London Buses route 293
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 One of the Citaros used on the service, before it was registered and entered service |
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| Operated by | Quality Line |
| Garage | Epsom |
| Vehicle | Mercedes-Benz Citaro |
| PVR † | Six |
| Route | |
| Start | Morden |
| Via | Lower Morden North Cheam Ewell Epsom |
| End | Epsom General Hospital |
| Length | 8 miles (12 km) |
| Service | |
| Level | Daily |
| Frequency | Every 20 minutes, every 30 evenings and Sundays. |
| Journey time | 30-40 minutes (50 in peaks) |
| Day | 05:39 (towards Morden) until 00:25 (towards Epsom) |
| Night | There is no night service |
| Adult single fares | |
| Oyster | 90p |
| Cash | £2.00 |
| † peak vehicle requirement Transport for London • Performance |
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London Buses route 293 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, United Kingdom. The service is currently contracted to Quality Line, one of the trading names of Epsom Coaches.
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[edit] History
Route 293 was begun in April 1970, replacing route 93 between North Cheam and Epsom. At the time, the service ran beyond Morden to South Wimbledon and Wimbledon railway station, and served Epsom railway station rather than the General Hospital.
In April 1981, the route was converted to double deck operation. A year later, it was moved from Merton to Sutton garage.
A year after that the routing was changed to serve North Cheam between Ewell and Morden and Hackbridge instead of Wimbledon. Two years later, in April 1985, the service was swapped back to Merton garage.
In February 1989, operation was transferred to London County South West, and then in 1990, the route was withdrawn from Epsom station and extended to Merton Abbey Savacentre.
Between 1995 and 1998, there were a number of route changes, but the route was finally standardised to run its current service in 2000, now operated by the new London General.
The contract was awarded to Quality Line for the service to begin in September 2003. The service was slightly re-routed between Morden and North Cheam.
[edit] Current route
[edit] Route departing Morden
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[edit] Route departing Epsom
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[edit] See also
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