Tube Strike Extras and 2 takeovers!

Here are some tube strike extras for the JezzaBus! London routes. I will cover the N550/N551 change later in the post, along with the R5/8/10. For now, here are the extras:

Route 13: Ensignbus (Extras Every 15 Minutes)

Leyland Fleetline (THX 646S, DM2646)
Leyland Fleetline (MRJ 233W, 233)
Scania Metropolitan (KJD 260P, MD60)
MCW Metrobus (THX 101S, M1)
Routemaster Long (JJD 588D, RML2588)
Routemaster Long (JJD 405D, RML2405)
Routemaster Long (WLT 882, ER882)
RT (KYY 961, RT3232)
AEC Regent III (LLU 610, RT3251)
AEC Regent III (JXC 432, RT624)

Route 1: Inside JezzaBus! (Extras Every 10 Minutes)

Gemini 3 (BN64 VZA, G31 - BN64 VZF, G38)
Dart Pointer (P285 FPK, JH1)
Leyland Olympian (C118 CHM, JH2)

On to the N550/N551 Change
There have been 10 buses delivered to Euston garage, namely Gemini 3s, for routes N550 and N551. No dramas there!

Now the Roundabout routes.
The R5/R10 and R8 (now tendered together) have been won by JezzaBus! with 5 new 9 metre Optare Solo SRs (to fit down the narrow lanes). These will be operated from our North Greenwich base until the other routes are taken over. All is well, no problems there either!

Future News in London:

01/08/15: JezzaBus! wins route R1 with 8 new MC990 Metrocitys
01/08/15: JezzaBus! wins route R2 with 5 new MC990 Metrocitys
01/08/15: JezzaBus! wins route R3 with 5 new MC990 Metrocitys
01/08/15: JezzaBus! wins route R4 with 7 new MC990 Metrocitys
01/08/15: JezzaBus! wins route R6 with 3 new MC990 Metrocitys
01/08/15: JezzaBus! wins route R7 with 2 new MC990 Metrocitys
01/08/15: JezzaBus! wins route R9 with 4 new MC990 Metrocitys
01/08/15: JezzaBus! wins route R11 with 8 new MC990 Metrocitys

15/08/15: bus4you wins route 346 with 5 new Electric 9.0m Optare Solo SRs

JezzaBus! Now Operate Routes:

HARLOW
Garage: Church Langley (CL)

Route 261 (Harlow to Potters Bar) Every 10 minutes with 15 Gemini 2s

Route HT1 (Harlow Town Rail Station to Harlow Bus Station) Every 5 minutes with 2 ex-London 56 Enviro 400s

Route 163 (Sawbridgeworth Circular via Hunsdon) Every 15 minutes with 4 Enviro 200s

BIRMINGHAM
Garage: Smethwick (SW)
Route 6 (Solihull to Birmingham) Every 5 minutes with 16 Wright Streetlite DFs

Route 99 (Halesowen to Birmingham) Every 10 minutes with 12 Optare Tempo SRs

Route 11C (Outer Circle) Every 10 minutes with 15 ex-London 390 Gemini 2s and and 15 ex-73 Gemini 2s

Route 111 (West Bromwich to Acocks Green) Every 15 minutes with 8 Optare Tempo SRs

Route X111 (Solihull to Dudley) Every 15 minutes with 12 Caetano CityGold Gas Buses

LONDON

Garage: North Greenwich (NG)
Route 486 / 129 (North Greenwich to Bexleyheath / North Greenwich to Greenwich) Every 8 / 12 minutes with 20 ex-CT Plus and London United Scania Omnicitys
Route 386 (Blackheath Villiage to Woolwich) Every 15 minutes with 10 Wright Streetlite DFs

Route 239 (Tower Hill to Kidbrooke Station) Every 15 minutes with 6 Enviro 200s
Route 188 (North Greenwich to Russell Square) Every 8 minutes with 22 Optare Metrodeckers

Route 108 (Stratford to Lewisham) Every 15 minutes with 15 Enviro 200s

Route R5/R10/R8 (Orpington Circular Via Knockholt / Orpington to Biggin Hill) Every 150 / 70 minutes with 5 9.0 metre Solo SRs. TEMPORARY BASE

Garage: Isleworth (IW)

Route 65 (Kingston to Ealing) Every 8 minutes with 24 Ex-London United Enviro 400s
Route 110 (Twickenham to North Middlesex Hospital) Every 20 minutes with 5 ex-Arriva MCV Evolutions
Route 391 (Richmond to Fulham) Every 10 minutes with 9 Enviro 400 MMCs and 9 Optare Metrodeckers
Route E8 (Brentford to Ealing) Every 8 minutes with 11 Enviro 200s
Route H28 (Bulls Bridge to Osterley) Every 20 minutes with 9 original buses from the route
Garage: Euston (EU)
Route 1 (Tottenham Court Road to Canada Water) Every 8 minutes with 20 ex-56 Enviro 400s
Route 56 (Whipps Cross to St Bartholemew's Hospital) Every 7 minutes with 24 NBFLs

Route 13 (Golders Green to Aldwych) Every 8 minutes with 25 Gemini 2s

Route N500/N551 (Canning Town / Gallions Reach to Trafalgar Square) Every 30 minutes with 10 Gemini 3s

Garage: South Mimms (SM)

Route 298 (Potters Bar to Arnos Grove) Every 20 minutes with 6 Gemini 3s

Route 626 (Finchley to Dame Alice Owen's School) with 5 Gemini 3s

Route 628 (Kingsbury to Southgate) with 4 Gemini 3s

Route 653 (Muswell Hill to Kingsbury) with 4 Gemini 3s

Route 683 (Friern Barnet to Kingsbury) with 4 Gemini 3s

Route 688 (Southgate to Kingsbury) with 7 Gemini 3s

bus4you now operate routes:

LONDON

Garage: Richmond (RH)

Route H37 (Hounslow to Richmond) Every 6 minutes with 16 Optare Tempos

Route 411 (West Molesey to Kingston) Every 20 minutes with 7 Optare Versas