London Buses route 157 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in

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, England. Running between

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and Morden station, it is operated by

Arriva London Arriva London is a major bus company operating services in Greater London. It is a subsidiary of Arriva UK Bus and operates services under contract to Transport for London. It was formed in 1998 from a fusion of previously separate Arriva s ...

History

Route 157 commenced operating on 13 September 1926 as a daily service between Morden station and Wallington (Melbourne Hotel) via Morden Road, Bishopsford Road,

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and

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. It was one of five new

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feeder routes ( 155, 156, 157, 164 and 165) that were introduced to connect to the new

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station at Morden, which also opened on 13 September 1926. In 1959, it was extended from Wallington to

via

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, replacing

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route 654.Arriva London starts running the route 157 service from Morden to Crystal Palace
Arriva London 22 December 2016 From January 1973 until November 1985 it was operated by Thornton Heath garage, It was operated by

from August 1987 until November 1988, when operation of the route moved to

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's Sutton garage. Upon being re-tendered, route 157 passed to Connex's Beddington Cross garage on 1 December 2001 with

Alexander ALX400 The Alexander ALX400 (later known as the TransBus ALX400 and the Alexander Dennis ALX400) was a 2-axle double-decker bus body built by Walter Alexander Coachbuilders (later by TransBus International/Alexander Dennis). It was one of the ALX-seri ...

bodied

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s. It was included in the sale of the business to

Travel London Travel London was a bus company operating services in Greater London. It was a subsidiary of National Express before being sold in May 2009 to NedRailways. In October 2009, it was rebranded as Abellio London.

in February 2004 Upon being re-tendered, it was retained by Travel London with a new contract commencing on 2 December 2006. Route 157 was included in the May 2009 sale of Travel London to

Abellio London Abellio London is a bus company operating services in Greater London. A subsidiary of Abellio, it operates services under contract to Transport for London (TfL). Until September 2018, services were operated in Surrey under the Abellio Sur ...

. On 3 December 2016,

commenced operating the route after winning the tender with 18 existing

Alexander Dennis Enviro400 The Alexander Dennis Enviro400 is a twin-axle low-floor bus, low-floor double-decker bus that was built by the United Kingdom, British bus manufacturer Alexander Dennis between 2005 and 2018. It replaced the Alexander ALX400, Dennis Trident 2, ...

double deckers. The route is currently based at Norwood garage, however, drivers are allocated to Thornton Heath garage. This was due to Thornton Heath not having enough capacity available following route 64 moving there in August 2016.

Current route

Route 157 operates via these primary locations:157 bus route
Transport for London *

''bus station'' *Anerley Hill ''for Crystal Palace station'' * Anerley station *High Street ''for Norwood Junction station'' * Selhurst station *

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* Reeves Corner tram stop * Wallington station * Carshalton station *

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* Morden station

References

External links

{{DEFAULTSORT:157, London buses route Bus routes in London Transport in the London Borough of Bromley Transport in the London Borough of Croydon Transport in the London Borough of Merton Transport in the London Borough of Sutton