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Post by Tangy on Aug 16, 2004 8:07:54 GMT
Here is a good quiz for you, a quiz all about bus garages both past and present:
LONDON:
1. On which road is Blue Triangle's depot located?
2. Which current London bus garage cannot accomodate double deck vehicles?
3. When did the former London Forest garage of WW (Walthamstow) close outright?
4. Which current London bus garage is the biggest (in respect to how many vehicles are allocated there)?
5. When Old Kent Road (P) garage closed in November 1958 what routes were allocated there at time of closure?
6. When did Athol Street (C) garage open as a bus garage?
7. Upon closure, which nearby garage took most of the Athol Street's allocations?
8. At which garage is route U9 currently allocated?
9. What is London's newest bus depot?
0. How did DX garage (Arriva Barking) get its code?
Have fun!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2004 14:17:39 GMT
1. On which road is Blue Triangle's depot located? Ferry Lane
2. Which current London bus garage cannot accomodate double deck vehicles? Harrow (London Sovereign's one)
3. When did the former London Forest garage of WW (Walthamstow) close outright? Feb 1991
4. Which current London bus garage is the biggest (in respect to how many vehicles are allocated there)? Westbourne Park
8. At which garage is route U9 currently allocated? High Wycombe
9. What is London's newest bus depot? Greenford (ECT)?
0. How did DX garage (Arriva Barking) get its code? Former Owners - Dix's Coaches (or something similar)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2004 20:36:43 GMT
5. When Old Kent Road (P) garage closed in November 1958 what routes were allocated there at time of closure? 1, 13, 53 and 202 (1, 53 and 202 went to NX, 13 to W)
6. When did Athol Street (C) garage open as a bus garage? Horse bus 1879, motor buses: July 1907
7. Upon closure, which nearby garage took most of the Athol Street's allocations? Poplar
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Post by Tangy on Aug 17, 2004 6:09:01 GMT
The answers
1. Correct- Ferry Lane (A road which also has Imperial's and First London's Rainham garage on it!)
2. Correct- SO (Sovereign Harrow)
3. INCORRECT- it was 1991 but not Febraury
4. Correct- X (Westbourne Park) with 212 vehicles currently allocated there.
5. Correct- Routes 1, 13, 53 and 202 were all based there at the time of Old Kent Road's closure
6. I was actaully looking for when Athol Street opened for motor buses, you gave me both answers which is fine, the answer is correct in any case- July 1907
7. Correct- The nearby Poplar (PR) took most of Athol Street's routes upon closure
8. Correct- Arriva Buck's High Wycombe garage
9. INCORRECT- Greenford's ECT depot was assumed on the 19th April 2003, the date ECT took over the 195. There is a newer bus garage than that.
0. Correct- Former bus company Dix Coaches who was assumed by Grey Green who in turn were bought out by Arriva!
Just questions 3 and 9 to go!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2004 6:49:07 GMT
3. Something in my head tells me July - no idea why!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2004 6:49:51 GMT
9. WD, when TOLKST took over 337 in May 2004.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2004 6:55:58 GMT
3. 22nd November 1991
9. First's at Willsden (Junction?)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2004 6:57:22 GMT
3) WW closed in November 1991.
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Post by Tangy on Aug 17, 2004 6:58:25 GMT
3. Correct- 22 November 1991 WW finally closed
9: Correct- WJ (First Willesden Junction) is the newest brand new bus depot having opened on 15 Novemeber 2003 (as opposed to WD which already had the TOLST operations based there before the 337 was allocated there)
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