View Single Post
  #10   Report Post  
Old January 26th 16, 10:36 PM posted to uk.transport.london
[email protected] rosenstiel@cix.compulink.co.uk is offline
external usenet poster
 
First recorded activity at LondonBanter: Sep 2008
Posts: 4,877
Default Why Green Line routes numbers start with 700

In article ,
(Mark Bestley) wrote:

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?

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)


No longer Green Line those two but still part of the 7x7 series of National
Express airport coaches, several of which get to Cambridge.

--
Colin Rosenstiel