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I did the Billingsgate Roman Bath house yesterday which was smaller but of interest.
Looks like an interesting day out. My ancestors were near Welwyn so I will have to make the trip. Had totally forgotten the green line buses! Fab - they do go long distances. Thanks for the links (good to have you back BTW. I didn't post before but I was disappointed / worried with Tuesdays hiatus) |
You've captured the essence of my adopted home town. The 724 bus is impressively reliable but depressingly expensive per-mile - especially when compared to similar journeys in London!
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Interesting account, thanks, and it brought hazy memories of a Green Rover trip on the 724 from Romford Market. I think it was half-a-crown each for schoolmate and me and we ended up at Whipsnade Zoo - a special Sunday route, I vaguely remember, am I right? Sudden urge to look at my old diaries and bus maps.
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Ah, the 724. Childhood memories here too of watching it sail past me every day while waiting at the Two Bridges for a bus to school in Rickmansworth. Happy days.
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I seem to remember it was the 726 which went from Romford to Whipsnade Zoo (Summer Sundays only) by a double decker RT
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My mum and dad were married in WGC and lived there for a while. The reception was in a pub in Digswell.
I've been on the 724 bus, but only from Rickmansworth to Uxbridge IIRC. I wonder if anyone has ever ridden the entire route, or ever will 😉 Dave B I thought the 726 used to go from southeast London/Kent (perhaps Dartford/ Gravesend??) to Heathrow. Perhaps the number was nicked or reused? 726 was replaced by X26 and curtailed to Croydon or Bromley or something. |
The 726 number was reused.. Green Rover tickets were not usually valid on Green Line services.. London Country brought in a Golden Rover day ticket that could be used on both Country Buses and Green Line routes.
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The 724 is known locally as The "H" Line - as it travels from Harlow to Heathrow via Hertford, Hatfield, Hemel Hempstead, etc.
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@Lorenzo
I've ridden the entire route (for the purpose of riding the entire route) several times but never managed to stay awake for all of it. Once I saw passengers board in Harlow with luggage and alight at Heathrow, so someone does ride the entire route occasionally. |
Curoiusly the e-plates site says the 724 started in 1967
http://www.eplates.info/724+727.html but the two references cited by Wikipedia both say 1966 - significant as the first OMO operated Green Line service. Dave B is quite right - the original 726 did run to Whipsnade - it was withdrawn in 1968 and the number re-sued in the 1970s. |
A Daily Mail Model Village is a gift to satirists.
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I commute on the East Coast mainline every day of the week. Although I've seen it a thousand times or more, Digswell Viaduct is easily the best part of the 90 minute journey and I pretty much always stop what I'm doing to admire the view.
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I'm pleased the Green Line buses weren't Grey Line, as a good deal of today's comments would be invisible...
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I like the green lines.
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thanks NLW ... the penny hadn't dropped that the text going green wasn't my computer acting up ... duh !!!
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I'm not writing about buses tomorrow. I do hope you'll still find something to talk about.
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I thought I'd wait until end of day before making a comment. Mainly because i was in two minds about saying anything about, you know, the 'green' thing. So now can see the attitude taken I'll say good job too. Perhaps though it a 'set-up'; knowing what some commenters are like for them to fall-into the trap. To be honest I found both (main) topics/subjects interesting but feel the comment 'dissing' is bit OTT.
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The 724 was hardly 'off topic'.
Maybe in future you could use an asterisk on those parts of the post that we are not permitted to discuss, or comment on. |
The 724 is a bus celebrating its precise half-century, so obviously it's not off-topic.
The green was merely to highlight its dominance of the conversation. |
I'm surprised no one has yet picked up that the 724 hasn't run for 50 years continuously; between 1985 and 1987 it was replaced by the 524, between Watford and Harlow only. When it was re-introduced in 1987 it ran between Heathrow and Stansted Airports for a short while. I doubt if anyone used it to connect two flights though.
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Always wondered if the 'Green Lines' were classed as bus or coach services? And is the current 724 classed as a coach or bus service?
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To London Transport they were coaches, as evidenced by the "bus and coach stop" signs where Green Line services called. And the "C" in the RMC and RCL Routemaster variants
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