Count | Location | Note | Added | By |
1 | Alperton Garage (ON) | Closed on Friday 10th September 2021 and was subsequently demolished | 15/04/2024 | LSPhotography |
2 | Picketts Lock Highways Alliance (PLA) | This location has presumably closed (Highways Alliance is now New Works for London)/ On Google it is shown as used by TK:JV Tarmac (2024) | 07/04/2024 | Ray |
3 | Stamford Hill Garage (SF) | Re-opened 24/2/2024 after some months of being mothballed following closure of AE (Ash Grove) | 24/02/2024 | Ray |
4 | Ash Grove Garage (AE) | Vacated by Arriva after traffic 23/2/2024 | 24/02/2024 | Ray |
5 | Mitcham, Goat Road (GM) | Small yard off Goat Road, easily missed, At 9/2023 has blue boards around the area | 21/09/2023 | Ray |
6 | Earlsfield Sub-station (ELF) | Located at 520 Garratt Lane, Earlsfield. A tower wagon shed stood next to two transformers. Today the Tram House School occupies the site. | 10/07/2023 | Clive G |
7 | Garratt Lane Sub-station (GLA) | This is Earlsfield sub-station at 520 Garratt Lane. Today the Tram House School occupies the site. | 10/07/2023 | Clive G |
8 | Other (OTH) | Morden Station Garage held a Morris Commercial breakdown truck (with crane) on trade plates 442PE. It seems to have been numbered but unable to identify. | 08/07/2023 | Ray |
9 | Other (OTH) | Waterworks Road (Brixton) is still extant. | 10/06/2023 | Ray |
10 | Plough Lane Garage (PL) | Closed 24/25 March 2023 - operations to Goat Road, Mitcham | 01/04/2023 | Ray |
11 | Walthamstow, Ferry Lane (ex AEC) (FLN) | Books by Ken Blacker refer to this location as 'Forest Road' and state that the use of 'Ferry Lane' is incorrect. | 05/09/2022 | Ray |
12 | Other (OTH) | 203 Isledon Road, Finsbury Park is the location for Arriva iBus control centre | 05/09/2022 | Ray |
13 | Other (OTH) | 66 Purley Way is the address of the Arriva Control Centre which communicates with the iBus/drivers on vehicles | 04/09/2022 | Ray |
14 | Romford ROC (RDR) | This location was (and remains) a Network Rail facility, to the south of the railway lines west of Romford Station. From 2018 until 2022 a couple of Elizabeth Line service vehicles were based here. | 22/08/2022 | Thomas Young |
15 | Swanley Garage (SJ) | Recently refurbished by Go Coach and now used by them as the main operating garage following the closure of Otford. | 15/08/2022 | Ray |
16 | Ilford Elizabeth Line (IDE) | I believe this location is no longer used by Elizabeth Line vehicles. Can anyone confirm? | 17/06/2022 | Thomas Young |
17 | Penton Street (Islington) ERU (PSE) | Following the closure of Camden ERU base in an industrial unit off Pratt Street N1 ( between Royal College St and St Pancras way this new location just off A501 Pentonville Road , ERU vehicles can be viewed through the main access gate on Donegal Street , some readers will know this as "the knowledge"! - The Public Carriage office of Black Cab fame and also TfL Uniform store at same location. Bus route 73 stops on Pentonville Road a short walk away |
12/06/2022 | Rob Morel |
18 | Norton Green (Stevenage) Garage (NG) | Closed and demolished by April 2022 | 22/04/2022 | Ray |
19 | Garston Garage (GR) | Site razed to the ground during Feb/Mar 2022. The garage went first then the offices. |
07/04/2022 | abgen |
20 | West Perivale Garage (PA) | Closed on 05/03/2022 with routes reallocated to AH and WJ. | 01/04/2022 | Thomas Young |
21 | Dawley Road (Hayes) Garage (DH) | Opened as a replacement for the former Hayes Garage (code WS), which closed on 11/12/2021. | 01/04/2022 | Thomas Young |
22 | Hayes Garage (WS) | Closed on 11/12/2021 with routes temporarily transferring to Southall (GW) pending the opening a new base at Hayes (Dawley Road, code DH) on 02/04/2022. | 01/04/2022 | Thomas Young |
23 | Cranleigh Garage (CL) | Closed by Arriva in 2011 | 14/11/2021 | Ray |
24 | Other (OTH) | Photo of Ongar, High Street garage can be viewed at LT Museum 1998/75568 | 18/09/2021 | Ray |
25 | Other (OTH) | Hitchin, Queen Street garage can be viewed on LT Museum website photo 1999/7163 | 18/09/2021 | Ray |
