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Can't work out if it's still the case, but the route from the O2 used to involve the bus trundling round the back of the (now closed?) Homebase to turn round before passing the stop in the opposite direction but not actually stopping as the road was too narrow for a pavement on that side. Very irritating watching it go past if you'd just missed the bus, as well as adding a minute or so to the journey time if you had caught it.
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Andrew S. Still does.
The route does intersect (or nearly intersect) with quite a number of useful (mostly radial) bus, tube and train routes, so serves it's job as a connector into the residential hinterland (and shops) quite well. |
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Can picture it well, having walked not the precise path, but the general area, a few times recently.
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What a shame. I was looking forward to the series continuing until the 317 (Waltham Cross to Enfield) and then August could start with the 18. But it does run into serious trouble after 4 October (Wallington to Crystal Palace).
dg writes: indeed |
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This was my bus route to primary school (using RTs) roughly half a century ago. I then moved on to using Bakerloo 1938 tube stock to get to secondary school.
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Don't forget the 187 will use electric buses soon.
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As recently as the early 1980s the 187 went further at each end: South End Green in Hampstead to South Harrow tube, in fact. At the eastern end the Routemaster would park up outside what was then a cinema with a convenient greasy spoon caff nextdoor. It reached Swiss Cottage via Haverstock Hill and England's Lane, but rather than bombing straight down the A41 it wound its way round the backstreets of St John's Wood. Very useful, in fact, for getting from Hampstead to the long lost pub The Rossetti in St John's Wood Park.
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Not just McVities. There's an industrial bakery just down the road from Central Middlesex that pumps out freshly baked croissant smells all day long. I absolutely hated going there first thing in the morning when we were sited at C&W next door. Made me ravenous, and it's not like you could buy any of their stuff.
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The 187 used to be a solid reliable route, yes the back streets makes it slower but it connected residents of Maida vale, Queens Park and Kensal Rise to the shopping areas of finchely Road and harlesden rather neatly, as well as serving the hospital in Park Royal, unfortunately frequency reductions of late have made the route hideously unreliable and unusable. 40 minute gaps at the 02 centre end on a weekday are not uncommon
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