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ATW Alex 101

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Simple just post what London Bus routes you have been on!

Heres mine:
48
38
188
151
25
15 (non Heritage)
10
2
3
66
100
295
269
239 (which I don't believe exists anymore)
R6
A10
N55
N89
 
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I've been on the W10 which is/was something like hourly - must be the most infrequent London route of all?
 

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I've been on the W10 which is/was something like hourly - must be the most infrequent London route of all?
And only four buses per day Mon-Fri - with seven on Saturdays. Didn't that route start out as a fill-in service - to give a bus and driver something to do between school services?
 

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These are the ones that I can remember;
1, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31, 34, 36, 41, 43, 46, 52, 53, 65, 73, 74, 76, 79, 81, 82, 83, 84, 88, 91, 98, 100, 102, 106, 107, 112, 113, 121, 123, 125, 133, 134, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 149, 153, 168, 171, 184, 188, 189, 191, 210, 214, 217, 221, 230, 231, 232, 236, 243, 251, 253, 254, 259, 263, 271, 279, 299, 307, 313, 317, 326, 328, 329, 341, 349, 390, 436, 444, 453, 476, 507, 521, C1, C2, C11, D8, RV1, W3, W4, W5, W6, W7, W8, W9, N19, N29, N91, (other night buses that I don't remember the number of, due to intoxication!)

Plus a whole host that don't exist anymore...
 

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Off the top of my head...

5
11
15
15H
18
65
69
77
90
100
117
128
140
150
205
222
238
248
370
507
H26
RV1

...and numerous others whose numbers I am not sure of. Routes include Hammersmith to Putney Bridge station, something local in the vicinity of Ealing and numerous other routes for short journeys in the central area. Amazingly enough though, I have never been on N-prefix route.
 

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Amazingly enough though, I have never been on N-prefix route.

You dont want to they take forever. Was at a party in Bexleyheath and staying in Woodford and missed the last train and tube by like 3 minutes so we decided to use the Night bus, yes all the way from Bexleyheath to Trafalgar square which didnt get us there till approx 1:45 then walked to Oxford circus in the dark in central London which me or my family will never do again, then waited for the N55 up to Woodford which didnt get us there till about half 3!

And it was my decision against my dads as I thought the night buses were good! I now wish we stayed in Bexleyheath
 

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You dont want to they take forever. Was at a party in Bexleyheath and staying in Woodford and missed the last train and tube by like 3 minutes so we decided to use the Night bus, yes all the way from Bexleyheath to Trafalgar square which didnt get us there till approx 1:45 then walked to Oxford circus in the dark in central London which me or my family will never do again, then waited for the N55 up to Woodford which didnt get us there till about half 3!

I wouldn't want to do that journey on the bus - day or night!

N21 Bexleyheath-Trafalgar Square - approx 11 miles, journey time approx 60 mins
N55 Oxford Circus-Woodford - approx 14 miles, journey time approx 75 mins

TBH, those journey times are pretty good, averaging about 11mph - you'd be surprised how many traffic jams you can find in London at 2am!
 

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N139 is a great night bus route. (Actually I suspect it's now just the 139, and more frequent than it was then) Quick, to the point (back streets, not overcrowded main roads, once it gets out of the centre), civilised crowd, and doesn't bother going beyond anywhere in Zone 2.

Used to be my local night bus route, some years ago. If only they were all as pleasant as that.

As for many London bus routes I've been on....more than I could count, or remember.

Just restricting myself to routes that don't exist anymore, but which used to run through Barking & Dagenham, and the numbers of which have been re-used in Central London, we have the 87, the 139 (not the one mentioned above), the 148 and (stretching the definition of Central London slightly for the replacement route) the 129 and the 225 as well...
 
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Apart from numerous short hops in central London, the service I've used the most is the 53. Starting at Plumstead, it runs to Whitehall, and as mentioned upthread, this 12 mile journey can easily take 60 minutes.

