History
The company started operating TfL bus routes as NCP Challenger on 12 November 2005. They had obtained the contracts for routes 33 and 419, both were previously contracted to London United. A depot was established at Twickenham Trading Estate (off Rugby Road), and a number of London United staff filled the management positions.
Route 493 was added from 31 March 2007, having been operated by Armchair (now Metroline) on a nine month emergency short term contract.
A second depot was opened at Park Royal in North West London after winning the contracts to run routes 272, 440 and E11. Both 272 and 440 were transferred from London United (now Transdev London), and the E11 was transferred from First London. NCP Challenger started operation of all three routes on 26 May 2007.
On 28 February 2009, route 283 has been operated from the Park Royal depot, having been previously operated by Transdev London.
In April 2009, NCP Challenger was rebranded NSL Buses, due to NCP Services Group being rebranded as NSL Services Group.
During the introduction of the new name, NSL was rebranding their bus fleet to replace the old NCP-Challenger logo with the new NSL ones.
On 13 November 2009, NSL buses was sold to Transdev London, now London United.
Read more about this topic: NSL Buses
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