page_title: Ash Grove bus garage
section_title: 2000s
hierarchical_section_title: Ash Grove bus garage / History / 2000s
caption_attribution_description: Although the 38 route's conversion to double-deckers has resulted in a surplus of Citaros, these vehicles weem to have been employed ont he 149 and 73 routes from LV garage. perhaps there has been some bumping of older bendies by the newer, white-roofed vehicles from the 38.
context_page_description: Ash Grove bus garage is a bus garage in Hackney, east London. It is located on the A107 Mare Street, where it crosses the Regent's Canal. The depot is occupied by two companies, CT Plus and Arriva London, and holds around thirty buses. Opened in 1981 by London Buses, it was closed in 1991 following the abandonment of the London Forest subsidiary, but reopened in 1994 by Kentish Bus. East Thames Buses have also used the site.
context_section_description: Ash Grove re-opened again in 2000 for use by the London Buses company East Thames Buses which took over the former Harris Bus routes after that company ran into financial difficulties. Although East Thames Buses have now moved to new premises at Mandela Way, CT Plus moved into the garage yard to house its routes won in the London area. CT Plus use the garage to stable vehicles for routes 153, 212,  385, 388, 394, 812, W12, W13 and 675.
  Arriva London used the depot as the base for their new Citaro articulated buses for route 38 following the conversion from AEC Routemasters in November 2005. This has ended following the route's conversion back to double-deck operation, but routes 78 and 168 have been transferred to operate from the garage.
caption: Buses at Ash Grove
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