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Location | Pittwater Road, Brookvale |
Coordinates | 33°45′59″S151°16′11″E / 33.766419°S 151.269782°E |
Characteristics | |
Owner | Transport for NSW |
Operator | Keolis Downer Northern Beaches |
Depot code | V |
History | |
Opened | 5 October 1952 |
Brookvale Bus Depot is a bus depot in the Sydney suburb of Brookvale operated by Keolis Downer Northern Beaches.
Following the closure of the Manly tram network in 1939, all Northern Beaches buses had been stabled at the increasingly overcrowded former Manly Tram Depot. To alleviate this, a new depot opened on 5 October 1952 on Pittwater Road, Brookvale. [1]
As of October 2024, it has an allocation of 217 buses. [2] In October 2021 it was included in the transfer of region 8 from State Transit to Keolis Downer Northern Beaches. [3]
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