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On the main London Country page
on this site, it is detailed that Amersham Bus Garage had code MA and not AM
(which was allocated to Plumstead). I am grateful to "JB" from Wokingham for
providing a detailed explanation.
Why did Plumstead bus garage in South
East London get the code AM before Amersham? This dates back to the system of
garage codes used by the 'General' in London, where garage codes started
initially from A and went alphabetically - A = Sutton up to X = Middle Row
(North Kensington) - these codes are both still in use, although code X moved
to Westbourne Park garage when Middle Row closed. There wasn't a Z, although Y
was a small garage in Fulham that closed a very long time ago. A few garages
(whether by design or coincidence) had codes that matched their letter, e.g. B
= Battersea, D = Dalston. Once single letter codes had all been used, they
started again - there wasn't an AA. AB was Twickenham, this sequence carried on
up to AV (Hounslow) which opened in 1913 - the latter is also still in use
today - some codes for some reason were never used by the General (AS, AT)
After the 1914-18 war, it seems that rather than starting again at BA, they
adopted two letter codes that had some relationship to the garage name (e.g. BK
= Barking, which opened in the 1920s.) The country garages acquired codes
either at this time or when London Transport took over in 1933. Obviously, new
codes were created for new garages over the years - particularly when the tram
and trolleybus depots converted to buses in the 50s and 60s.
www.londonbusgarages.co.uk/
has more on London Transport bus garages. So buy the time a code for
Amersham was needed, it was allocated MA
However, the code 'AM' was
used for Amersham garage on ticket machine boxes. JB owns a 1960s Almex ticket
machine that came from Amersham Garage, and it has 'AM' on the box!
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