Aviation Specials – June 2018

62 The London Bus

of a new route 186. The 114, 140

and 209 gave way to a 286 to

Harrow, which in turn became

today’s route 340.

In the opposite direction along

Station Road, the 18 once had

specially extended services to the

bus overhaul works at Aldenham.

Another long route surviving

from the 1930s is the 113,

nowadays linking Edgware and

Oxford Circus, the only one of

the current daytime routes to

penetrate the central Zone 1

area.

The 114 had once operated

through to Mill Hill. From

the 1930s, route 141 to

Borehamwood became a 241

then back to a 141 before it was

absorbed into an extension of the

107 from the direction of Ponders

End, Enfield and Barnet. At one

time this was believed to have

been a contender for longest

route on the network, nowadays

cut back to New Barnet Station.

Route 288 is probably the

most local service, introduced

in June 1972 to serve the

Broadfields housing estate,

but later extended across to

Queensbury via the High Street.

Borehamwood had a second link

added when route 292 began to

serve the road, first from one

direction then the other.

A route 104 operated from the

1920s and ran from the forecourt

Suburban London

RIGHT: London
Transport on the
station side court
in the 1970s. Left
to right are an
RF-class AEC Regal
IV, Routemaster
RM2040 and
Daimler Fleetline
DMS674.

BELOW: One of
Tony Wilson’s
favourite
buses from his
schooldays, Mann
Egerton-bodied
Leyland Tiger PS1
TD86, at Edgware
station on route
240A. MALCOLM
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