In message . com, MIG
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There's also H around Harrow and Hampstead, and E for Ealing, C for
Chelsea-ish, P for Peckham, K for Kingston, D for Docklands, B for
Bexleyheath, R for Orrrrpington or Richmond, S for Sutton or Stratford
etc...

It might make the routes easier to identify in places like Ealing, where
there are quite a lot of these E-routes; whenever you're outside Ealing,
you know that E-routes go there. That doesn't really work for some of
the others though (like C).

I thought C was for Camden.

That's what I thought. Then TfL introduced (or renumbered an existing
part of a route) the C10 which runs from Victoria to Canada Water.

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Paul G
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"Helen Deborah Vecht" wrote in message
...
"Stu" typed


a) Think it is based on the bus garage, so you get U buses around
Uxbridge and H buses around Hounslow.

H buses are round Hampstead Garden Suburb and Harrow too.


Helen, I've always wondered. How do you pronounce your surname? Is it as it
looks? I think "Vekt". The "ch" is probably different .. i.e. soft c .. etc
....

Nut I never was good at linguistics ... or spelling.


Ch as in 'loch', if you can, k if you can't...

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Helen D. Vecht:
Edgware.

MIG wrote:
Iain wrote:
"Orienteer" wrote in
k:

There used to be, but no longer!

Central bus routes were 1 - 199, single deck routes 200-299, country
buses north of the Thames 300-399, south 400-499, trolleybuses
500-699, Greenline routes 700 - 799.

What about the W-prefixed buses? I've variously heard that the W
stands for Walthamstow, Woodford, and even West (which seems
unlikely seeing as they're mostly based around northeast London).

Is there any official reason why (a) the W prefix was brought in, and
(b) why they still use it?

Iain


I am sure that there hasn't been a W based on Woodford, at least for
many decades. I think there were two versions of W relatively
recently. Mainly it was routes around, and based at, Wood Green.

The W8 and W9 went nowhere near Wood Green, but they did serve Winchmore
Hill.

Dave Arquati wrote:
There's also H around Harrow and Hampstead, and E for Ealing, C for
Chelsea-ish, P for Peckham, K for Kingston, D for Docklands, B for
Bexleyheath, R for Orrrrpington or Richmond, S for Sutton or Stratford
etc...

A is for Airport?
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gordon

"Helen Deborah Vecht" wrote in message
...
"Stu" typed
Helen, I've always wondered. How do you pronounce your surname? Is it as it
looks? I think "Vekt". The "ch" is probably different .. i.e. soft c .. etc
....

Nut I never was good at linguistics ... or spelling.


Ch as in 'loch', if you can,

That'll exclude most of the English, then!

k if you can't...

No bother to those of us north of Hadrian's Wall!

--
gordon

John Rowland wrote:
MIG wrote:
Iain wrote:
"Orienteer" wrote in
k:

There used to be, but no longer!

Central bus routes were 1 - 199, single deck routes 200-299, country
buses north of the Thames 300-399, south 400-499, trolleybuses
500-699, Greenline routes 700 - 799.

What about the W-prefixed buses? I've variously heard that the W
stands for Walthamstow, Woodford, and even West (which seems
unlikely seeing as they're mostly based around northeast London).

Is there any official reason why (a) the W prefix was brought in, and
(b) why they still use it?

Iain


I am sure that there hasn't been a W based on Woodford, at least for
many decades. I think there were two versions of W relatively
recently. Mainly it was routes around, and based at, Wood Green.

The W8 and W9 went nowhere near Wood Green, but they did serve Winchmore
Hill.


Ah, but from here, Winchmore Hill IS near Wood Green ...

Paul G wrote:

I thought C was for Camden.

That's what I thought. Then TfL introduced (or renumbered an existing
part of a route) the C10 which runs from Victoria to Canada Water.

Neither C1 nor C3 go near Camden, but both do go to Kensington and
Chelsea in some way or other.

Neil

Neil Williams wrote:
Paul G wrote:

I thought C was for Camden.

That's what I thought. Then TfL introduced (or renumbered an existing
part of a route) the C10 which runs from Victoria to Canada Water.

Neither C1 nor C3 go near Camden, but both do go to Kensington and
Chelsea in some way or other.

Neil


What does RV stand for, by the way? Ri Ver? I can't see any point at
all in using letters for certain routes, given that all routes go to a
number of places and could be named after one of them, if it was worth
it. If it only applied to circular routes or something it might make
sense.

R for Orrrrpington.


Roundabout, actually.

Ian

Iain wrote:
What about the W-prefixed buses? I've variously heard that the W stands
for Walthamstow, Woodford, and even West (which seems unlikely seeing as
they're mostly based around northeast London).



Confusingly Potters Bar had PB1. Should it not have been merely P1 in
order to enable the usual clashes with other potential "P" locations?

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gordon