Route History

Fares

Date
Gar
Mon-Fri
Sat
Sun
03.02.60
WW
12RM
8RM
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CHINGFORD MOUNT ( Mon-Sat )  - Crooked Billet - Billet Rd - Blackhorse Lane - Markhouse Rd - Lea Bridge Rd - Millfields - Mare Street  -  - Cambridge Heath - SHOREDITCH CHURCH ( Sat pm ) - Old Street - City Rd - (return via Chiswell Street & Bunhill Row)   -  MOORGATE Finsbury Square (Mon-Fri/Sat am)
New Route replacing part of TB Route 685 between Crooked Billet and Lea Bridge Road / and TB Route 557 between Lea BridgeRoad and although a diversion via Millfields was new.
The Old Street to Moorgate was a new connection

1961 ?
WW
12RM
8RM
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CHINGFORD MOUNT ( Mon-Sat )  -  HACKNEY Well Street ( Sat pm )  -  FINSBURY SQUARE ( Mon-Fri / Sat am)
Saturday pm service withdrawn between Hackney and Shoreditch
I cannot find any documentation to pin point the date but the change is shown on the Jan 1961 Bus Map

29.01.64
WW
12RM
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CHINGFORD MOUNT - HACKNEY (Mon-Fri evenings) - MOORGATE (Mon-Fri except evenings)
Mon-Fri evenings withdrawn between Hackney and Moorgate
Saturday withdrawn in favour of new 256A.

Taken from 1964 map drawn by Mike Harris
busmap.co.uk

01.07.64
WW
12RM
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31.12.66
WW
12RM
6RM
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CHINGFORD MOUNT - HACKNEY (Sats) - MOORGATE (Mon-Fri)
Mon-Fri extended evenings Hackney to Moorgate and Saturday service re-introduced (256A withdrawn).

25.10.69
WW
8RM
6RM
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CHINGFORD MOUNT - HACKNEY GARAGE ( Mon-Sat )
Withdrawn between Hackney Garage and Moorgate.

RM105 has just departed the stand at Chingford Mount on Albert Crescent while the construction there has left the once-colorful flower beds nothing more than a rubbish tip fit for drainage pipes and an ageing Hillman Avenger (sorry, "Hunter") Estate....

© Malcolm Allan


24.01.70
WW
8RM
6RM
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CHINGFORD MOUNT - CLAPTON GARAGE (Mon-Fri evenings) - HACKNEY (Mon-Fri except evenings/Sats)
Withdrawn Mon-Fri evenings between Clapton Garage and Hackney Garage.


10.09.77
WW
8RM
6RM
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CHINGFORD MOUNT - CLAPTON GARAGE (Mon-Sat evenings) - HACKNEY ( Mon-Sat except evenings )
Withdrawn Mon-Fri evenings between Clapton Garage and Hackney Garage.

22.04.78
Route withdrawn

Operating Garages

WW Walthamstow
MEAL RELIEF POINT Crooked Billet

 

© Ian Armstrong 2024
Date of edit   Thursday, 16.09.21