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Bus route numbering
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 13:13:00 GMT, Helen Deborah Vecht
wrote: I *think* it has something to do with where these buses run. U* buses mostly run around the Uxbridge area H* buses mostly cover Harrow (except H1, H2 & H3, which go round Hampstead Garden Suburb) E* buses have an Ealing connection PR* run around Park Royal I don't know if Wood Green or Walthamstow gave their W to the W* buses though. Yes, they were about the first in the '60s. The W1 - w6 were in the Wood Green area, the W21 in Walthamstow. At about the same time E1/2/3 were introduced in Ealing. They were flat-fare routes with very few seats, based on the 500 Red Arrow model. I think posters here are right in that initially the letter prefix routes were the flat-fare routes, but later ones were either new routes fitting in with an existing scheme (W7, W8); routes that were a little different for the time (H1, C11, W9 for instance, with hail-and-ride on parts of the route.) or sometimes just to identify routes introduced as part of a new, but traditional, scheme, such as the U routes. |
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