Originally it used to run to West Hampstead (!) and I have taken it all the way to Oxford Circus, which it ran to until around 10 years ago.

I used it when I stayed with my friend and money was tight, back when LT did £1 flat fares, making it a super-cheap way of getting to the centre. Can't say I really enjoyed it, sitting on a bus endlessly stopping is not my idea of fun.
 

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I have lost count of the number of bus routes in London I have used.
When in lived in Croydon I did not have a car so used public transport as it provided a frequent, cheap service. Here are some of the routes around Croydon at the time I was there although now the routes may have changed

12 Oxford Circus-South Croydon
54 Woolwich-Selsdon
64 Tooting-Addington
68 Chalk Farm-South Croydon
109 Westminster-Purley
130 Croydon-New Addington
154 Crystal Palace- Morden
157 Crystal Palace-Raynes Park
190 Thornton Heath-Coulsdon
197 Norwood Jn-Caterham
289 Beckenham Jn-Croydon Airport
 

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Blimy, off the top of my head although I'm sure there's more:


1; 4; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 13; 14; 15; 16; 17; 18; 19; 22; 23; 24; 25; 26; 27; 29; 30; 36; 38; 43; 46; 55; 68; 73; 74; 90; 91;100; 139; 168; 176; 205; 207; 211; 243; 285; 343; 345; 390; 423; 436; 482; 490; 507; 521; C1; H91; RV1; X68 and N9 from Trafalgar Square to Hounslow West
 

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This made me think of all the routes in London I've had a Routemaster on and I came up with:

2/2B/3/6/7/8/9/10/11/12/13/14/15/15B/19/22/23/27/36/36A/36B/38/40/53/63/73/88/94/98/104/137/139/159 & X15.

Living in London on the No.3 route for the first 22 years af my life and having an appreciation for RM's explains the list. As for all the routes travelled on that would probably be too long although all the routes that have terminated at Crystal Palace would be on the list.
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It also includes having ridden on the 3 and 159 when they were diverted via Clapham Common about 20 years ago owing to the bridge that takes the Atlantic lines over Brixton Road being replaced.
 

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The night buses and early start of day services Saturday nights/ Sunday in London are a godsend. It means I can get to work or board railtour charters at most stations in London at silly hours of the morning.

I quite often arrive at Waterloo on the last service from my home station, walk across waterloo Bridge and catch the N9 to heathrow for the bus on to Harrow and wealdstone or the first Railair coach to Reading.

The other route I often use is the 139 from Waterloo to West Hampstead usually after a walk up the Euston Road after a coffee and fester at Saint Pancras station.

My latest escapade found me on the first 259 at 0457 to Finsbury Park from Kings Cross York Way (unbelievable amount of people and traffic in that area at that time of the day - does the area still have a reputation!) followed by the number 4 to Waterloo for the train home (via the beer festival at the Spa Valley Railway [hic] - my first ride from Eridge to Tunbridge Wells since the 1970s).

A pity that other UK cities cannot copy London in providing similar levels of public transport where demand warrants. After all I do need somewhere to doss out of the rain without shelling out for hotels when I'm trying to get to railtour starting points and vice versa.
 

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Simple just post what London Bus routes you have been on!

239 (which I don't believe exists anymore)

I've got quite a list - might take up a bit of room. A few comments first!

239 was Clapham Junction - Victoria and is now part of the extended 170. I used to catch it to work.

I've been on the W10 which is/was something like hourly - must be the most infrequent London route of all?

Try the 347 - every 2 hours.

http://www.londonbusroutes.net/times/347.htm

Or the 931 - once a week.

http://www.notrog.plus.com/busroutes/900series/route931.htm

N139 is a great night bus route. (Actually I suspect it's now just the 139, and more frequent than it was then) Quick, to the point (back streets, not overcrowded main roads, once it gets out of the centre), civilised crowd, and doesn't bother going beyond anywhere in Zone 2.

Used to be my local night bus route, some years ago. If only they were all as pleasant as that.

