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Old December 18th 09, 09:19 AM posted to uk.transport.london
Neil Williams Neil  Williams is offline
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Default 205 overcrowding

On 17 Dec, 22:53, Martin Petrov
wrote:

what was the original route then? Just Paddington to Liverpool St then?


Of the 205, it was Padd-Mile End. Stationlink was a loop serving most
of (all?) the mainline termini once an hour, starting/finishing at
Victoria Coach Station. It used single-decker buses with 4 wheelchair
spaces, as it'd be unlikely that anyone *not* in a wheelchair would
have chosen to use it given that it was hourly and excruciatingly
slow.

It was turned into the 205 in the north (which has thrived) and the
705 in the south (which didn't and was withdrawn).

Neil