Orpington bus garage
Introduction
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Orpington bus garage
Image: © David Kemp Taken: 23 Sep 2023
This is the rear of the main running shed. A bus operating facility was opened on the site (which had previously served as a lorry park and storage for a fairground operator) by Tillingbourne in 1981 . The facility was taken over by Tillingbourne's successor Metrobus in 1983. Over the years the premises were expanded, and rebuilt in 2005 some years after the acquisition of Metrobus by the Go-Ahead group in 1999. The name Metrobus still survives within the group, hence the fact that the garage continues to be coded as 'MB'.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.355736
Longitude
0.087789