It is now just the 139 (since 2004!). not terribly frequent though - just half hourly with no improvement on Fridays/Saturdays.

You dont want to they take forever. Was at a party in Bexleyheath and staying in Woodford and missed the last train and tube by like 3 minutes so we decided to use the Night bus, yes all the way from Bexleyheath to Trafalgar square which didnt get us there till approx 1:45 then walked to Oxford circus in the dark in central London which me or my family will never do again, then waited for the N55 up to Woodford which didnt get us there till about half 3!

And it was my decision against my dads as I thought the night buses were good! I now wish we stayed in Bexleyheath

It's pretty fast for a bus - that's quite a way. I have taken over two hours on a nightbus from Camden to Victoria (I could have walked quicker but I was in no hurry as I still had over an hour at Victoria Coach Station), so I snoozed at the back safe in the knowledge the worst that could happen was I'd end up in Pimlico and checked my watch every time I woke).

Now then - the routes I've been on at least part of (it does thin out a bit away from central London - once we get to 300 I put 50 on a line intead of 10...):

1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9,
10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19,
21, 22, 22A, 22B, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29,
30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39,
40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49,
50, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59,
60, 61, 63, 65, 67, 68, 69,
70, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 77A, 78,
80, 81, 82, 83, 84 (though not within London), 85, 86, 87, 88, 89,
90, 91, 92, 93, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99,
100, 101, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109,
111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 117,
120, 124, 129,
130, 131, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 139,
140, 141, 144, 145, 148, 149,
152, 154, 155, 158, 159,
160, 161, 162, 163, 168,
170, 171, 172, 176, 177, 179,
182, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189,
191, 192, 196, 198, 199,
200, 203, 205, 206, 207, 208,
210, 211, 212, 214, 215, 217,
220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 226, 228,
230, 232, 235, 236, 237, 239,
240, 242, 243,
250, 252, 253, 254, 257, 259,
260, 266,
271, 272, 274, 275, 276, 279,
285,
297, 298, 299,
300, 302, 316, 318, 326, 328, 329, 333, 341, 343, 344, 345, 349,
360, 363, 379, 381, 382, 388, 390, 391, 393, 394, 399,
414, 415, 432, 436, 440,
425, 453, 468, 474, 476, 490, 491,
507, 521,
607,
A10,
B12, B15, B16,
C1, C2, C10, C11,
D3, D6, D7, D8,
E2, E3, E8,
H2, H10, H22, H25, H26, H91, H98,
K1,
P4, P5, P13,
R68,
S2,
U3, U5,
W3, W4, W5, W11, W12, W15, X68

and many night routes...my memory's not quite so good on those <D

There's a few more I'm not certain about so I've not put them in.
 

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London Bus routes I've traveled on,

23
53
69
108
153
161
178
188
507
RV1
W15

Even though I've been into buses for many years I only made my first ever journey on a normal public service bus in London back in May.
 
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Have used the following services all of which were wheelchair accessible:-

In numerical order

25,31,59,94,109,115,205 and 253.
 

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Have used the following services all of which were wheelchair accessible:-

All London bus routes (TfL ones at any rate) should be wheelchair accessible except for the Routemaster runs on routes 9 and 15 (both routes do have frequent wheelchair accessible trips in addition to these).

Operators are audited and "fined" if they send out vehicles with faulty ramps.
 

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Slowly amassed over nearly two decades of bashing, school, work and leisure travel. The last time I touched some of these routes would have been on a step entrance bus, but I keep a mental note of each one. Deep breath..

