please empty your brain below
We're still interested!

Martin | 25.06.24 - 7:07 a.m. | #

You know, don't you, that your loyal readership are interest in all things listy and most in transport related lists.

Tunnel Bore | 25.06.24 - 7:08 a.m. | #

Aww, Reddit! It is good to see that Reddit is still going strong in the age of smart phones and social media. 19 years old (I looked it up) and its format has barely changed since launch. I don’t remember a single time Reddit has been mentioned in the news or media (Twitter, TikTok mentioned daily) and yet it keeps expanding and the young people keep still logging on.
explodingtopics.com/blog/reddit-users#

Text-based categorised chat rooms still have their place.

Dan | 25.06.24 - 7:23 a.m. | #

I have rode my bike past Hounslow High Street stop K numerous times, completely oblivious to its fame. I shall have to pause and take a photo next time I pass.

Greg | 25.06.24 - 8:23 a.m. | #

Meanwhile, it so happens that I will be travelling to London's least used bus stop today (for genuine, not MWLB, reasons)

Timbo | 25.06.24 - 9:25 a.m. | #

What is the point of route numbers on an alighting only bus stop? Could be (a) for driver guidance, (b) for people meeting alighting passengers, or (c) equivalent to men's nipples, i.e. less trouble to follow the standard rule.

Malcolm of Kent | 25.06.24 - 9:32 a.m. | #

Sometimes it would be useful to know where the bus returns back to before you set out on your journey. It is not always obvious near major junctions.

Rob | 25.06.24 - 10:04 a.m. | #

I would have thought that Stop P, Western Road, Romford would have qualified...

dg writes: 13 routes

Ell | 25.06.24 - 10:05 a.m. | #

The pedants will likely note that Strand is just Strand, and doesn't require the definitive article preceding it. Over time, general usage has seen the 'the' appear, helped no doubt by musical hall lyrics, or indeed by Simpson's, the restaurant, a long-established eatery (1828 the website states) that really should know better. TfL, on the other hand, seems to start off well with the correct usage, but then you'll find the 'The' creeping in. Consistency rules, except where it doesn't.

Stuart R | 25.06.24 - 10:10 a.m. | #

I blame Roxy Music... :)

schmoodub | 25.06.24 - 10:45 a.m. | #

A closely related matter is, how many buses stop at/pass each bus stop per day? N-buses would offer a different picture from heavily used day buses. I’ve avoided adding ‘surely’.

Bruce Perkins | 25.06.24 - 10:45 a.m. | #

An alternative pedant viewpoint:

Strand is probably derived from the German for 'beach' or a similar origin. It is/was analogous to saying the promenade or the embankment. It comes from the days when the Thames was wider and the foreshore extended to what is now Strand. So it was the Strand and even if the road is now officially Strand it makes some kind of sense to refer to it as the Stand.

Pedantic of Purley | 25.06.24 - 11:53 a.m. | #

If TfL ever hires a Woman Who Changes Tiles, it’ll really screw up your nomenclature!

Nick | 25.06.24 - 12:07 p.m. | #

Strandpedants might like to hang on a couple of weeks until the relevant street appears in my Monopoly board travelogue.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 25.06.24 - 12:25 p.m. | #

PoP: shouldn't it be der Strand then? ;)

Greg | 25.06.24 - 12:25 p.m. | #

Or not

diamond geezer | Homepage | 25.06.24 - 12:26 p.m. | #

I’m interested. Not that such news is of any significance!

Nick Marsh | 25.06.24 - 1:04 p.m. | #

Stuart - I've checked, and this is the fourth time you've brought up the subject of Strand, its unnecessary definite article and music hall lyrics. You've been doing it annually since 2021 (27 Mar 2021, 20 May 2022, 6 Apr 2023, 25 Jun 2024). I'd be obliged if you didn't do it in 2025.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 25.06.24 - 1:33 p.m. | #

Do i have to go back to The Angel post to see if it was "the Angel" or "The Angel"

Alistair Twin | 25.06.24 - 3:54 p.m. | #

I'd be very interested in London's busiest hubs (so stops grouped together like all the Marble Arch stops for example)!

matthieu1221 | 25.06.24 - 6:43 p.m. | #

Fair enough, but in turn, can the blog simply say Strand? Much appreciated, and looking forward to the additional free time I will have in 2025.

Stuart R | 25.06.24 - 7:32 p.m. | #

I apologise for this blog's 74 previous mentions of "the Strand", only 4 of which you've picked me up on. They will alas continue.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 25.06.24 - 8:03 p.m. | #

All those buses serving Orpington High Street, and not one of them going where I need it to!

Cornish Cockney | 25.06.24 - 8:13 p.m. | #

Wonder what the stop with most routes served partly by tfl is outside Gtr London.
Waltham + bus station?

Crispy | 25.06.24 - 9:10 p.m. | #

Various buses serve High Street / Orpington War Memorial (R) in both directions of their route ie on the way to Orpington station* and back again with a U turn up Homefield rise in both cases (e.g. 358 and some of the R routes that terminate at Orpington station as well) so you could make an argument that those ones should count double. They tend to detour on the way to the station from Homefield rise so don’t serve bus stop S twice, which is served by these buses only on the way out of Orpington.

*but not before 9am

Messiah | 25.06.24 - 11:13 p.m. | #

Disappointing to note then that even after acknowledging an inaccuracy, there's no willingness to correct it. Ah the pleasure of doing what you want. Even if it is indeed incorrect. As I say, disappointing - so after many years of enjoying the posts, it's time to move on.

Stuart R | 26.06.24 - 5:55 p.m. | #

Stuart - Your very first comment, as far as I can tell, was taking me to task for writing 'TfL are' when with TfL being an organisation and therefore singular, it should be 'TfL is'.

I thank you for enduring many subsequent years of me not amending that either.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 26.06.24 - 6:07 p.m. | #

I count 21 bus routes at Tubbenden Lane.

dg writes: count again

kgs | 28.06.24 - 8:22 p.m. | #











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