London Bus Tender Awards: Metroline Wins School Routes Previously Operated By Sullivan Buses

This is a follow-up to my previous article about a small private bus operating company named Sullivan Buses ceasing to operate all of Transport for London's contracted bus routes due to issues with TfL.

TfL has announced that Metroline has been awarded to operate four school bus routes that had been previously operated by Sullivan Buses.

Sullivan Buses Cease Operating All Of Transport for London's Contracted Bus Routes

The text of the press release has been circulated on social media by me, Sullivan Buses, and a few others.

I have extracted the text from the image to make it easier to read the press release and make it easier for non-English speakers to translate the text to their own language by using a translator such as Google Translate.

Text from Sullivan Buses press release:

London Bus Tender Awards: Bus Operating Company Uno Wins Route 298 Contract

As this is a short London Bus Tender Award, small bus operating company Sullivan Buses loses route 298 contract to Uno (Universitybus Limited), which is owned by the University of Hertfordshire.

LBSL intends to enter into a new contract for the following route with the operator listed below:

Route 298
Current Operator: Sullivan Buses
New Operator: Uno
Peak Vehicle Requirement: 6
Vehicles: Existing diesel double deck
Contract Start Date: 8th February 2025
Contract End Date: 4th February 2028

London Bus Tender Awards: Routes 5, 15 And N15 To Continue Using New Routemasters

The recent London Bus Tender Awards have revealed that routes 5, 15 and N15 will continue to use the three-door, two-staircase hybrid New Routemaster buses.

LBSL intends to enter into new contracts for the following routes with the operators listed below:

London Bus Tender Awards: Bus Operator Uno Gains School Routes 628 and 688 From Sullivan Buses

Here's a quick London Bus Tender Awards, as we see bus operator Uno taking over routes 628 and 688 from Sullivan Buses.

 

LBSL intends to enter into new contracts for the following routes with the operators listed below:

London Bus Tender Awards: RATP Dev London Retains Route 70 with Existing Single-Deck Electric Buses and Route 135 to be Operated by Tower Transit with Existing Double-Deck Hybrid Buses

London Bus news update: TfL announces the new London Bus tender awards on 5 August 2021.

 

LBSL intends to enter into new contracts for the following routes with the operators listed below:

London Bus Tender News: Routes 125 & 235 to Convert to New Electric Buses and Delays to Route 319 Conversion to Enviro400EV Citys

As part of the new London Bus tender awards, routes 125 and 235 have been awarded to London Sovereign and London United (part of RATP Group) with new electric buses.

LBSL intends to enter into new contracts for the following routes with the operators listed below:

Bus Route in East End of London set to go electric (Route 323)

London bus Route 323 which serves the East end of London (Canning Town to Mile End Station via Bromley By Bow Station) is set to go zero emission electric in January 2020.

Looking at the recent London bus tender awards, it was announced that Stagecoach has retained the route 323 contract with single deck electric buses.

London Bus tender awards for the start of November 2017

Routes N550 & N551 will be the next to convert to the E400H City buses

As we are now in November, TfL has announced the London Bus route tender awards for the start of the month.

From LOTS news:

LBSL intends to enter into new contracts for the following routes with the operators listed below:

New Buses for Sullivan buses

I know this news is old but it’s still worth relaying the story about an independently owned bus company purchasing new buses for their London Bus route contract.

From Alexander Dennis

Sullivan Buses adds TfL route with eight new ADL Enviro200

Papers for 8th February 2017 TFL board meeting

TFL have released the first board papers for this year, so I will be showing you bits from the board papers (dated 8^th February 2017) to see how Transport for London are progressing.

To begin with I will show you some extracts from the Commissioners report.

Route 254 to convert to New Routemasters

Route 254 map

Sorry for the late news update - LOTS have reported from the TFL tender awards that route 254 will be the next to convert to the three-door two-staircase hybrid buses called ‘New Routemasters.’

Sullivan buses wins route W9 and retains 298

A brief news update; Sullivan Buses, a small bus company based in Hertfordshire has won London Buses‘route W9’ and retains route 298 contracts.