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London Buses Route SL10
London Buses route SL10 is a Transport for London contracted Superloop express bus route in London, England. Running between Harrow and North Finchley bus stations, it is operated by London Sovereign under the RATP Dev Transit London brand. The route partially parallels routes 125 and 183. History The route was first proposed by Transport for London in April 2023 as the first proposed new route in the Superloop network of orbital express bus routes. At the time of the consultation, the route was proposed to be numbered X183.Superloop takes shape ''Buses'' issue 823 November 2023 page 20 The route was renumbered from X183 to SL10 before it was introduced. Route SL10 was introduced on 25 November 2023. It is operated by London Sovereign as a variation to its route 183 contract that it parallels between Hendon and Harrow. Current route Route SL10 operates via these primary locations: *Harrow bus station ''for Harrow-on-the-Hill station '' *Kenton station Kenton is a railw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London Sovereign
London Sovereign is a bus company in North London. It is a subsidiary of RATP Dev Transit London and operates buses under contract to Transport for London. Company history London Sovereign can trace its roots back to independent Borehamwood Travel Services which ran a fleet that included ex- Kelvin Central MCW Metrobuses and Northern Counties Palatines bodied Leyland Olympians and a collection of other vehicles. In 1993 it won its biggest London Buses contract, to operate route 13 with leased AEC Routemasters in its orange livery. In August 1994, Borehamwood Travel Services was sold to the Blazefield Group's Sovereign subsidiary, with the two operations merged as Sovereign London. On 3 November 2002, the business was sold to Transdev, and renamed Transdev London Sovereign. After London United was transferred to RATP Group as a result of the wider Transdev group's merger with Veolia Transport in March 2011, London Sovereign became Transdev's only London bus company. In M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buses (magazine)
''Buses'' is a United Kingdom magazine focusing mainly on the British public bus industry. It was originally published by Ian Allan Publishing; since March 2012 it has been published by Key Publishing. History and profile ''Buses'' was published as ''Buses Illustrated'' from 1949 until 1968. The current editor is James Day. The magazine is accompanied by a yearbook published in August every year for the next year. It is published on the third Thursday of each month. A sister magazine, ''Buses Focus'', featured more in-depth articles, but was dropped after a rationalisation of the bus industry and for publishing cost reasons. Due to the continued success of ''Buses'' magazine, the publishers launched a show in 2014 called “Buses Festival”. This takes place at the British Motor Museum in Gaydon, Warwickshire Warwickshire (; abbreviated Warks) is a county in the West Midlands region of England. The county town is Warwick, and the largest town is Nuneaton. The county is f ... [...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 Abellio London, Arriva London, Go-Ahead London ( Blue Triangle, Docklands Buses, London Central, and London General), Metroline, RATP Dev Transit London (London Sovereign, London United and London Transit) Stagecoach London (East London, Selkent, and Thameside), Sullivan Buses and Uno. TfL-sponsored operators run more than 500 services. Non-TfL-sponsored operators include Arriva Shires & Essex, Arriva Southern Counties, Carousel Buses, Diamond South East, Go-Coach, First Berkshire & The Thames Valley, Metrobus, Southdown PSV, Stagecoach South and Trustybus. Classification of route numbers In Victorian times, passengers could recognise the owner and the route of an omnibus (Latin: "for everyone") only by its livery and its line name, with painted signs on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finchley Central Tube Station
Finchley Central is a London Underground station in the Church End area of Finchley, north London. The station is located on the High Barnet branch of the Northern line, between West Finchley and East Finchley stations; it is the junction for the short branch to Mill Hill East. The station is around 7 miles north-northwest of Charing Cross and is in Travelcard Zone 4. The station was opened on 22 August 1867 as part of the Great Northern Railway's line between Finsbury Park and Edgware stations. As part of London Underground's Northern Heights plan, Northern line trains started serving the station in 1940 and main line passenger services ended in 1941. History Original station Finchley Central station was built by the Edgware, Highgate and London Railway (EH&LR) on its line from Finsbury Park to Edgware. As construction of the line was nearing completion and before it opened it was purchased in July 1867 by the larger Great Northern Railway (GNR), whose main line fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hendon Central Tube Station
Hendon Central is a London Underground station in North West London on the A41. The station is on the Edgware branch of the Northern line, between Colindale and Brent Cross stations, and is on the boundary between Travelcard Zone 3 and Zone 4. Its postcode is NW4 2TE. It was opened along with Brent Cross (then called Brent) tube station on 19 November 1923 as the first stage of an extension of the Golders Green branch of the Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway. The station served as the terminus of the line's western fork until 18 August 1924 when the second and final section of the extension to Edgware was opened. History Hendon Central, like all stations north from Golders Green, is a surface station (although the tracks enter twin tunnels a short distance further north on the way to Colindale). When it was built it stood "in lonely glory amid fields", as one writer puts it, south of the old village of Hendon, which has since been swallowed up by London's suburb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hendon Railway Station
Hendon railway station is on the Midland Main Line in England, in West Hendon in the London Borough of Barnet, north London. It is down the line from and is situated between to the south and to the north. Its three-letter station code is HEN. The station is served by Thameslink-operated trains on the Thameslink route. It is on the boundary of Travelcard Zone 3 and Zone 4. It was built by the Midland Railway in 1868 on its extension to St. Pancras. From 1875 the Midland opened a service to Victoria on the London, Chatham and Dover Railway line and received coaches from the London and South Western Railway for attachment to northbound trains. Location The station is on Station Road in West Hendon, next to the M1 motorway, about 1 km from Hendon Central. Services All services at Hendon are operated by Thameslink using EMUs. The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is: * 4 tph to * 4 tph to (2 of these run via and 2 run via ) During the peak hours, the statio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingsbury Tube Station
