London Buses route 325

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**325**
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Management
Operated by	East London
Garage	Barking
Vehicle	Dennis Dart/Plaxton Pointer
Peak vehicle requirement	{{{pvr}}}
Route
Start	Beckton
Via	East Ham Forest Gate Plaistow
End	Prince Regent
Length	8 miles (13 km)
Service
Level	Daily (5:00am until 1:00am)
Frequency	About every 15 minutes
Journey time	38-57 minutes
Night	none
Adult single fares
Oyster	£1.00
Cash	£2.00
Transport for London • Performance (PDF)

London Buses route 325 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, United Kingdom. The service is currently contracted to East London.

1 History
2 Current route
- 2.1 Route departing Beckton
- 2.2 Route departing Prince Regent
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] History

Barking garage has a large allocation of Dennis Darts with several different combinations of length, layout and bodybuilder, and in practice these get rather mixed up between different routes. Sometimes the 325 is run with a rare 9.4m Pointer 2 bodied Dart SLF with dual doors. The 325, and 300, should really be worked by 10.2m dual door examples; most of the other Darts are similar but ALX200 bodied, while there are some extra long ones for the 145 and some short wheelbase oneswithout any particular allocation.

The 325 was created in the Newham area scheme of 25 September 1993, initially being worked by elongated MCW Metrorider and Optare StarRider minibuses from Upton Park garage. It combined the Prince Regent — Forest Gate leg of route 278 (which was withdrawn) with a new service along Katherine Road in East Ham and a link to the new Savacentre at East Beckton.

To begin with there was no Sunday service. That came in 1997, when the route was also diverted to serve the new Showcase Cinema in East Beckton. Buses also serve Jenkins Lane and Park Avenue, instead of running non-stop along the North Circular Road as originally.