25-612: Harrow Garden Village was a housing development in the 1930s around Rayners Lane Underground station in London , England, which until then had been a "country halt" on the Metropolitan line . This was Metro-land 's flagship development, begun in by E S Reid , with streets full of semi-detached houses fronted with bay windows and tiled roofs. 51°34′40″N 0°22′00″W / 51.57778°N 0.36667°W / 51.57778; -0.36667 This London location article
50-660: A centre earned them the nickname spider maps, although TfL refer to them on their website as route maps. The maps are displayed at most major bus stops, and can be downloaded in PDF format via the Internet from the TfL website. The legal identity of London Buses is London Bus Services Limited (LBSL), a wholly owned subsidiary of Transport for London . East Thames Buses was the trading name of another wholly owned subsidiary of TfL called, rather confusingly, London Buses Limited (LBL). LBL
75-659: A crossover to the east of the station (separate from the Metropolitan Line crossover) and via the centre reversing siding although only the latter is used in normal service. Between Rayners Lane and Uxbridge there is no Piccadilly Line service before approximately 06:30 (Monday - Friday) and 08:45 (Saturday - Sunday), except for one early morning departure from Uxbridge at 05:18 (Monday - Saturday) and 06:46 (Sunday). The off-peak service in trains per hour (tph) is: The peak time service in trains per hour (tph) is: London Buses routes 398 , H9 , H10 and H12 serve
100-646: A disability, to travel free at any time on buses and TfL's rail services. People who have concessionary bus passes issued by English local authorities travel free on TfL bus services at any time. Bus services in London are operated by Each company has its own operating code, and every bus garage in London has its own garage code. As of March 2024 , the London Buses fleet total of 8,776 buses includes 3,826 hybrid buses , 1,397 battery electric buses , and 20 hydrogen fuel cell buses . The zero emission fleet
125-443: A new station to a design by Charles Holden and Reginald Uren that opened on 8 August 1938. Work had started in earnest with the opening of a temporary timber booking hall and shops on 14 March 1935 allowing work on the new station to proceed. The station, now Grade II Listed by Historic England, features the large cube-shaped brick and glass ticket hall capped with a flat reinforced concrete roof and geometrical forms typical of
150-480: A performance based two year optional extension. Routes are set up, controlled and tendered out by Transport for London (TfL) and they provide day to day assistance via CentreComm which coordinates a large scale network of Network Traffic Controllers to help with any traffic issues that may occur. Operators provide staff to drive the buses, provide the buses to operate and also adhere to set TfL guidelines. Operators are then in return paid per mile that each bus runs,
175-432: A ticket. Children aged 11 to 15 travel free on buses with an 11–15 Oyster photocard; without an Oyster card or Travelcard, they have to pay the full adult fare. Visitors can have a special discount added to an ordinary Oyster card at TfL's Travel Information Centres. There are also concessions for London residents aged 16 to 18. The Freedom Pass scheme allows Greater London residents over state pension age, and those with
200-563: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Rayners Lane tube station Rayners Lane is a London Underground station in the district of Rayners Lane in north west London , amid a 1930s development originally named Harrow Garden Village . The station is on the Uxbridge branch of both the Metropolitan and Piccadilly lines. On the Metropolitan line, the station is between Eastcote and West Harrow stations. On
225-534: Is the second largest in Europe, behind Moscow . All buses have been accessible and low floor since 2006, one of the first major cities in the world to achieve this. The various bus operators providing services under contract to London Buses operate a wide variety of vehicles, about the only immediately obvious common feature being their use of a largely red livery, mandatory since 1997, as well as white-painted roofs featuring aerial roof markings to help cool down
250-500: The Mayor of London . Transport for London's key areas of direct responsibility through London Buses are the following: All bus operations are undertaken under a tendering system in which operators bid for routes in return for a set price per route operated. Until April 2022, contracts were normally for five years, with two-year extensions available if performance criteria were met. From April 2022, contracts will be for seven years with
275-481: The LBL company lay dormant, passing from LRT to TfL. It was resurrected when East Thames Buses was formed, separated by a Chinese wall from LBSL, and acted as a London bus operator by proxy. The local bus network in London is one of the largest and most comprehensive in the world. As of March 2024 , 8,776 buses operate on over 670 different routes . In 2019/20, 2.09 billion passenger journeys were made. Buses in
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#1732798714103300-530: The London Buses network accept Travelcards , Oyster card products (including bus passes and Oyster pay as you go ) and contactless debit and credit cards . Cash fares have not been available since 6 July 2014, but Day Bus passes (issued either as a single use Oyster card, or on paper from station ticket machines) were re-introduced on 2 January 2015. Single journey fares used to be charged in relation to length of journey (fare stages), but are now charged as single flat fares for any length of journey. From 2000,
