Palmers Green Bus Garage

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Palmers Green garage actually started life as the Rosalie Skating Rink in 1910, but by 1912 had already become a bus garage. Most bus routes in London are operated by various companies under management contracts to London Buses, part of Transport for London.

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Like the time when in 1916 one of the first female conductors was suspended for three days after she and her driver took an unscheduled stop with all their passengers to pick up a sack of fresh potatoes from a friendly farmer on route.rather than look for a new home the garage’s 300-ton roof was simply raised on jacks to accommodate the new, tall fleet.

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This number of buses is in fact rather too many for the size of the building, meaning that manoeuvring of buses within the garage is difficult and potentially unsafe, and the new parking capacity will alleviate this problem. In the post London Transport/ London Buses period, the display of garage codes is no longer universal and many vehicles carry no visible identification.

Every garage operating services that form part of the LBSL network is given an official LBSL garage code (right hand column).

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In the early part of the 20th Century, the London General Omnibus Company (LGOC) allocated its garages codes by going through the alphabet – initially A, B, C, etc; and then AA, AB, AC, etc. If you wondered why London’s bus drivers take part in the annual Remembrance Day parade at the Cenotaph, then this book has the answer.Such company names may not still be in use today: DX ( Arriva London North East, Barking) originates from Di x Travel, which was absorbed into Grey-Green, becoming its Dagenham operation, and subsequently relocated to Barking, and now absorbed by Arriva London.