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Post by MetrolineGA1511 on Sept 29, 2024 5:53:29 GMT
I saw route K5 today, and my journey was due to terminate at Ham. I'm sure this is the only route whose terminus matches the name of a food. Yum! Bluewater for 96, 428, 492? Blue water could be a drink as 2 words, but yes the theme is similar, even if Ham is the only such food to qualify. |
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Post by tbmlondon on Oct 2, 2024 18:38:58 GMT
The 208 terminates on the A208 (Perry Hall Road).
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Post by kmkcheng on Oct 2, 2024 18:59:14 GMT
The 208 terminates on the A208 (Perry Hall Road). I think that part of Perry Hall Road is the A223, not the A208 |
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Post by ronnie on Oct 2, 2024 19:19:24 GMT
The 208 terminates on the A208 (Perry Hall Road). Better example is 21 finishing on the A21 |
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Post by DT 11 on Oct 2, 2024 19:23:01 GMT
The 208 terminates on the A208 (Perry Hall Road). Better example is 21 finishing on the A21 That one is brilliant! |
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Post by londonbuses on Oct 2, 2024 19:24:08 GMT
The 208 terminates on the A208 (Perry Hall Road). Better example is 21 finishing on the A21 219 terminates on the A219 too (Wimbledon). |
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Post by southlondon413 on Oct 2, 2024 20:27:27 GMT
Better example is 21 finishing on the A21 219 terminates on the A219 too (Wimbledon). Technically it doesn’t as the official last stop is Francis Grove, which is off the A219. |
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Post by DE20106 on Oct 2, 2024 20:56:36 GMT
In all seriousness are they any bus routes which have been numbered after the major roads they run down/terminate at? Wonder if it’s ever been a rationale for TfL/LT picking a particular number for a route
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Post by LondonExplorer316 on Oct 2, 2024 21:05:33 GMT
Better example is 21 finishing on the A21 219 terminates on the A219 too (Wimbledon). K3 also finishes just off the A3 in Roehampton |
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Post by busoccultation on Oct 2, 2024 21:14:21 GMT
In all seriousness are they any bus routes which have been numbered after the major roads they run down/terminate at? Wonder if it’s ever been a rationale for TfL/LT picking a particular number for a route X38 between Derby & Burton Upon Trent that runs down non stop along the A38 and until last year there was another X38 that ran along the A38 between Exeter & Plymouth. |
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Post by kmkcheng on Oct 2, 2024 22:35:17 GMT
In all seriousness are they any bus routes which have been numbered after the major roads they run down/terminate at? Wonder if it’s ever been a rationale for TfL/LT picking a particular number for a route A few years ago, Carousel had the A40 that ran on the A40 between High Wycombe and Denham on its way to Heathrow. It is now numbered the 102. |
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Post by passingfordbridgeboy on Oct 3, 2024 7:32:20 GMT
Always wondered if the 66 , a route with the majority of it along a straight dual carriageway might have been numbered with the famous American route 66 in mind.
Route 99 in both directions serves Slade Green Station twice, serving each side of the station. Nothing particularly unusual there, but between the two station stops are four intermediate stops,in both directions. If you were to walk between the two station stops the way the bus goes, that's a fair walk, twenty minutes probably. Any other route with more intermediate stops between serving a station twice on one journey?
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Post by borneobus on Oct 3, 2024 7:56:35 GMT
Always wondered if the 66 , a route with the majority of it along a straight dual carriageway might have been numbered with the famous American route 66 in mind. It's a nice thought but having checked it's a 'no', London Transport's Route 66 dates back to at least 1934 (Leytonstone -> Gidea Park) The song as in "Now you go through Saint Louis / And Joplin, Missouri / And Oklahoma City looks so pretty" was composed in 1946. Also 'Trivial but Unique" is that Billy Bragg recorded an 'Essex A13" version of "Get Your Kicks on Route 66" "It starts down in Wapping / There ain't no stopping / By-pass Barking and straight through Dagenham / Down to Grays Thurrock / And rather near Basildon / Pitsea, Thundersley, Hadleigh, Leigh-On-Sea, Chalkwell, Prittlewell / Southend's the end"www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO_CT3mcKrM |
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Post by redexpress on Oct 3, 2024 8:01:03 GMT
In all seriousness are they any bus routes which have been numbered after the major roads they run down/terminate at? Wonder if it’s ever been a rationale for TfL/LT picking a particular number for a route When the N1 (today's N20) and N5 were introduced the numbers were said to be inspired by the A1 and A5 roads. It's a tenuous connection - the N5 only covers a small bit of the A5, unlike the N16/N32 which spends most of its time on the A5! Similarly the old N92 covered more of the A1 than the N1/N20 do. But as the new routes didn't have a daytime counterpart there was nothing else to go on.
The N1 was renumbered N20 when the N1 number was needed for a new night route based on the 1. This time the inspiration for the new number was the N20 postal area, which was the outermost London postal area served by the route.
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Post by borneobus on Oct 3, 2024 8:02:11 GMT
The 381 contains three bus stops that include the name of a country:
Canada Water Bus Station
Russia Dock Road
Jamaica Road / Abbey Street
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