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London Buses Route 59
London Buses route 59 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, England. Running between Clapham Park and St Bartholomew's Hospital, it is operated by Arriva London. History Route 59 was introduced in 1999 in order to replace part of London Buses route 109, route 109 and also provide a service between Streatham and London Euston railway station, Euston station. It was and still is contracted to Arriva London. On 10 November 2007 the route was extended from Euston to Kings Cross, London, King's Cross. The move, which was intended to provide a direct link between London Waterloo railway station, Waterloo and London St Pancras railway station, St Pancras stations, coincided with the relocation of the Eurostar terminal. On 20 December 2013, thirty people were injured when the driver of a route 59 bus swerved to avoid a vehicle and hit a tree in Kennington. Seven people were seriously injured. New Routemasters were introduced on 22 March 2016. The rear platform r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arriva London
Arriva London is a bus operator operating primarily in Greater London and partially in Essex, Hertfordshire, Kent and Surrey. It is a subsidiary of Arriva UK Bus and operates services for London Buses under contract to Transport for London. Operations are split between two registered companies, Arriva London North Limited and Arriva London South Limited. History The origins of Arriva London can be traced back to 1980 when the Arriva, Cowie Group purchased the Grey-Green coach business in London. On February 1987, Grey-Green commenced operating bus routes in north and east London under contract to London Regional Transport (LRT). On 1 April 1989, London Buses was divided into 11 separate Privatisation of London bus services#Break-up of London Buses, business units, two of which were Leaside Buses and South London Transport. As part of the privatisation of London bus services, the Cowie Group purchased these business units in September 1994 and January 1995 for £25.5 mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kings Cross, London
King's Cross is a district in the London boroughs, London Boroughs of London Borough of Camden, Camden and London Borough of Islington, Islington, on either side of Euston Road in north London, England, north of Charing Cross, bordered by Barnsbury to the north, Clerkenwell to the southeast, Angel, Islington, Angel to the east, Holborn and Bloomsbury to the south, Euston Railway Station, Euston to the west and Camden Town to the northwest. It is served by two major rail termini, St Pancras railway station, St Pancras and London King's Cross railway station, King's Cross. King's Cross station is the terminus of one of the major rail routes between London and the North. The area, which was historically the south-eastern part of the parish and borough of St Pancras, London, St Pancras, and once known for drug-dealing and prostitution, has undergone significant urban renewal, regeneration since the mid-1990s. The introduction of the Eurostar rail service at St Pancras railway stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bus Routes In London
This is a list of Transport for London (TfL) contracted bus routes in London, England, as well as commercial services that enter the Greater London area (except coaches). Bus services in London are operated by Arriva London, Go-Ahead London (Blue Triangle, Docklands Buses, London Central and London General), Metroline, First Bus London, Stagecoach London ( East London, Selkent and Thameside), Transport UK London Bus and Uno. TfL-sponsored operators run more than 500 services. Examples of non TfL-sponsored operators include, but are not limited to: Arriva Herts & Essex, Arriva Southern Counties, Carousel Buses, Diamond South East, Go-Coach, First Beeline, Metrobus, Stagecoach South, Thames Valley Buses and Reading Buses. Classification of route numbers In Victorian times, people who took the bus would recognise the owner and the route of an only by its livery and its line name, with painted signs on the sides showing the two termini to indicate the route. Then ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holborn Circus
Holborn Circus is a five-way junction at the western extreme of the City of London, specifically between Holborn (St Andrew) and its Hatton Garden (St Alban) part. Its main, east–west, route is the inchoate A40 road (Great Britain), A40 road. It was designed by the engineer William Haywood (engineer), William Haywood and opened in 1867. The term ''circus'' describes how the frontages of the buildings facing curved round in a concave chamfer. These, in part replaced with glass and metal-clad buildings, remain well set back. The place was described in Charles Dickens' ''Dictionary of London'' (1879) as "perhaps... the finest piece of street architecture in the City". Roads High Holborn (part of the A40 road) links Holborn Circus to the West End of London, West End. To the east, Holborn Viaduct leads into the City of London financial district. To the north Charterhouse Street and London's jewellery trade district of Hatton Garden is in the London Borough of Camden. The district ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chancery Lane Tube Station
Chancery Lane () is a London Underground station. It is on the Central line between Holborn and St Paul's stations, and is in fare zone 1. The station has entrances within both the London Borough of Camden and the City of London. It opened in 1900 and takes its name from the nearby Chancery Lane. The station is located at the junction of High Holborn, Hatton Garden and Gray's Inn Road, with subway entrances giving access to the ticket office under the roadway. Chancery Lane is one of the few London Underground stations which have no associated buildings above ground. History The station was opened by the Central London Railway (CLR) on 30 July 1900. The current station entrance is not the original. The original, disused station building is on the north side of High Holborn at Nos. 31–33, approximately to the west, closer to High Holborn's junction with Chancery Lane. Originally provided with four lifts between ground and platform levels, the station was rebuilt in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holborn Tube Station