Kingsbury is a London Underground station in northwest London, England. It is on the Jubilee line between Queensbury tube station, Queensbury and Wembley Park tube station, Wembley Park stations, in London fare zones, Zone 4, in the borough of London Borough of Brent, Brent. Although now only served by deep-level tube trains, the section of line serving the station is built to surface gauge, and trains to that larger LU loading gauge occasionally pass through. History It was opened on 10 December 1932 as part of the Stanmore branch of the Metropolitan Railway and served by that company's electric trains. After the formation of London Transport in 1933 this branch became part of the LU Metropolitan line and was later transferred to the Bakerloo line in 1939 then to the Jubilee line in 1979. The design style is similar to that of other Metropolitan Railway buildings of the same period rather than to the concrete and glass style used at the same time by the London Electric Railw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenton Station
Kenton is a railway station on the Watford DC line and the London Underground Bakerloo line, situated on Kenton Road in Kenton, north-west London. The station is served by London Overground and London Underground services. It has an out of station interchange (OSI) with Northwick Park station on the London Underground's Metropolitan line. In the Bakerloo line, the station is between Harrow & Wealdstone and South Kenton stations. History The station was one of several built on the London and North Western Railway's " New Line" from Camden to Watford Junction which enabled local services from Watford Junction station to reach Euston station and Broad Street station in London. The New Line was mostly alongside main line of the London and Birmingham Railway in 1837. Kenton station was opened on 15 June 1912. It has only ever had platforms on the New Line; parallel main line services call at Harrow and Wealdstone station, one stop to the north, with some also calling at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harrow-on-the-Hill Station
Harrow-on-the-Hill is an interchange station, interchange railway station in Harrow, London, Harrow, served by suburban London Underground Metropolitan line services and commuter National Rail services on the London–Aylesbury line. It is down the line from . Harrow-on-the-Hill is the final Metropolitan line stop from Central London before the line splits with the main branch towards Moor Park tube station, Moor Park and the diverged Uxbridge branch towards Uxbridge tube station, Uxbridge. It is in Travelcard Zone 5. History The station was opened as "Harrow" on 2 August 1880, when the Metropolitan Railway was extended from its previous terminus at Willesden Green tube station, Willesden Green. Its name was changed to "Harrow-on-the-Hill" on 1 June 1894. Like some other Underground stations, the name is an example of marketing rather than precision; in this case the town "proper" of the same name is at the top of Harrow Hill (i.e. Harrow-on-the-Hill), while the station is loca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harrow, London
Harrow () is a large town in Greater London, England, and serves as the principal settlement of the London Borough of Harrow. Lying about north-west of Charing Cross and south of Watford, the entire town including its localities had a population of 149,246 at the 2011 census, whereas the wider borough (which also contains Pinner and Stanmore) had a population of 250,149. The historic centre of Harrow was atop the Harrow Hill. The modern town of Harrow grew out at the foot of the settlement, in what was historically called Greenhill. With the arrival of the Metropolitan Railway in the 19th century, the centre of Harrow moved to Greenhill and it grew as the unofficial "capital" of the Metroland suburbia in the early 20th century; Harrow-on-the-Hill station is on one of the railway corridors between London and the Chilterns. Meanwhile, Harrow & Wealdstone station is on the West Coast Main Line and is the eighth oldest railway station, having opened in 1837 one and a ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evening Standard
The ''Evening Standard'', formerly ''The Standard'' (1827–1904), also known as the ''London Evening Standard'', is a local free daily newspaper in London, England, published Monday to Friday in tabloid format. In October 2009, after being purchased by Russian businessman Alexander Lebedev, the paper ended a 180-year history of paid circulation and became a free newspaper, doubling its circulation as part of a change in its business plan. Emily Sheffield became editor in July 2020 but resigned in October 2021. History From 1827 to 2009 The newspaper was founded by barrister Stanley Lees Giffard on 21 May 1827 as ''The Standard''. The early owner of the paper was Charles Baldwin. Under the ownership of James Johnstone, ''The Standard'' became a morning paper from 29 June 1857. ''The Evening Standard'' was published from 11 June 1859. ''The Standard'' gained eminence for its detailed foreign news, notably its reporting of events of the American Civil War (1861–1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coach & Bus Week
''Coach & Bus Week'' (CBW) is the only paid-for weekly trade magazine for the road passenger transport industry in the United Kingdom. It is available by subscription, from main branches of WHSmith and from some independent newsagents. The magazine is based in Peterborough. History and profile ''Coach & Bus Week'' was established in 1978. The magazine had half its roots with the founding in Hull by former coach proprietor Terry Beanland of ''Coachmart''. Its most prolific journalist was Ray Pearson, who covered all technical aspects, including road tests and tourism topics. The weekly magazine was purchased by EMAP and moved to Peterborough Peterborough () is a cathedral city in Cambridgeshire, east of England. It is the largest part of the City of Peterborough unitary authority district (which covers a larger area than Peterborough itself). It was part of Northamptonshire until .... The publisher was EMAP Response (later renamed EMAP Automotive), which purchased Bus Busine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
