New Route 456 Proposal

So a couple months back I was reading in a monthly magazine issued by Wandsworth council called 'Brightside' that Wandsworth council were in negotiations with Transport for London to bring 3 new routes to the borough to provide new links between Wandsworth and Balham, Barnes and Roehampton and Tooting and Fulham. They are also were also trying to get the tube extended through to Clapham Junction.

So I thought it would be a good idea to mock up one of the potential routes between Battersea and Balham via Clapham Junction, Wandsworth, Southfields and Tooting Bec. The route would have a PVR of 13 and be operated by Abellio from their Battersea base using 10 single decker buses and 3 double decker buses.

The buses will initially use spare Darts and the Nimbus' at Beddington for the single decker allocation. It will also use spare Enviro 400s at Battersea.

During peak hours the route will be predominately double deckers and will also be diverted to go past Earlsfield and then go left on Magladen Road then back to normal line of route. This is to reduce the emissions further up Trinity Road and allow the route to miss most of the heavy traffic.

The single deckers

This post was written in December 2013. Photos of the two buses are not owned by any of the admins on the South London Bus Blog.

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