325-522: The Metropolitan Railway at Rayners Lane junction east of the station enabling District line trains to serve stations between Rayners Lane and Uxbridge from that date. On 23 October 1933, District line services were replaced by Piccadilly line trains. The station, more a halt , was rebuilt, following the start of house building in the locality in the 1930s that saw passenger figures rise from 22,000 per annum in 1930 to 4 million in 1937 by
350-558: The Piccadilly line, it is between Eastcote and South Harrow stations. The station is located to the west of the junction of Rayners Lane, Alexandra Avenue and Imperial Drive ( A4090 ). It is in Travelcard Zone 5 . Just east of the station, the Piccadilly and Metropolitan lines tracks join for services to Uxbridge and separate for those to Central London . The Metropolitan Railway ( Harrow and Uxbridge Railway ) constructed
375-697: The Uxbridge branch this is eastbound only in the morning peaks (06:30 to 09:30) Monday to Friday. Metropolitan Line trains are able to terminate at Rayners Lane from the westbound platform either by a crossover to the east of the station or via a centre reversing siding to the west, under normal circumstances all westbound Metropolitan Line trains continue to the terminus of the branch at Uxbridge. The off-peak service in trains per hour (tph) is: The morning peak service in trains per hour (tph) is: The evening peak service in trains per hour (tph) is: Piccadilly line trains are also able to terminate here by means of
400-547: The balance, regardless of how many buses are taken that day (from 04.30 to 04.29 the next day). Alternatively, weekly and monthly passes may also be purchased and loaded onto an Oyster card. Passengers using contactless payment cards are charged the same fares as on Oyster pay as you go. Unlike Oyster cards, contactless cards also have a 7-day fare cap though it currently only operates on a Monday-Sunday basis. Under 11s can travel free on London buses and trams at any time unaccompanied by an adult; they do not need an Oyster card or
425-473: The bus during the summer, first introduced during 2006. For each bus route, London Buses sets a specification for buses to be used, with the choice of particular vehicle that meets the specification left up to the operator. Particular examples of London Buses specification include the use of separate exit doors (increasingly unusual on buses in the United Kingdom outside London) and, on double-deckers,
450-462: The flat fare was higher for journeys in Zone 1 than in outer zones, although from 2004 this difference was eliminated, the change coinciding with the introduction of Oyster card flat fares. As of 2023 , the single fare is £1.75. With Oyster pay as you go, users are charged a set amount for single journeys, although there is a "daily cap", which limits the maximum amount of money that will be deducted from
475-465: The gradual opening of additional stations along the Uxbridge branch to encourage the growth of new residential areas. Rayners Lane opened as Rayners Lane Halt on 26 May 1906, and was named after a local farmer called Daniel Rayner. It was nicknamed Pneumonia Junction because of its exposed location. On 1 March 1910, an extension of the District line was opened from South Harrow to connect with
500-463: The line between Harrow on the Hill and Uxbridge and commenced services on 4 July 1904 with, initially, Ruislip being the only intermediate stop. At first, services were operated by steam trains, but track electrification was completed in the subsequent months and electric trains began operating on 1 January 1905. Progressive development in the north Middlesex area over the next two decades led to
525-474: The new stations built in this period. To the west of the station, there is a reversing siding between the running tracks and, during the day, half of the Piccadilly line service reverses here. Two sidings were located south of the station but these were no longer used: with no connection with the running lines. In late 2017 these sidings were lifted. The Metropolitan Line is the only line to operate an express service, though currently for Metropolitan Line trains on
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#1732798714103550-457: The pricing is announced on new tenders. London Buses publishes a variety of bus maps. In 2002, TfL introduced the first spider maps . Rather than attempting to cover the entire city, these maps are centred on a particular locality or bus station, and convey the route information in the schematic style of Harry Beck 's influential Tube map , capitalising on TfL's iconic style of information design . The arachnoid form of bus routes radiating from
575-501: The station. [REDACTED] London transport portal [REDACTED] London transport portal London Buses London Buses is the subsidiary of Transport for London (TfL) that manages most bus services in London , England . It was formed following the Greater London Authority Act 1999 that transferred control of London Regional Transport (LRT) bus services to TfL, controlled by
600-434: The use of a straight staircase. Additionally, London Buses has previously specified that vehicles operating in London use traditional printed roller destination blinds, whereas in most other parts of the country, electronic dot matrix or LED displays are the norm on new buses. All of London's buses use the London iBus system , an Automatic Vehicle Location system that provides passengers with audio visual announcements and
625-445: Was formed on 1 April 1985 as part of the privatisation of London bus services , and acted as an arm's-length subsidiary of TfL's precursor organisation, London Regional Transport (LRT), holding twelve bus operating units (from late 1988) and other assets. The operating units were sold off in 1994/95, and their purchasers make up the majority of companies awarded bus operating tenders from the current London Buses (LBSL). After 1994/95,
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