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Post by londonboy71 on Jan 18, 2020 14:47:05 GMT
Route 18 Aldenham Works to London Bridge 1941 -1970. The Aldenham service was rush hours only ( remember them??) and never went further south than Wembley Emoire Pool. RTs from Stonebridge Proper buses. Red Rover Ticket 73 Stoke Newington to Euston 18 to Edgware 621 to Finsbury Park 106 back home . + fish and chip lunch change from 10 bob . Happy days
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Post by danorak on Jan 18, 2020 17:34:30 GMT
An extension to Centennial Park would return London buses to the site of the famous Aldenham Bus Overhaul Works. Depends if it actually enters Centennial Park or terminates at the roundabout outside. I feel it should enter Centennial Park as it would give the workers there a bus service rather than them having to walk out to Elstree Hill to catch a 107 Yes, you could easily see it using the northbound layby at the roundabout to stand. If that were the case, it would seem more sensible to run into the hospital/leisure centre site. However, if it did go onto Centennial Park itself, there's a nice angle there that could be used to drum up a bit of local publicity for the change - a few posed photos for use in the local press etc and a bit of covering blurb.
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Post by busaholic on Jan 18, 2020 19:37:14 GMT
Route 18 Aldenham Works to London Bridge 1941 -1970. The Aldenham service was rush hours only ( remember them??) and never went further south than Wembley Emoire Pool. RTs from Stonebridge Proper buses. Red Rover Ticket 73 Stoke Newington to Euston 18 to Edgware 621 to Finsbury Park 106 back home . + fish and chip lunch change from 10 bob . Happy days Umm - the memory can play tricks! The 18s to Edgware were only ever on a Sunday from Euston Road for a comparatively short period, though you could change buses, admittedly, but the trolleybus 621 (and 521 for that matter) never got further west than North Finchley. Even the replacement 221 bus took a couple of years to replace the 125 and 240A.
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Post by londonboy71 on Jan 19, 2020 12:50:51 GMT
It was 57 58 years ago !! But you get the point you could go South Croydon to Uxbridge on only 2 buses 12 to Shepherds Bush then 607 . I used to do Stoke Newington to Hounslow on Sundays Route 73. As Mary Hopkin sang "Those wre the days my friend we thought they'd never end "but they did.
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Post by galwhv69 on Jan 19, 2020 12:52:43 GMT
It was 57 58 years ago !! But you get the point you could go South Croydon to Uxbridge on only 2 buses 12 to Shepherds Bush then 607 . I used to do Stoke Newington to Hounslow on Sundays Route 73. As Mary Hopkin sang "Those wre the days my friend we thought they'd never end "but they did. Walk to West Croydon, catch an X26 to Heathrow then an A10 to Uxbridge
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Post by abellion on Jan 19, 2020 15:42:26 GMT
It was 57 58 years ago !! But you get the point you could go South Croydon to Uxbridge on only 2 buses 12 to Shepherds Bush then 607 . I used to do Stoke Newington to Hounslow on Sundays Route 73. As Mary Hopkin sang "Those wre the days my friend we thought they'd never end "but they did. Walk to West Croydon, catch an X26 to Heathrow then an A10 to Uxbridge Sounds like it would also pretty much take the same amount of time too
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Post by greenboy on Jan 19, 2020 15:55:34 GMT
It was 57 58 years ago !! But you get the point you could go South Croydon to Uxbridge on only 2 buses 12 to Shepherds Bush then 607 . I used to do Stoke Newington to Hounslow on Sundays Route 73. As Mary Hopkin sang "Those wre the days my friend we thought they'd never end "but they did. It wasn't quite that long ago the 12 was withdrawn from Croydon in 1972. In the 60s you could also do South Croydon to Hendon Central on Sunday on the 133.
