Know Your Routes: Route E3

Written by Anonymous on Friday, January 25, 2013
SN09 CFD DN33590 on route E3 to Greenford Broadway.


The E3 is one of the 10 'E-line routes' that run in the London borough of Ealing. It starts at the highly-used Greenford Broadway where all the 'E' buses pass except the E8, then continues its way through Hanwell, West Ealing, Northfields, South Ealing, Acton, Bedford Park and Chiswick to terminate at Edensor Road where there's a roundabout for buses to turn around. It's the most used 'E' route and has a frequency of every 5 minutes during peak hours and 10 minutes during other times. 
My very first photo! DN33606/ SN09 CGF heads towards Edensor Road.
It is a bus route that connects several schools with popular destinations such as West Ealing, Greenford Broadway, Acton High Street and Chiswick High Road. Some people class the E3 as a 'School route that runs all day' and its also used by commuters to connect from housing estates to train stations such as Bedford Park to Turnham Green.
SN09 CDV DN335576 on route E3 to Chiswick, Edensor Road.

What vehicles it uses and who controls it:

As you may of guessed, it's First Centrewest who run the E3 as well as most of the 'E' line routes except E2,E6,E8 (Metroline) and E11(London United). 

First London run all their 'E' routes from the Greenford Garage and the E3 is no exception. The route uses DN's which is First coding for Alexander Dennis Enviro 400. The E3 shares its buses with the E1 who has the same allocation from the same batch. Although these buses nowadays escape onto 92 and 282 quite often, that's classed as an odd working as 282 should be using Trident 2/Plaxton Presidents whilst the 92 should be using newer DN's.  Although some are at Hayes (HS) to substitute for the VN's are faulty so these can appear on 427. Here shows a few more buses running the E3, some in Acton, others in Greenford.

SN09 CDV/ DN33576 on route E3 to Greenford, Red Lion.
(C) LondonBuses72

SN09 CEO/ DN33584 on route E3 to Chiswick, Edensor Road.
(C) LondonBuses72
DN33599 SN09CFP on E3 at Greenford Broadway

DN33585 SN09CEU on E3 at Greenford Broadway

DN33607 SN09CGG on E3 at Greenford Broadway


SN09 CEX/ DN33587 on route E3 to Greenford Broadway.
SN09 CFG/ DN33593 on route E3 to Chiswick, Edensor Road.
SN09 CFA DN33589 on route E3 to Greenford Broadway.



The Vehicles Used On The E3: Normal Allocation;

SN09 CDU - DN33575
SN09 CDV - DN33576
SN09 CDX - DN33577
SN09 CDY - DN33578
SN09 CDZ - DN33579
SN09 CEA - DN33580
SN09 CEF - DN33581
SN09 CEJ - DN33582
SN09 CEK - DN33583
SN09 CEO - DN33584
SN09 CEU - DN33585
SN09 CEV - DN33586
SN09 CEX - DN33587
SN09 CEY - DN33588
SN09 CFA - DN33589
SN09 CFD - DN33590
SN09 CFE - DN33591
SN09 CFF - DN33592
SN09 CFG - DN33593
SN09 CFJ - DN33594
SN09 CFK - DN33595
SN09 CFL - DN33596
SN09 CFM - DN33597
SN09 CFO - DN33598
SN09 CFP - DN33599
SN09 CFU - DN33600
SN09 CFV - DN33601
SN09 CFX - DN33602
SN09 CFY - DN33603
SN09 CFZ - DN33604
SN09 CGE - DN33605
SN09 CGF - DN33606
SN09 CGG - DN33607
SN09 CGK - DN33608
SN09 CGO - DN33609
SN09 CGU - DN33610
SN09 CGV - DN33611
Other Vehicles You Might See (Odd Workings):

 LK03 NKC - TN33277
LK03 NKD - TN33278
LK03 NKE - TN33279
LK03 NKF - TN33280
LK03 NKG - TN33281
LK03 NKP - TN33282
LK03 NKR - TN33283
LK03 NKS - TN33284
LK03 NKT - TN33285
LK03 NKU - TN33286
LK03 NKW - TN33287
LK03 NKX - TN33288
LK03 NKZ - TN33289
LK03 NLA - TN33290
LK03 NLC - TN33291
LK03 NLP - TN33292
LK03 NLR - TN33293
LK08 FNE - DN33503
SN12 EHD - DN33756
SN12 EHE - DN33757
SN12 EHF - DN33758
SN12 EHG - DN33759
SN12 EHH - DN33760
SN12 EHJ - DN33761
SN12 EHK - DN33762
SN12 EHP - DN33763
SN12 EHR - DN33764
SN12 EHS - DN33765
SN12 EHT - DN33766
SN12 EHU - DN33767
SN12 EHV - DN33768
SN12 EHW - DN33769
SN62 AAF - DN33770
SN62 AAK - DN33771
SN62 AAO - DN33772
SN62 AAV - DN33773
SN12 EGY - DN33774
SN12 EGZ - DN33775

 Thanks to Lewis for helping me out with this spectacular post and we both hope you enjoyed this post!

 The iBus for E3:
E3 to Chiswick, Edensor Road iBus.

Key Points about the E3:
- Is run by First from Greenford Garage
- Is using Enviro 400's 
- Is highly used
- Is described as a school route "That runs all the time"
- Has a frequency of every 6 minutes during peak hours and 10 minutes at other times.
- Is due to go for re-tendering on the 28th April 2013.

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4 comments:

  1. Aubrey Morandarte25 January 2013 at 18:53

    I use the route a lot and I personally think it's run quite weirdly. The frequency used to be so high, bunching of threes was very common by Turnham Green. It is a local route for many of my friends, haters and me. The school students don't treat the buses well (and some don't seemed to be cleaned well), meaning that these buses look tattered already, to be honest.

    I don't understand the really early morning running (runs until almost 2am), though. Making it 24hr could be extreme, but would that work?

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    1. Anonymous25 January 2013 at 20:57

      I could say E3 already has a partial 24-hour service although between "The Lido" and Turnham Green station which is most of the route s it's covered by N11, meaning that making the E3 a 24-hour service could lead to N11 being cut back probably to Hammersmith. However, what you said is true as buses start at 5am and finish at 2am.

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    2. Anonymous1 February 2013 at 17:34

      Or N11 buses could instead of go Turnham Green Station and "The Chiswick Box" (If you don't know what I'm talking about, check how Acton Lane, Southfield Rd, The Ave and Sth Parade on Google maps) buses would continue to Turnham Green and A) terminate or B) Continue to Chiswick, Business Park like the 27.

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  2. Arunag14 November 2014 at 14:49

    Thanks for your info.

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