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Post by MetrolineGA1511 on Mar 17, 2018 23:16:03 GMT
Your mention of route 370 has reminded me of something. By 1982/83, all buses in Romford leaving Greater London into Essex were run by London Country or Eastern National, with all LT buses serving Romford confined to Greater London. Now, all bus routes in Romford are TfL-controlled including cross-boundary services. From memory, so may not be 100%, but in 1970s there were two red bus routes to Brentwood, the 247 and the 287(?) both RT operated, the 175 to Passingford Bridge, which I believe had gone further out still at one stage, maybe Chipping Ongar, and the opo 250 to Epping Town, one of the first Central opo routes, RF operated. The Green Line 721 was super-frequent on the Romford-Brentwood corridor and the 370 terminated at Tilbury Ferry, the Lakeside Shopping Centre having not yet been thought of! Certainly the 247 to Brentwood I remember. Such routes were replaced by NBC (EN or LCBS) by 1982. IIRC these connections were "National -ised" by 1982. I got 1983 from the opo conversions of routes 87, 174 & 175.
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Post by snowman on May 4, 2018 11:02:46 GMT
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Post by redexpress on May 4, 2018 12:51:29 GMT
Very nice! You can tell they're Routemaster fans... Although I have to point out that Southern Transit are not Southdown, even if they operate in the old Southdown area.
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