Green Line Through Staines

Image: © Martin Addison Taken: Unknown

A London Country bus on the south London orbital 725 route between Gravesend and Windsor via Swanscombe, Northfleet, Dartford, Crayford, Bexley, Sidcup, Chislehurst, Bromley, Beckenham, Addiscombe, Croydon, Wallington, Sutton, North Cheam, New Malden, Worcester Park, Kingston, Hampton Court, Sunbury, Ashford, Staines, Egham and Englefield Green. RF221 - an AEC Regal, deputising for an AEC Swift that would normally be operating on this route in 1976 - is on the eastbound run, on Kingston Road. Behind the bus was Staines police station - recently replaced by a new building further along Kingston Road. The ironwork on the roof carried the air raid siren. The front of the old police station can be seen in Image by Ray Stanton. The old station and the building to the right of the bus appear to have been converted into offices. The traffic lights behind the bus are at the junction with London Road / High Street. The parade of shops opposite the junction have been demolished and replaced with an office block.

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