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Old January 26th 16, 08:04 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Mark Bestley[_2_] Mark Bestley[_2_] is offline
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Default Why Green Line routes numbers start with 700

Guy Gorton wrote:

On Tue, 26 Jan 2016 14:14:42 +0000, Bryan Morris
wrote:

In message , Rob
writes
Are there any modern routes that serve Victoria and areas just outside
London that don't start with a 7?

Rob


You have to distinguish between Green Line (Centre of London to outside)
and London Country Buses (also painted green & which took over Green
Line in 1986)

Not all Green Line served Victoria


They certainly did not! Our services out in Bucks were 709, 710 and
711, all off which went through central London to various destinations
in Surrey. In the 1950s we used them regularly from the
Uxbridge/Hillingdon area.. The trolley buses along the Uxbridge Road
were numbered 607. There is a bus route 207 to this day.

And the orbial ones like the 725,726 (one of the few still going now
x26) roughly
Gravsend-Dartford-Bromley-Croydon-Sutton-Kingston-Heathrow-Windsor

727 Crawley-West London-Luton (later 747 Gatwick-Heathrow)

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Mark