First Bus London operates out of 9
garages;
Edgware,
Fulwell,
Harrow,
Hounslow,
Hounslow Heath,
Shepherd's Bush,
Stamford Brook,
Tolworth and
Westbourne Park. Edgware garage was first opened by the
London General Omnibus Company in 1925 with space for 24 buses, but there was plenty of room adjacent to the
Underground station which had recently been built. In 1939 a new building was built next to the original building which was to become the new bus station, while the remaining open parking area was used to store vehicles for the trolleybus replacement program. In 1984, a new 100-bus garage was built on the site of the long closed
Edgware railway station at a cost of £4.5 million. In 1992, plans were made to close Edgware garage as
Cricklewood garage was to become a fully functioning garage with new facilities. The outdoor parking area and the bus station then became a
midibus base in 1993, with a new bus wash and light maintenance facilities provided in the yard. Planning applications were submitted to
Barnet London Borough Council by First Bus London in July 2025 for the development of a new Edgware garage on the site of
The Broadwalk Centre, situated below the basement of a high-rise building as part of the Edgware Towers. Despite objections by residents and the
London Fire Brigade, the latter stating the depot structure would provide inadequate protection against structural collapse in the event of a major fire at the depot, the plans were approved by Barnet London Borough Council in August 2025 and passed onto the
Greater London Authority and the office of the
Mayor of London for further review.
Harrow (SO) Harrow garage operates routes
183,
395,
398,
H9,
H10,
H11,
H14,
H18,
H19,
SL9 and
SL10. There were plans to relocate the garage away from the town centre and allow the expansion of the adjoining bus station. In 2005, Transport for London submitted a planning application for a new depot to be built on the site of the former Williams Dye Works along Hanworth Road. The application was eventually abandoned by TfL in 2009 largely due to a campaign by residents overlooking the site, who feared the new garage would cause pollution in the area and advocated for a new park to instead occupy the site.
Hounslow Heath (WK) Hounslow Heath garage operate routes
105,
116,
235 and
423. Stamford Brook opened as a bus garage in 1980 after a two-year construction. Originally built as Chiswick Tram depot, it had latterly been used to operate the
British European Airways bus service between
Heathrow Airport and the
West London Air Terminal on
Cromwell Road. The original plan was to create a temporary home for the Riverside garage buses and staff whilst that garage was re-built with a view to taking on the workload from Mortlake and Turnham Green which were to close. However this idea was changed and the garage took on the work from Turnham Green which closed and also inherited the garage code V. Following service reductions, Mortlake and Riverside closed in 1983, with some of their work moving to Stamford Brook. In 1981 Stamford Brook took on
Airbus routes A1 and A2 following the withdrawal of the existing British Airways services between Heathrow Airport and central London. These vehicles were transferred in 1994 to West Ramp (which became an outstation of V) leaving the garage with an allocation of
MCW Metroriders,
MCW Metrobuses,
Leyland Olympians and
Dennis Darts.
Tolworth (TV) Tolworth garage operates routes
85,
293,
406,
411,
418,
467,
613,
662,
665,
K1,
K2,
K4 and
K5.
History Westbourne Park Garage was part of the re-construction programme undertaken by the
London Transport Executive in the early 1980s. As was common practice at the time, the new garage replaced two older garages – the small and inadequate Middle Row (X), and the larger former trolley bus depot at
Stonebridge (SE). The new garage, which opened in 1981 on Great Western Road, is of unusual design in that it is built beneath the elevated A40 Westway, the roof of the garage being profiled to match the concrete flyover. Originally, the garage allocation consisted of
AEC Routemasters, and a small number of
Daimler Fleetlines to B20 "quiet" specification for Route 18. These were supplemented in 1983 by a number of
Leyland Titans for comparative trials. In December 1988, CentreWest launched the Gold Arrow brand for
routes 28 and
31 at Westbourne Park. This brand employed 16 seater
Alexander bodied
Mercedes-Benz 811D midibuses in an initiative by London Regional Transport to increase the frequency of the two routes by 60% at peak times. When privatised, Westbourne Park operated two routes operated by
AEC Routemasters,
routes 7 and
23. These were replaced by
Dennis Trident 2s in July 2004 and September 2003 respectively. In November 2005, Westbourne Park commenced operating
Heritage route 9 with a fleet of restored Routemasters. On 22 January 2006, an arson attack destroyed seven buses and damaged five others that were parked overnight at Westbourne Park. In June 2013, Westbourne Park garage was sold to Tower Transit along with all of the buses stationed there. The garage returned to First as part of its acquisition transition from RATP Dev. ==Fleet==