Saturday 30 April 2016

End of an era, and the return to home

Trio: 9432 on left, E127 in middle, 9435 on right
It is the 30th April 2016 and we see routes 35 and 40 return to their truly home sweet home at Camberwell (Q), the former on paper allocated ADL E40H with the Enviro400 MMC bodywork, and the latter with the new MCV Evoseti, on the Volvo B5LH chassis. Whereas on the other hand, route 45A, or rather the 345, has had the last laugh with Go-Ahead London as it was operated out of what is now Go-Ahead's garages since 1985, when the route was born. And was operated mostly by either Stockwell (SW) or Camberwell (Q), of which it passes both virtually. Peckham (PM) and New Cross (NX) aided the route and in the 2000s, all four operated the route simultaneously! We can never see that again for the next 5 or 7 so years.