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[email protected] · June 1st 16, 08:19 AM posted to uk.transport.london

On Tue, 31 May 2016 21:19:41 +0100
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 13:31:56
on Tue, 31 May 2016, remarked:
A while ago I got on a bus which went to Mill Hill East. It went up and
up and up and up.

But which bus route has the highest vertical climb?

The road from Anerley to Crystal Palace Parade is one of the
steepest.

I used to often take the 249, which includes the steep climb past the
Rookery, between Streatham and Crown Point. Some buses strain a bit
going up that.

Dog Kennel Hill was famous for the special arrangements for the trams to
cope with the steep gradient. But there seem to be no special arrangements
since the trams were replaced by buses.

The steepest hills I've seen trams operating on are in Lisbon. Some of
them are simply amazing.

There was a tram in Italy - might have been Genoa, too lazy to google - that
I think Portilo went on that required a push up a hill by a cable driven
donkey beause it was so steep.

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Spud