London Buses route 1

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Management
Operated by	East Thames Buses
Garage	Mandela Way
Vehicle	Volvo B7TL/Wright Eclipse Gemini (VWL)
Route
Start	Tottenham Court Road Station
Via	Elephant & Castle Waterloo Holborn
End	Canada Water Station
Length	6 miles (9 km)
Service
Level	Daily (6:00am until 1:00am)
Frequency	About every 8 minutes
Journey time	28-50 minutes
Night	Night Bus N1
Adult single fares
Cash	£1.50
Oyster	80p (£1 Mon-Fri 7-9.30am)
Transport for London

London Buses route 1 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, United Kingdom. The service is currently contracted to East Thames Buses.

1 History
2 Current route
- 2.1 Route departing Canada Water
- 2.2 Route departing Tottenham Court Road
3 Gallery
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] History

Route 1 once ran from Willesden to Lewisham, and more recently provided part of the service between Lewisham and Bromley. However it has since retracted at both ends, largely without direct replacement. The new night equivalent, N1, goes off in a completely different direction, to Thamesmead.

Although essentially now a south London route, it was won late in 1998 by First Capital, a company from North East London, which operated it from a base in distant Dagenham. The route was later re-allocted a bit nearer home at Hackney.

Changes connected with the Jubilee Line Extension in 1999 saw the 199 withdrawn between Surrey Quays and Elephant & Castle. Once again the 1 became the only route serving South Bermondsey on an East-West axis, the theory being that passengers would transfer to the Jubilee Line. They did not, and severe overcrowding resulted at peak times on this section. Extra buses had to be introduced; these were provided by a variety of operators, but notably Blue Triangle. They were eventually absorbed into the main schedule by First Capital itself.

Meanwhile, London Buses owned East Thames Buses found itself needing to re-locate from Ash Grove to make way for the new bendy buses on the 38, and a suitable base was found in Southwark. However, most of the Ash Grove routes were well away from Southwark, so it made sense for a swaparound of routes to occur, and ETB’s routes north of the Thames (128 and 150) were put out to tender while they assumed the 1/N1.

[edit] Current route

[edit] Route departing Canada Water

[edit] Route departing Tottenham Court Road

[edit] Gallery

AEC Regent III RT operation of route 1	London Central Leyland Titan operation of route 1	Capital Citybus MCW Metrobus operation of route 1	First Capital MCW Metrobus operation of route 1
First London Plaxton President operation of route 1	East Thames Buses Volvo B7TL/Wright Eclipse Gemini operation of route 1