The Flickr 200Ev Image Generatr

Not wanting to repeat the same nearside view of a HereEast bus I got for the previous two buses, which I think was caused by pedestrian or vehicle traffic blocking this sort of shot, our final variant of HereEast in a very striking aqua livery! Fittingly, this bus, like a handful of others on the HereEast shuttles, bears the name 'Ken'. I think, though, that 'SEe' is a class name that I think I'll stick by.

The final of our three HereEast buses, Go-Ahead London's 'HereEast'-branded SEe38, a 2016 BYD ADL Enviro200EV new for Red Arrow services and now given the name 'Ken', is seen turning onto Montfichet Road while running morning shuttle services.

We're back on for the final round of my London trip uploads, and we start off with a non-'red bus' service operated by Go-Ahead London: the HereEast shuttle. This service, established in May 2017, runs from Stratford City and Stratford International via the Olympic Park complex to the HereEast business complex, formerly the hub for international broadcasters during the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. It mainly makes use of an ex-TfL fleet in the form of electric Enviro200EVs branded in very striking livery wraps, though there are a couple of diesel types to be seen if you're lucky!

One of at three of these buses I was able to capture, Go-Ahead London's 'HereEast'-branded SEe40, a 2016 BYD ADL Enviro200EV new for Red Arrow services and now bearing the name 'Alice', crosses the Montfichet Road bridge on a morning shuttle service.

Seen in Ayr
8th February 2025

Seen in Ayr
8th February 2025

Seen in Ayr
8th February 2025

With that in the bag, a call was made to move on from this isolated spot towards an adjacent bridge to catch some more variety in the Stratford City area. [CAPTION TBC]

The final photo of this penultimate batch, Go-Ahead London Central's SEe24, a 2016 BYD ADL Enviro200EV originally new for Red Arrow services and currently based at New Cross garage (NX) is seen up the other side of Montfinchet Road and bypassing Stratford City bus station as it works a 108 to Stratford International.

Limited to certain angles and perspectives while photographing these along the Red Arrow services, I don't think you just can really appreciate how long these early SEe types are until they get sent out to something a little less urbanised. Aided by the removal of the offside emergency exit door, due to there being a central door to work with, these ex-Red Arrow Enviro200EVs are about the same length, if not longer, than, for example, Hull's former Enviro200 MMC fleet! Certainly a boon for passenger capacity in this case, and hopefully an upgrade, passenger-wise, from the Citaros of old.

Running past the Stratford City bus station along Montfinchet Road, Go-Ahead London Central's SEe12, a 2016 BYD ADL Enviro200EV originally allocated to Red Arrow services and currently working out from New Cross garage (NX), is seen on route 108 to Lewisham Shopping Centre.

Had I'd come to Stratford City a couple weeks prior, I might have been happily photograping Go-Ahead London's Citaros on route 108! But alas, that was not meant to be, as the route changed over to refurbished and rather-boring ex-Red Arrow SEe BYD Enviro200EVs in recent months. Originally founded in 1934 as a renumbering of the confusingly-numbered 108A, 108B and 108E, the 108 has its own little contribution to the Millennium Dome story, having the distinction of being the first route to serve the Dome during its construction back in November 1998, when it was rerouted to drop off commuting construction workers in a secure site. Back then, it was run by the erstwhile Harris Bus, but one thing led to another and now, the route is in the hands of Go-Ahead London and, well, is just any other single-deck route these days.

A recent transfer onto this route after having run along the former Red Arrow routes in and around the City until April 2023, Go-Ahead London Central's SEe20, a 2016 BYD ADL Enviro200EV allocated to New Cross garage (NX), pulls out onto Montfinchet Road on a 108 to Stratford International railway station.

Enough of that, as we shoot directly into the sun, let's move onto the 214 itself. This route was, according to certain wikis, introduced in February 1961 as a double-deck route to replace the extant 615 trolleybus between Parliament Hill Fields and Finsbury Park, withdrawn as a result of Hampsted region's conversion under the London Transport's Trolleybus Replacement Programme. Run by Routemasters from the beginning, these were replaced by rear-engined (and problematic for LT) Fleetlines by 1975, going through one-person operation, route amendments and many vehicle types until finally being single-decked during 1989 - a format the 214 maintains today... well, unless the Northern Line is closed, of course. Operated for the longest time by Metroline, this route changed hands to Go-Ahead London in 2019, necessitating the delivery of a batch of SEe ADLs to convert the service to battery electric operation. Nearly six years in, and... well, they're still running it.

Seen as it pulls away from a bus stop along Pancras Road, Go-Ahead London's SEe91, a 2019 BYD ADL Enviro200EV allocated to Waterloo bus garage (RA), also works route 214 to Highgate Village.

Well, I was debating with myself whether it was worth clearing out the last of 2023's photos, but what the heck: yes, not even a month after that trip to Manchester, I went on down to London again, this time via a train to Kings Cross. And right off the bat, this gave me a chance to see - no pun intended - some of Go-Ahead London's older SEe types! From this (rather well framed) view along the road separating Kings Cross with St Pancras International, I've noticed an... er, column between the front and rear offside windows, corresponding with the nearside having central exit doors. I imagine that is something to do with structural rigidity as opposed to aesthetics?

Anyway, boring wibble about bus construction aside, Go-Ahead London General's SEe95, a 2019 BYD ADL Enviro200EV allocated to Waterloo garage (RA), is seen along Pancras Road working a 214 to Highgate Village. You may notice the British Transport Police cars in the background: with an occupied unmarked car visible behind the bus, I thought it wise to give photographing them a miss in this instance.

Two tube rides later, here we are back at Knightsbridge, which on this Saturday evening is, compared to early Sunday in 2019, impossibly congested. Such is life in London these days. This was the only bus photo I bothered to get here, since waiting around for others would just be a wasted exercise in slow-moving traffic, and not to mention, is the last bus photo of the day prior to a very exhausting walk in the dusk to Hyde Park. I remember the thrill I got from photographing the C1 back in 2019, with these BE types being my only single-decker bus type that I got on that whole weekender... compare to 2023, and I'd just gotten myself oodles of them by this point.

Chronologically the last bus photo of day 2 of 3 of the 2023 London trip, RATP London United's BE37019, a 2018 BYD ADL Enviro200EV based at Shepherd's Bush garage (S), is seen amid heavy Knightsbridge traffic on a C1 to Victoria.

First Greater Glasgow's ADL/BYD Enviro 200EV 64120 (LG71 DNF) is seen here leaving Glasgow Buchanan Bus Station, working a 9A to Penilee.

This bus was new to Stagecoach Fife as 30023 & reasigned as 64023 in 2023
Seen here at Dunfermline bus station

This bus was new to Stagecoach Fife as 30025 & reasigned as 64025 in 2023
Seen here at Dunfermline bus station

This bus was new to Stagecoach Fife as 30021 & reasigned as 64021 in 2023
Seen here at Halbeath leisure park

This bus was new to Stagecoach Fife as 30021 & reasigned as 64023 in 2023
Seen here at Halbeath leisure park

This bus was new to Stagecoach Fife as 30029 & reasigned as 64029 in 2023
Seen here on James Street in Dunfermline

This bus was new to Go Ahead London as SEe63
Seen here at Turnpike Lane bus station