Saint Joseph's Neighbourhood Watch
(Upper Norwood, London, U.K.)
 
Local Bus Services.
Last checked and updated 22 Jul 2003

From Crown Point there is a good selection of buses, particularly serving a number of rail and underground stations.  Please note the guide timetables below are often optimistic, especially when traffic is heavy, and of course out of the busiest times allow twice the interval between buses quoted below, and early morning and late evening allow three times the quoted best times. Fares are now usually 70p local or £1 for a longer journey.

417 daily.  Crystal Palace - Crown Point - Streatham Hill - Clapham Common
    In both directions: first bus about 5am, last about 12:30am; at best every 10 minutes Monday to Saturday and every 15 minutes on Sunday.

249 daily.  Crystal Palace - Crown Point - Streatham - Tooting Bec - Balham
    In both directions: first bus about 6am, last about 12:20am; at best every 12 minutes Monday to Saturday and every 15 minutes on Sunday.

196 daily.  Norwood Junction - Crown Point - Herne Hill - Brixton
    In both directions: first bus about 6:30a.m. Monday to Saturday and 08:15 Sunday, last bus about 23:30 (all days);  at best every 12 minutes Monday to Friday, every 20 minutes on Saturday and every 30 minutes on Sunday.

468 daily.  South Croydon - Crown Point - Herne Hill - Elephant & Castle
    First bus about 5:10am towards Elephant & Castle, about 06:10 towards South Croydon;  last bus about 00:45 towards Elephant & Castle, about 23:45 towards South Croydon; at best every 7 minutes Monday to Friday, every 10 minutes Saturday and every 15 minutes Sunday.

X68 Express   Monday to Friday Peak Hours ONLY.  West Croydon - Crown Point - Waterloo - Holborn and Russell Square ONLY
To Waterloo, Holborn and Russell Square ONLY Monday to Friday mornings from Crown Point at 06:05, 06:35, 07:06, 07:26, 07:46, 08:11, 08:31 and 08:51 ONLY;  and to West Croydon via Thornton Heath Monday to Friday mornings from Crown Point at 06:29, 06:48, 07:08 and 07:43 ONLY.
    This service also returns in the afternoon/evening leaving Russell Square at 15:50, 16:20, 16:50, 17:10, 17:30, 17:50, 18:20 and 18:50 only, picking up at Holborn Aldwych and Waterloo only. The timetable is to pick up from Waterloo (on Waterloo Road, almost opposite Holmes Terrace) 17 minutes after leaving Russell Square and travel non-stop from Waterloo to West Norwood taking 35 minutes from Waterloo to get to Crown Point.  And these services also continue on to Thornton Heath and West Croydon.

N68 NIGHT BUS  every night.  Old Coulsdon - Crown Point - Elephant & Castle - Waterloo - Tottenham Court Road
 Towards Old Coulsdon: 00:58 then every 30 minutes until 06:28
 Towards Tottenham Court Road:  00:05 then every 30 minutes until 05:05

N137 NIGHT BUS  every night.  Oxford Circus - Crown Point - Crystal Palace
 Every 30 minutes. First bus 01:00 from Oxford Circus, 00:30 from Crystal Palace. Last bus 05:30 from Oxford Circus; 04:30 from Crystal Palace.

Bus number 250 also runs from Croydon via Thornton Heath and along Green Lane and up the Streatham High Road to Brixton.
 

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