After dropping some items at the Croydon dump I caught a bus to East Croydon and boarded the late running 1045 to Peterborough as far as Farringdon. Here I switched to an eastbound Elizabeth line to Stratford arriving at 1155. After only a four minute wait I was on the last train-the Central line to Redbridge. Emerging from the station I found there was a No 366 right outside but this is not where the route starts from, so I walked along Roding Lane South with the Roding valley park on my right as far as Falmouth Gardens.
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| A No 336 waiting at Falmouth Gardens |
As I approached a bus that was waiting at the starting point took off for Ilford at 1210. The service was every 8-10 minutes so it was 1226 when I boarded London Generals' Byd electric single decker See217 and headed straight back the way I had walked to Redbridge station.
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| Falmouth Gardens bus stop |
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Regularity of service which should take just under
an hour |
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| Awaiting departure |
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| Roding valley allotments |
Beyond the station the bus took the A12 briefly before heading off right down The Drive with the No 145 for company. This road passed Cranbrook Primary school and on to Cranbrook Road which took us into the town centre of Ilford. The station passed at 1240 the bus went left and left again to pass the central library and back past where I quite recently was awaiting the No 364. Out to the east of Ilford the bus briefly took the A118 but soon swung south down Sunnyside Road as the only bus covering the road turning left at Eton Road. The bus joined with another on South Park Road before heading back east along Loxford Lane past Loxford Park, again alone.
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| Sunnyside Road |
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| Passing Loxford Park |
At the 'T' junction at the end the bus headed left and ran into Barking town centre. At 1304 we were at Barking station and at Barking Green the bus stopped to change drivers 1306 to 1308. After this we travelled into an industrial are following a No 325 down roads with some bus gates before reaching the B ecton triangle retail park. The bus retraced it steps back to where it crossed the North Circular and then took this south as far as Armada Way where it went left into Gallions Reach shopping centre ar 1322. The bus took Armada Way around the DLR depot and then to Gallions station. We took the A117 at the Gallions roundabout then left down Ferndale Street and then Woolwich Manor Way after running past Cyprus station to pull into Beckton bus station at 1338.
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| Gallions shopping centre |
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| Arrival at Beckton bus station |
At Beckton DLR station I took a train headed for Canning Town but I got off briefly at Royal Albert to look at what was residing at London City Airport.
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| Embraer Emb-190 of Cityflyer at London City |
I then reboarded a Canning Town destined train and changed for one to Poplar. At Poplar I boarded a Canary Wharf train and here a Lewisham train arrived as we pulled up. Thus I arrived at Lewisham about 1500 and found there was a Sevenoaks train at 1516 which led to me getting the branch line train at Grove Park at 1532 to Bromley North.
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| Bus turning area at Bromley North |
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| Networker at Bromley North |
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| Waiting for the fourth item on the list |
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| Bus number 8 on the list |
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| A No 367 going down to the end to turn around |
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| Abellio 8202 arriving |
At 1556 I boarded Abellio 8202 at Bromley North setting off briskly down Kentish Way thence by Elmfield Road to Bromley High Street. Beyond this the bus took Westmoreland Road and then went right at Cumberland Road.
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| Heading for Bromley High Street |
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| The first stop along Cumberland Road |
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Descending Kingsdown Road with the
central Library on the hill in the background |
This road becomes St Mary's Avenue and the bus, beyond the church, headed north downhill along Kingswood Road. Going left at Valley Road the bus went left again at Shortlands railway station joined the No 358 briefly before heading right along Beckenham Grove. The bus then wriggles alone through Shortlands before emerging from Oakwood Avenue into Bromley Road and running into Beckenham beside St George's church.
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| St George's church Beckenham |
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| Pillar box cover of a spider for halloween |
At 1619 the bus then went left down hill so as to take Beckenham High Street and then joined the No 352 to head along Village Way. The bus goes it alone again at the traffic lights to reach Elmers End via Eden Park Avenue. After passing Tescos and crossing the Hayes railway line we entered the London Borough of Croydon. The bus then took a long road called the Glade which lead to Orchard Avenue and eventually Shirley shopping centre.
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| Sweeping past Shirley library |
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| Shirley Coop |
From here the bus did a circuit of the Shirley oaks estate between 1641 and 1645 before running down to Ashburton park and then left along Addiscombe High street. Finally going left up Cherry Orchard Road the bus reached East Croydon and subsequently taking Wellesley Road it terminated outside Delta Point at 1705.
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| Croydon transmitter on hill from Shirley Oaks |
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| Final stop outside the Old BT building Delta Point |
I walked around to West Croydon bus station and caught a bus home.
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