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19
20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29
30, 31, 32, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38
40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49
50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59
60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 57, 68, 69
70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 77A (now 87), 78, 79
81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87 (Barking), 88, 89
91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99
100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109
111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 117, 118, 119
120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129 (former, not current)
130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135 (Ox Circ - Archway), 135 (current), 136, 137, 139
140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 147, 148, 149
150, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159
160, 161, 162, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169
170, 171, 171A (former), 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179
180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189
191, 192, 193, 194, 196, 197, 198, 199
200, 202, 204, 205, 206, 207, 208
210, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217
220, 221, 222, 225, 226, 227, 229
230, 231, 232, 234, 235, 236, 237, 238, 239 (former)
240, 241, 242, 243, 243A (former), 244, 245, 246, 247, 248, 249
250, 251, 252, 253, 254, 255, 256, 257, 258, 259
260, 261, 262, 263, 264, 266, 267, 268, 269
270, 271, 273, 274, 275, 276, 277, 278 (former), 279
280, 281, 282, 284, 285, 286, 287, 289
290, 292, 293, 294, 295, 296, 297, 298, 299
300, 302, 303, 305, 307, 308, 309
310/A/B (former), 311 (former), 312, 313, 314, 316, 317, 318, 319
320, 321, 322, 325, 326, 328, 329
330, 331, 332, 337, 339
340, 341, 343 (and P3 before it), 344, 345, 349
351 (Romford), 353, 358, 359 (Leaside & Thamesway incarnations, not Metrobus)
360, 363 (Elephant), 363 (former, Tottenham Hale - Hammond St), 364, 365, 366, 367, 368, 369 (former)
370, 371, 372, 373 (former), 374 (former), 376
380, 381, 382, 383, 384, 386, 387, 388
390, 391, 393, 395 (former, Surrey Quays), 396, 397
401, 402, 403, 405, 406, 407, 409
410, 412, 414, 417, 418
420, 422, 427, 428, 430, 432, 444, 450, 453, 455
460, 461, 462, 464, 465, 466, 467, 468, 469, 470, 472, 473, 474, 476
484, 486, 487, 491, 496
501 (former), 505 (Harlow - Walthamstow days), 505 (ex Red Arrow), 507, 521, 541 (Canning Town), 549, 551 (former)
603, 607, 610 (Enf), 614, 726 (former)

A10, B14, C1, C2, C3, C10, C11, C12 (former)
D3, D6, D7, D8, E3, E7, G1, H2, H3, H9, H30 (former), H32, H91
K1, K3, P3 (former), P4, P5, P13, R1, R2, R3, R8, S1
T123 (former), U2, U3, U4, U7
W2 (former), W3, W4, W5, W6, W7, W8, W9, W10, W11, W12, W15, W16, W17 (former), W19, X68

Night routes:
N1, N2, N3, N5, N6, N7, N8, N9, N10, N11, 12, N13, 14, N15, N16, N18, N19, N20, N21, N22, 23 (in N23 days), 24 (ditto), 25 (ditto), N26, N27 (ditto), N28, N29, N31, N35, N36 (as was), N38, N41, N43, N44, N47, N50 (former), N53 (ditto), N55, N58 (former), N68, N69 (former), N70 (former), N73, N74, N75 (former), N76, N77, N81 (& N89), N84 (former), N/85, N86, N87, N91, N94, N97, N98, N/101 (former), N/106, N/108, N134, N137, N/139, N/140, N159 (former), N171, N176, N/189, N207, N213, 220, N236, N243, 250, N253, N/266, N/274, N279, N/341, N343, N381.
 
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I've been on the 10 from King's Cross to Oxford Circus and the 73 in the return direction, and I've also (rather lazily) caught the 3 from Piccadilly Circus to Oxford Circus.

I've also caught the RV1 from the Tower Bridge area to the Transport Museum in Covent Garden, as well as a free shuttle bus from Wimbledon Tennis to Southfields tube station.
 

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106 from Stoke Newington to Finsbury Park. (Stoke Newington station was closed, so I had to find an alternative route back to civilisation!)

Oh, and something from Teddington area to Kensington Olympia, but that was 10 years ago and I remember very little about it.
 

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On a regular basis:

12, 40, 176, 185, 197, 363, P4, P13.

Others that I can remember:

8, 15, 21, 24, 29, 36, 37, 42, 53, 54, 63, 73, 99, 108, 122, 171, 172, 180, 181, 202, 208, 227, 261, 273, 321, 343, 352, 356, 358, 380, 381, 422, 436, 453, B12, C2, N63, P12.
 
