Post by 10121ddo on Sept 4, 2019 12:27:52 GMT
Aug 12, 2017 11:07:44 GMT @rgd976 said:
I remember first working out the significance of running numbers when as a child it dawned on me the same buses worked in a cycle all day on my old local route the 270 in Hampton. Being OCD I examined the timetables of all the FW routes then and mapped out when the buses left and returned to the garage. The only route I never got to grips with was the cursed 33 as the numbers didn't run in sequence due to half service terminating at Hammersmith. No use if you spotted a certain favourite bus going past and wanted to plan to intercept it somewhere later on.
For those aged under 20 , this was what life was like pre LVF !!
Sad that still remember FW 132 was last bus out MonFri & 133 on Saturdays.
But then, when the E400s arrived, my number OCD was more than satisfied as running numbers were T201-212 (then 213 was added), and the fleets were 10113-10123. The crossover of the fleet numbers 113-116 being used by both DX and T seemed very uncanny, given my favourite number growing up was 113.... and that I could continue catching it on my daily schools journeys.
