London Buses route 11

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11

Management
Operated by	London General
Garage	Stockwell
Vehicle	Volvo B7TL/Wright Eclipse Gemini
Peak vehicle requirement	26
Route
Start	Liverpool Street Station
Via	St Pauls Aldwych Parliament Square Kings Road
End	Fulham Broadway
Length	7 miles (11 km)
Service
Level	Daily (5:15am until 1:30am)
Frequency	About every 7 minutes
Journey time	35-80 minutes
Night	Night Bus N11
Transport for London • Performance (PDF)

London Buses route 11 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, United Kingdom. The service is currently contracted to London General.

Contents 1 History 2 Current route 2.1 Route departing Liverpool Street 2.2 Route departing Fulham Broadway 3 See also 4 External links

[edit] History

The route 11 starts at the bus station of Liverpool Street station in the north eastern corner of the City of London and terminates at Fulham Broadway travelling via the West End and some of London's most famous landmarks. Making the journey from the top deck is a cheap means of sightseeing in London.

On 4 June 2002, Queen Elizabeth's Golden Jubilee, the Metropolitan Police flagged down a Number 11 bus and used it as temporary transport for twenty-three peaceful anti-royalty demonstrators whom they had arrested after the demonstration, most of them in a nearby pub. The bus was used to take the protestors to various police stations for questioning. The protestors sued the police, and the Met settled out of court with an apology, an admission of unlawful detention, and a payment of £3,500 to each protestor.

The route has a cameo appearance in the 2005 film The Da Vinci Code, where the protagonists take a number 11 bus from near Temple Church to get to "Chelsea Library", though they get off at Westminster Abbey; this is the same route the bus takes in real life.

[edit] Current route

[edit] Route departing Liverpool Street Liverpool Street Station Bus Station Old Broad Street Threadneedle Street Bank Station Queen Victoria Street Mansion House Station Queen Victoria Street Friday Street Cannon Street St Paul's Churchyard Ludgate Hill City Thameslink Station Ludgate Circus Fleet Street Strand Aldwych Strand Charing Cross Station Strand Charing Cross Trafalgar Square Whitehall Parliament Street Westminster Station Parliament Square Broad Sanctuary Victoria Street Victoria Station Buckingham Palace Road Victoria Coach Station Buckingham Palace Road Pimlico Road Lower Sloane Street Sloane Square Station Kings Road Chelsea Kings Road New King's Road Harwood Street Fulham Broadway Station

[edit] Route departing Fulham Broadway Fulham Broadway Station Harwood Road Harwood Street New King's Road Kings Road Chelsea Kings Road Sloane Square Station Lower Sloane Street Pimlico Road Buckingham Palace Road Victoria Coach Station Buckingham Palace Road Terminus Place Victoria Station Wilton Road Allington Street Bressenden Place Victoria Street Broad Sanctuary Parliament Square Westminster Station Parliament Street Whitehall Trafalgar Square Charing Cross Strand Charing Cross Station Strand Aldwych Strand Fleet Street |Ludgate Circus City Thameslink Station Ludgate Hill St Paul's Churchyard Cannon Street Mansion House Station Queen Victoria Street Bank Station Threadneedle Street Old Broad Street Liverpool Street Station Bus Station

[edit] See also

• List of bus routes in London
• London General

[edit] External links

• Transport for London
• London Bus Routes Fotopic
• London Bus Routes
• Full Timetable (PDF)
• Alexei Sayle's story of the morning the Number 11 bus started making housecalls
• Photogallery of the last day of Routemaster service for route 11, 31 October 2003
• The day the Number 11 bus became a prison for 23 anti-royal protesters - The Guardian, 5 February 2004

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