The London bus fleet is about to shrink a bit
The remaining school extras (V buses) all ending within next 12 days, they have already had thinning out since half term allowing many of the non-euroVI buses that were retained to be withdrawn.
Has now become clear that multiple routes serving central London are getting frequency cuts in August or early September. Rumours exist but very little is published (don’t really want to speculate but sounds like PVR cut of 250+)
So far TfL has only published changes through July (link to TfL upcoming changes attached), and routes 55, 56 being cut in July
Permanent changes to TfL bus routes including new routes and changes to first and last stops.
tfl.gov.uk
Some other timetable changes planned are appearing elsewhere, eg 3 cross border routes into Surrey showing as getting new timetables first weekend September (but TfL still keeping quiet about these on own website), link to Surrey bus changes attached
Changes to routes, stops and operators of bus services in Surrey
www.surreycc.gov.uk
It is likely that any PVR cuts will result in buses being cascaded so the oldest get withdrawn, most likely anything pre-2010