Day 112, two hours to get there and one and a half hours to get back after doing the No 179.

I departed on the 1200 train towards Victoria and alighted at Clapham Junction. I arrived just as the 1232 train to Hackney was leaving so had to wait until the 1247 London Overground service which arrived at Hackney Central at 1341. I used the linking walkway to Hackney Downs station in order to catch a train to Chingford. This was the 1355 TFL Rail train which arrived at Chingford at 1413.

Class 315 trains at Chingford station

Buses outside of Chingford station, three different companies but no No 179

The No 179 bus starts in the bus terminal at the railway station but there were no buses of the desired bus route in when I arrived. It wasn't long, however, before Stagecoach's 10181 from Barking garage arrived at 1421 and since it did not layover started back straight away whence it had cometh.

Stagecoach No 10181 ready to convey me to Ilford

The driver advised me that it had taken ten minutes to do the length of the high street owing to the roadworks in the middle. It did take quite a time but was actually only eight minutes. After stopping at the green the bus turns left and takes the road under the railway to Friday Hill where the road name changes to Whitehall Road. This road reaches the old A11 at traffic lights where the bus turned right and headed for Woodford Green. Throughout the journey we were under a succession of showers and that made it impossible to take photographs through the front window which was constantly streaming with water. Rather than follow the old A11 just after the North Circular the bus turned left down George Lane and after following a strange one way system reached a stop called South Woodford station where we arrived at 1449.

Approaching the Charlie Brown's roundabout

After this the bus turned north along Chigwell Road towards the Charlie Brown's roundabout where it turned right to reach the road that I had taken when on the No 123 which runs from here to Gants Hill. The next No 179 overtook us along this road before we reached Gants Hill, this being Stagecoach's 19779.

Stagecoach No 19779 overtook us as we approached the
Gants Hill roundabout.

The route mirrored the No 123 and many others thereafter, travelling down Cranbrook Road and into Ilford where once again the bus terminated at Hainault Street at 1522.

Once again I arrived at Hainault Street in Ilford

The journey home was a route I have now taken many times-train to Stratford, Jubilee line to Canada Water, London Overground to West Croydon and then onward by Southern Train.