London Central is a bus operator brand under London General Transport Services Limited, trading as Go-Ahead London. It is a subsidiary of Go-Ahead London and primarily operates services in South London under contract to Transport for London.

In April 1989, London Buses was divided into 11 separate business units, one of which was the London Central Bus Company. As part of the privatisation of London bus services, in September 1994, London Central was sold to the Go-Ahead Group for £23.8 million (equivalent to £50,218,000 in 2025).

In August 2008, the Go-Ahead Group's London bus operations all adopted the Go-Ahead London trading name, although the individual company names are still applied beneath the Go-Ahead London logo on most buses. London Central was among the three other Go-Ahead London operations to be brought under the London General license in early 2017, however as before, the London Central name was retained on company logos.^{[citation needed]}

London Central operates six bus garages.

Bexleyheath garage operates routes 51, 89, 99, 132, 244, 269, 401, 486, 624, 625, 658, B11, B12, B13, B15 and B16.

Built as a trolleybus depot by the London Passenger Transport Board, Bexleyheath was the only new garage built for trolleybuses, opening on 10 November 1935. The garage's trolleybuses were among the first to be withdrawn from service by London Transport in favour of motorbuses, with routes 696 and 698 replaced by bus routes 96 and an extended route 229 respectively.

Bexleyheath garage is a large and imposing building, slightly set back from the main Erith Road to enable parking on the forecourt. This arrangement was used for the terminus for route 122. In August 1986, Bexleyheath was found to be one of a number of London Regional Transport (LRT) bus garages surplus to requirements as a result of bus route tendering reducing the LRT bus fleet, and as a result, Bexleyheath garage was closed, with work transferred to the Catford, Plumstead and Sidcup garages. The site, however, was retained by LRT for further development.

On 16 January 1988, Bexleyheath garage reopened under the guise of Bexleybus, a low-cost unit set up by London Buses in preparation for the deregulation of London's bus services. Bexleybus had a varied fleet of 107 buses painted in a cream and blue livery, ranging from Robin Hood-bodied Iveco Daily and integrally-constructed MCW Metrorider minibuses to ex-LRT Daimler Fleetlines and Leyland Nationals as well as 28 new Northern Counties-bodied Leyland Olympians leased to the operator. The move to set up the new company to tender for routes backfired, with low maintenance, supervisory and administrative staffing at Bexleyheath garage resulting in frequent service delays and vehicle breakdowns. As a result of the disruption, routes 422 and 492 were transferred to Boro'line London in October 1988, and in the next round of London Buses route tendering in September 1990, only route B16 was awarded to Bexleybus, whilst London Central won nine routes.