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Post by riverside on Jan 19, 2020 18:05:20 GMT
Route 18 Aldenham Works to London Bridge 1941 -1970. The Aldenham service was rush hours only ( remember them??) and never went further south than Wembley Emoire Pool. RTs from Stonebridge Proper buses. Red Rover Ticket 73 Stoke Newington to Euston 18 to Edgware 621 to Finsbury Park 106 back home . + fish and chip lunch change from 10 bob . Happy days As Stonebridge was a trolleybus depot it was never a major operator of RTs. Alperton would have been operating the Aldenham journeys and would have had an RT allocation pre 1962. Stonebridge gained a major allocation on the 18 as part of the trolleybus replacement programme at the start of January 1962 with a Routemaster allocation. Simultaneously they gained some RTs when they took over the 112. There might have been an odd occasion when a Stonebridge RT got onto the 18, but not often. I have never seen photographic evidence although I have seen a photo of a SE RT substituting for an RM on the 266. On Saturdays AC had a RTL/RTW allocation on the route.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2020 18:06:37 GMT
Depends if it actually enters Centennial Park or terminates at the roundabout outside. I feel it should enter Centennial Park as it would give the workers there a bus service rather than them having to walk out to Elstree Hill to catch a 107 Yes, you could easily see it using the northbound layby at the roundabout to stand. If that were the case, it would seem more sensible to run into the hospital/leisure centre site. However, if it did go onto Centennial Park itself, there's a nice angle there that could be used to drum up a bit of local publicity for the change - a few posed photos for use in the local press etc and a bit of covering blurb. The route will not be entering the hospital grounds and the current thinking is to extend the route to the roundabout only, not into Centennial Park itself. The details are still being finalised before consultation however, so this may change. I'll keep an eye on the proposals.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2020 18:04:10 GMT
New route (N)210 - proposed operation from Brent Cross Shopping Centre/Golders Green Station to Moorgate, Finsbury Square.
Route 328 - possible extension to Battersea Bridge/Battersea Park Road in connection with the Northern Line extension bus enhancements.
Please note these changes have not yet been finalised, so information may not be 100% accurate.
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Post by abc on Jan 21, 2020 18:35:08 GMT
Route 328 - possible extension to Battersea Bridge/Battersea Park Road in connection with the Northern Line extension bus enhancements. Please note these changes have not yet been finalised, so information may not be 100% accurate. Battersea Park Road or Battersea Park Station?
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Post by vjaska on Jan 21, 2020 19:06:24 GMT
New route (N)210 - proposed operation from Brent Cross Shopping Centre/Golders Green Station to Moorgate, Finsbury Square. Route 328 - possible extension to Battersea Bridge/Battersea Park Road in connection with the Northern Line extension bus enhancements. Please note these changes have not yet been finalised, so information may not be 100% accurate. That 328 extension would make it quite lengthy and TBH, there isn’t any need for it.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2020 19:24:50 GMT
Route 328 - possible extension to Battersea Bridge/Battersea Park Road in connection with the Northern Line extension bus enhancements. Please note these changes have not yet been finalised, so information may not be 100% accurate. Battersea Park Road or Battersea Park Station? I'm unsure, the proposals are in their early stages at the minute. What I can realistically see happening is Battersea, Latchmere Road (there is a stand already for 2 buses I believe). Alternatively, Battersea Bridge, South Side could work but there wouldn't be much of a benefit of having that as the extended terminus, plus it is already occupied by route 19.
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Post by southlondonbus on Jan 21, 2020 19:41:17 GMT
N210 looks like a cover of the 210 and 271. I wonder if the reason for not simply extending the N271 to Brent X is that it will follow a different route to Moorgate as after all tfl did say useage if the N271 was low.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2020 19:46:02 GMT
New route (N)210 - proposed operation from Brent Cross Shopping Centre/Golders Green Station to Moorgate, Finsbury Square. Route 328 - possible extension to Battersea Bridge/Battersea Park Road in connection with the Northern Line extension bus enhancements. Please note these changes have not yet been finalised, so information may not be 100% accurate. That 328 extension would make it quite lengthy and TBH, there isn’t any need for it. Indeed it would, adding around 1.3 miles to the existing route. That's approximately the same as a cut down from Golders Green to West Hampstead, which is possible now that the 139 doesn't terminate there... I shall say no more
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