On 11 Feb 2004, Proctor46 wrote:

Has there ever been talk about a BusTube...a night Bus running above
tube lines in Central London only stoping a tube stations... I know
there has been talk about running the Victoria Line all night
............

And suburban NR lines, while we're at it!

One of my London transport war stories is getting to Liverpool Street on
the last tube, just after the last train home had gone, and after the
switchover into night buses. There are virtually no night buses from
Liverpool Street (i suppose because it's mostly a commuter station, and
the places its suburban links serve have good night buses from the middle
of town), so i ended up waiting about a million years for one which went
in vaguely the right direction, and from which i could change onto one
that went home (i should have walked to Whitechapel, from where there's a
good bus, but i didn't think of that). Another such story concerns getting
home from Wallington (which is vaguely in the direction of Croydon, in
case you inexplicably haven't heard of it) on a sunday night - it took two
trains and a spacetram to get to Blackfriars, and then a hundred-mile trek
and a million-year wait in the freezing cold to get a bus vaguely in the
right direction (and if i'd left a bit earlier, it could have been bus
to Morden, Northern Line to town, night bus all the way home).

Anyway, my point is that if there was a night bus route covering the
suburban West Anglia Line in the former case, or the District in the
latter, i would have been sorted.

tom

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