On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 23:49:24 +0100, Colin McKenzie
wrote:



I believe there was a time when a few route number suffix letters got
up to and beyond H.


Not since the Bassom era. Certainly, post-war, the highest was
406F, and that only ran on Derby Day. Plenty of D suffixes, a few
"E" and that single "F".


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Bill Hayles

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In message , Bill Hayles
writes
Not since the Bassom era. Certainly, post-war, the highest was 406F,
and that only ran on Derby Day. Plenty of D suffixes, a few "E" and
that single "F".
I remember an H1 flat fare bus in Harrow in the early seventies.
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Clive

Clive ) gurgled happily, sounding much like they
were saying :

of bus route suffixes
Not since the Bassom era. Certainly, post-war, the highest was 406F,
and that only ran on Derby Day. Plenty of D suffixes, a few "E" and
that single "F".

I remember an H1 flat fare bus in Harrow in the early seventies.

Umm, that's a prefix, not a suffix.

In message . 170,
Adrian writes
Umm, that's a prefix, not a suffix.
My mistake, not reading posts carefully enough.
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Clive

On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 11:21:31 +0100, Clive
wrote:

In message , Bill Hayles
writes
Not since the Bassom era. Certainly, post-war, the highest was 406F,
and that only ran on Derby Day. Plenty of D suffixes, a few "E" and
that single "F".
I remember an H1 flat fare bus in Harrow in the early seventies.

That's a prefix, not a suffix!

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Bill Hayles

http://billnot.com

Bill Hayles wrote:

On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 23:49:24 +0100, Colin McKenzie
I believe there was a time when a few route number suffix letters got
up to and beyond H.

Not since the Bassom era. Certainly, post-war, the highest was
406F, and that only ran on Derby Day. Plenty of D suffixes, a few
"E" and that single "F".

I was probably thinking of the Bassom era.

But there were enough suffixes in the early RM era for suffixes to be
more appropriate than prefixes for these routes.

Colin McKenzie

In article ,
(Colin McKenzie) wrote:

Bill Hayles wrote:

On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 23:49:24 +0100, Colin McKenzie
I believe there was a time when a few route number suffix letters got
up to and beyond H.

Not since the Bassom era. Certainly, post-war, the highest was
406F, and that only ran on Derby Day. Plenty of D suffixes, a few
"E" and that single "F".

I was probably thinking of the Bassom era.

But there were enough suffixes in the early RM era for suffixes to be
more appropriate than prefixes for these routes.

My recollection from the early days of RMs was that suffix letters were
for old-fashioned routes running RTs and the like and not for modern RMs.
Very few trolleybus routes had suffixes.

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Colin Rosenstiel