An Arriva double-decker bus, running route 102 on the London Buses network.

In many tourist or travel destinations, a bus is part of the tourist attraction, such as the North American tourist trolleys, London ’ s Routemaster heritage routes, or the customised buses of Malta, Asia and the Americas.

The last horse bus in London stopped operation in 1914.

More than 50 were killed and 750 injured in three bombings on London Underground and another aboard a double decker bus near Russell Square in King's Cross.

The London County Council managed tram operations within the County of London, but its responsibility did not extend to the bus or tram routes that ran outside its area ; or to the railways, which also extended into neighbouring counties.

Following the Greater London Council election in 1981, the incoming Labour administration simplified fares in Greater London by introducing four new bus fare zones and two central London Underground zones, named City and West End, where flat fares applied for the first time.

The London Regional Transport Act contained provision for setting up subsidiary companies to run the Underground and bus services and in 1985 London Underground Limited ( LUL ), a wholly owned subsidiary of London Regional Transport, was set up to manage the tube network.

London Buses Limited was constituted to progress the privatisation of London bus services.

London Transport was converted to a route operating contract tendering authority, and the former bus operating interests and assets of London Transport were split into 12 business units under the banner London Buses.

** London Buses, responsible for managing the red bus network throughout London, largely by contracting services to private sector bus operators.

The roundel rendered in blue without any lettering represents TfL as a whole ( see Transport for London logo ), as well as used in situations where lettering on the roundel is not possible ( such as bus receipts, where a logo is a blank roundel with the name " London Buses " to the right ).

* February 18 – An IRA briefcase bomb in a bus kills the bomber and injures 9 in the West End of London.

* July 4 – George Shillibeer begins operating the first bus service in London.

From the UK, direct routes by Astraeus from London Gatwick and Manchester Airport to Sal ceased in April 2008, their website has not been taking reservations since May 2008.

ThomsonFly have opened additional routes from Manchester Airport and London Gatwick on Mondays and Fridays.

Excluding the Shanghai Maglev line and the two light metro lines, the Shanghai Metro has of heavy rail rapid transit routes, compared to the London Underground's.

London Overground ( LO ) is a hybrid: its services are operated via a concession awarded by Transport for London, and are branded accordingly, but until 2010 all its routes used infrastructure owned by Network Rail.

It also includes major rail lines used for journeys within London, such as London Overground routes, and Tube stops with connections to National Rail services, rail links to airports, and river boats.

This launched Bermuda into a new prominence with the London Government, as its location, near the halfway point from Nova Scotia to the Caribbean, and off the US Atlantic Seaboard, allowed the Royal Navy to operate fully in the area, protecting British trade routes, and potentially commanding the American Atlantic coast in the event of war.

He performed pioneering work in the field of surveying and map-making and was involved in the work that led to the first modern plan-form map, though his plan for London on a grid system was rejected in favour of rebuilding along the existing routes.

London bus routes 1, 4, 26, 59, 68, 76, 77, 139, 168, 171, 172, 176, 188, 211, 243, 341, 381, 507, 521, RV1, X68 and night bus routes N1, N68, N76, N171, N343 and N381.

The Metropolitan line and the Central line are the only two Underground routes with stations outside the boundaries of Greater London and the M25 orbital motorway.

It used electric multiple units on the electrified routes in London, but to serve the outer stations an electric locomotive was replaced by a steam locomotive en route.

The Heath has major historical importance, originally crossed by principal routes from London to the west and southwest of Britain.

Introduced by London Transport in 1956, the Routemaster saw continuous service in London until 2005, and remains on two heritage routes in central London.

Other north-south routes include Route 12, which parallels I-395 through many local communities, Route 169, a National Scenic Byway traveling through rural communities from the New London County line in Canterbury to the Massachusetts state line in Woodstock.

Temple Meads is now owned by Network Rail and is operated under a franchise by First Great Western who provide the majority of trains to London, along with local services and inter-urban routes to destinations such as Cardiff, Southampton, Portsmouth and.

It is unique in having two different routes through central London.

