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209's terminus used to be where Mortlake garage was located; a small and friendly garage known for the quality of its turnout. Operated the 9 and 73 (this end of which eventually became the 33).
Matt | 08.01.19 - 7:49 a.m. | #
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There is an excellent short London Transport film showing the old Mortlake Garage https://youtu.be/Ind-ZlOfyZ8 It also features Routemasters on Hammersmith Bridge.
All the new houses on Avondale Road plus what you grandly call the bus station were built on the site.
ap | 08.01.19 - 7:53 a.m. | #
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That stretch of Barnes riverside hosts another blue plaque, the other being for Dame Ninette Dr Valois, founder of the Royal Ballet. Despite the French-sounding name, she was in fact born in Ireland and had the distinction of being born in the nineteenth century (1898) and dying in the twenty-first (2001).
When I worked at Hammersmith town hall, many lunch hours were spent walking the Thames Path circuit twixt Hammersmith and Barnes bridges. Four miles to escape and dream. How I miss it.
THC | 08.01.19 - 8:00 a.m. | #
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It's the little details that make it special.
Jon Jones | 08.01.19 - 8:28 a.m. | #
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How have you ended up in North London?
Alfie | 08.01.19 - 8:41 a.m. | #
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Blimey - route 9 used to go all the way from Mortlake to Romford?!?! That's got to be getting on for being marathon distance!
David | 08.01.19 - 8:56 a.m. | #
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Thought there were going to be 2 a day. Today's post has been quite short.
I need to try the 209 at one point. It's operator change soon might inspire me to do so.
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This is my to-go route for days out at weekends with my children. The buses run every few minutes, and there's often two or three waiting to depart at Mortlake Station and the route has a better view than the 419 that does Hammersmith-Richmond and cover this same area in its final 20 minutes.
I keep waiting for the day when I'll board a bus with gz in the back seat and then later see the freak show I usually perform with my children described in the blog. It'd be fun.
Renata | Homepage | 08.01.19 - 9:36 a.m. | #
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The 9 also ran to Cambridge Heath (garage journeys) when Ash Grove took over most duties from the closed Mortlake Garage.
Rog | Homepage | 08.01.19 - 10:25 a.m. | #
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Staff carried a coffin all the way from Hammersmith to Mortlake in protest at the garage closure. There are pictures...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jmtopman/21131234628/
ap | 08.01.19 - 10:29 a.m. | #
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#Rog Mortlake duties went to Stamford Brook (V), an old tram depot that still stands, partially converted to flats. Ash Grove inherited the Dalston duties.
Love the petrol price on coffin photo. 17.5p/litre
scrumpy | 08.01.19 - 11:05 a.m. | #
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ap @07:53 Thanks for the movie link. What a great film.
Lorenzo | 08.01.19 - 11:40 a.m. | #
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Well?
Did Richie find bus stop F...?
Joho | 08.01.19 - 11:40 a.m. | #
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17.5p a litre works out at 79.6p a gallon. If they were selling it at that price, they were losing money with every litre.
Traveller | 08.01.19 - 1:29 p.m. | #
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I remember when it was Butterwick bus station and thinking it rather silly when so close to Hammersmith station. Now of course I miss the quaint old name.
There was once a grand old junk shop in Barnes with a severely leaky roof where I bought a diverse range of Post Office and transport maps going back to 1877 for £1 and 50p each. I thought it was a bargain even back then (detail of 1927 bus map in homepage link).
NickW | Homepage | 08.01.19 - 2:15 p.m. | #
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Even the charity shops in Barnes are posh: Emporium by Sue Ryder, Boutique by Shelter and Mary’s Living and Giving Shop.
The good thing about the 209 in rush hours is that it uses quieter roads and bus lanes where the 33 has to deal with the South Circular.
The place of the 209 in the list of shortest bus routes is under threat by a possible extension to the Stag Brewery site.
Sprout Eater | 08.01.19 - 2:36 p.m. | #
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Riverside closed the same day as Mortlake, it had entrances on the south and west side of the Hammersmith gyratory, the mansion on the west facing side that had a hole knocked in the front for the buses had its facade restored as part of the redevelopment, the Upper Bus Station occupies part of the site, the eastern side of Butterwick ran alongside what was Hammersmith trolleybus depot - the entrance faced Talgarth Road.
The eastern end of Black's Road used to be the northern end of Hammersmith Bridge Road, the current alignment of Hammersmith Bridge Road north of the Westway is 'new'.
Still Anon | 08.01.19 - 2:57 p.m. | #
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I don't remember the 9 going as far as Romford, but in the 1960s it certainly went to Becontree Heath on Sundays, when it was jointly worked by RMs from Mortlake and Poplar, and RTs from Barking. These RTs using Mortlake garage as their turning point were the only RTs I ever saw inside it.
The petrol price shown is £1.75 per gallon, equivalent to 38.5p per litre.
Ian | 08.01.19 - 5:38 p.m. | #
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The bus station at Mortlake was the scene of a rather nasty crash involving a Telegraph journalist's family in 2007 (the bus driver received a prison sentence for death by dangerous driving).
It led to the creation of a charity (Elizabeth's Legacy of Hope) which has raised funds for children in the developing world who have lost limbs through war, accidents and lack of medical care.
Ned | 08.01.19 - 8:25 p.m. | #
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Did the 209 go past the London Antipodes of Bus Stop M?
dg writes: No, that's the 419.
GJ | 08.01.19 - 8:28 p.m. | #
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*twitches*
Eights and fours would be rowing, not sculling.
Octuples and quads might be sculling...
:)
Moogal | 09.01.19 - 1:24 p.m. | #
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Following the closure of Hammersmith Bridge, route 209 is now only 2.60 miles long, which nudges it up into 7th place.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 09.06.19 - 10:42 a.m. | #
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