If you would like to learn a bit more about all the places you pass while on the 94 bus, there is a great website produced by Friends of the 94 bus. It’s a very informative website and celebrates a very popular routewww.94bus.com
Stewart Jones ● 44d25 Comments
He's a charming fellow. I was getting on the 94 when I inadvertently knocked into him. He said not to worry, "Accidents will happen".
Andrew OSullivan ● 29d
A trip on the 94 bus into Town ...followed by a visit to Jermyn Street, the large Waterstones Store in Piccadilly, and Fortnums too ...sets one up for a journey back to our area on the Number 9.The huge new builds around Olympiaand the old Commonwealth Institute look impressive too. The Royal Albert Hall is a bonus.So ... No.94 in >> and No.9 back.A Freedom Pass? Go go go!
Jim Lawes ● 29d
My mum (who was, like me, born in Chiswick), used to catch the 88 every Saturday to go and visit her gran, who lived in Soho. She did this alone, from the age of six, in 1930.
Penny Morris ● 30d
I saw him once on the number 70 but then he got off. He told the driver 'I don't want to go to Chelsea'.
Mark Evans ● 32d
Elvis Costello used the 94 . Him & I had long chats on the ride into town.
Peter Mielewczyk ● 35d
One story I heard about the 94 was that the brother of David Tomlinson (Bedknobs and Broomsticks) was on the upper deck of on travelling along Bath Road when he observed his father Clarence through a bedroom window. He had told his family he was going to his club in central London during the week when in fact he was living there with his mistress. Up until this point the brothers had been unaware of what was happening. It would have taken place some time around the First World War so the bus wouldn't actually have been a 94 but an 88.I did check the veracity of this story online and the bits about it being a bus in Chiswick do seem to be generally accepted however I can't get confirmation that these events took place on Bath Road.
Anita Blake ● 35d
A nostalgia-filled clip of the No. 9 (made by LRT back in the day). https://youtu.be/Ind-ZlOfyZ8?si=UDZzgO5jUb6inP51
Gordon McDonald ● 37d
Thank you for highlighting this website. We used to live in Rothschild Rd so we would use the 94 regularly, starting at Acton Green. We then moved to Flanders Rd so it was the 94 bus again. I managed to pick up two models of the 94 bus so they are now a nice reminder of our time in London. We now live in North Wales.
Edwina Stephen ● 37d
All the more reason to use it before it possibly disappears.
Stewart Jones ● 42d
If the complete pedestrianisation of Oxford Street goes ahead as per the Mayor, the 94 Bus Route will, sadly, have to change
Mitra Alam ● 42d
The 207 Bendy Buses could indeed hold loads of people, but they were also referred to as the 203, as allegedly a large number of passengers never paid.
Andrew Steed ● 42d
A great suggestion, Jim.As you say, Go Go Go!
Stewart Jones ● 43d
The 94 bus route is certainly full of interest and that website (also advertised at the Acton Green bus shelter) is has been a good tip. Thanks OP.At the Piccadilly terminus one is able to wander down Jermyn Street,(as I did this afternoon), passing Fortnums and then catching the No 9bus to Hammersmith Broadway via Hyde Park Corner, Knighsbridge, the Royal Albert Hall and the fine KensingstonHigh Street.You have a Freedom Pass?Go Go Go !The 94 into town and the Number 9and H91/267 back to W4. A delightful few hours of interesting sights await you.
Jim Lawes ● 43d
Hurrah for the glorious 94!
I think any cheers for Boris might have been for him scrapping Ken Livingstone’s Bendy Buses and replacing them with the complicated and expensive ‘New Routemasters’ which were originally designed for passengers to hop on and off at will and have an onboard ‘conductor’, like in the ‘good old days’.As I recall, Bendy Buses provided a useful high capacity service on the 207 route along the Uxbridge Road (where we could have had a tram), but then they didn’t have to do much bending compared with elsewhere.
Peter Evans ● 43d
I see no hurrahs for the Boris bendy buses.
Denis I. Fox ● 43d
I used to also catch the No. 12 bus to get to Oxford Circus but it went along Uxbridge Road to Shepherd's Bush, then along Notting Hill, Bayswater etc. like the 88. The destination sign was often Dulwich Plough and sometimes Penge I think and the return was East Acton. This was ages ago. I love how some bus stops and destinations are pub names.
Marlene Plimley ● 43d
And also thanks to Ken Livingston when London Mayor for increasing the frequency of bus services many-fold, including the 94, transforming a long wait for a battered Routemaster to the frequent and useful service it is today.
I think you could be right about the #12 bus route in the 1970s.
Karen Foster ● 43d
I remember it being the 88 before it was the 94. Was it the 12 before that?
I remember the 88 but I don’t regret the passing of the heavily-polluting Routemasters. We now have a wonderfully quiet, smooth and clean 94. How lucky are we? Thank you Sadiq Khan.
Beryl Wall ● 44d
Used to be the 88 but it went further on down to Mitcham - The Cricketers (I think.) We used to say "88 What a wait!"Service was terrible at times.The 94 is wonderful but I miss the old Routemasters, the hardworking ticket conductors and the sound of those machines. There was one delightful conductor who used to sing, dance and make funny comments all along the route, keeping the passengers entertained.Happy Days!
Marlene Plimley ● 44d
Well, you never know.
Stewart Jones ● 44d
That's useful information Stewart, but 75% of the passengers will miss out on what's around them due to smart phone addiction.More fools them.
Denis I. Fox ● 44d
Thank you Stewart. That sounds like a great idea for finding out more about what is around us.
Philippa Bond ● 44d