London Buses route 11

Infobox London Bus
number=11


operator=London General
length= 7 miles (11 km)
time= 35-80 minutes
vehicle=Volvo B7TL/Wright Eclipse Gemini
garage=Stockwell
start=Liverpool Street Station
end=Fulham Broadway
via=St Pauls
Aldwych
Parliament Square
Kings Road
level=Daily
frequency=About every 7 minutes
night=Night Bus N11
pvr=26
day=5:15am until 1:30am
ibus=yes

London Buses route 11 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, United Kingdom. The service is currently contracted to London General.

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. [http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1141189,00.html]

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.

Current route

Route departing Liverpool Street

* Liverpool Street Station "Bus Station"
* Old Broad Street
* Threadneedle Street
* Bank Station
* Queen Victoria Street
* Mansion House Station
* Queen Victoria Street
* Friday Street
* Cannon Street
* St Paul's Churchyard
* Ludgate Hill
* City Thameslink Station
* Ludgate Circus
* Fleet Street
* Strand
* Aldwych
* Strand
* Charing Cross Station
* Strand
* Charing Cross
* Trafalgar Square
* Whitehall
* Parliament Street
* Westminster Station
* Parliament Square
* Broad Sanctuary
* Victoria Street
* Victoria Station
* Buckingham Palace Road
* Victoria Coach Station
* Buckingham Palace Road
* Pimlico Road
* Lower Sloane Street
* Sloane Square Station
* Kings Road
* Chelsea
* Kings Road
* New King's Road
* Harwood Street
* Fulham Broadway Station

Route departing Fulham Broadway

* Fulham Broadway Station "Harwood Road"
* Harwood Street
* New King's Road
* Kings Road
* Chelsea
* Kings Road
* Sloane Square Station
* Lower Sloane Street
* Pimlico Road
* Buckingham Palace Road
* Victoria Coach Station
* Buckingham Palace Road
* Terminus Place
* Victoria Station
* Wilton Road
* Allington Street
* Bressenden Place
* Victoria Street
* Broad Sanctuary
* Parliament Square
* Westminster Station
* Parliament Street
* Whitehall
* Trafalgar Square
* Charing Cross
* Strand
* Charing Cross Station
* Strand
* Aldwych
* Strand
* Fleet Street
* |Ludgate Circus
* City Thameslink Station
* Ludgate Hill
* St Paul's Churchyard
* Cannon Street
* Mansion House Station
* Queen Victoria Street
* Bank Station
* Threadneedle Street
* Old Broad Street
* Liverpool Street Station "Bus Station"

ee also

* List of bus routes in London
* London General

External links

* [http://www.tfl.gov.uk Transport for London]
* [http://www.londonbusesbyadam.fotopic.net London Bus Routes Fotopic]
* [http://www.busesatwork.co.uk London Bus Routes]
* [http://www.londonbusroutes.net/times/011.pdf Full Timetable (PDF)]
* [http://motoring.independent.co.uk/comment/article21521.ece Alexei Sayle's story of the morning the Number 11 bus started making housecalls]
* [http://www.londonbuspage.com/031031.htm Photogallery] of the last day of Routemaster service for route 11, 31 October 2003
* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1141189,00.html The day the Number 11 bus became a prison for 23 anti-royal protesters] - The Guardian, 5 February 2004