Holborn ( ) is a London Underground station in Holborn, Central London, located at the junction of High Holborn and Kingsway, London, Kingsway. It is served by the Central line (London Underground), Central and Piccadilly line, Piccadilly lines, and is in List of stations in London fare zone 1, Travelcard Zone 1. On the Central line the station is between Tottenham Court Road tube station, Tottenham Court Road and Chancery Lane tube station, Chancery Lane stations, and on the Piccadilly line it is between Covent Garden tube station, Covent Garden and Russell Square tube station, Russell Square stations. Close by are the British Museum, Lincoln's Inn Fields, Red Lion Square, Bloomsbury Square, London School of Economics and Sir John Soane's Museum. Located at the junction of two earlier tube railway schemes, the station was opened in 1906 by the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway (GNP&BR). The station entrances and below ground circulation were largely reconstructe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aldwych
Aldwych (pronounced ) is a street and the name of the List of areas of London, area immediately surrounding it, in the City of Westminster, part of Greater London, and is part of the West End of London, West End West End Theatre, Theatreland. The street starts Points of the compass, east-northeast of Charing Cross, the conventional map centre-point of the capital city. In the 7th century, the area was an Anglo-Saxon settlement. The name means "old port", and was the port of the City of London. Current Use The semi-circular design of the street of Aldwych arises from its function, making navigable the gradient of the fall in levels between the roads connected by the street: the south end of Kingsway, London, Kingsway, and the Strand, London, Strand. It forms part of the A4 road (England), A4 road from London to Avonmouth, Bristol. The Aldwych area forms part of the Northbank business improvement district. It is known for hotels, restaurants, two theatres, the India House, Lon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London Waterloo Station
Waterloo station (), also known as London Waterloo, is a major central London railway terminus on the National Rail network in the United Kingdom, in the Waterloo area of the London Borough of Lambeth. It is connected to a London Underground station of the same name and is adjacent to Waterloo East station on the South Eastern Main Line. The station is the terminus of the South West Main Line to via Southampton, the West of England main line to Exeter via , the Portsmouth Direct line to which connects with ferry services to the Isle of Wight, and several commuter services around west and south-west London, Surrey, Hampshire and Berkshire. The station was opened in 1848 by the London and South Western Railway, and it replaced the earlier as it was closer to the West End. It was never designed to be a terminus, as the original intention was to continue the line towards the City of London, and consequently the station developed in a haphazard fashion, leading to di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lambeth North Tube Station
Lambeth North is a London Underground station in the district of Lambeth, located at the junction of Westminster Bridge Road and Baylis Road. It is the penultimate station on the Bakerloo line between Waterloo and Elephant & Castle stations, and is in Travelcard Zone 1. It is located at 110 Westminster Bridge Road, and is the nearest tube station to exit for the Imperial War Museum. In 2017, it was ranked the least-used Underground station in Zone 1. History Designed by Leslie Green, the station was opened by the Baker Street & Waterloo Railway on 10 March 1906, with the name ''Kennington Road''. It served as the temporary southern terminus of the line until 5 August 1906, when Elephant & Castle station was opened. The station's name was changed to ''Westminster Bridge Road'' in July 1906 and it was again renamed, to Lambeth (North), in April 1917, and then to Lambeth North in 1928. At 03:56 on 16 January 1941, a German "Satan" 1800 kg general-purpose bomb hit a host ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brixton Tube Station
Brixton is a London Underground station on Brixton Road in Brixton in the London Borough of Lambeth, South London. It is the southern terminus of the Victoria line and the next station towards north is Stockwell. The station is known to have the largest London Underground roundel on the network. History The City and Brixton Railway had planned to link Brixton with Central London by underground railway in 1897 but was unable to raise funds for construction. Brixton station on the Victoria line was opened on 23 July 1971 by the London Transport Executive. It has high usage for an inner suburban station with 33.46 million entries and exits during 2016 making it the 19th busiest station by this measure. In the 2000s, the station was extensively refurbished and upgraded, with a new external façade and entrance lobby, installation of step-free access, together with refurbishment of a number of smaller retail outlets and the ticket office. The refurbishment started in 2001, ste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London Buses Route 45
London Buses route 45 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, England. Running between Morden station and Camberwell Green, it is operated by Transport UK London Bus. History Route 45 was introduced on 1 October 1950 as a replacement for trolleybus route 34 between Battersea and Farringdon Street via Clapham Junction, Clapham Common, Stockwell, Brixton, Camberwell Green, Elephant & Castle and Blackfriars Bridge. It was operated by AEC Routemasters. On 17 January 1951 it was extended from Battersea to South Kensington station. On 1 February 1961, the route was extended from Farringdon Street to Hampstead Heath via Grays Inn Road and King's Cross replacing trolleybus route 513. On 8 January 1972, it was withdrawn between King's Cross and Hampstead and replaced by route 46. On 28 October 1978, the route was extended from King's Cross to Archway station. On 3 August 1985, route 45 was converted to one man operation with the AEC Routemasters replaced by Leyl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Streatham Hill
Streatham ( ) is a district in south London, England. Centred south of Charing Cross, it lies mostly within the London Borough of Lambeth, with some parts extending into the neighbouring London Borough of Wandsworth. Streatham was in Surrey before becoming part of the County of London in 1889, and then Greater London in 1965. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London. History Streatham means "the hamlet on the street". The street in question, the London to Brighton Way, was the Roman road from the capital Londinium to the south coast near Portslade, today within Brighton and Hove. It is likely that the destination was a Roman port now lost to coastal erosion, which has been tentatively identified with 'Novus Portus' mentioned in Ptolemy's Geographia. The road is confusingly referred to as Stane Street (Stone Street) in some sources and diverges from the main London-Chichester road at Kennington. Streatham's first parish churc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
