Old Coulsdon (Tudor Rose) bus terminus

Image: © Dr Neil Clifton Taken: 12 Jun 1983

For many years, London Transport as well as its predecessors and its new constituents, has liked to identify its termini by the use of the name of a public house. The inn here has a long tradition in this respect, (the actual pub. is out of view to the right). The bus stand is actually in Placehouse Lane: it is a very well used terminus, as not only is there the public house, (whose more conscientious drinkers surely use the bus), but there is a very large college just adjoining and an important medical centre, with eight doctors working, (visible behind the bus, but rebuilt as a two-story building since this photograph). In 1983 the route that terminated here was the 190, as shown, which ran to Thornton Heath.

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