Has there ever been talk about a BusTube...a night Bus running above tube
lines in Central London only stoping a tube stations... I know there has been
talk about running the Victoria Line all night ............

On 11 Feb 2004 20:47:47 GMT, (Proctor46) wrote:

Has there ever been talk about a BusTube...a night Bus running above tube
lines in Central London only stoping a tube stations... I know there has been
talk about running the Victoria Line all night ............

there are two routes which are very close to that logic but they do stop
at stops other than Tube Stations. They are the N5 and N20 which cover
the northern branches of the Northern Line to Edgware and Barnet. In one
case the route covers roads not served by daytime buses.

The South End of the Northern line night bus is probably the N155 in
large part.

The N73 does the top bit of the Vic Line.
The N29 does part of the Piccadilly Line and the N91 fills in other bits
like Arnos Grove and Cockfosters.
The N214 does Moorgate to Camden Town - the daytime route 214 was at one
time branded as the Northern Line or similar.

I'm sure there are others but the above gives a flavour.

HTH
--
Paul C


Admits to working for London Underground!

On 11 Feb 2004, Proctor46 wrote:

Has there ever been talk about a BusTube...a night Bus running above
tube lines in Central London only stoping a tube stations... I know
there has been talk about running the Victoria Line all night
............

And suburban NR lines, while we're at it!

One of my London transport war stories is getting to Liverpool Street on
the last tube, just after the last train home had gone, and after the
switchover into night buses. There are virtually no night buses from
Liverpool Street (i suppose because it's mostly a commuter station, and
the places its suburban links serve have good night buses from the middle
of town), so i ended up waiting about a million years for one which went
in vaguely the right direction, and from which i could change onto one
that went home (i should have walked to Whitechapel, from where there's a
good bus, but i didn't think of that). Another such story concerns getting
home from Wallington (which is vaguely in the direction of Croydon, in
case you inexplicably haven't heard of it) on a sunday night - it took two
trains and a spacetram to get to Blackfriars, and then a hundred-mile trek
and a million-year wait in the freezing cold to get a bus vaguely in the
right direction (and if i'd left a bit earlier, it could have been bus
to Morden, Northern Line to town, night bus all the way home).

Anyway, my point is that if there was a night bus route covering the
suburban West Anglia Line in the former case, or the District in the
latter, i would have been sorted.

tom

--
A plug on its back, straining to suck voltage from the sky

Night BusTube

lets have think and work out a network and then ask our Ken,,,i will sleep on
it...

In message , Paul Corfield
writes
there are two routes which are very close to that logic but they do stop
at stops other than Tube Stations. They are the N5 and N20 which cover
the northern branches of the Northern Line to Edgware and Barnet. In one
case the route covers roads not served by daytime buses.

Wasn't one of those actually promoted as "Your Night Time Northern Line"
on special route branding once?
--
Ian Jelf, MITG, Birmingham, UK
Registered "Blue Badge" Tourist Guide for
London & the Heart of England
http://www.bluebadge.demon.co.uk

"Ian Jelf" wrote in message
...
In message , Paul Corfield
writes
They are the N5 and N20 which cover the northern
branches of the Northern Line to Edgware and Barnet.

Wasn't one of those actually promoted as "Your Night Time Northern Line"
on special route branding once?

This branding was used for the N1 and N5: I don't why or when the N1 became
the N20.

--
John Rowland - Spamtrapped
Transport Plans for the London Area, updated 2001
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acro...69/tpftla.html
A man's vehicle is a symbol of his manhood.
That's why my vehicle's the Piccadilly Line -
It's the size of a county and it comes every two and a half minutes

ubject: Night BusTube

I would like to see a test service on the Victoria Line- say a Tubebus every
15mins. stoping outsie every tube station on the line ......01.00 to 05.00
[extended on Sundays}......

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 10:48:38 -0000, "John Rowland"
wrote:

"Ian Jelf" wrote in message
...
In message , Paul Corfield
writes
They are the N5 and N20 which cover the northern
branches of the Northern Line to Edgware and Barnet.

Wasn't one of those actually promoted as "Your Night Time Northern Line"
on special route branding once?

This branding was used for the N1 and N5: I don't why or when the N1 became
the N20.

The N1 became the N20 to allow route 1 to have a night equivalent.


Rob.
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rob at robertwoolley dot co dot uk