Under the Freedom Of Information Act i am requesting a full list of all bus operators that TFL has used to provide Rail Replacement Bus Services for any of your services (eg, London Underground, London Overground, TFL Rail, Docklands Light Railway, Croydon Tram, etc) in the past ten years. If you can not provide this information for the past ten years then just provide it for going back as far as you possibly can while still coming within the FOI Act cost and time limits. I look forward to your reply.

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TfL Ref 1957-2021

Thank you for your request received by Transport for London (TfL) on 4 January 2021 asking for information about which bus operators TFL has used to provide Rail Replacement Bus Services to replace trains across our network over the last ten years.

Your request has been considered in accordance with the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act and our information access policy.  I can confirm that we hold the information you require.

Please see below for the list of those operators have been primarily contracted to provide rail replacement services across the modes you’ve asked about over the last ten years.  Please note that a number of services would have involved sub-contracting and in the majority of cases the same list of operators would have been engaged.

Abellio London

Arriva London

Arriva the Shires

Docklands Buses

Ensign Bus

Epsom Coaches

First Essex

First Capital

HCT Group

London General

London Sovereign

London United

Metroline Travel

Stagecoach London

Sullivan Buses

Tower Transit

Uno

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Yours sincerely

Sara Thomas

FOI Case Management Team

General Counsel

Transport for London

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