Know Your Routes: Route 440

The 440:
The longer one out of the two, runs between Chiswick, Power Road to Stonebridge Park. The route uses 07reg plated Enviro 200's, maybe the first of it's type, and is operated by London United from their Park Royal (PK) garage.

Like the 272, the 440 replaced former route H40 from Turnham Green then continued its own way to Stonebridge Park. The route was operated by Transdev London from there Stamford Brook Garage using Plaxton Pointer 2's.

In 2007, the route was won by devoloping company, NCP-Challenger, who opened up today's Park Royal (PK) garage, where the route is operated from. At the same time, new buses were introduced onto 440 numbered in NCP's fleet system which the code for E200 that were 10.2m was ADL. These were one of the first Enviro 200's to enter service in Britain.

In 2008, the 440 faced a short extension from Turnham Green to Power Road via Oxford Road North and Wellesley Road via the back of Gunnersbury Station in swap with H91 which would go straight instead of Oxford Road North.

In 2009, NCP Challenger were bought out by London United RATP Group and all the "ADL's" were renumbered into LU's fleetnumbers "DE's". All the NCP logos were replaced with London United stickers.

In 2012, some of the 440's DE's transferred to S after C1's/272's transfer. These vehicles were DE85-92.

Nowadays, SDE's from the E11 and OV's from 283 escpae onto the route. I do have a shot of an SDE on the route below:

And I do have 2 pictures of an OV on 440:

Not a really good picture as my camera just turned on, sorry for that!

 The Fleetlist:

SK07 DYC - DE75

SK07 DYD - DE76

SK07 DYF - DE77

SK07 DYG - DE78

SK07 DYH - DE79

SK07 DYJ - DE80

SK07 DYM - DE81

SK07 DYN - DE82

SK07 DYO - DE83

SK07 DYP - DE84

Odd Workings:

SK07 HLN - SDE12

SK07 HLO - SDE13

SK07 HLP - SDE14

SK07 HLR - SDE15

SK07 HLU - SDE16

SK07 HLV - SDE17
YJ58 PHY - OV50
YJ58 PHZ - OV51
YJ58 PJO - OV52
YJ58 PJU - OV53
YJ09 EZE - OV54
YJ09 EZF - OV55
YJ09 EYT - OV56
YJ09 EYU -OV57
YJ09 EYV - OV58
YJ09 EYW - OV59
YJ09 EYX- OV60
YJ09 EYY - OV61
YJ09 EYZ - OV62
YJ09 EZA - OV63
YJ09 EZB - OV64
YJ09 EZC - OV65
YJ09 EZD - OV66

Thanks for reading this post and I hope you've enjoyed it! Stay safe!