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Old August 27th 03, 12:28 PM posted to uk.transport.buses,uk.transport.london
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Default Old LT Garages

Hi people. This is a bit long, so please bear with me. I am trying to
track down a number of past & present ex-LT bus garages. They are :-

1) The original Kingston garage in Richmond Road. Where on Richmond
Road was it?

2) The ex-Metroline garage somewhere on Victoria Road, between Gypsy
Corner and Old Oak Lane (Not to be confused with the PRESENT depot on
Atlas Road just off the northern end of Victoria Road)

3) The depot at Hornchurch. Strictly speaking, this was NOT in
Hornchurch, but on Hornchurch Road, west of Hornchurch proper. I
suspect that it was on the north side of Hornchurch Road a couple of
hundred yards east of Roneo Corner. Could anyone confirm/correct my
guess?

4) Where are the Mitcham Belle Darts garaged? There is no way they can
get into the yard at 223 Streatham Road. I have found a Mitcham Belle
depot, just south of Beddington Lane Tram stop, but it looked
deserted.

5) Where was Riverside Garage? I thought it was somewhere on the
one-way system surrounding the current bus station, but a photograph I
saw said it was on Talgarth Road.

6) Where was Hammersmith depot? I am talking about the former
trolleybus & BEA coach garage. Was it in Great Church Lane?

7) Exactly where on Shrubland Road was Dalston Depot? I have walked
the full length of it, and there is no evidence that there was a depot
here. For some reason the street name “Ivydene Avenue”
comes to mind, but that name does not appear in my A-to-Z.

8) Sovereign Buses had a depot somewhere in Borehamwood, in the days
when it was called BTS (BT survives as a depot code for vehicles
allocated to Edgware). Where was this depot in Borehamwood?

9) I know that the former Seven Kings depot was on the south side of
the main road between Seven Kings and Goodmayes railway stations. Am I
right in assuming that it was opposite Blythswood Road?

10) There is a "new" operator around Debden called “DOCKLANDS
MINIBUSES” with a “legal-lettering” address of St.
Marys Road (?) in Upminster. The address turns out to be the office of
an accountant specialising in tax-avoidance (or something similar)!
Where are the vehicles garaged?

11) The depot that effectively replaced Loughton appears to be Debden,
with codes DB and DD. Where is it? Someone told me that it is in
Langston Road, but when I went there, I could only find a lorry park
where there were some buses parked. Surely this cannot be it?

12) The original Uxbridge depot (before the present one next to the
tube station) was in Denham Road. Exactly where?

13) Am I correct in assuming that the site of the Sidcup Garage (at
Foots Cray) is now occupied by a LIDL store (who have also built
stores on the sites of Hackney(H), Hanwell(HL) and Rye Lane Peckham
(RL)

Thanks in advance