Metroline Travel, Harrow, M460 GYE460W - MCW Metrobus DR101/12 - Metro-Cammell

            New to London Transport in 11/1980 and entering service from Edgware, remarkably this Metrobus was a near one garage lifer. It is seen here, on 24/10/1994, at Hatton Cross Station, working for the Contract Services division of Metroline, when on layover from Piccadilly Line Rail Replacement duties, that were in place when work was going on extending the line to Terminal 4, I think. With the Edgware garage coming under Metroline control, this Metrobus passed into the hands of the newly privatised Metroline on 07/10/1994, when Metroline were involved in a management buyout. It was later transferred into store at North Wembley in 10/1999 and withdrawn. It was eventually sold to PVS(Carlton) for scrap in 12/2000 after being stored at Willesden. Alongside, also laying over from Rail Replacement is Metroline Travel, MR20, D480PON, a DP seated Metro-Cammell bodied MCW Metrorider MF150/18. This early DP seated Metrorider was delivered to London Buses subsidiary, Kingston based Westlink in the pioneer batch in 06/1987. It was transferred to Hounslow in 09/1990 but didn't settle there long prior to transfer to Potters Bar, Walthamstow, Clapton, Victoria Basement and Edgware, in quick succession. It was then stored at Cricklewood for about a month at the end of 1992 prior to returning to Edgware. It then went to Cricklewood and stayed with Metroline until being sold in 1996. After life in London it had another nomadic experience serving Thorpes, Wally's, Felixstowe, Beeston's, Hadleigh, Trustline, South Mimms and finally bought for spares by Locallink, Bishop's Stortford. 

The camera being a Praktica MTL3 with the film being the excellent Fujichrome.

I would request, as with all my photos, that they are not copied or downloaded in any way, shape or form. © Peter Steel 1994.

Taken on: October 24, 1994

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GYE460W

D480PON

Sets appears in: • Metroline Travel, Harrow • MCW Metrobus more » • MCW Metrorider • Slide Archives - The 1990s « less

Groups appears in: • MCW Metrobuses (The First & Original Metrobus Group on Flickr) • Bus UK Metro Scania, Metropolitan and Metrobus more » • Rail Replacement Buses and Coaches « less

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