On the morning of October 2nd 2016, an Alexander Dennis Enviro400H City (CT Plus 2510, SN16OHZ) on Route 26 suffered serious
fire damage outside London’s Liverpool
Street railway station.
I have saved various news articles into Archive.is that mistake the Enviro400H
City to be a 3 door 2 staircase New Routemaster.
Here is a list of articles which named the bus as a ‘Routemaster’ during the fire incident.
BBC News said it was a New
Routemaster bus and shortly after that a Twitter user corrected the mistake and changed it to a ‘double-decker bus’. Then various newspaper outlets such as the Daily Mail, The Sun and The Mirror mistakenly called
it a New Routemaster bus.
LBC said ‘It is unclear from the images whether it is a new routemaster, known
commonly as a 'boris bus' or an Enviro
400, which is a hybrid bus.’
The design of the Enviro400H City is based on the New Routemaster with
features such as the glazed staircase. I’d already predicted that the
Enviro400H City would confuse the media for being a New Routemaster bus which is
what has happened.
Anyway, here’s an update with the Volvo B5LH SRM (two door New
Routemaster).
I’ve found a photo of the second SRM
(RATP-Dev VHR45208 LJ16EXK) which was recently captured at Heysham Docks. The
gallery can be also seen here.
Lastly, an update from LOTS:
1) Saturday 1st October saw the
double-decking of route D8, using Scania OmniCitys previously on the 64 as well
as latterly on the 474. Route 42 also
went double-deck using MHVs from the batch that have been phased into service
at Camberwell over the past week and also spread over routes 35/40/45/185. The
42 is also affected by the three-month closure of Tower Bridge by being terminated
at the south side. The other two Tower Bridge routes 78 and RV1 are diverted
via London Bridge. Several MEC-class Citaros from the 507/521 are now at
H&D Eastleigh being upseated in preparation for allocation in due course to
route 108.
2) Other recent new vehicle
deliveries to London have included five E20Ds (8343-47) for a top-up on Abellio
route P13; WHVs for London General, most of which are for Putney; and LTs for Arriva route 253 (batch LT
813-844)and London Central route 21 (batch LT845-874). These LTs, as well as
some of the route 189 batch (LT789-811) remain in store awaiting fitment of
Oyster Reader equipment after stocks of the latter ran out two months ago.
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