London General were sold the rights to the whole garage and team, due to First Group PLC announcing losses in the company.On the 29th of February 2012 NP staff were informed that the garage was to be sold to Go-ahead London General and a long and painful process to complete the Transaction was completed earlier today. Tomorrow (31/3/2012) Go Ahead (London General) will have full control over the operation of the Garage. Routes that will be operated by GAL are: 67, 191, 231, 259, 299, 357, 389, 399, 476, W4, W10, W16 and School services 616, 692 and 699. The Buses will be recoded into new GAL codes. These will be the similar to the GAL numbering system but with an N added. e.g VN's will now be WVN's instead of saying WVLs.
We Naeem & I have Put together a Post of most of the NP's routes with pictures of the buses as today and some info on the routes at NP.
Northumberland Park Garage commenced operation in 1991 as part of the Walthamstow Buses operation but it soon expanded as an offshoot of Capital Citybus (First London) and then soon in 1995 it became a Capital Citybus operation.then in 1998 it was rebranded to the Firstgroup subsequently becoming first capital North. All the routes that have been taken over by London General are listed below.
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| Northumberland Park Placard |
Route 67
Runs between Wood Green and Aldgate using 10.6m Volvo B7TL Presidents renamed from VNLs to PVNs similar to PVL codes used by existing Presidents with GA-L
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| 67 First Capital North (NP) VNL32327 LK03 NKA Turnpike Lane |
Route 191
This route runs between Edmonton Green and Brimsdown taking a very long way using 10.1m Alexander Dennis Enviro 400s. These will change from DN's to EN's similar to the GA-L E prefix for Enviro400s
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| 191 First Capital North (NP) DN33540 SN58 CFE Edmonton Green About to start the return journey to Brimsdown. |
Route 231
This Route runs between Turnpike Lane and Enfield Chase Using again the 10.1m Alexander Dennis Enviro 400's. These will change from DN's to EN's similar to the GA-L E prefix for Enviro400s
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| 231 First Capital North (NP) DN33536 SN58 CEX Turnpike Lane Seen just before it changed it's blinds to Enfield Chase. |
Route 259
This route runs between Edmonton Green and Kings Cross Using 10.4m Wright Pulsar Gemini 2 buses coded by First as VNs but soon to become WVNs related to the current Gemini coding which is WVL.
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| 259 First Capital North (NP) VN37818 LK59 FDF Edmonton Green |
Route 476
This Route runsbBetween Northumberland Park and Euston Bus Station. Using 10.4m Wright Gemini 2 buses coded by First as VNs but soon to become WVNs related to the current Gemini coding which is WVL.
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| 476 First Capital North (NP) VN37812 LK59 FEG Northumberland park |
Route W4
This route Runs Between Oakthorpe Park (near Great Cambridge) and Ferry Lane, Tottenham Hale using 8.9m Alexander Dennis E200s altough longer ones from 299 & W16 make regular appearances. The code for the W4's E200's is DM.But will change to SEN under GAL. Related to the GAL E200 prefix SE.
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| W4 First Capital North (NP) DMS44427 YX60 FUH Turnpike Lane |
Route W16
This Route Runs between Chingford Mount and Leytonstone using 9.3m Alexander Dennis E20Ds classed as DMs soon to be classed SENs similar to the GAL E200 Prefix SE.
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| W16 First Capital North (NP) DM44293 YX61 FYT Leytonstone (C) Rhys Daniel Photography Note: this route was recently won of Arriva London North. |
Route W10
This route runs between Enfield and Crewes Hill Using the one and only 8.8m Marshal Capital Dart left at NP Coded DMV but soon to be coded DMN
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| W10 First Capital North (NP) DM41788 X788 HLR Enfield Town (C) Peter Horrex 24th June 2010 |
Route:299
This Route runs between Muswell Hill and Cockfosters using 9.3m Alexander Dennis E200's
Route: 399
Circuit route serving Barnet via Hadleywood. Uses 9.3m Alexander Dennis E200s.
Route: 389
Circuit route serving Barnet via Western Way Uses 9.3m Alexander Dennis E200s.
Thanks for viewing our post and soon we'll see if GA-L run NP better.
UPDATE:
As of Sunday nothing has changed logo's and fleetcodes are intact altough Naeem noticed the 476 has been run alot better since GA-L took over.
you missed out the 357 and i have seen one with the go ahead logo dunno if its trial or not
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