"Basil Jet" wrote in message
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On 2016\01\29 17:03, tim..... wrote:

"Offramp" wrote in message
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I was watching an episode of Hancock's Half Hour today. What a great
series that was! Hancock was so much better when he got rid of
everyone excpet Sid James.

In this episode, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cau5MRu804Y, Sid
falls in love with a conductress on the 93 bus. Hancock lives at East
Cheam and the bus terminates at Epsom Station. It is still running on
a similar route.

The 93 ran from Putney Bridge to Epsom via North Cheam all the time
whilst I was a kid, It seems to have been split some time in the 90s
into overlapping: 93 Putney to N Cheam (where 1 out of 2 of the previous
93s would have turned anyway) and 293 Morden to Epsom, both running down
the main road (A24 IIRC).

The split happened in 1970.

It seems that you are right.

I am surprised cos I can only ever remember that the 93 went to Epsom and I
was still a kid in 70, and had regular contact with the area up until 1990.

I suspect that the split was merely a formal divorce of a route which had
operated as two overlapping sections long before that, and so all or most
of the 93 buses in Putney will have had North Cheam as the destination
back in Hancock's day.

It is true that most of the outbound buses turned at N Cheam, but I don't
think that it ran as a split route.

All the inbound buses arriving at Morden went to Putney, I don't recall ever
catching one in that direction that terminated anywhere else (and this would
have been the direction that I usually travelled)

tim



tim