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| Waiting for the No 84 at New Barnet station |
We had to wait just over ten minutes outside New Barnet station for a Metroline double decker TE 949 to arrive and furnish our initial transport towards St Albans. The bus route is outwith the TFL oyster area which meant we had to pay £4.80 for the journey. Our No 84 departed at 1234 and as we turned the corner we soon espied the reason for the nasty stench we had to endure whilst waiting: a drain was being purged from beneath a multi storey building.
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| TE949 of Metroline at New Barnet |
There was a fairly quick change into countryside proper, as we left Barnet High Street and once we reached the next built up area we were asked to change buses at Potters Bar bus garage at 1256. The bus we were invited to mount was an Enduro Dart lengthened DEL850 once again owned by Metroline.
Progress was quite brisk in rural areas as few stops were made but the southern approach to St Albans near London Colney was rather tardy owing to road works and an abandoned car on the roundabout at the North Orbital Road. Once across this roundabout we dove into a large supermarket car park before returning to the roundabout and heading erratically towards St Albans. We finally came to a halt in St Peter's Road at 1344.
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| Metroline DEL850 at St Peter's Road in St Albans |
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| My wife heading to the Works shop behind DEL850 |
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| Charmaine heading for interesting shops, leaving me in her wake. St Albans! |
We did a little shopping in the non chain shops before walking to City station and returning home via Thameslink to West Hampstead Thameslink which cost £11.30. The London Overground train then took us to Clapham Junction but on arrival we found there had been a train failure on suburban services out of Victoria. We had to catch the only train that was running which was first stop Carshalton on its way to Dorking and then walk to the bus stop to catch the No 407 bus homewards.
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