26 | Tunbridge Wells Garage (TW) | Photo in LT Museum at 1998/47863 | 17/09/2021 | Ray |
27 | South Harrow Station (SHS) | Was used as an ERU depot during the 1990s, closed c.1999. Location reactivated on LTSV in June 2021 when part of the car park was sectioned off for parking of staff welfare facilities vans. This is believed to be temporary, related to engineering work in the area. | 06/08/2021 | Thomas Young |
28 | Morden Station (MDS) | Further to LSPhotography's comment on 16th June, this location is of course private property and visitors should not enter the yard even if the gates are open. Most of the vehicles inside can clearly be seen from public areas. I have published some photos that were clearly taken from inside the yard, but these were all taken by TfL employees. | 03/07/2021 | Thomas Young |
29 | Morden Station (MDS) | Just a heads up, My last 3 visits to this location have been thwarted by the compound gate being closed and locked. If you're lucky you might capture one of the IRVs through the fence of the adjacent footpath, but this is not guaranteed. | 16/06/2021 | LSPhotography |
30 | Camden, Pratt Street ERU (CPE) | confirmed as closed, area behind large hoardings now - anyone know where they moved to? | 05/06/2021 | Rob Morel |
31 | Stevenage Garage (SV) | Photo of old garage sited in Lymington Road is in LT Museum collection 1998/47700 | 05/06/2021 | Ray |
32 | Clapham Garage (CA) | Photo LT Museum collection 1998/89698 1998/61013 1998/87621 | 05/06/2021 | Ray |
33 | Southwark, Chancel Street (SCH) | The unit was advertised as To Let in November 2020. It was empty by 29th May 2021 | 31/05/2021 | Ray |
34 | Camden, Pratt Street ERU (CPE) | Expected to close on 20th November 2020 due to the planned redevelopment of the industrial estate. | 03/11/2020 | Thomas Young |
35 | Jamestown Road, Camden (JTR) | LOTS TLB231 (November 1983) stated that the publicity vans from Baker Street had moved to this new location. | 16/09/2020 | Thomas Young |
36 | Parsons Green Works (PGN) | The TfL list of Buildings shows the works closed around 1987. (See details of the list under 'other'). I note the variation sheet shows CDS closed in 1985 but perhaps the Bdg. Department carried on. | 13/09/2020 | Ray |
37 | Parsons Green Works (PGN) | The October 1985 closure date seems to be incorrect. LOTS reported vehicles still allocated there as late as 30th April 1987, including several vehicles new in 1986 (e.g. C/VOY and C/WLB Mercedes 307D trucks and C/FME Bedford Astra vans). | 12/09/2020 | Thomas Young |
38 | North Crescent, West Ham (NCR) | This site is now occupied by Thales. | 27/07/2020 | Ray |
39 | Other (OTH) | Brixton Hill (BH) garage on Waterworks Road is still extant. It was used by LGCS and LPTB as a central area Green Line garage for private hire work. | 07/07/2020 | Ray |
40 | Morden Wharf Garage (MG) | Photo at https://aiad.london/go-ahead-modern-wharf/ | 04/07/2020 | Ray |
41 | Other (OTH) | Morden Station Garage. This held a GTP which, on 1/1/1948, was changed from 039XO to 974GC. Photo at https://www.flickr.com/photos/rw3-497alh/22005085072 and at https://www.flickr.com/photos/rw3-497alh/22726611682 also https://photoarchive.merton.gov.uk/collections/transport/28666-morden-underground-station-garage?#prettyPhoto/0/ and https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/collections/collections-online/photographs/item/1998-68158 | 04/07/2020 | Ray |
42 | Other (OTH) | Newtons Garage, Verney Road, Bermondsey was the garage of A.H. Raper (Standard) home to GH8874 a 15.7hp Crossley car plus some buses. | 09/06/2020 | Ray |
43 | Other (OTH) | North Road - In 1888 the London General Omnibus Company took a lease on a plot of land adjacent to the Caledonian Market in North Road, Lower Holloway to construct a production line factory to build and repair horse-drawn omnibuses and it continued to be used as a repair depot for buses until the 1950s. | 11/05/2020 | Ray |
