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Buses from Waddon Buses from Waddon 119 Crystal Palace Bromley North Parade 157 410 Route fi nder Bromley Crystal Palace The Glades Shopping Centre CRYSTAL Day buses including 24-hour routes Bromley PALACE South Bus route Towards Bus stops Anerley Hayes 24 hour Bromley North Auckland Road George 119 service 289 Elmers End Purley Way Colonnades Anerley Hayes Elmers End Road Morden THORNTON Arena 154 Coney Hall HEATH Addington Road West Croydon South Norwood Ashburton Park Clock Tower Thornton Heath Corkscrew Crystal Palace for Norwood Junction Davidson Road Hill 157 Pond Tennison Road Addiscombe Parkview Road 154 Selhurst Morden Croydon University Hospital West Wickham 157 Thornton Road Swan Morden Addiscombe Coomber Way Lombard Roundabout London Road Elmers End Broad Green Avenue 289 Tram Depot Purley Way Shirley Lombard Roundabout London Road Monks Orchard Purley Coomber Way Broad Green Hogarth Crescent Beddington Lane Therapia Lane St James’s Road Addiscombe Morden South MORDEN Purley Way London Road Spurgeons Bridge Morland Road Newman Road Caterham Beddington Lane Ampere Way Montague Road Shirley Inn 407 Therapia Lane Cherry Orchard West Croydon Wellesley Road Road Shirley Park Sutton St Helier Bedford Hall Cross Road Beddington Cross Sandilands Purley Way St Helier Beddington Lane Crystal Palace Rose Hill Beddington Farm Road 410 Sewage Treatment Works East Croydon Lebanon Drury Crescent Road Wallington Purley Way Centre 154 Wellesley Road St Helier Hospital Whitgift Centre Sutton Green Old Lodge Lane Waddon Marsh 455 Tamworth Road Ruskin Road Croydon Wallington Sutton Beddington Purley Way Park Street ASDA Commerce Way Marshall’s Road Wrythe Green Centrale Croydon Fairfield Halls Sutton 407 Waddon Road St. Nicholas Vicarage Road Reeves Corner R for Church Street I Shopping Centre C G Croydon L B Y D Waddon New Road Katharine N ROA Beddington ILL LANE ADDO Rectory Grove CROYDON Street M W C OUR D Village LIMES AVE RD A Carshalton T O Sutton N E R Y N Y N T O Post Office A S O H SUTTON LODGE AVE GOD S E N W D E Croydon for Sutton R A Sutton THE RIDGEWAY RO B IDG Y AD High Street / Flyover RO Benhill Avenue T E D AL EW C L A D R E N ALTON RD O A V WIC U O A R Y Duppas Hill Road P D K R M Croydon High Street RIVE D PA Duppas Hill K RD T D O Carshalton Wallington Beddington COUR A Croydon Road ON S Coombe Road (407 only) W DD P High Street Green The Holt Plough WA E DUPPAS Waddon HILL RD Carshalton CROYD ON ROAD D CHERRY H Park Lane Windsor Castle Croydon Road Croydon Road Croydon Road A GDNS O Sports Coombe Road Wallington County Church Road Lavington Road R Manor Road Ground Grammar School Works D Queens Road ILL R South End O Aberdeen Road / Spice’s Yard Carshalton F Hilliers Lane F A Beeches 455 T Wallington S Shotfield Playing DENN South Croydon Field IN Wallington MEREBANK LA G St Peter’s Road 410 Plough Lane A Warham Road AV V ING EN Bandon Hill Cemetery ALM U Denning Avenue Croydon GOD E D Crowley Crescent Bowling Club D C A C A R O P E WALLINGTON O R R South Croydon U School S TH R O E R R C Swan & Sugar Loaf C D W Plough Lane U H R L E Warham Road Warham Road A N Garden Close S O E O L E E B Wallington F Y T Bramley Hill Barham Road Y F R W Town Centre A K LDHA T I CO S N A G Y E SOUTH Stafford Road ’ U Stanley Park Road Stafford Road Stafford Road Stafford Road S N AVE Boundary Road Elgin Road Sandy Lane Plough Lane Hannibal Way W FOSS A CROYDON Y Haling Park Road S WAY Stafford Road QUEEN' Brighton Road Mellows Park Upland Road Stafford Road Stafford Road Purley Way Pampisford Road Woodcote Road Milton Road Imperial Way St Ann’s Way Mollison Drive Brighton Road The yellow tinted area includes every Link Lane Pampisford Road Haling Park Road bus stop up to about one-and-a-half Purley Way St Augustine’s Avenue miles from Waddon. Main stops Sandy Lane South Colonnades 119 are shown in the white area outside. Foresters Drive Mollison Drive South Croydon Bus Garage St Elphege’s School Purley Way Battle of Britain War Memorial Pampisford Road Blackford Close Mollison Drive Mollison Drive Brighton Road Newlands Spitfire Road Purley Way Sanderstead Road Edgehill Road Pampisford Road Lynscott Way Purley Purley Hospital Brighton Road Russell Hill Road Purley Oaks Roundshaw Phoenix Centre PURLEY Brighton Road Biddulph Road Purley Tesco Old Lodge Lane 289 Canons Hill 455 Reedham WHYTELEAFE Kenley Whyteleafe South 407 Whyteleafe Caterham © Transport for London TFL 20026.03.11 (T) Information correct from 9 April 2011.
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