A lovely B5LH standing at one of the main Stagecoach south London base on its final full month into the central areas. | Go-Ahead London Volvo Gemini 2 B5LH on the 171 to Holborn.

            It’s been five days since the 171 was cut back to Elephant & Castle and not only are workings like this a thing of the past, other routes like the 68 and 168 are suffering as well. 

They’re not the only ones being hit, plenty of existing routes are rammed whereas the re-routed ones are either horribly bunched up or have very few people on board.

Anyway, back to the 171, I managed a full journey from Bellingham to Holborn in an hour and seven minutes which is pretty good even with the New Cross (NX) driver change. Some hills around Catford and Brockley and the Peckham - Aldwych link was always useful.

These buses were fairly rare workings prior to the cutback, appearing at least once every fortnight in rush hour. However, this case was on a Sunday so I couldn’t resist doing a full working on a B5LH like this.

I’m curious to see how long the 171 lasts with the cutback. The 136 already has an Elephant - Peckham - New Cross - Catford link and aside from Brockley to Camberwell, the 171 (like the 45, 67 and 242) is staring to look a bit useless.

LJ61GXH (WHV10) was standing at Bellingham, Catford Bus Garage waiting to pick up passengers at Newquay Road bound for Holborn.

Taken on: May 19, 2019

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