NLTS North Weald 24th June 2001

Leyland Titan IUI 2140 (ex T415 [KYV 415X]) was entered into this rally

 

Chassis/Body Leyland Titan TNLXB2RR [#0464]
Seating Capacity H44/32F
New January 1982

 

[IUI 2140] was new to London Transport in January 1982 as [KYV 415X] [T415] entering service at the Loughton Garage.

This Titan spent much of its life in East London before passing to London Coaches for routes N52 and 52, then to Atlas Bus, finally to Metroline before leaving London.

It joined the Nu-Venture fleet in January 1997 along with three others (T341/459/485) for use on a new school contract in the Cliffe area of Kent. Since their introduction on these routes they have strayed onto many other Nu-Venture routes, This buses usual haunt is the service 191/192 between Chatham and Hoo occasionally putting in an appearance on minibus routes 113/114 from Chatham to Hempstead, Gillingham and back to Chatham. It has also operated on the Chatham Park & Ride service on a number of occasions. It is allocated to the Hoo depot for use on these routes. It was briefly allocated to Aylesford in the summer of 2000 where it worked the busy service 82 between Park Wood and Maidstone. It has again recently seen service from the Aylesford depot.

(T415) along with sisters (T459/85) feature a non-standard revised dashboard layout. It was converted to single entrance before arriving for service with Nu-Venture. It was retrimmed on 9th December 1998, the first to be treated and remains unique in that the seats are in a different fabric to the other seven Titans in the fleet. It was re-registered after a few months service with Nu-Venture. It was fitted with CCTV cameras during June 2001.