Palmers Green Bus Garage

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The last column gives the official LBSL garage code (see foot of page for more information on garage codes).

London Bus Operators and Garages

The campaign for a large new park to be created using currently unloved land surrounding the Banbury Reservoir is gathering pace. Such company names may not still be in use today: DX ( Arriva London North East, Barking) originates from Di x Travel, which was absorbed into Grey-Green, becoming its Dagenham operation, and subsequently relocated to Barking, and now absorbed by Arriva London. The official code FR for Metrobus's Crayford base is especially obscure, referring to the original owner, one Chris Freeman of Freeman's Coaches, which was absorbed into Crystals, which subsequently sold out to Tellings-Golden Miller in 2003, who then sold it on to Metrobus in 2005. The code also rather conveniently formed the first two letters of the company name, and was therefore adopted by LT. The code was usually in the form of a metal (later plastic) stencil plate carried in a holder beside the running duty number plate.In addition to an ongoing survey seeking people's ideas, a 'community hub' meeting has been organised for Thursday 28th September. If you do not receive a satisfactory response or resolution to your comments, you should contact London Travewatch. Complaints, commendations, comments and suggestions relating to these should therefore be directed to TfL. Some garage codes have been used for more than one garage over the years, sometimes when an entire garage has moved such as at Peckham (PM), and sometimes when a code has been "dormant" for some years and then been reused.

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Most bus routes in London are operated by various companies under management contracts to London Buses, part of Transport for London. Of course, all garages have spare vehicles allocated in addition, and in some cases driver trainers etc.

Three bus drivers have spent the past four years turning a scrapbook about the imposing building where they work into a published, historical tome. During the period of operation by London Transport and its predecessors, indeed back to the earliest motor buses in the early 20th century, the garage code was clearly carried on both sides of the vehicle. In several cases (TB/TC/TL and QB) the code reflects both the location ( Bromley/ Croydon/ Lewisham (Catford), Battersea) and the original owning company ( Tilling, Q-Drive).