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.

London once more holds an official public St Patrick's Day celebration, which although having been cancelled in the 1970s because of Irish Republican violence, is now a national celebration, with over 60 percent of the population regularly celebrating the day regardless of their ethnic origins.

According to a survey by Forbes magazine, Istanbul, Turkey's financial capital, had a total of 28 billionaires as of March 2010 ( down from 34 in 2008 ), ranking 4th in the world behind New York City ( 60 billionaires ), Moscow ( 50 billionaires ), and London ( 32 billionaires ).

However, when Richard Nixon began targeting press access and reporting, even Safer, formerly the CBS News bureau head in Saigon and London, began to do " hard " investigative reports, and during the 1970 – 71 season alone 60 Minutes reported on cluster bombs, the South Vietnamese Army, draft dodgers, Nigeria, the Middle East, and Northern Ireland.

He demonstrated a theatre television system, with a screen two feet by five feet ( 60 cm by 150 cm ), in 1930 at the London Coliseum, Berlin, Paris, and Stockholm.

The London Sustainable Development Commission has calculated that for housing to meet the 60 % target, all new developments would have to be constructed to be carbon-neutral with immediate effect ( using zero energy building techniques ), in addition to cutting energy used in existing housing by 40 %.

), Image and Meaning in Islamic Art ( London, Altajir Trust, 2005 ), 42 – 60.

Chapter two takes place almost 60 years later in the psychedelic daze of Swinging London during 1969, a place where tadukic acid diethylamide 26 is the drug of choice, and where different underworlds are starting to overlap dangerously to an accompaniment of sit-ins and sitars.

Sting owns several homes worldwide, including Elizabethan manor house Lake House and its 60 acre country estate near Salisbury, Wiltshire ; a country cottage in the Lake District ; a New York City apartment ; a beach house in Malibu ; a estate in Tuscany ; and two properties in London: an apartment on The Mall, and an 18th-century terrace house in Highgate.

The stadium opened in the summer of 2006, and has an all-seated capacity of 60, 355, making it the second biggest stadium in the Premiership after Old Trafford and the third biggest in London after Wembley Stadium and Twickenham Stadium.

The council is actively campaigning to have Newham officially considered part of Inner London for all purposes in order to increase its level of government grant by £ 60 million.

The remaining 60 % of Greater London was allocated postcodes under the national plan.

It was attacked in the first major air-raid over the London area and factories in its immediate vicinity were almost destroyed with the loss of six airmen and over 60 civilians.

A breakthrough in astronomical photography came in 1883, when amateur astronomer Andrew Ainslie Common used the dry plate process to record several images of the same nebula in exposures up to 60 minutes with a 36-inch ( 91 cm ) reflecting telescope that he constructed in the backyard of his home in Ealing, outside London.

Out of about 60, 000 troops evacuated from France in July 1940, only about 3, 000 chose to continue the struggle, joining de Gaulle's army in London.

In 1754 Chippendale moved to 60 – 62 St. Martin's Lane in London, where for the next 60 years the family business operated until 1813 when his son, Thomas Chippendale ( Junior ), was evicted for bankruptcy.

It reaches a maximum altitude of only 9 ˚ from London, 4 ˚ from Edinburgh or Copenhagen, and it just barely rises from around latitude 60 ˚ north ; Oslo, Helsinki or southern Alaska.

60 Dec 1770 Page 54, an account of Mozart's visit at eight years of age to London.

Kaufman was found to have claimed £ 115, 109 in additional costs allowances on his London flat between 2001 and 2008, and submitted a claim for three months ' expenses totalling £ 14, 301. 60 in June 2006, which included £ 8, 865 for a 40-inch LCD television and £ 1, 461. 83 for a luxury rug imported from New York City ( plus £ 389. 91 in customs expenses ), which violated regulations forbidding claims for luxury furnishings.

Another set of photographs of the nebula in 1883 saw breakthrough in astronomical photography when amateur astronomer Andrew Ainslie Common used the dry plate process to record several images in exposures up to 60 minutes with a 36-inch ( 91 cm ) reflecting telescope that he constructed in the backyard of his home in Ealing, outside London.

Beyond that, however, Smith-Cumming began importing some of his own veteran case officers into Ireland from Egypt, Palestine and India, while Basil Thomson organized a special unit consisting of 60 hastily vetted ethnically Irish street agents managed via impersonal communications from Scotland Yard in London.

He is introduced in Act 1, Scene 2, but with some notable changes to the text ; when York is giving his men instructions, his order to Montague, " Brother, thou shalt to London presently " ( l. 36 ) is changed to " Cousin, thou shalt to London presently ", York's reiteration of the order " My brother Montague shall post to London " ( l. 54 ) is changed to " Hast you to London my cousin Montague ", and Montague's " Brother, I go, I'll win them, fear it not " ( l. 60 ) is changed to " Cousin, I go, I'll win them, fear it not.