London Buses route N87

London Buses route N87 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, United Kingdom. The service is contracted to London General.

The N87 was a long-standing night-route with its origins as an all-night tram service. Introduced as route 287 after the withdrawal of the trams in 1952, it ran in both directions around a circular route in a figure of “8” from Victoria Embankment via Westminster, Kennington, Balham, Clapham, Tooting, Streatham, Brixton, Stockwell, Kennington, Elephant & Castle and Blackfriars back to Victoria Embankment. It was re-numbered N87 in 1960 in order to free up its original number for the new bus routes which were replacing the trolleybus services from the late 1950s. In later years it was rerouted to serve Whitehall, Trafalgar Square, Strand and Fleet Street instead of Victoria Embankment. Buses ran both ways around the loops every 24 minutes, which in those days made it the most frequent (and regular) night bus.
 * History

It was replaced in the mid-1990s by a number of other routes when the re-organisation and enhancement of the night bus network took place, and is now covered mainly by the 88, today’s N44 and the N133. It then covered the service again from Aldwych to Tolworth, and it replaced withdrawn N88, N87 and N14 parts.

On 3 June 2006, route N77 was renumbered N87. At the same time route N87 was withdrawn between Kingston and Tolworth.

• Aldwych • Charing Cross station • Trafalgar Square • Westminster station • Tate Gallery • Vauxhall station • Wandsworth Road station • Clapham Junction station • Wandsworth High Street • Wimbledon station • Raynes Park station • New Malden • Kingston Fairfield Road Bus station
 * Current route