Wednesday 24 July 2019

2019 London Buses fleet list and Big Red Book

Transport for London has released the bus fleet audit report and the London Bus fleet list on their website.

A brief mention from the London Bus Fleet Audit report:

As of 31st March 2019, there are 6,547 double decker buses and 2595 single decker buses. The number of types in the report are: 10 AEC Routemasters, 1,000 Hybrid New Routemasters, 5,298 diesel buses, 155 zero emission electric buses, 10 hydrogen fuel cell buses and 2669 hybrid buses, they make a total of 9,142 buses for London.

You can read the full report of the London bus fleet audit which mentioned the number of bus types and Euro emission standards used for London Bus services in the PDF below:

http://content.tfl.gov.uk/fleet-audit-report-31-march-2019.pdf

London Buses Fleet List

The operational vehicle data is the fleet list of buses used for London bus tendered services. The fleet list shows the registration (number plate), fleet number, operator, registration date, age of vehicle, bus type, chassis and body type, type of engine, Euro emissions and more.

Link to the PDF:

https://tfl.gov.uk/cdn/static/cms/documents/fleet-list-annual-audit-report-31-march-2019.pdf

You can obtain more fleet lists of buses in Britain and elsewhere on the UK Buses website.

http://www.ukbuses.co.uk

Other websites containing fleet lists:

Bus Lists On The Web

http://www.buslistsontheweb.co.uk

Bus Γ‰ireann

https://www.buseireann.ie/inner.php?id=396

Dublin Bus

https://www.dublinbus.ie/About-Us/Dublin-Bus-Fleet/

Big Red Book

TfL has also released their latest Big Red Book under a Freedom of Information request. The Big Red Book is a guide for London Bus drivers and you can download the PDF below.

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/574146/response/1365927/attach/3/BigRed%20Book%202019.pdf

You can also download the previous edition of the Big Red Book (released under a Freedom of Information request) which featured a guide for New Routemaster customer assistants (conductors) before they were withdrawn in September 2016.

Link to the PDF:

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/411290/response/991787/attach/3/Big%20Red%20Book%20v4.pdf

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Image attribution
By Sludge G - New CT Plus buses on the 26, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=49459692

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