On 27 July, 08:00, plcd1 wrote:
On Jul 27, 12:37*am, "Basil Jet"





wrote:
Is the 102 the only route which is described as being a 24-hour bus, but in
reality has different termini for day and night (Brent Cross in the day,
Golders Green in the small hours)?

Is the N29 the only bus where half of the buses stop short (on Friday and
Saturday nights, half the buses terminate at Wood Green)?

BTW, I am mildly amused by the timetables for the N29 which tell you in big
letters that there is a bus ever 6-8 minutes, with a footnote saying that
the following buses only go to Wood Green, giving the exact times of the 50%
which are short journeys... no-one realised that giving the exact times of
the long journeys might be more useful than giving the exact times of the
short ones... or just giving the times of all the buses, utilizing the fact
that the timetable repeats every hour anyway. As usual with TfL information,
a one-size-fits-all policy is applied to everything, with little care to
special cases.

Not 100% certain about the 102 but it might be the only example like
that. However there are other examples where night versions are much
longer than day examples - N41 and N73 are two local to me. *The 271
is also odd in that M-F daytime it terminates at Finsbury Square
whereas at night and at weekends it runs to Liverpool Street Station.

The N29 is far from unique in having differential termini - many night
routes have such a pattern - N9, N159, N3, N8, N18 etc.




The N89 is one of the oddest routes, because while many routes have to
do a direct trip from Trafalgar Square to where they join their normal
route, eg the N47 and N21 at London Bridge, the N89 has to find an
route all the way to Lewisham, and it's nothing like the route of any
day bus.