Bus numbering
Dave Arquati wrote:
Stu wrote:
Iain wrote:
"Orienteer" wrote in
k:
There used to be, but no longer!
Central bus routes were 1 - 199, single deck routes 200-299, country
buses north of the Thames 300-399, south 400-499, trolleybuses
500-699, Greenline routes 700 - 799.
What about the W-prefixed buses? I've variously heard that the W stands
for Walthamstow, Woodford, and even West (which seems unlikely seeing as
they're mostly based around northeast London).
Is there any official reason why (a) the W prefix was brought in, and
(b) why they still use it?
Iain
a) Think it is based on the bus garage, so you get U buses around
Uxbridge and H buses around Hounslow.
There's also H around Harrow and Hampstead, and E for Ealing, C for
Chelsea-ish, P for Peckham, K for Kingston, D for Docklands, B for
Bexleyheath, R for Orrrrpington or Richmond, S for Sutton or Stratford
etc...
It might make the routes easier to identify in places like Ealing, where
there are quite a lot of these E-routes; whenever you're outside Ealing,
you know that E-routes go there. That doesn't really work for some of
the others though (like C).
I thought C was for Camden.
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