London Buses route 157

London Buses route 157 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, United Kingdom. The service is currently contracted to Travel London (Part of the National Express Group).

The bus shares quite a simlar routing as the 410's. The bus had been contracted to Connex, until that company was forced to sell all of it's assets in the UK due to thier incrediably poor services on two of the railways in the same area of South London. (Connex South Eastern and Connex South Central)

History
In 1950 the 157 ran from Raynes Park to Wallington Station using D type buses. In 1954 the RT buses were favoured to the D Types. In 1959 the service was extended to Crystal Palace, as a trolleybus replacment of route 654. In 1964 Carshalton garage closed, and a new Saturday service was introduced. In 1970 a Sunday service was added to the route, but this did'nt last long as later in the year the Sunday service between Morden and Raynes Park was terminated, as only Monday-Saturday and early Sunday morning services were still keeping the 'Original route'. The service was enhanced due to the withdrawal of the 154 between West Croydon and Crystal Palace in 1981. In 1987 Leyland Titan (B15)'s were introduced to the route. Near the end of 1988 Sutton Bus was awarded the contract to run the 157 and used MCW Metrobus types, until around 1997 when London General got awarded an early christmas present as London Buses gave them the contract for the 157, which they used straight away changing the fleet to Volvo Olympian's. This carried on until 2001 when they lost the contract to Connex Bus, and as explained before they lost out to Travel London in 2004 although there are still sings of Connex on the buses as the logo used still is inside of the buses.

Route Departing Crystal Palace

 * Crystal Palace Parade
 * Crystal Palace railway station
 * Anerley Hill
 * Anerley Madeline Road
 * Anerley railway station
 * Anerley Road
 * Anerley Oak Grove Road
 * Croydon Road
 * Anerley Mitre
 * Penge Road Goat House
 * South Norwood High Street
 * Norwood Junction railway station Clocktower
 * South Norwood Tennison Road
 * Selhurst railway station
 * Selhurst Road
 * Northcote Road (for BRIT School)
 * Wellesley Road St. Mary's High School
 * West Croydon station Bus station
 * Croydon Tamworth Road (for Centrale)
 * Reeves Corner tram stop (for Church Street)
 * Waddon New Road
 * Epsom Road
 * Waddon railway station Stafford Road
 * Purley Way Fiveways Corner
 * Stafford Road Stafford Gardens
 * Stafford Road Plough Lane
 * South Beddington
 * Wallington Mellows Park
 * Wallington railway station
 * Manor Road
 * Carshalton High street
 * Carshalton railway station West Street
 * Carshalton Wrythe Green
 * Wrythe Lane
 * St. Helier Hospital
 * St. Helier Rose Hill
 * St. Helier Avenue Middleton Road
 * St. Helier Avenue Central Road
 * Morden-Hall-Road
 * Morden Town Centre
 * Morden tube station