New Routemaster

The called New Bus for London, also called " NB4L " or " Boris Master", is a double-decker bus with a diesel- electric hybrid drive, 2012, as a kind of successor to the in the 2000s on the last lines withdrawn from the service Routemasters 1960 from the years, has been made ​​available for the regular services to London for transport for London ( TfL) in service. On 20 February 2012, the first bus at Arriva London has taken his service on the line 38 from Victoria to Hackney. After the delivery of additional buses will be used on the lines 9, 11, 24 and 390 since 2013, this.

The New Bus for London, designed by Heatherwick Studio and manufactured by Wrightbus in Northern Ireland, has a diesel-electric hybrid drive, is a low floor and has two flights of stairs to the upper deck.

Facts and Figures

Mayor of London Boris Johnson had promised to reintroduce city buses to Routemaster design. For this purpose, a tender was issued for the design and created some sample models. After a mock-up created later learned general consent, a prototype of the New Bus for London ( NB4L ) was introduced in 2011 by Wrightbus in collaboration with Transport for London. Since spring 2012, the first copies of the new hybrid bus series are put into service with Arriva London. The biplanes are 11.2 m long, 2.55 m wide and 4.4 m high and have a weight of approximately 11.8 tons.

If a conductor is on board (which is neither selling tickets, controlled ), he has, like the old classic Routemaster ( RM / RML ), an open rear platform with stairs, through the boarding any time, even outside of bus stops is possible. In contrast to RM and RML however, there is also another entrance door in front of the front axle and an exit door between the axes ( with wheelchair ramp), also another staircase between the front and middle door ( as with the other modern London double- deck buses ). In the evening rush and at weekends, buses with closed rear deck doors in the one-man operation. In the upper deck there are 40 seats in the lower deck can, depending on the equipment to be housed up to 22 seats.

Transport for London ordered for use as a city bus in London first 600 copies of the NB4L to them ( so far Arriva and Metroline Travel) to ask the transport company determined through tenders for use on the city lines.