44 | Other (OTH) | A list of miscellaneous buildings can be found at http://content.tfl.gov.uk/research-guide-no-18-tfl-buildings-post-1933.pdf | 03/05/2020 | Ray |
45 | Other (OTH) | Crayford (CR). On London Road. Photo at https://www.flickr.com/photos/rw3-497alh/33208404104/ and at https://www.flickr.com/photos/rw3-497alh/33918176731/ | 03/05/2020 | Ray |
46 | Farringdon Station (FNS) | Tower Wagons were kept at Number 29, Clerkenwell Green (now being named 'The Green'). This is the corner of Clerkenwell Green and Farringdon Road, though this short section was renamed Farringdon Lane in 1979. The building is still extant, look for the blue door next to Vine Street bridge | 03/05/2020 | Ray |
47 | Other (OTH) | Farm Lane, SW6 The building was built in 1880 by the London Road Car Company as their depot. The Company was one of the largest proprietors of horse-drawn buses in London. The building was also one of the largest and finest horse stables in London and contained two-storey stables that were ranged around a quadrangle, where 700 horses lived in about 1890. The LGOC took over the premises in 1909, and left in 1923. The 1946 Bomb Damage Map shows the building on the Site suffered minor blast damage, probably as a result of a V1 Flying Bomb which landed to the east of the site during 1944. The 1971 Ordnance Survey map shows the building was used as a 'Catering Depot'. | 21/03/2020 | Ray |
48 | Other (OTH) | Leysfield Road, Hammersmith ex Premier. Entrance at junction with Greenside Road still exists. Offices were at 2 Leysfield Road | 18/03/2020 | Ray |
49 | Streatham Garage (AK) | Photo of the original garage can be found on LT Museum website 1998/63352 | 28/12/2019 | Ray |
50 | Other (OTH) | Photo of Southall AEC (Green Line) garage can be viewed on LT Museum website 1998/18479 | 07/11/2019 | Ray |
51 | Other (OTH) | Photo of Ware garage (Park Road) can be viewed on LT Museum website photo collection 1998/78958 | 05/11/2019 | Ray |
52 | Other (OTH) | Waltham Abbey garage (National) can be viewed on LT Museum website photo collection 1998/80917 | 05/11/2019 | Ray |
53 | Other (OTH) | Weybridge Garage, Thames Street. Photo can be viewed on LT Museum website photo collection 1998/87160 | 05/11/2019 | Ray |
54 | Carshalton (Sutton) Garage (CN) | Garage can be viewed at 1998/69739 and others. LT Museum photo collection | 28/09/2019 | Ray |
55 | Clay Hall (Old Ford) Garage (CL) | Garage can be viewed at 1998/87609 and others. LT Museum photo collection | 28/09/2019 | Ray |
56 | Chalk Farm Garage (CF) | Garage can be viewed at 1998/89083 and others. LT Museum photo collection | 28/09/2019 | Ray |
57 | Deptford Whart PW Depot (DWF) | Wharf can be viewed at 1998/35076 and others. LT Museum collection | 24/09/2019 | Ray |
58 | Poplar Garage (PR) | Garage can be viewed at 1998/35006 and others. LT Museum photo collection | 24/09/2019 | Ray |
59 | Forest Gate Garage (G) | Garage can be viewed at 1998/67398 and others. LT Museum collection | 24/09/2019 | Ray |
60 | Athol Street (Poplar) Garage (C) | Garage can be viewed at 1998/89840 and others. LT Museum photo collection | 24/09/2019 | Ray |
61 | Abbey Wood Garage (AW) | Garage can be viewed at 1998/73615 and others. LT Museum photo collection | 24/09/2019 | Ray |
62 | Other (OTH) | Camden Town garage can be viewed at 1998/89419. LT Museum photo collection | 22/09/2019 | Ray |
63 | Other (OTH) | Langley Road garage can be viewed at 1998/47675 and others. LT Museum photo collection | 22/09/2019 | Ray |
64 | Other (OTH) | Alpha Street garage can be viewed at 1998/78950 and others. LT Museum photo collection | 22/09/2019 | Ray |
65 | Other (OTH) | Bath Road garage can be viewed at 2004/14471 and others. LT Museum photo collection | 22/09/2019 | Ray |
66 | High Wycombe Garage (HE) | Photo can be viewed at 1998/59378 and others. LT Museum photo collection | 22/09/2019 | Ray |
67 | Swanley Garage (SJ) | Photo can be viewed at 1998/67176 and others. LT Museum photo collection | 22/09/2019 | Ray |
68 | Godstone Garage (GD) | Photo can be viewed at 1998/58562 and others. LT Museum photo collection | 22/09/2019 | Ray |
