【London】Arriva E200

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Not too bad mate, take any southbound fast train from Victoria to East Croydon would be about 10mins.  Plus the tram to Addington Village would be another like 10 mins?

Those on 498 and 465 is even harder to get, i would think.

The 465 can be seen in Kingston ,and the 498 in Romford. also in Romford, route 370- run by arriva- has been converted to E200 darts.
but, more of those are coming, as Arriva won some new tenders. If you wait till September, route 166 in Croydon would be equipped with those machines.
Route 498 would pass on to first in early June[with E200s], while arriva will take over route 499 instead.

many more identical E200 darts are due in London. They all have the same sort of red [yes, TfL specify which red should be used], and most companies take all over red buses, and apply some stickers-operator's name, stock number etc.

Therefore, the Arriva machines do not look much different from Blue Triangle, east London, Transdev[when they get them] , Travel London, East London , Hackney CT,Epsom Buses,or First.
Only London general/central put a black band, and Metroline a blue band at the bottom to relieve the overall drab red colour.

regards

Yoram

and here are some E200s:<br />
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challenger: part of the NCP group:

and Travel london....

blue triangle- now part of Go Ahead...

and arriva...

and.. go ahead.

notice what a difference this black band makes to the overall appearance of the bus...on route 163.

and I end with Metroline...
this is the small 8.8 [or 8.9]m long E200 dart. But many more E200 are due- from the single door 10.7m version for non TfL work to the standard 10.2m long dart- the type shown here today...

regards

Yoram