Greetings.

Is there any scheme to how London bus routes are numbered?

Regards,
Tristan

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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.

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Greetings.

Is there any scheme to how London bus routes are numbered?

Regards,
Tristan

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"Orienteer" wrote in
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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

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.

b) Why not?

Have a look at http://www.londonbusroutes.net/routes.htm

Stu

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).

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Dave Arquati
Imperial College, SW7
www.alwaystouchout.com - Transport projects in London

On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 22:00:23 +0100, Dave Arquati wrote:

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).

Not all the E-routes go to Ealing Broadway though (or even
particularly near it).

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.

Dave Arquati wrote:
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...

A is for Airport?
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gordon

R for Orrrrpington.


Roundabout, actually.

Ian

Dave Arquati wrote:

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).

There is a stop in Ruislip High Street which is served by the E7, H13
and U1 routes. Can anyone beat three different prefixes at one bus stop?


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John Ray