Tuesday 29 April 2014

Commuting by train or driving and parking into Central London?

Driving into London can take longer and expensive as you have to tackle your way through the traffic jam, pay the Congestion charge and pay a fortune for parking. If your going into Central London for the purpose of attending appointments, Job interview, tourism…etc

The fuel would cost you between £5.00 or £15.00 (Source Google Maps) to drive inside the M25 motorway and into Central London, depending where you travel from.

Monday 28 April 2014

Revisited: bus observations at Bridge Road, Rainham


Well I have been filming buses at the Bridge Road earlier today by the roundabout. But I seen Go Ahead Blue Triangle buses which is near the Stagecoach's RM garage. But shamefully my SD card on the smartphone corrupted the footage I made. But overall here is the video which I uploaded what the SD card got available to me.

Thursday 24 April 2014

Website Review: London Bus Routes

Screenshot of the Front page of London Bus Routes website
London Bus Routes is a website that features timetables for bus routes that serves in London.  Here you can find a timetable for your local bus route in London. The website pages were originally designed for Microsoft Internet Explorer, but it gives a retro feel that your visiting a website with less graphics due to slow dial up technology over a decade ago. Another positive thought that the pages on this website load lot quicker under a broadband connection. This website is maintained by Robert Munster in which he works as a bus schedulecompiler for one of the major London Bus operators. His website is not affiliated to Transport for London or any of the bus operators.

Tuesday 22 April 2014

Go Ahead London Enviro400 on route 498


Link to video on Dailymotion
Link to video on YouTube


I haven't posted an article about this video so I apologise.
Route 498 goes from Romford Queens Hospital to Brentwood.

The route contract novated from First London on 22/06/2013.
The route have a PVR of 6 buses and it operated by Go Ahead Blue Triangle from Rainham (BE) garage. The route usually have bus types of Alexander Dennis Enviro400 leased from First Group, Volvo B7TL Plaxton President from Northumberland Park Garage which used to be part of First Group and Go Ahead Wrightbus Gemini Volvo B7TL.

Sunday 20 April 2014

Tour Buses or London Transport Buses for sightseeing?

Well if you’re travelling to London for a short stay or a day trip, you would encourage yourself to ride on the double decker buses to see the sights of Central London.  But I help you on comparing the differences between the open top tour buses and normal commuting London Buses.

Prices on sightseeing tour buses and London Buses
Oyster Card
Creative Commons Image

Thursday 10 April 2014

Website Review: Live Tube Map


This is the continuation from the LiveLondon Bus Map which the developer Matthew Somerville made.
Before he made the bus map, he created a Live Tube Map which shows the London Underground trains

Monday 7 April 2014

Site Review: Live London Bus Map

Live London Bus Map
Live London Bus Map shows the London Bus routes onto an interactive map. It is developed by Matthew Somerville who developed the Live Tube Map in which he originally created.  It uses Open Street Map

Saturday 5 April 2014

Jubilee Line Extension for OpenBVE

The Jubilee Line extension opened in stages from the summer to Christmas in year 1999. The Jubilee Line Extension started the extension from Green Park to Stratford via South London.

Website review: London Vehicle Finder

London Vehicle Finder tracks the buses that are currently running on the London Bus routes.  When you enter a route number, the website gives you a list of buses currently operating on route 11

Friday 4 April 2014

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