Collins' Illustrated Guide to London and Neighbourhood: Being a Concise Description of the Chief Places of Interest in the Metropolis, and the Best Modes of Obtaining Access to Them: with Information Relating to Railways, Omnibuses, Steamers, &c.Anonymous
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Collins' Illustrated Guide to London and Neighbourhood: Being a Concise Description of the Chief Places of Interest in the Metropolis, and the Best Modes of Obtaining Access to Them: with Information Relating to Railways, Omnibuses, Steamers, &c.
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London (England) -- Guidebooks
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Woodford, Essex Shore. & Fen. 9
Wood Green, Midd. K. C. 5
Woolwich Dockyard, L. B. 8
Kent
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CHIEF OMNIBUS ROUTES.
There are few better ways for a man to see London, on a fine day, than by
riding through it on an omnibus. These vehicles mostly begin to run
about 8.30–9 a.m., and cease about 12 p.m. To give more than a mere
general notion as regards a few of the chief omnibus routes, is
impossible in our limited space here. The fares range, for the most
part, from a minimum of 2d. to a maximum of 6d. They are painted inside
the omnibus: the main localities passed on the way, outside. The groups
of these conveyances known by distinctive _names_, (all the omnibuses of
each group having one common name,) are chiefly the following:—
_Atlas_—colour, green—running between St. John’s Wood and Camberwell
Gate, and _vice versa_, _via_ Oxford Street, and over Westminster
Bridge—every 5 minutes.
_City Atlas_—green—between Swiss Cottage, St. John’s Wood, and London
Bridge Station, and _vice versa_, _via_ Oxford St., Holborn, Bank—every 7
minutes.
_Bayswater_—light green—from Notting Hill and Bayswater to Mile-End Gate,
_via_ Oxford Street, Holborn, Cornhill, Whitechapel—every 6 minutes.
_Bayswater_ to _London Bridge Station_, _via_ Oxford Street, Holborn,
Cheapside—every few minutes.
_Bayswater_ to _Shoreditch Station_—Oxford Street, Holborn, Cheapside,
Threadneedle Street, Bishopsgate Street—every hour.
_Citizen_—_Paddington_ to _London Bridge Station_—Edgeware Road, (only,)
Oxford Street, Holborn, Bank—every 8 minutes.
Other omnibuses also run to and from Paddington, as follows:—
_Paddington_ to _London Bridge Station_—green—Royal Oak, Edgeware Road,
New Road, City Road, Bank—every 10 minutes.
_Paddington_ to _Fenchurch Station_—Some of the above go to Fenchurch
instead of London Bridge Station.
_Paddington_ to _Whitechapel_—green—as above to Bank, then Cornhill and
Aldgate—frequent.
_Paddington_ to _Charing Cross_—red—Edgeware Road, Oxford and Regent
Streets, Charing Cross—every 8 minutes.
* * * * *
_Favorite_—green—Holloway to London Bridge, _via_ Highbury, Islington,
City Road, Bank, King William Street—about every 8 minutes.
_Favorite_—green—Holloway to Westminster, Islington, Exmouth Street,
Chancery Lane, Westminster Abbey, Victoria Street.
_Favorite_—blue—Holloway Road, Caledonian Road, King’s Cross, Euston
Road, Portland Road, Regent Street, Piccadilly, Knightsbridge, South
Kensington, Museum, “Queen’s Elm”—every 9 minutes.
_Havelock_—Kingsland Gate to “Elephant and Castle,” _via_ Shoreditch,
Bishopsgate Street, London Bridge, Borough—at frequent intervals.
_Paragon_—green—Brixton to Gracechurch Street, Kensington, “Elephant and
Castle,” London Bridge—every 10 minutes.
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