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Ah the Elsinge estate, my first exposure to which came on the school cross country route back when Lea Valley High had the much more sensible name of Bullsmoor School.
Phil | 11.01.19 - 7:17 a.m. | #
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What? No further adventures of Mummy and Dougal?
Jo W | 11.01.19 - 8:23 a.m. | #
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Very much enjoying your musings on each of these routes. I do wonder, however, if someone at TfL is tracking your Oyster Card now? You must be the only person to have taken all ten of these buses in the last year, never mind the last week!
Matt | 11.01.19 - 9:05 a.m. | #
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@Matt -- that would be illegal under data privacy laws, so I do hope not.
AlanBG | 11.01.19 - 9:39 a.m. | #
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Not including the remaining two routes listed as being under three miles - one of which clearly hasn't made the cut - so far the average distance is 2.46 miles and the average route number (excluding lettered prefix/suffix!) is 214.
Huw | 11.01.19 - 10:05 a.m. | #
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Well, averaging distance gives an interesting answer. But route numbers? Still, it's a free country, as they say.
Forty minutes must be quite an unusual frequency, I am not aware of any other instances.
Malcolm | 11.01.19 - 10:25 a.m. | #
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The "Abbey Flyer" train service between Watford and St Albans runs at a 45 minute frequency. The Isle of Wight trains run on a 20/40 minute frequency.
In the city I grew up in, many bus routes ran on a 25 minute frequency!
timbo | 11.01.19 - 10:48 a.m. | #
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Frequencies of 24 or 40 minutes would repeat every 2 hours, so the timetable could be fairly easily memorised. Whereas 25 or 45 would not.
The 327 bus route is operated by Sullivan Buses.
Malcolm | 11.01.19 - 11:22 a.m. | #
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Luxury ! I live 4.5 miles from a city centre. The bus stop is a difficult 1 mile walk away. The bus goes on Wednesday morning and comes back next Wednesday.
kev | 11.01.19 - 11:31 a.m. | #
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A 40 minute frequency repeats every 2 hours, a 45 minute frequency every 3 hours and a 25 minute frequency every 5 hours. Whether any of those are easily memorised is subjective.
Hankin | 11.01.19 - 11:55 a.m. | #
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If you are going to (though not from) the Elsinge estate by train and bus you have to go to Waltham Cross in Hertfordshire. Is there anywhere else in London like that?
Sprout Eater | 11.01.19 - 12:47 p.m. | #
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Back in 2011, DG found a London bus route with a 35 minute frequency.
timbo | 11.01.19 - 1:40 p.m. | #
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I had expecting this to be the shortest route, and have no idea what the actual one might be....
Dominic H | 11.01.19 - 2:15 p.m. | #
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@Sprout Eater
If you mean a direct bus from a reasonably close station, I can find two other examples - the Brocket Way area of northern Hainault (buses 362 or 462 from Grange Hill, in Essex), and Moorhall Road in southern Harefield (bus 331 from Denham in Bucks).
In all these cases, as in your example, a journey entirely within London to or from these places is possible by using more than one bus.
timbo | 11.01.19 - 2:19 p.m. | #
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I can't help picturing Timbo spasming with excitement as the big reveal approaches.
kendrick | 11.01.19 - 2:55 p.m. | #
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Nice, you managed to sneak bus stop “M” in there
Frank | 12.01.19 - 12:05 a.m. | #
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The second picture appears to show the bus to be narrower and/or taller then the first picture. Perhaps it breathes in to get through narrow gaps?
timbo | 12.01.19 - 4:47 p.m. | #
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By coincidence, the very next day after DG reported on this route, Geofftech put up a youtube video about a service with a 40 minute frequency.
timbo | 13.01.19 - 3:09 p.m. | #
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