Corgi 1/76 OM46514A Wright Eclipse Gemini 2, Go-Ahead East London Transit EL2 Ilford Station

With increasing demand for faster and more frequent public transport in parts of East London, as well as a need for new transport links to serve the Thames Gateway redevelopment, East London Transit was initially planned as a joint tram/bus service. The eventual delivery of the scheme was a bus only service, however the infrastructure has been planned in such a way that it is ‘tram friendly’ to allow for future upgrades, without further major building work. Orginally conceived as two routes; EL1 and EL2, Phase 1 operations commenced on February 20, 2010, with Phase 2 following in 2011. A further route, EL3, commenced on February 18, 2017, which coincided with the introduction of ‘new’ Routemaster buses to the route.