please empty your brain below
More DG stalking - I was at Woodford Bridge yesterday and on the 275 from Barkingside just the other week. Now I wonder if the next route will also be one I rode on recently?

PC | 05.03.14 - 9:14 a.m. | #

I deduced from your cahgeover point in Chingford that you would take the Woodford route rather than Loughton, and guess your next bus will be going from the other side of the road.
Did you realise that the 275 is the first route you've used with a "5" in its number, and the 179 is only the second with a "9" in it?
The buses used on the 179 and 275 are the newest so far - both "63" registrations and, from the so-nearly-consecutive fleet numbers, probably registered on the same day.
Total journey time now just passed ten hours.

timbo | 05.03.14 - 10:41 a.m. | #

I used to have to get the 275 bus three or four times a week! I'm glad it's now had a well deserved five minutes of fame on DG.

East to North | 05.03.14 - 11:24 a.m. | #

Interested to see how you going to get back to Bluewater. No bus across the Thames at Dartford. The only real and proper way is to get to North Woolwich (169/147/473 perhaps) and walk through the tunnel or on ferry and then a 96 to Bluewater.

Agent Z | 05.03.14 - 1:28 p.m. | #

@Agent Z
There is a bus across the Thames at Dratford. The X80 doesn't appear on the London bus map, presumably because its route is entirely outside the GLA boundary.

My own guess is 247,499,347,370,X80

timbo | 05.03.14 - 2:25 p.m. | #

@east to North
Andy Warhol gave everyone fifteen minutes of fame, surely - and Woodford to nearly-Hainault in only five minutes would have been going some!

| 05.03.14 - 5:35 p.m. | #

Disappointerd you didn't go for the lesser-spotted 575 which is one of those irregular buses that usually appeal to you.
http://www.londoncentral.com/bus-services/route575.html

Whiff | 05.03.14 - 11:33 p.m. | #

Timbo

Oh - fair enough. I was looking at the TFL map.

Agent Z | 06.03.14 - 8:47 a.m. | #

@Whiff
According to the London bus map the 575 goes all the way from Harlow and Debden to Lakeside, which could have shortened this series quite a lot.
(Chingford - 397 - Debden - 575 - Lakeside!)
However, the timetable shows that it now gives up at Romford.

Anyway, why would DG want to miss the charms of Barkingside, and have to put up with Passingford Bridge instead?

timbo | 06.03.14 - 4:44 p.m. | #











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