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London Buses route 197 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, England. Running between Croydon and Peckham, it is operated by Arriva London. ==History== By 1948 route 197 was an established route running between Caterham and Norwood Junction station via Whyteleafe, Kenley, Purley, South Croydon and East Croydon station. On 5 May 1948, the AEC Regent STs were replaced by AEC Regent III RTs. On 27 March 1971, the Sunday service was renumbered as 197B and converted to one man operation. On 5 January 1974 the daily service was also converted to one-man operation and Sunday services resumed operating as route 197. Upon being put up for tender, the route passed to National Bus Company's London & Country subsidiary from Godstone garage on 9 August 1986. It was cut back to only operate between Croydon and Norwood Junction with the Caterham to Croydon section taken over by new routes 197A and 197B. On 28 October 1989, route was transferred to South London's Croydon garage. Upon being re-tendered, the route was retained by Arriva London with a new contract commencing on 3 September 2005. On the same day, the route was extended from Norwood Junction to Peckham to replace part of route 312.〔(Bus tender results Route 197 (originally tendered as 312) ) Transport for London 20 December 2004〕 Arriva London successfully tendered to retain the route from 1 September 2012.〔(Tender News ) ''BusTalk'' (Go-Ahead London) issue 13 December 2011〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「London Buses route 197」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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