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= Northumberland Park bus Garage =

Northumberland Park Bus Garage is a bus garage in Tottenham, London.

Backstory
Northumberland Park Bus Garage was opened in 1991 by Capital Citybus after they achieved massive route gains in London, following the collapse of London Regional Transport subsidiary company London Forest.

Ownership of Northumberland Park and indeed Capital Citybus transferred on 21 December 1995 when owners CNT Group sold out to the incumbent management team. This arrangement only lasted until 8 July 1998 when the management sold the company on to FirstGroup.

From the beginning of FirstGroup ownership, Northumberland Park and its services were operated as a separate company, utilising the First Capital name. This did not last long and the garage was integrated into the First London operation.

Following a series of tender losses and the general downturn of the bus business at First, the company sold Northumberland Park and its routes to the Go Ahead Group in March 2012. The operation was incorporated by the new company under its London General subsidiary. A year later, FirstGroup sold 8 more bus garages and effectively quit London bus operation.

= Go Ahead London = Northumberland Park is London General's only base of operation in North London and operates fifteen TfL contract services along with two school routes

Northumberland Park garage has been losing almost all of their bus routes, to preface,

Here is a list of the contracts lost between 1991 and 2021 Of all the bus routes that are lost, withdrawn or passed back to its original operating garage, only routes 357 and 476 still operate in the Northumberland Park garage from when the routes originally started.

However, With the tender wins by Go Ahead London General of routes 184(including school route 184), 212, 214, 230, 444 and w15 coupled with their allocation of new Alexander Dennis Limited Enviro200 & Enviro400 EV vehicles, Northumberland Park now operates one of the largest electric bus fleets in Europe, totalling over 100 vehicles.

= Bus2Grid Project = Go-Ahead London’s Northumberland Park depot is set to become a ‘virtual power station,’ generating electricity from buses when not in use. Following a transformation to house nearly 100 new zero-emission electric buses, Northumberland Park is now one of the biggest electric bus facilities in Europe. The project, called Bus2Grid, is believed to be the world’s largest vehicle-to-grid (V2G) trial site.

As of 2022, Northumberland Park Garage runs routes, 67, 76, 106, 184(including school route 184), 212, 214, 230, 232, 357, 379, 444, 456, 476, 657 and w15.

= See also =
 * First Capital(London)
 * London General