Route History

Date of introduction
Gar
Mon-Fri
Sat
Sun
19.01.91
PD71+
3MRL
3MRL
--
New contract

ELTHAM HIGH STREET - Southend Crescent - Foots Cray Road - Eltham High Street - Well Hall Road - Westhorne Avenue - Sidcup Road - Abergeldie Road - ( return via Westhorne Avenue ) - Horn Park Lane - Eltham Road - Weigall Road - Kidbroke Park Road - Kidbroke Way - Rochester Way - Broad Walk - Woolacombe Road - Dursley Road - Holburne Road - Corelli Road - Shooters Hill Road - Old Dover Road - Westcombe Hill - ( return via Park Villas and Charlton Road ) - Westcombe Park Road - Vanburgh Hill GREENWICH District Hospital ( return via Trafalgar Road - Maze Hill and Westcombe Park Road. ( Mon-Sat except evenings )
NEW MIDIBUS ROUTE operated by Selkent (PD)


 

MA18 Eltham stand

 


24.05.93
PD71+
3MA/MRL
3MA/MRL
--

GREENWICH Cutty Sark - Romney Road - Trafalgar Road - Vanburgh Hill - Westcombe Park Road - Old Dover Road - Shooters Hill Road - Weyman Road - WricklemarshRoad - Woolacombe Road - Dursley Road - Holburne Road - Corelli Road - Shooters Hill Road - Academy Road - Woolwich Common - Herbert Road - Nightingale Place ,Grand Depot Road - Plumstead Road - PLUMSTEAD GARAGE (Mon-Sat)
Withdrawn from most of former routeing and revised to operate to/from Plumstead Garage instead of Eltham and extended at Greenwich to Cutty Sark.
Evening service introduced.

MRL142 General Gordon Place on a garage journey

busmap.co.uk


12.02.94
PD71+
3MA/MRL
3MA/MRL
--

GREENWICH Cutty Sark - WOOLWICH Beresford Square ( Mon-Fri peaks ) - PLUMSTEAD GARAGE ( except Mon-Fri peaks )
Withdrawn Mon-Fri peaks between Woolwich & Plumstead

08.10.94
PD71+
3MA
3MA
--

GREENWICH Cutty Sark - WOOLWICH Beresford Square ( - PLUMSTEAD GARAGE ( garage journeys only)
Withdrawn between Woolwich & Plumstead except for garage journeys.

30.05.98
PD71+
4MB
3MB
--

GREENWICH Cutty Sark - WOOLWICH Beresford Square ( - PLUMSTEAD GARAGE ( garage journeys only)
Contract renewal

24.02.01
PD71+
5SLD
5SLD
4SLD

GREENWICH Cutty Sark - Romney Road - Trafalgar Road - Vanburgh Hill - Westcombe Park Road - Old Dover Road - Shooters Hill Road - Weyman Road - WricklemarshRoad - Woolacombe Road - Dursley Road - Holburne Road - Corelli Road - Shooters Hill Road,Baker Road ,Queen Elizabeth Hospital - Ha Ha Road - Woolwich Common - Herbert Road - Nightingale Place ,Grand Depot Road - WOOLWICH Burrage Road - Plumstead Road - PLUMSTEAD GARAGE (Garage journeys only)
Diverted between Shooters Hill and Woolwich to serve Queen Elizabeth Hospital - withdrawn section via Academy Road served by Route 122
Sunday service introduced.

31.05.03
PD71+
8DS
8DS
5DS

GREENWICH Cutty Sark - WOOLWICH Beresford Street
Contract renewal with Selkent
Garage journeys now run out of service between Woolwich & PD
Terminal arrangements revised at Woolwich so that arriving buses are projected from Plumstead Road to Beresford Street - departing via the MarketHhill - Hare St - Powis St - John Wilson St - Castile Road - Monk Street - Calderwood St - and Thomas Street loop working picking up the former routeing at Beresford Square

10.02.07
PD71+
10DS
10DS
5DS

WOOLWICH Beresford Street - Greenwich - Greenwich High Road - Greenwich South Street - Blackheath Hill - Shooters Hill Road - then southbound via Prince Charles Road - Montpelier Row - Montpelier Vale - Tranquil Vale - Royal Parade - BLACKHEATH VILLAGE ( returning via Montppelier Vale - Tranquil Vale - Hare & BIllet Road - Wat Tyler Road,
Extended from Greenwich to Blackheath Village

31.05.08
PD71+
10ES
10ES
5ES

WOOLWICH  -  BLACKHEATH VILLAGE
Contract renewal

34156 Greenwich


06.02.10
PD71+
10ES
10ES
5ES

BLACKHEATH VILLAGE - Greenwich - Blackheath - Queen Elizabeth Hospital - Stadium Road - Ha Ha Road - Circular Road - Woolwich Common - Herbert Road - Sandy Hill Road - Woolwich New Road - Woolwich New Road/Thomas Street
Diverted between Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Woolwich via Sandy Hill Road instead of Plumstead Common Road

01.06.13
PD71+
10ES
10ES
9ES

WOOLWICH  -  BLACKHEATH VILLAGE
Contract renewal and increased evening and Sunday service

Enviro Dart 36334 Woolwich Town Centre

01.05.14
PD71+
10ES
10ES
9ES

Taken from 2014 map drawn by Mike Harris
busmap.co.uk

17.03.18
TL371+
11ES
11ES
11ES

WOOLWICH  -  BLACKHEATH
Allocation moved from Plumstead (PD) to Catford (TL)

02.06.18
MG201+
11SE
11SE
8ES
logo Contract reassigned

WOOLWICH  -  BLACKHEATH
New operator

SEN20 Woolwich Town Centre

SEN20 Woolwich Town Centre

© Ian Armstrong


06.06.22
MG201+
11SE
11SE
8ES

WOOLWICH  -  BLACKHEATH
Changeovers at Woolwich Calderwood Street towards Blackheath Village & Woolwich Arsenal Station towards Woolwich.
There is a single changeover at 2041 at Vanbrugh Hill

 

Operating Garages

MG Morden Wharf
Crew changeover point at National Maritime Museum and Vanburgh Hill for start / finish duties
From 2022 Changeovers at Woolwich Calderwood Street towards Blackheath Village & Woolwich Arsenal Station towards Woolwich.
There is a single changeover at 2041 at Vanbrugh Hill

PD Plumstead
Crew changeover point at 2016 is Beresford Street stand

TL Catford
Crew changeover point at Greenwich Town Centre but Sundays all reliefs at TL Garage, buses running light from Blackeath

 

GA-L Route guide

 

© Ian Armstrong 2024
Date of edit   Thursday, 07.03.24