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The London routes which I been on are 22, 36, 44, 77, 93, 118, 152, 155, 163, 164, 170, 219, 293, 355 plus some which I can't remember
 

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Far too many to remember, but include 2/3/7/8/9/10/11/13/15/18/23/25/29/36/61/65//68/82/83/86/current 87 & when it was 77A/121/211/217/607/726/A10/H91/N2/N3/N8/N9/N10/N11/N15/N23/N25/N29/N44/N47/N68/N73/N86/N91/N97/N159/N207 & when it was N89/N279/X68
 

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From what I can remember

2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 15, 15H, 17, 19, 23, 26, 28, 29, 30, 31, 34, 35, 36, 38, 39, 40, 43, 45, 47, 48, 49, 55, 56, 59, 67, 69, 73, 74, 76, 88, 93, 94, 97, 98, 115, 123, 137, 139, 141, 149, 153, 158, 159, 168, 171, 176, 188, 189, 199, 212, 214, 215, 220, 230, 242, 243, 253. 254, 270, 271, 275, 277, 279, 295, 341, 344, 357, 388, 390, 397, 444, C2, C10, D3, D7, W11, W16.

Most of those have been done in the last 4 years, apart from the Routemaster routes and Walthamstow/Chingford area routes which were done much earlier, when I was very young indeed!
 
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You dont want to they take forever. Was at a party in Bexleyheath and staying in Woodford and missed the last train and tube by like 3 minutes so we decided to use the Night bus, yes all the way from Bexleyheath to Trafalgar square which didnt get us there till approx 1:45 then walked to Oxford circus in the dark in central London which me or my family will never do again, then waited for the N55 up to Woodford which didnt get us there till about half 3!

And it was my decision against my dads as I thought the night buses were good! I now wish we stayed in Bexleyheath

I wouldn't want to do that journey on the bus - day or night!

N21 Bexleyheath-Trafalgar Square - approx 11 miles, journey time approx 60 mins
N55 Oxford Circus-Woodford - approx 14 miles, journey time approx 75 mins

TBH, those journey times are pretty good, averaging about 11mph - you'd be surprised how many traffic jams you can find in London at 2am!

Come to think of it it's a journey i would make if i was in London night or day, but wouldn't want to do that journey 5 days a week both ways. As for the speed, night bus drivers are like Lewis Hamilton in an F1 race:D, surprising how far you can go on the night route in London compared with the equivalent day route.

Quite weird though waiting for a night bus in one of the quieter stops hardly a sound, next thing you hear the roar of the bus engine as the bus approaches.:)
 

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some 45 years ago, London Transport consisted of the red central area and green country areas, An early childhood memory was weekday boarding school in Watford, I got to and from it by route 306 (Garston - New Barnet). Green buses north had route numbers in the 300 series, and south 400 upwards. then there were the Green Line coaches in the 700 series, and really before my time, London's trolleybuses were in the 500 & 600 series.

I travelled on and photographed London's buses extensiviely, during the 70's & 80's when the RT, RF, & RM classes were being replaced, but all was not plain sailing, as newer buses, to take advantage of Bus grants proved inadequate and RT and RF's continued. Just when london country (as the country buses were now known, part of the NBC network) withdrew its last RT's, two were overhauled, repainted (in NBC light green) and put to work on 403 express (Croydon - Chelsham).

during 1976/77 shortage in the central area meant a reprieve for some Rt's which returned to garages which had dispensed with them, routes such as the 29, officially RM, could see odd RT's from 3 different garages ( AD, HT & WN). In fact, when AD's last RT came out of service, the bus had a last fling, as it made an unscheduled round trip on the 29 to Victoria and back

Most routemasters taken over by London Country found their way back to the Central fleet, the long coaches (RCL's) took over what was once the trolleybus route to Waltham Cross - 279 & 279A
 
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