please empty your brain below
I've always understood a switchback to be a roller coaster, and reading up on it I discover that although the first purpose-built roller coaster, at Coney Island, was indeed called "The Switchback"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switchback_Railway, it was inspired by the Mauch Chunk Switchback Railway http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauch_Chunk_Switchback_Railway in Pennsylvania, built to haul anthracite but rapidly becoming a tourist attraction (in the 1820s!)
DG: Not retracing your steps is going to be a problem when you get to "X", as the X68 meets the P4 at the top of Herne Hill, and the X26 meets the A10 (Heathrow), K5 (Kingston, twice), and S1 (Sutton).
U9 is the shortest-duration journey to date, at just twenty minutes, and ties with the C2, H3, and T33 for the shortest route at six miles. It is the second fastest at 18mph (only the motorway-using A10 beats it) The registration appears to be an 06, tying with the H3 for second-oldest bus after the ancient G1.
@Timbo: I suspect DG will be riding the X68, since he has already used the X26. Also, it tends to not follow its prescribed route, preferring to go West Norwood -> Tulse Hill -> Oval (via 415 route) -> Waterloo (via 59 route), and use the route on the map as a diversionary. It still hits the P4 at Brixton, though!
Also, a little statistic from me! I suggested routes for all 16 letters, and so far he has followed 9 of my suggestions, and of the 5 he did not, one was because he had ridden it before. Admittedly, he didn't have much choice for the A10 and G1.
I know it's not he most westerly tfL bus stop. But that's not what I said
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