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((short description|Storage and maintenance facility))
((More citations needed|date=January 2017))
[[File:Scottish Bus Group buses in Kelso Bus Station, Scottish Borders September 1985.jpg|thumb|The interior of the [[Lowland Scottish]] bus depot in [[Kelso, Scottish Borders|Kelso]], Scotland, in 1985]]
[[File:Bus melnikov.JPG|thumb|[[Bakhmetevsky bus garage]] in Moscow]]
[[File:Bandra BEST Bus Depot1.JPG|thumb|A [[BEST Bus]] depot in Bandra, Mumbai]]
[[File:Wilsongarage.jpg|thumb|A typical example of a garage - Wilson Bus Garage (Toronto)]]
[[File:PMPML-Market-Yard-Depot.jpg|thumb|[[PMPML]] buses at the Market Yard depot, Pune, India]]
A '''bus garage''', also known as a '''bus depot''',((efn|The term "bus depot" may also be used to refer to a [[bus station]], a place where tickets are sold or where transfers to other bus routes are possible.)) '''bus base''' or '''bus barn''', is a facility where [[bus]]es are stored and maintained. In many conurbations, bus garages are on the site of former [[car barn]]s or tram sheds, where [[tram]]s (streetcars) were stored, and the operation transferred to buses. In other areas, garages were built to replace [[horsebus]] [[Stable|yards]] or on virgin sites when populations were not as high as now.

==Description==
Most bus garages will contain the following elements:
*Internal parking
*External parking
*Fueling point
*Fuel storage tanks
*Engineering section
*Inspection pits
*Bus wash
*Brake test lane
*Staff canteen/break room
*Administration office
Smaller garages may contain the minimum engineering facilities, restricted to light servicing capabilities only. Garages may also contain recovery vehicles, often converted buses, although their incidence has declined with the use of contractors to recover break-downs, and the increase in reliability.

Overnight, the more valuable or regularly in-service buses will usually be stored in the interior of the garage, with less used or older service vehicles, and vehicles withdrawn for storage or awaiting disposal, stored externally. During the day, internal and external areas will see a variety of movements. Heritage vehicles are almost exclusively stored inside the garage.

Often garages will feature rest rooms for drivers assigned to 'as required' duties, whereby they may be required to drive relief or replacement buses in the event of breakdown. The garage may also have 'light duties' drivers, who merely move the buses internally around the garage, often called shunting. Shunter or light duty drivers are often employed in larger depot facilities and work night shifts in order to position buses in the correct order for morning departures from the depot with the first buses due to leave the depot parked logical order nearest the exit. Because they are driving on privately owned land in many jurisdictions a full bus licence may not be required to perform such tasks. In addition they may also perform other tasks such as cleaning buses, refuelling and light maintenance tasks.

==United Kingdom==
[[File:20180106 Ellie Rose Depot Olympians.jpg|thumb|left|Buses at the Ellie Rose depot, in [[Kingston upon Hull|Hull]], [[East Yorkshire]].]]
Several bus companies such as [[London Buses]] and [[Lothian Buses]] used to operate multiple storage garages around their operating area, supplemented by a '''central works''' facility. Central works have declined with increase in sub-contract engineering, and improvements in mechanical reliability of bus designs. Also, the practice of routine mid-life refurbishment of bus fleets has declined, which has resulted in generally shorter service lives.

Bus garages will generally have large areas unobstructed by supporting columns as well as high roofs, especially for storage of [[double-decker buses]]. Recently((clarify timeframe|date=August 2022)) in London, the transfer of routes from double-decker operation to [[Articulated buses in the United Kingdom|articulated buses]] has caused problems at some garages that were found to be too small to accommodate all the replacement buses, requiring splitting of allocations, or the building of new garages.

Some bus companies in the UK make use of '''outstations''' (or '''out-stations''') as an additional bus storage facility.<ref>((cite book |last1=Andrews |first1=R.D. |title=A survey of bus crew scheduling practices |date=1973 |publisher=Department of the Environment |page=34 |url=https://trl.co.uk/sites/default/files/LR576.pdf |access-date=5 December 2018 |archive-date=5 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181205193302/https://trl.co.uk/sites/default/files/LR576.pdf |url-status=dead ))</ref> These are generally outdoor parking locations, where buses are stored overnight or between peaks, which are more conveniently located for operations, reducing [[dead mileage]]. There does not appear to be a universal definition of an outstation, but it seems agreed that there are no maintenance facilities at a bus outstation.<ref>((cite web | title=About us - Berkshire & The Thames Valley | website=First Bus | url=https://www.firstgroup.com/berkshire-thames-valley/about-us | access-date=2 August 2020 ))((Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes ))</ref><ref name="RailUK Forums 2011">((cite web | title=Outstations | website=RailUK Forums | date=28 July 2011 | url=https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/outstations.49532/ | access-date=2 August 2020))</ref><ref name="RailUK Forums 2019">((cite web | title=Difference between a depot, sub depot and outstation | website=RailUK Forums | date=30 August 2019 | url=https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/difference-between-a-depot-sub-depot-and-outstation.190602/ | access-date=2 August 2020))</ref>

==Largest==
The largest bus depot in the world is [[Millennium Park Bus Depot]] In Delhi India, built for the [[Commonwealth Games]] in 2010.<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/worlds-largest-bus-depot-unveiled/683680/|title=On-off bus station now definitely on))</ref><ref>((Cite web |url=http://www.wikipeers.com/news/5404-DTC-Sets-Up-the-Largest-Bus-Depot-in-Delhi-Ahead-Of-the-Commonwealth-Games.html |title=DTC Sets Up the Largest Bus Depot in Delhi Ahead Of the Commonwealth Games |access-date=2015-03-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190828112342/http://www.wikipeers.com/news/5404-DTC-Sets-Up-the-Largest-Bus-Depot-in-Delhi-Ahead-Of-the-Commonwealth-Games.html |archive-date=2019-08-28 |url-status=dead ))</ref><ref>((cite web | author=Sairaju | title=The Millennium Park Bus Depot | website=fdocuments.in | date=2 June 2018 | url=https://fdocuments.in/document/the-millennium-park-bus-depot.html | access-date=2 August 2020))</ref>

== See also ==
((Portal|Buses))
* [[Bus station]]
* [[Bus terminus]]
* [[Railway workshop]]

== Notes ==
((notelist))

==References==
((Reflist))

((Public transport))
((Authority control))

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