4] The move to set up the new company to tender for routes backfired, with low maintenance, supervisory and administrative staffing at Bexleyheath garage resulting in frequent service delays and vehicle breakdowns.
[7] London Central took control of Bexleyheath garage and its routes in January 1991, with the Bexleybus name being dropped and vehicles being returned to their lessors.
[8] A gantry was installed at the garage connecting with a pantograph on the top of the bus, and on 9 July 2022, a fleet of Alexander Dennis Enviro400EVs began to enter service on route 132.
During the war, Camberwell garage was equipped for bus body overhauling in 1940, and a fleet of sixteen buses were converted to run on coal-fuelled producer gas to combat fuel rationing.
The new building also incorporated a newly-developed pit and workshop layout in a separate self-contained block, all being grouped together in order to reduce the effort required by maintenance staff.
The office building was left mothballed until 2001, when it was refurbished and opened as Go-Ahead's London recruitment and training centre.
In 1972, New Cross ran a preserved ex-Tilling ST-type AEC Regent I on London Transport's new route 100 sightseeing service, running between Horse Guards Avenue, Whitehall, Trafalgar Square, the West End of London and the Victoria Embankment;[25] this service was revived during 1977 as part of commemorations for the Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II.
[29] On 18 February 1996, a London Central Leyland Titan based from New Cross garage and working on route 171 was destroyed when a bomb detonated prematurely in the lower deck as it drove along Aldwych, killing Provisional IRA member Edward O'Brien and injuring eight others inside and outside the bus.
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