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Post by wivenswold on Dec 24, 2015 14:44:16 GMT
Seasons greetings one and all.
As an ex-railwayman the Christmas Eve shutdown on National Rail is well known to me, but how does it work on London Buses?
Does a normal-ish Saturday service run until the end of it's normal advertised service around 1-2am or is it curtailed earlier? I know night buses don't venture out tonight but I was thinking that there's still probably quite a few people out in town until the early hours tonight.
I'd love to hear what happens from those who usually work the buses over Christmas.
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Post by Red Dragon on Dec 24, 2015 16:03:35 GMT
Seasons greetings one and all. As an ex-railwayman the Christmas Eve shutdown on National Rail is well known to me, but how does it work on London Buses? Does a normal-ish Saturday service run until the end of it's normal advertised service around 1-2am or is it curtailed earlier? I know night buses don't venture out tonight but I was thinking that there's still probably quite a few people out in town until the early hours tonight. I'd love to hear what happens from those who usually work the buses over Christmas. Day routes run a Saturday service, then finish at their normal time (usually around midnight). 24-hour routes will wind up at around midnight. Night services won't be started.
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Post by snoggle on Dec 24, 2015 17:42:47 GMT
From looking at LVF last year I recall day routes / 24 hour routes had buses come off between 0000 and 0100. There might have a few stragglers after that but that's it until 0600 or so on Boxing Day. Obviously there are no night buses.
From my limited wanderings today the roads seemed pretty quiet and the buses were not overloaded unless there'd been a gap in the service from some reason.
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Post by Paul on Dec 24, 2015 17:50:29 GMT
Seasons greetings one and all. As an ex-railwayman the Christmas Eve shutdown on National Rail is well known to me, but how does it work on London Buses? Does a normal-ish Saturday service run until the end of it's normal advertised service around 1-2am or is it curtailed earlier? I know night buses don't venture out tonight but I was thinking that there's still probably quite a few people out in town until the early hours tonight. I'd love to hear what happens from those who usually work the buses over Christmas. Day routes run a Saturday service, then finish at their normal time (usually around midnight). 24-hour routes will wind up at around midnight. Night services won't be started. I've done last bus on the 208s on Christmas Eve before now getting into Orpington at about 0140: so yeah daytime routes just finish up at their normal time I would imagine 24 hour routes, rather than wind down around midnight, would simply work until the internal changeover from day to night ie when ticket machines and iBus are programmed with the N prefix. Having never worked a 24 hour route I can't be sure but this may mean gaps in service as 'night' services aren't running but 'day' services are still out
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Post by wivenswold on Dec 24, 2015 18:52:05 GMT
Thanks for that. I'd love to be in London one Christmas, see what it looks like without buses.
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Post by ServerKing on Dec 24, 2015 19:01:09 GMT
From looking at LVF last year I recall day routes / 24 hour routes had buses come off between 0000 and 0100. There might have a few stragglers after that but that's it until 0600 or so on Boxing Day. Obviously there are no night buses. From my limited wanderings today the roads seemed pretty quiet and the buses were not overloaded unless there'd been a gap in the service from some reason. The Express put 2 and 2 together... ... and as usual got 5
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