London Bus Route 154

Route History

Date	Gar	Mon-Fri	Sat	Sun
04.03.59	CN	13RT	15RT	9RT

CRYSTAL PALACE - Anerley - Norwood Junction - West Croydon - Waddon,Stafford Road - Wallington - Stanley Park Road - Ruskin Road - Benhill Avenue - SUTTON GREEN (Sundays)
St Helier - MORDEN STATION (Monday-Saturday)
Trolleybus replacement Route for 654 Crystal Palace and Sutton Green

RT2203 (CN) West Croydon

29.01.64	A	13RT	6RT	3RT
	TH	--	12RT	5RT

CRYSTAL PALACE - SUTTON GREEN ( Suns ) - MORDEN STATION ( Mon-Sat )
Carshalton (CN) garage closed - allocation moved to Sutton and Thornton Heath


Scanned from July 1964 Red Book

23.01.66	A	13RT	5RT	--
	TH	--	8RT	--

MORDEN STATION - CRYSTAL PALACE (Monday-Saturday)
Sunday service withdrawn.

31.12.66	A	12RT	--	--
	TH	--	11RT	--

MORDEN STATION - CRYSTAL PALACE (Monday-Saturday)
Saturday (A) allocation withdrawn.

RT2073 West Croydon

07.09.68	A	10RT	--	--
	TH	--	11RT	--

CRYSTAL PALACE - SUTTON GREEN (Monday-Saturday)- MORDEN STATION (Monday-Friday except evenings/Saturday)
Withdrawn between Sutton Green and Morden Mon-Fri evenings.


Taken from 1970 map drawn by Mike Harris busmap.co.uk

12.05.73	A	10DMS	6DMS	--
	TH	--	7DMS	--

CRYSTAL PALACE - SUTTON GREEN (Monday-Saturday )- MORDEN STATION (Monday-Saturday except evenings )
Saturday early morning and evenings withdrawn between Sutton Green and Morden
Converted to One Man Operation - Saturday (A) operation re-introduced.


Taken from alterationst leaflet (2) to booklet dated 17th February 1973

05.01.74	A	7DMS	--	--
	TC	3DMS	6DMS	--
	TH	--	7DMS	--

CRYSTAL PALACE - SUTTON GREEN (Monday-Saturday )- MORDEN STATION (Monday-Saturday except evenings )
Monday-Saturday (TC) allocation introduced. Saturday (A) withdrawn.

23.04.77	A81+	7DMS	--	--
	TC261+	3DMS	7DMS	--
	TH161+	--	7DMS	--

CRYSTAL PALACE - Stanley Park Road - The Beeches Avenue - Park Hill - Benhill Road - SUTTON GREEN (Monday-Saturday) - MORDEN STATION (Monday-Saturday except evenings)
Re-routed at Carshalton Beeches VIA Park Hill, Beeches Avenue, and Stanley Park Road instead of Beynon Road, Carshalton Park Rd, Ruskin Road, Park Lane and Boundary Road..

28.10.78	A81+	9DMS	9DMS	--
	TC261+	--	5DMS	--

CRYSTAL PALACE - SUTTON GREEN (Monday-Saturday )- MORDEN STATION (Monday-Saturday except evenings )
Monday-Friday (TC) withdrawn.
Saturday only (TH) withdrawn.

25.04.81

A81+

9DMS

10DMS

WEST CROYDON Bus Station - Waddon - Roundshaw Estate - Wallington - Carshalton - SUTTON GREEN (Monday-Saturday) - MORDEN STATION (Monday-Saturday except evenings)
Withdrawn between West Croydon and Crystal Palace (replaced by strengthened 157 service).
Diverted via Roundshaw Estate at Wallington replacing withdrawn 233.
Diverted via Croydon flyover instead of Epsom Road Waddon/Croydon
Saturday only (TC) withdrawn.

DMS2406 West Croydon with the blacked out bottom via points blanked out to reflect the Crystal Palace section being withdrawn

See comments at bottom of page

25.10.86

A81+

WEST CROYDON - MORDEN STATION (Monday-Saturday)
Extended evenings from Sutton to Morden.

26.11.88

A81+

10D

11D

WEST CROYDON - Waddon - Roundshaw - Wallington - Carshalton - (between 1000 - 1600 double run via Queen Mary's Hospital) SUTTON GREEN (Monday-Friday evenings/Saturday outside shopping hours) - St Helier - Green Lane - London Road - MORDEN STATION (Monday-Friday except evenings/Saturday shopping hours)
Re-routed between Sutton and Morden as above.
Now trading as Sutton Bus

29.09.90

A81+

10D

11D

WEST CROYDON - SUTTON GREEN (Monday-Friday evenings/Saturday outside shopping hours) or SUTTON GARAGE (Sunday) - MORDEN STATION (Monday-Friday except evenings/Saturday shopping hours)
Sunday service introduced between West Croydon and Sutton replacing withdrawn section of Service 213.