69 | Epping Garage (EP) | Photo can be viewed at 1998/60162 and others. LT Museum photo collection | 22/09/2019 | Ray |
70 | Guildford Garage (GF) | Photo can be viewed at 1998/56954 and others. LT Museum photo collection | 22/09/2019 | Ray |
71 | Reigate Garage (RG) | Photo can be viewed at 1998/56953 and others. LT Museum collection | 22/09/2019 | Ray |
72 | Leatherhead Garage (LH) | Photo can be viewed at 2005/18460 and others. LT Museum photo collection | 22/09/2019 | Ray |
73 | Tring Garage (TG) | Tring garage can be viewed at 1998/47846 and others. LT Museum photo collection | 22/09/2019 | Ray |
74 | Addlestone Garage (WY) | Addlestone Garage can be viewed at 1998/57751 and others. LT Museum photo collection | 22/09/2019 | Ray |
75 | Amersham Garage (MA) | Amersham LTE garage can be viewed at photo 1998/58533. The A & D garage can be seen at 1998/57770 LT Museum photo collection | 22/09/2019 | Ray |
76 | Hatfield Garage (HF) | The old Hatfield (National) garage can be viewed at 1998/56240 (and others) - the new garage can be viewed at 1998/56245. LT Museum photo collections | 22/09/2019 | Ray |
77 | Southall (Bridge Road) Garage (AB) | Closed after traffic 12th July 2019. Vehicles and crews moved to Great Western Park, Southall coded GW from 13th. | 21/07/2019 | Ray |
78 | Other (OTH) | Metroline opened a garage (SG) on 27th July 2019 at Spring Grove Road, Lampton as an outstation of Brentford (AH). | 21/07/2019 | Ray |
79 | Orpington Bus Station (ORB) | Nothing on site 21/7/2018 | 21/07/2018 | Ray |
80 | Norwood Ticket Works (NTM) | Unit 4, 36 Ernest Avenue, West Norwood, SE27 0DJ. Set up from 28th September 1988. Electronic Service and Distribution Centre (ESDC). Part of LBL's Revenue systems section and formed a base for a team of Field Technicians responsible for maintaining and repairing Wayfarer 2 ticket machines and the associted modules and depot readers. Each garage was visited weekly. Repairs were done at garages wherever possible and equipment only taken away for repair when absolutely necessary. ONLY equipment owned by London Buses Ltd. was maintained by this team. Machines owned by LRT (includes Westlink, Suttonbus, Roundabout etc.) were dealt with differently. Gibsons were maintained by BEL at Chiswick and later Willesden after Chiswick closed. This information was found in documents at TfL Corporate Archives. | 06/11/2017 | Damon |
81 | Other (OTH) | HE: Heathrow (Arriva) Coach Travel Centre, Bedfont Road, Stanwell opened 31/5/2014 closed after traffic 8/12/2017. Controlled by Dartford when opened but latterly by Garston. Route (E10) novated to London United (HH garage) | 05/11/2017 | Ray |
82 | Southwark, Palestra (SPA) | This office building has an underground car park accessed by a ramp off Gambia Street. However, the doors at the top are usually closed and it is rare to be able to see anything inside. | 02/11/2017 | Thomas Young |
83 | North Acton (Uniform Store) (NAU) | A visit on 7/10/2017 found the location to have been vacated. | 07/10/2017 | Ray |
84 | Warlters Road (Holloway) Sub-stn (WLR) | Now converted to a luxury home on sale for gbp3.5million, article in Sun newspaper 27/6/2017. https://www.thesun.co.uk/uncategorized/3892840/london-lower-holloway-tram-shed-home-for-sale/. During its life with London Transport there were also workshops there which repaired substation equipment - information I gleaned from staff retirement notices in the LT staff magazines in the 1960s. |
13/07/2017 | Clive G |
85 | Southall (Bridge Road) Garage (IH) | Abellio lodged an application to use 5 Bridge Road, Southall as an operating base for 44 vehicles on 29/5/2017. The garage opened 29/7/2017 | 31/05/2017 | Ray |
86 | Limehouse Sub-station (LMH) | Can be viewed at 1998/34964 and others. LT Museum photo collection | 06/03/2017 | Ray |
87 | High Barnet Station (HBS) | High Barnet train crew depot opened January 2010 | 13/05/2016 | Ray |
