John Rowland wrote:
"Dave Arquati" wrote in message
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There seem to be a lot of websites with outdated N97
information; I had no idea it used to run to Heathrow,


I had no idea it had stopped...


It's quite an odd route; it's very frequent (every 15 mins)
but not as extensively used as, say, the N9, and is far
shorter than any other night bus route I've seen.


It looks like they forgot to slash the frequency when they slashed the main
reason to use it.

Looking at http://www.tfl.gov.uk/buses/spiders/...ndon-night.pdf
, the N97 and the N74 in the Gloucester Rd area appear to use slightly
different routes in one direction, but the same in the other. Is this
correct, and if it is, I wonder why? If the routes are run from the same
garage, it must be hard for the drivers to remember which way to go.

I don't think this is correct, and yes I've noticed it on the bus map
too! Right turns at the Gloucester Road/Cromwell Road junction are
banned, as they are at the Queen's Gate/Cromwell Road junction. The turn
into Queensberry Place, however, is permitted; that's why the 74 goes
that way.

The N97 would have to make a banned turn to serve Gloucester Road tube
station. Unfortunately I've never actually caught an eastbound N97, and
I've never seen any making the mystery turn when getting off a westbound
one! The stop opposite Gloucester Road station used to have N97 listed
as the routes serving it, but doesn't appear to any more... it's very odd!


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Dave Arquati
Imperial College, SW7
www.alwaystouchout.com - Transport projects in London