London Transport
Country Area Routes 460–469

South of the Thames

Last updated 18-07-08.

Route 460 ran daily between Slough Station and Staines Central Station via via Datchet and Wraysbury. Originally the service was part of a longer route 462 between Slough Station and Leatherhead.
Route 460 farecard
A card fare table for Country bus route 460. On RT type vehicles they were displayed behind a glass panel at the rear of the lower saloon by the bench seat next to the staircase This one is of the larger size designed for RT and RF type buses, and it is a bit grubby from use, with some foxing due to age. It dates from 1968. 460
 460 MON.-SAT.
461A 461A FARE STAGE

Route 461A ran in the Country area daily between Walton (Odeon) and Botleys Park (St. Peter’s Hospital) via Weybridge, Addlestone, Coombelands and Ottershaw.

This service was started by London General as route 162 (Staines to Burnham Beeches) in 1926, and later extended to Leatherhead (Bull), becoming 462 at the formation of the London Passenger Transport Board in 1933. The route was cut in two in June 1943: the Slough–Staines section becoming route 460, and the rest—Staines to Leatherhead—remained as 462. By the 1960s the 462 ran daily between Leatherhead Station and Addlestone via Fetcham, Stoke D’Abernon, Cobham and Weybridge. It was extended on Mondays to Saturdays to Chertsey, with some morning journeys further extended during Monday to Friday peak hours to Staines West Station.

Norman Brown was kind enough to write, “My interest stems from the time when we lived in Slough on the route close to the Slough (Alpha Street) Garage; [it was] empty when I knew it but later became Slough BRS Depot for a short time. We left Slough in 1942 and by the time I met up with [route] 460 after the war it had become double deck. I remember [the] 462 as mainly C, occasional CR, and Q. It was operated at one point by a loaned West Yorkshire Bristol; there is a shot in one of the earlier Ian Allan books at Slough Station exhibiting the blind 462 SLOUGH STATION, probably on a short to Datchet Green..”

Route 462 changed very little over the years, and this accounts for the “E” plate being old and somewhat discoloured.

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463 463 FARE STAGE

Route 463 ran daily between Guildford (Bus Station) and Walton (Odeon) via Merrow, West Clandon, Clandon, Send, Kingfield Green, Woking, Woodham, New Haw, Addlestone and Weybridge.

Route 464 ran between Holland (Coldshott) and Westerham via Oxted, Limpsfield, Chart, Crockham Hill and Hosey Common. There were many different special journeys running to Staffhurst Wood at school times, via Pollards Oak Crescent, and variations in Oxted, so this plate might have come from any of them, but more likely the stops that would have had “E” plates would have been in Oxted. Buses on the 464 arriving at Westerham would usually change into a 485 running to Edenbridge, where they would then change into a 465 to run back to Holland. A similar arrangement ran in the reverse direction.

 464 SPECIAL JOURNEYS FARE STAGE
465

Route 465 ran between Holland (Coldshott) and Edenbridge via Oxted, Limpsfield, Chart and Crockham Hill. Buses on the 465 arriving at Edenbridge would usually change into a 485 running to Westerham, where they would then change into a 464 to run back to Holland. A similar arrangement ran in the reverse direction.

Route 466 ran on Mondays to Saturdays between Staines (Church Street) and Knowle Hill via Egham, Stroude and Virginia Water, with some journeys running off normal line of route to Virginia Water Station.

 466
467
 467 FARE STAGE
Route 467 fare card
 A card fare table for country bus routes 467 and 491. Route 467 is printed on one side and route 491 on the reverse. These fares charts were displayed behind a glass panel at the rear of the lower saloon by the bench seat next to the staircase. This one is of the larger size designed for RT and RF type busses and is a bit grubby and creased from use. It is dated 1968.

Route 467 ran daily between Sidcup Station and Dartford via Foots Cray, North Cray, Bexley, and Crayford. On Mondays to Saturdays it ran beyond Dartford to Horton Kirby (Westminster Mills) via Wilmington and Sutton-at-Hone. It was worked from Dartford Garage [DT] in conjunction with the 491 which ran between Lower Belvedere and Dartford and was similarly extended to Horton Kirby in parallel with the 467. In the mid-1970s the 467 was renumbered 492 to save bus drivers from having to change two number blinds when switched between the 491 and 467 journeys on vehicles that had three-track number blinds. The Sidcup to Dartford section of the route survives today as part of London Buses’ route 492.

Route 467 was reintroduced by London Country on 27th November 1976, running on Monday to Saturday between Staines Station and Poyle (Coleridge Crescent) via Yeoveney Lodge and Poyle Farm. The Monday-to-Friday service was withdrawn less than a year later on 1st October 1977, leaving just the Saturday journeys. On 6th October 1979 the westbound service was diverted via the new Staines bus station, and at the same time London Transport introduced a lettered bus stop scheme in Staines, so the bus stops in the town centre were changed to the LT-style stops with “E” plates, for which this plate was created. The 467 was withdrawn on 24th May 1980; therefore this plate had a working life of little more than six months.

 467A SATURDAY
467A SUNDAY

Route 467A operated 13 May 1959 until 11 October 1960 providing odd journeys on Sunday afternoons from Sidcup Station to Dartford (Bow Arrow Lane) via Foots Cray, North Cray, Bexley and Crayford. It was a replacement for the 499 which had no Sunday service.

Route 468 ran daily between Chessington Zoo and Epsom Station via West Ewell and Ewell, and was extended on Mondays to Saturdays to Effingham via Ashtead, Leatherhead and Great Bookham.

The SPECIAL JOURNEYS ONLY plate was once located, many years ago, outside Chessington Zoo (now the World of Adventures). The stop also carried an unusual “G” plate that stated ALSO ROUTE 265 ALIGHTING POINT BY REQUEST.

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469

Route 469 ran between Staines (Church Street) and Virginia Water (Wheatsheaf) via Pooley Green, Thorpe and Virginia Water Station.

The 469 did not change at all over the years and this “E” plate probably dates from the first introduction of bus stops on the route, presumably in the early ’50s.
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