88 | Acton Tram Depot (AT) | This destination with the number 7 was on the blinds of the fourth Bombardier tram delivered to Croydon Tram Depot during the winter 1998/1999. It was to help promote Mayor Livingstone's dream of the West London Tram. How many single or double articulated trams could have been accommodated in the ex-LUT tram depot would have been interesting! | 11/05/2016 | Colin Withey |
89 | Other (OTH) | Arriva, Milton Keynes: Units 3-4, Arden Park, Old Wolverton Road, Old Wolverton, Milton Keynes, MK12 5RN | 03/10/2015 | Ray |
90 | Acton Town, Frank Pick House (ACF) | From late August 2015 there is direct access from FPH to the lorry park so vehicles may appear to have jumped over the fence that was between the two points. | 10/09/2015 | Ray |
91 | Stratford City Bus Station (SDC) | On about 26/03/2014 the allocation of red vans at Stratford was switched around. The Bus Operations vans moved from the original bus station to Stratford City bus station, the infrastructure vans going the other way. | 09/06/2015 | Thomas Young |
92 | Other (OTH) | There were three garages in Slough. SL - SLOUGH Langley Road (ex-LGOC then to LGCS) closed 2/8/1937. uncoded - SLOUGH Alpha Street, leased until 24/6/1937 and SU - SLOUGH, Bath Road (ex-Premier) which closed 15/12/1936. | 04/05/2015 | Ray |
93 | Other (OTH) | AQ code for Camden Town, Rochester Mews, NW1 (British Automobile Traction). Originally opened 30/11/1905 as a horse bus depot by the Associated Omnibus Co. Closed 16/9/1933 | 04/05/2015 | Ray |
94 | Other (OTH) | The East Ham Corporation tramways depot was opened for services to start on 22nd June 1901. It was closed shortly after takeover by the LPTB and sited behind the Town Hall on Nelson Street. There had been some 'joint running' agreements with the L.C.C. prior to this. | 03/05/2015 | Ray |
95 | Acton Town, Hearne House (ACH) | Hearne House is named after Martin Hearne, an LT/LUL engineer. It seems to contain the supporting offices to Maxwell house and Test House which are on the same site. Data recorded by the Track recording train is analysed here too and data from ordinary passenger trains fitted with track monitoring equipment. They seem to be quite a bunch of engineers that can sort out anything and can manufacture most things that are otherwise unobtainable. They also do some groovy stuff with a 3D printer. A very slick place and well worth a visit if they do any future tours. | 29/04/2015 | Damon |
96 | Acton Town, Hearne House (ACH) | During visits to this site at the recent Depot open weekend it was stated that Maxwell House gets its name from being a brown building like the instant coffee! We think this is a myth as LT had two Senior engineers with the name Maxwell. Maxwell House is home to the Electrical Equipment Testing and Development Section. Staff working there also undertake specialist repairs. | 29/04/2015 | Damon |
97 | Lagoon Road Garage (LR) | Still vacant, with Metrobus names on fence. No evidence of Wrightbus occupation (yet) | 06/04/2015 | Ray |
98 | Stratford City Bus Station (SDC) | On the north side of the railway, in front of Westfield. Either come out of the station that side or walk over the bridge from Stratford. Not to be confused with Stratford International Bus Station sited opposite Stratford International DLR station and just past the International railway station (which is round the corner from this site). Around August 2017 the Infrastructure vans moved to Picketts Lock | 06/03/2015 | Ray |
99 | Seven Sisters Offices (SSS) | This code potentially covers two locations. A large newish building on Westerfield Road (close to the BR station) has a car park beneath but I have never noticed SVs there. The other building is 'Sarah House', older but modern offices at 214-218 High Road (Tottenham). This has a car park behind it where SVs have been seen, and they have also been seen parked on the pavement in front. | 25/02/2015 | Thomas Young |
100 | Lagoon Road Garage (LR) | Premises now used by WrightBus CustomCare | 11/11/2014 | Thomas Young |
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