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[email protected] · May 11th 14, 06:37 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article ,
(DRH) wrote:

The photo shows one of the three Thames Trader-based buses used by
the Dartford Tunnel Joint Committee to convey cyclists and their
mounts through the tunnel. This was a free on-demand service and
there were special docking stations at each end of the tunnel (then
single bore). The buses were operated and maintained by LT but owned
by the DTJC (Essex & Kent CCs).

Estimates of the number of cyclists using the tunnel (pre-M25 of
course) were hopelessly optimistic and the buses saw little use. They
were withdrawn and cycles henceforth carried on trailers pulled by
the Land-Rovers normally used to escort fuel tankers through the
tunnel.

I believe one of the Thames buses (TT-class) is owned/preserved by a
certain Managing Director - Surface Transport, TfL.

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Another short-lived service was the LT Country Area route 399
(Dartford-Grays). Numbering this obviously caused head-scratching at
55 Broadway in view of the convention that country routes north of
the river were (mostly) numbered in the 3xx series and south of the
river in the 4xx series.

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The longest-lived and best known route through the tunnel was Dr
Heffernan's Thames Weald service between Romford and Sevenoaks (and
variations).

Thanks for enlightening us. I wondered what happened to the cycle service.

--
Colin Rosenstiel