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Colin Rosenstiel · August 16th 06, 11:37 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article ,
(Paul Corfield) wrote:

As many of the old and long trunk services have been chopped up into
bits, to ensure that the suburban parts of these routes were not
devoid of buses due to congestion in the centre, these numbers have
had to be used. Add in the hugely increased density of the network
today compared to the sixties due to lots of local routes then you can
see why a much larger numbering series is needed.

That's not the reason for the 3xx and 4xx series. It's because they have
scrapped suffix letters. You could have had 44A and 44B suffixes for
short runs like the 44 and 344 but they didn't want that.

But someone on high decreed that suffix letters were not 21st century so
they have all gone, with the last being the 77A (now roughly the 87).

The 11 in Birmingham goes up to 11E doesn't it? So the Outer Circle can
be divided into sectors?

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Colin Rosenstiel