Who wants to go from Hampstead Heath to Pimlico at that time of night?
George Michael???
My quest to travel on every London bus route
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George Michael???
PacificOcean
Unhinged User
hipipol
Peckham Wry
*fumes*
So an entire night bus route is for the sole purpose of degenerates.
I think the night buses are pretty safe re George as they dont have public toilets onboard
MrSki
Who am I to say you're wrong
I can remember when this was my lifeline (N253 & all that) from Cambridge Heath Road to Camden in the mid to late eighties. If my memory serves me correctly, it ran from Aldgate East to Warren Street? maybe Trafalgar Square.
It was a Zone 2 bus!!! When there were zonings on the buses, alot of buses skirted the central zone & you could go from Camden to Bethnal Green for 30p (even after fares fare)
The 106 was good as well. (as far as Finsbury Park)
Mind you in those days you could smoke on the bus & I can remember a good few pleasant trips on the back of the upper deck where a shared smoke kept it all calm.
I am familiar with most of the insides of the garages on both these routes.
They even had my landline (for younger viewers, landline was not yet a term cos that was the only type.) at Cambridge Heath Road cos I was such a regular.
I presume, from the times I have awoken in a strange bus garage that their policy is to let you wake up naturally. I have often woken on a bus in the garage with the doors left open. Wandering out when you hope it is all a dream.
I must add that this was all a long time in the past & I am not the pissed bloke at the back of a late No 59 pretending to read a book & I don't snore.
Yes I did want to go to Steatham Hill (Telford Avenue) when I live off Brixton Road. Who wouldn't.
It'll probably take you longer to work out which stations you can visit, than to actually do the journey
cache% cat London_Underground.csv | sed s/^V^M//g | sed s/Tube-//g | awk -F "," '{ print $3 }' | grep -iv \[mackerl\]
"St. John's Wood"
interesting
Back on Topic (edit): Cool blog - good luck
I would love to have a go at this if I had the time!
I think the 159 is just about my favourite route, I got one up to Marble Arch the morning the final Routemaster set off, just so I could get on it and come all the way back to Brixton Garage. There were people taking photos the entire length of the journey, and schoolkids standing outside waving Union Jacks as we went past.
The G1 has to be the worst bus route I know. Somewhere round the back of Tooting it trundles into a big field, then stops for about five minutes, and people come walking into this field to get on the bus, then it goes back onto the road again. Why? Also, I'm sure it actually loops back on itself a few times.
I'm currently planning some bus route pub crawls.
I think the 159 is just about my favourite route, I got one up to Marble Arch the morning the final Routemaster set off, just so I could get on it and come all the way back to Brixton Garage. There were people taking photos the entire length of the journey, and schoolkids standing outside waving Union Jacks as we went past.
The G1 has to be the worst bus route I know. Somewhere round the back of Tooting it trundles into a big field, then stops for about five minutes, and people come walking into this field to get on the bus, then it goes back onto the road again. Why? Also, I'm sure it actually loops back on itself a few times.
I'm currently planning some bus route pub crawls.
PacificOcean
Unhinged User
The G1 is a bizzare route. I got it from Tooting to Wandsworth, thinking it would be a short bus ride.
The bus then did a victory lap round the hospital in Tooting, then a tour of a golf course's car park (seriously!), and then up and down every single back street known to man between Tooting and Wandsworth.
It took hours
fractionMan
Custom Title
That reminds me, I must update my blog.
http://infiniteset.blogspot.com/
I think my pointless documenting may take a little longer
http://infiniteset.blogspot.com/
I think my pointless documenting may take a little longer
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
oh yeah
anyway, thanks to the blog, I now know that New Malden holds the largest concentration of South Koreans outside South Korea
You've only just found that out? Don't you watch football then?
Welcome OP. Are you doing the buses in numerical order?
mango5
Endeavour era
Sounds like an opportunity for a Workshy "On the buses" special! Nice project
Sometimes I get the 196 from Elephant to Tulse Hill, just for a change. But I always regret it because it takes an hour to do a journey that normally takes 30 minutes. Suppose it might be useful for some though.
The G1 is a bizzare route. I got it from Tooting to Wandsworth, thinking it would be a short bus ride.
The bus then did a victory lap round the hospital in Tooting, then a tour of a golf course's car park (seriously!), and then up and down every single back street known to man between Tooting and Wandsworth.
It took hours
Haha this is exactly what I mean. Got it from Wimbledon Stadium to Battersea once, man did I regret that. The victory lap around the hospital was repeated in a little estate somewhere as well.
hoverdonkey
New Member
So, would it be irresponsible of me to go into town today and add to the congestion, or do I stick to some south London routes?
I think you owe it to your public to get in there and report back on the state of London Buses in a crisis situation
No 59
Since Eurostar opened in St Pancras I can get home late at night (last bus from King's Cross 1.01am
Much preferable to the Victoria line. The added bonus is seeing Big Ben (St Stephens tower...) through the centre of the London Eye lit in various colours, whilst going over Waterloo Bridge.
The view the other way is not bad either.
This (though it is annoying that the 45 and 59 don't share stops in King's cross).
This is indeed an excellent endeavour. My current new favourite route is the 344 - liverpool st to vauxhall in super fast time, with a couple of handy stops southwark way.
but from a quick look at your blog, it looks like you're not doing the lettered buses as well, which is a shame - you've really not experienced the full joy, pain and downright frustration of london buses until you've taken the P4
The RV1 is also excellent
And, for bizarre routes, the 345 is pretty good - south kensington to peckham via pretty much everywhere in south london.
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