In article
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(MIG) wrote:

On 10 July, 20:58, wrote:
In article
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(Mizter T) wrote:
I couldn't remember if it was a 24 hour route or not, so instead of
checking a bus spider map or the TfL journey planner I did a Google
image search for "n453 london bus", one of the first thumbnails in
teh results led me to this page - which has an out of date photo of
a bus stop at Baker Street which displays 'plates' for both 453 and
N453:

http://www.ukstudentlife.com/Travel/...uses.htm#Stops

It's obviously taken after the introduction of bendy buses, as they
both appear on yellow 'plates' with the advice/warning "Buy tickets
before boarding" (and it's just outside the central London 'pay
before you board' area too). So my half-remembered recollection of
there being a distinct N453 service in the recent past wasn't so
far wide of the mark! I'm not sure when the separate N453 was
dropped and the daytime 453 went 24-hours though.

Surely yellow plates came in some time before the bendys to soften
people up for their introduction.

I don't think there was such a thing as a 453 before bendys though.
Or a 436. They made overlapping sections with the 53 and 36 which
were shortened, and my impression was that it happened with
bendification.

You might be right. I'm not sure even though I was cycling amongst them at
the time.

It doesn't detract from my point that off-bus ticketing came in before the
end of the Routemasters. They couldn't be scrapped without off bus
ticketing being in place and well established first.

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Colin Rosenstiel