D2604 Wellesley Road, Croydon

busmap.co.uk

31.08.91

A81+

10D

11D

WEST CROYDON - SUTTON GARAGE (Sunday) or MORDEN STN (Monday-Saturday)
Monday-Saturday evenings extended from Sutton to Morden.

25.04.92

A81+

10M

11M

WEST CROYDON - SUTTON GARAGE (Sunday) or MORDEN STN (Monday-Saturday)
D type buses replaced by M

M1311 West Croydon Bus Station

busmap.co.uk

21.02.93

A81+

10M

11M

4MRL

WEST CROYDON - MORDEN
Sunday double run via Q Marys Hospital revised to run all day and extended to Morden except early am,
Sunday operation converted to midi-bus.

DW66 London Road, Morden

busmap.co.uk

04.02.95

A81+

10M

11M

4MRL

WEST CROYDON - MORDEN
Sunday early service extended from Sutton to Morden.

MRL178 also London Road, Morden

busmap.co.uk

30.11.96

A81+

10M

11M

	Contract renewal

WEST CROYDON - MORDEN
Sunday converted to double deck operation

26.07.97

A81+

10NV

11NV

4NV

WEST CROYDON - MORDEN
Converted from Metrobus to Volvo Olympian operation

NV121 West Croydon

02.02

A81+

12EVL

11EVL

6EVL

WEST CROYDON - MORDEN
Start of gradual conversion to low floor double deck. Buses are East Lans Myllennium Vyking - Volvo B7TL.

EVL41 leaving West Croydon Bus Station

August 2008 new corporate logo introduced

06.12.08

A81+

12DOE

11DOE

6DOE

WEST CROYDON - MORDEN
Contract renewal

DOE6 Morden

07.12.13

A81+

12DOE

11DOE

9DOE

WEST CROYDON - MORDEN
Contract extended for two years

PVL69 seen at the Sutton crew changeover point at Sutton Green

12.09.15	A81+	14DOE	12DOE	9DOE
Night Service ( FS )	A361+	--	3DOE	3DOE

WEST CROYDON - MORDEN
Fri and Sat night service inroduced


Taken from 2018 map drawn by MIke Harris busmap.co.uk

26.10.19	A81+	14DOE	13DOE	6DOE
Night Service ( FS )	A361+	--	3DOE	3DOE

MORDEN - WEST CROYDON
New schedules with increased PVR

05.04.20

A81+

18DOE

15DOE

6DOE

MORDEN - WEST CROYDON
Night service suspended

05.12.20

A81+

17DOE

15DOE

9DOE

MORDEN - WEST CROYDON
Contract extended for two years

03.12.22

A81+

17DOE

15DOE

9DOE

MORDEN - WEST CROYDON
Contract renewal eventually with electric Ee type

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Current Blind

Operating Garages

A Sutton
Changeover point at Sutton Green for start and finish
Meal Reliefs at Morden Station

TC Croydon
Changeover point at West Croydon Bus Station

TH Thornton Heath
Changeover point at West Croydon Bus Station

CN Carshalton
Changeover point at garage

Live visual

COMMENTS
Prior to 25/4/81, the intermediary display for Route 154 read -

'Sutton Green, Wallington, Croydon, Norwood Junction'

With the 25/4/81 changes, the intermediary blind was amended to -

Rose Hill, Sutton Green, Carshalton Beeches, Wallington, Roundshaw

However, roughly only 60% of Sutton's Fleetlines received new blind sets incorporating this change and also new route 254.

For those buses still with old blinds, 'Norwood Junction' was blanked out on the 154 intermediary panel so it then read -

'Sutton Green, Wallington, Croydon'

However, for seemingly no logical reason, Sutton Garage staff also blanked out 'Norwood Junction' on the Route 157 intermediary display so this now read -

'Morden, Carshalton, Wallington, Croydon'.

Furthermore, this doctoring of the Route 157 display was also done to all blind sets, old and new.

As far as Route 157 was concerned (at that time only operating from Sutton on Sundays), this meant a needlessly shortened display.

Worse still though, this truncated 157 display was constantly mis-used on Route 154, even on buses with the new blind sets. This was to the extent that it was almost a novelty to see a 154 running with the correct up-to-date via points.

So what you are actually seeing in the picture of DMS2406 is a bus which did have up-to-date 154 via blinds but erroneously displaying the needlessly blanked 157 display.

DAVID FOORDE