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There's the odd instance of routes coming back under the same number - the 15 of this list could count as one of them.
Always telling myself I could write a book on this, if my publishers would have it - but the research would kill me!
Matt | 01.11.08 - 12:22 p.m. | #
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Route 9
On 01/11.1908 Route 9 ran:
Kew Green via Hammersmith then today's route to Aldwch then via Bank, Bishopsgate to Shoreditch Church.
A month later on 10/12.1908 it was cut back in the West to Turnham Green but extended in the East to Leyton (Bakers Arms) further extended to Snaresbrook in 1909.
IsarSteve | Homepage | 02.11.08 - 12:00 a.m. | #
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A small piece of trivia:
The Berlin trams first received route numbers in May 1902
IsarSteve | Homepage | 02.11.08 - 12:08 a.m. | #
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David Essex had a song where the Number 9 bus featured
"Can you picture us on a number 9 bus on the way to Canning Town?"
Not sure if the bus went there or whether it just fitted the lyric!
SSS | Homepage | 02.11.08 - 1:15 a.m. | #
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By the 1920s the 9 had a Sunday extension via Aldgate, Canning Town to East Ham.
In the 1930s it was running as far as Romford on Sundays.. after the war and up to September 1968 it ran as far as Becontree Heath on Sundays
IsarSteve | Homepage | 02.11.08 - 1:23 a.m. | #
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Cheers! Post updated to include 9s.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 02.11.08 - 11:29 a.m. | #
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By my reckoning, Bus Route number 5 has been the most re-used of these first numbers, having being used on eight different occasions/routes. Being seen in places diverse as North Cheam, Ladbroke Grove, Chalk Farm, Camberwell Green, Mitcham Common, Bloomsbury and Victoria.
And following on from the Route 9 discussion, it now runs exactly on what was once part of the Route 9 between Canning Town & Romford
IsarSteve | Homepage | 02.11.08 - 8:05 p.m. | #
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Before my first trip to London a few years ago, I spent some time online looking for a "London bus map". Little did I know, at that point, how very many routes there are and how absurd an idea it was that they would all be on one map!
Josh | 03.11.08 - 4:48 p.m. | #
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Route 17
BTW, the 17 shown on the list.. wasn't the same 17 that was withdrawn in 1958.
It became a 184 for a while in the late 1920s early 1930s.
There have been 5 incarnations of the 17 in London.. and strangely they have either served Archway or London Bridge.. But it's only the latest that connects both..
IsarSteve | Homepage | 03.11.08 - 10:11 p.m. | #
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