It is situated just to the northeast of central Croydon, and is home to a high proportion of people who commute to Central London, owing to its proximity to the busy East Croydon railway station and Tramlink, linking Addiscombe with other parts of Croydon and Wimbledon, as well as extensive bus routes into Central Croydon and surrounding areas.

London Buses routes 79, 83, 224, 245, 297 and 487 serve the Alperton station.

* 1888 – The first of 11 unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London, occurs.

On 11 January 1706, Marlborough finally reached London at the end of his diplomatic tour, but he had already been planning his strategy for the coming season.

During major breaking news events, the BBC News Channel has been broadcast on BBC One ; examples of special broadcasts include the 11 September 2001 attacks, 7 July 2005 London bombings, the capture of Saddam Hussein, and the death of Osama bin Laden.

The patriation of the Canadian constitution was achieved in 1982 when the British and Canadian parliaments passed parallel acts: the Canada Act, 1982 ( 1982, c. 11 ), in London, and the Constitution Act, 1982, in Ottawa.

Instead the distinction went to the 1884 route from Archway to Highgate, north London, which used a continuous cable and grip system on the 1 in 11 ( 9 %) climb of Highgate Hill.

Blyton was born on 11 August 1897 at 354 Lordship Lane, East Dulwich, London, England, the eldest child of Thomas Carey Blyton ( 1870 – 1920 ), a salesman of cutlery, and his wife, Theresa Mary Harrison Blyton ( 1874 – 1950 ).

* Philip Mansel, Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean, London, John Murray, 11 November 2010, hardback, 480 pages, ISBN 978-0-7195-6707-0, New Haven, Yale University Press, 24 May 2011, hardback, 470 pages, ISBN 978-0-300-17264-5

* Philip Mansel, Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean, London, John Murray, 11 November 2010, hardback, 480 pages, ISBN 978-0-7195-6707-0, New Haven, Yale University Press, 24 May 2011, hardback, 470 pages, ISBN 978-0-300-17264-5

Further debt relief constituted another infusion of favorable developments for Madagascar when on June 11, 2005, at a pre-G8 summit meeting in London, world leaders agreed to write off $ 40 billion in debt owed by the world's poorest countries.

" A UK newspaper reported the case of a self-taught gunsmith named Grant Wilkinson, who " was ordered to serve a minimum term of 11 years after a jury found him guilty of running a gun factory supplying lethal Mac-10 weapons to criminals, mainly in London ".

Nostradamus has been credited, for the most part in hindsight ( see under ' Alternative views ' below ), with predicting numerous events in world history, from the Great Fire of London, and the rise of Napoleon and Adolf Hitler, to the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center.

Tony Blair and Dick Cheney at the main door to 10 Downing Street, the Prime Minister's residence in London, on 11 March 2002

* Excerpt from the Illustrated London News, January 11, 1862 describing the Canals of Canada.

However, the most common image of terrorism is that it is carried out by small and secretive cells, highly motivated to serve a particular cause and many of the most deadly operations in recent times, such as the September 11 attacks, the London underground bombing, and the 2002 Bali bombing were planned and carried out by a close clique, composed of close friends, family members and other strong social networks.

* April 11 – London Transport's Silver Jubilee buses are launched.

* July 11 – The chimes of Big Ben ring for the first time in London.

* December 11 – The film Oliver !, based on the hit London and Broadway musical, opens in the U. S. after being released first in England.

* May 11 – London bank Overend, Gurney and Company collapses, precipitating a financial crisis.

* March 11 – After having opened in London the previous year, Laurence Olivier's film, Richard III, adapted from Shakespeare's play, has its U. S. premiere in theatres and on NBC Television on the same day.

* December 11 – " Pride's Purge " in England, with elements of the New Model Army, under the leadership of Oliver Cromwell invading London and expelling a majority of the Long Parliament, resulting in the creation of the Rump Parliament.

* May 11 – The first trial in the case of Tichborne Claimant begins in the London Court of Common Pleas.

* April 11 – 1981 Brixton riot: Rioters in South London throw petrol bombs, attack police and loot shops.

* February 11, 1826 – University College London is founded, under the name University of London.

* February 11 – The first British public toilet for women opens in Bedford Street, London.