London Buses route 43

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43

Management
Operated by	Metroline
Garage	Holloway
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Route
Start	Friern Barnet
Via	Muswell Hill Archway Holloway Islington Moorgate
End	London Bridge
Length	9 miles (15 km)
Service
Level	24-hours a day
Frequency	About every 6-8 minutes
Journey time	45-81 minutes
Night	24-hours a day
Adult single fares
Cash	£1.50
Oyster	80p (£1 Mon-Fri 7-9.30am)
Transport for London

London Buses route 43 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, United Kingdom. The service is currently contracted to Metroline.

1 History
2 Current route
- 2.1 Route departing Friern Barnet
3 Gallery
4 External links
5 Trivia
6 See also

[edit] History

The 43 commenced operation on 3 August 1912, as a daily route between Highgate (Archway Tavern) and London Bridge Station via Holloway Road, Upper Street, Angel, City Road Moorgate, Bank and London Bridge. Quite soon afterwards, on 19 August 1912 it was extended daily to Muswell Hill Broadway via East Finchley and Fortis Green Road.

On 11 September 1913 a daily supplementary 43A was introduced between Highgate (Archway Tavern) and London Bridge Station, but the Sunday service on this route was withdrawn in November 1913. On 29 June 1914, the 43A was extended daily to Peckham Rye (Kings Arms) on Mondays to Fridays via Borough High Street, Great Dover Street, Old Kent Road, Trafalgar Road Hill Street and Rye Lane, as well as being introduced on Saturdays and Sundays between Muswell Hill Broadway and Peckham Rye. On25 October 1914 it was withdrawn as a wartime economy, but on 7 December 1914 the 43A was re-instated as a daily route between Colney Hatch Lane and London Bridge Station, although the Sunday service was once again short-lived, being withdrawn in January 1915. On 2 April 1915, the 43A again became a daily route, being extended northwards on Sundays as from 16 April 1916 to Friern Barnet (Orange Tree). On 16 July 1916, the 43A disappeared again.

The plain 43 had become a stable route, seeing few changes, but on 29 March 1918, it was extended southwards on Sundays to Brixton (Prince of Wales) via Elephant & Castle and Kennington. The following year, the Sunday service was further extended to Kenley Hotel via Streatham, Croydon, and Purley as from 13 April 1919. This lasted until 28 December 1919, when the 43 was withdrawn completely on Sundays. For the 1920 Summer season, the 43 was introduced on Sundays between Muswell Hill Broadway an Caterham (Old Surrey Hounds), but when the summer was over, the Sunday service was only cut back to terminate at South Croydon (Swan & Sugar Loaf), Caterham becoming the Summer Sunday and Bank Holiday terminus.

On 1 December 1924, a new system of route numbering on London Buses came into force under The London Traffic Act of 1924. This made the Metropolitan Police responsible for bus operation and route numbering in London. The new system was designed to make route numbering easier to understand for the travelling public. In fact, the reverse was the result, as can seen by the following list of the routes that replaced the 43, 43A, and 43B.

43 group routes:- 43 remained 43, 43A renumbered 143, 43B renumbered 144. This was further complicated in that all these routes had short working suffixed routes. The plain route number being only used for journeys for the whole length of the route. 43 Colney Hatch Lane - South Croydon (Swan & Sugar Loaf) (Sundays); 43A Colney Hatch Lane - London Bridge Station (Mondays - Saturdays); 43B Muswell Hill Broadway - London Bridge Station (Short-working); 43C Colney Hatch Lane - Streatham Common (Greyhound) (Short-working); 43D Highgate (Archway Tavern) - South Croydon (Short-working); 43E Moorgate - London Bridge Station (Short-working); 43F Highgate (Archway Tavern) - London Bridge Station (Short-working); 143 Hendon (Church End) - Addiscombe (Sundays); 143A Hendon (Church End) - London Bridge Station (Mondays - Saturdays); 143B Hendon (Church End) - Streatham Common (Greyhound) (Short-working); 143C Highgate (Archway Tavern) - Addiscombe (Short-working); 144 Arkley(Arkley Hotel) - South Croydon (Swan & Sugar Loaf) (Sundays); 144A Arkley - London Bridge Station (Mondays - Saturdays); 144B Arkley - Elephant & Castle (Short-working).

This situation remained until 3 October 1934, when the newly constituted London Passenger Transport Board instituted its own numbering system, which generally re-instated the situation previous to December 1924, apart for route 143, which by then had developed into a self-contained route, thereby keeping its route number. The 43 now ran:- Friern Barnet - London Bridge Station (daily) extended (Sundays) to South Croydon (Swan & Sugar Loaf)