London Buses route 11
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| Start | Liverpool Street |
| End | Fulham Broadway |
| Via | St Pauls Aldwych Parliament Square Kings Road |
| Frequency | About every 7 minutes |
| Length | 7 miles (11 km) |
| Operation | |
| Operator(s) | Go-Ahead London |
| Garage | Stockwell |
| Vehicle(s) | Volvo B7TL 10m/Wright Eclipse Gemini |
| PVR † | 26 |
| † peak vehicle requirement | |
| Transport for London • Performance |
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London Buses route 11 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, United Kingdom. The service is currently contracted to Go-Ahead London.
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[edit] History
Route 11 starts at the bus station of Liverpool Street station in the north eastern corner of the City of London and terminates at Fulham Broadway travelling via the West End and some of London's most famous landmarks. The journey from the top deck is a cheap means of sightseeing in London.
On 4 June 2002, Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee, the Metropolitan Police flagged down a Number 11 bus and used it as temporary transport for twenty-three peaceful anti-royalty demonstrators whom they had arrested after the demonstration, most of them in a nearby pub. The bus was used to take the protestors to various police stations for questioning. The protestors sued the police, and the Met settled out of court with an apology, an admission of unlawful detention, and a payment of £3,500 to each protestor. [1]
The route has a cameo appearance in the 2005 film The Da Vinci Code, where the protagonists take a number 11 bus from near Temple Church to get to "Chelsea Library", though they get off at Westminster Abbey; this is the same route the bus takes in real life.
[edit] Current route
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Transport for London
- London Bus Routes Fotopic
- London Bus Routes
- Full Timetable (PDF)
- Alexei Sayle's story of the morning the Number 11 bus started making housecalls
- Photogallery of the last day of Routemaster service for route 11, 31 October 2003
- The day the Number 11 bus became a prison for 23 anti-royal protesters - The Guardian, 5 February 2004
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