Day one hundred and twenty one the nearby No 194.

The day started with catching a No 410 to Croydon with my wife. I got off at West Croydon bus station and she continued to East Croydon to catch a No 119.

Arriva's DW311 arriving as it has circulated the bus station.

Arriva's DW311 arriving at West Croydon bus station.

At 1126 I boarded Arriva DW311 destined for Lower Sydenham, having advised a lady to join this bus in order to change at East Croydon for the No 119 as she wished to get to Bromley South. She was considering catching a No 367 which has a most convoluted way of reaching Bromley.

East Croydon bus station with Charmaine at head of line for No 119

Shirley library where the bus turned right.

The No 194 follows the route of The No 119 until Shirley library is reached and then it swings south down Hartland Way which then runs into Westway where the front of the bus hit a tree branch very hard but was uninjured, the bus that is not the tree.

Heading south to turn around the roundabout and then back north
down the opposite carriageway.

At the end of Westway the bus headed east along Shirley Way until it reached Bridle Road where the bus turns south again and does a 360 degree turn around a roundabout near Shrublands and heads back down Bridle Road in a northerly direction.

No 198 which before computerisation was the No 194B in
Bridle Road

Eden Park station with a Metrobus No 358 passing heading for
Orpington.

Back on Wickham Road the bus turned east and finally reaches the Bromley borough boundary at 1159. After West Wickham High Street the bus turned left into Station Road past the swimming pool and then we didn't stop until Eden Park station.















From here we reached Elmers End Green at 1212 where we turned right for Beckenham. In the years before we moved to Croydon the bus turned left and went past Elmers End bus garage but whilst my wife was working at Beckenham library betwixt 1984 and 1992 the change was effected.

Beckenham war memorial

 From Beckenham the bus headed west to Penge where I passed Cottingham Road and saw a plaque on both sides of this road called Central Exchange?

 Central Exchange plaque above The Mobility Centre

The bus turned right down Green Lane past the new Penge library under the railway then left along Parish Lane, Lennard Road and into Newlands Park once past Penge East station. Sydenham High Street was reached at 1230 and the bus terminated at the Bell Green Retail Park at 1238.

Arriving at Bell Green Retail Park

From here I caught the No 181 to Bromley Road and after a short wait a No 320 heading towards Biggin Hill valley which I took as far as Bromley Market Square. I then met the wife with her librarian friends Angela and Gill for lunch in Waitrose before heading for the Victoria and Albert Museum and then home.

Off the bus prior to it heading east to layover.