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Route Information
Operator Arriva London South
Garage South Croydon (TC)
PVR 10
Vehicle Alexander Dennis E40H 10.4m / Enviro400 MMC (HT)
Start Redhill
End Croydon, Town Centre
Frequency every 15 minutes
Service 06:00 – 00:34
Length 18km

Route History

21st April 2001 - Officially made a TfL route. Operated by Connex from their Beddington Cross garage (BC) with Plaxton Pointer 2s

30th August 2003 - Transferred to Metrobus from their Crawley garage (CY) and rerouted between Purley & South Croydon via Pampisford Road

16th April 2005 - Transferred to Godstone garage (GD)

25th February 2006 - Transferred to Croydon garage (C)

22nd April 2006 - Transferred back to Crawley garage (CY)

30th September 2006 - Scania OmniDekkas double decks introduced

1st September 2007 - School day only journeys between Purley and West Croydon introduced from Metrobus' Croydon (C) garage

30th August 2008 - Transferred back to Croydon garage (C)

3rd January 2009 - School day journeys transferred to Arriva London from Beddington Farm garage (CN) with Pulsar Geminis

29th October 2011 - School day journeys transferred to South Croydon garage (TC)

29th August 2015 - New Gemini 3 B5TL and B5LHs introduced alongside the Scania OmniDekkas

Sometime in September 2018 - Scania Omnicities introduced alongside the B5TL, B5LH and OmniDekkas

Sometime in October 2018 - Omnicities withdrawn, replaced by Enviro 400s

Sometime in November 2018 - OmniDekkas withdrawn

Sometime in August 2019 - Pulsar Gemini replaced by VDL DB300 Gemini 2

2nd November 2019 - Cut from West Croydon to Katherine Street, school day journeys still run to West Croydon

29th August 2020 - Route transferred to Arriva London from their South Croydon garage (TC) with VDL DB300 Gemini 2s

30th September 2020 - Enviro 400H MMCs introduced

4th January 2022 - School day journeys renumbered 645

30th August 2025 - A PVR increase lead to a VDL DB300 Gemini 2 temporarily being introduced