6
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Overview | |
Operator | Metroline |
Garage | Willesden |
Vehicle | Volvo B7TL 10m/Plaxton President |
Peak vehicle requirement | Monday to Friday: 30 Saturday: 26 Sunday: 16 |
Nighttime | 24-hour service |
Route | |
Start | Willesden |
Via | Kensal Rise Edgware Road Oxford Circus Trafalgar Square |
End | Aldwych |
Length | 6 miles (10 km) |
Service | |
Level | 24-hour service |
Frequency | About every 6 minutes |
Journey time | 42-66 minutes |
Operates | 24-hour service |
Transport for London • Performance |
London Buses route 6 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, United Kingdom. The service is currently contracted to Metroline.
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The 6 is a short route, but a high daytime frequency contributes to a substantial requirement for up to 30 buses in service at any time. It used to run over a longer distance between Kensal Rise and Hackney Wick, but in 1942 the route was cut back to Kensal Rise from Willesden. It had previously been extended to Leyton at various times, but these were quickly withdrawn.[1]
In July 1992 it was further cut, with the section between Aldwych and Hackney Wick replaced by new route 26 This means the west end of the route now has no access to the City, although links from Hackney and Cambridge Heath to the West End are still covered to some degree by route 55.[1]
Between 1988 and 1991 the route had been jointly worked by the Metroline and London Forest divisions; Forest was wound up in 1991, and its workings were taken over by East London until 1992, when the remaining section of route was allocated entirely by Metroline.[2]
the 6 was converted to driver-only operation in March 2004, using new Volvo B7TLs in place of the former Routemasters.[3] It was decided to run all journeys to the garage, to provide a more consistent service over this corridor. However, the residents of Staverton Road, along which the 6's garage journeys passed (along with buses on route 52 and 302) objected to the increase in buses. So the number of through journeys had to be limited to the previous level. The service has since been re-routed via Donnington Road and Pound Lane.[1]
On the Mr Bean Director's cut "The Bus Stop" route 6 can be seen in a bus stop in one scene.