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| Service | |
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| Start | Waterloo |
| End | Hackney Wick |
| Via | Aldwych St Paul's Liverpool Street Cambridge Heath |
| Frequency | About every 10 minutes |
| Length | 7 miles (11 km) |
| Operation | |
| Operator(s) | East London |
| Garage | Bow Leyton |
| Vehicle(s) | Dennis Trident 2 10.5m Alexander ALX400 |
| PVR † | 18 |
| † peak vehicle requirement | |
| Transport for London • Performance |
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London Buses route 26 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, United Kingdom. The service is currently contracted to East London.
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History
The current route 26 dates back to 18 July 1992, and was introduced to replace the withdrawn section of route 6 between Aldwych and Hackney Wick, running between Hackney Wick Eastway and Waterloo, from Bow Bus Garage using Leyland Titans. The route was converted to low floor during 1999. The allocation was transferred to Stratford Garage in April 2001, and transferred again in February 2008 to a new garage in West Ham, on the closure of Stratford Garage as part of the Olympic construction. The route has stayed the same since it began, apart from minor reroutings in Shoreditch in 2002 and in Hackney in 2008.
On 21 July 2005, would-be bomber Muktar Said Ibrahim attempted to explode a device contained in his rucksack on a number 26 bus on Hackney Road. Thankfully, the device failed to detonate.
Current route
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