On 18 Jan, 08:49, Roland Perry wrote:
In message
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17:34:10 on Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Henry remarked:

There is such a link but it's useless: 513 Kingston-Hampton
Court-Esher-Cobham-Downside 3 buses a day.

Also, for some mysterious reason appears that this only calls at
Hampton Court _Station_ going towards Esher, but not on the
return journey.

Isn't the road rather wide there,

There are two lanes in each direction but it's pretty
busy most of the day, especially in the Kingston
direction as the traffic backs up from the roundabout
across the river. The buses can't really stop in the road,
and there are too many side turnings to build a bay without
blocking sight lines.

maybe the bus stop for the opposite
direction is called something else?

Going towards Esher, the buses pull off into the station
forecourt, but on the way back the last official stop before
the Green (on the other side of the Thames) is Summer Road,
(by the level crossing).
That probably counts as walking distance if you're fit enough
to cross the road in mid-traffic to the station-side pavement
immediately; otherwise there's currently a couple of hundred
yards of mud slick and a couple of nasty junctions to negotiate
to reach the pelican crossing at the station.

The obvious solution would be to turn into the gyratory and
share the bay already used by buses heading along the riverbank,
but simply go right round and turn left back on to the bridge.

Of course that would mean buses both to and (~hourly) from
Kingston sharing a stop, which no doubt violates some
incontestable diktat.

Hth

Henry