Being born and brought up in Croydon I remember -
Addiscombe- Black Horse
Terminus of short workings of no. 12 also 59 A
in the early-mid 1960s I was travelling to school from East Croydon to Norwood Jn using route. 12 and in the peak hours these short workings I had to avoid.
Unsure when this terminal closed..?
Croydon- Fairfield Road
Back in the late 1950s-early 1960s there was a bus terminal off Fairfield Road. The site is now occupied by Fairfield Halls.
Thornton Heath -Nursery Road - Unsure if or when disused.
Terminus of routes 130A,166 and 190 back in 1960s
The only one in London I am aware of is
Waterloo Station- Waterloo Road
Under Waterloo Station adjacent Waterloo Road. Site is now occupied by extension of the Underground station entrance.
I mucked up my first reply, having slowly typed (got arthritis) then somehow sent it into the ether, so slightly truncated it.
(a) Addiscombe, Black Horse I remember as being the terminus of the 50 during the '60s. This was replaced by RT-operated 289 over the Addiscombe to TH section in late 60s, this in turn converted to single-deck omo in early 70s and, after a year or two, extended to the more logical terminus of Elmers End Green. A thriving route now, used probably by those who either don't like the tram or who want to be guaranteed a seat. The section of the 12 you traversed to school was replaced by 12A single-deck omo in early '70s but may initially have kept the short=turn facility at the Black Horse. I only vaguely remember the terminus - did buses stand on the forecourt?
(B) Croydon, Fairfield Road. I well remember the Croydon, Barclay Road destination on the 119 as it passed near to my grandparents' house in Bromley. I believe Barclay Road was just beyond East Croydon Station so may well have fallen victim to the Fairfield Halls development.
(c) Waterloo Station, Colonnades. I used the Waterloo Road stop on the 68 and 196 in the morning rush hour in the early 70s and used to watch the Red Arrows on the 501 and502 quickly fill up and depart, models of efficiency IMO. What hampered further development of the concept was lack of Central London garage space and also certain entrenched attitudes high in LT (I worked for them at the time, so should know!)
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Post Office Tower (the old Tottenham Court Road Trolleybus terminus, then bus 269). Bus 14 terminates nearby on TCR itself at Warren Street Station and re-start southbound at Gower Street.
This was a very significant terminus for decades - the closest trolleybuses ever got to the West End. When the conversions to RM came, the opportunity to extend the 127 (ex trolleybus 627) to Victoria was taken, but my memory was that the route was split into overlapping parts, the Victoria section only working to Lower Edmonton Station rather than Waltham Cross. What really 'did' for this terminus, apart from too many buses terminating in whar were becoming very busy sidestreets, was the one-way traffic scheme implemented in Tottenham Court Road and Gower Street shortly after the conversions.The 253 remained as the most significant presence to the end, but even here every other journey making it through to Camden Town terminated at Mornington Crescent Station for operational convenience. Actually, the latter, although never the ultimate destination of any route (?) used to see an awful lot of both scheduled and unscheduled terminating buses, so perhaps should be added to the list.
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A few that come to mind and in no particular order -
Lewisham - Rennell Street / Molesworth Street (round the outside of the Odeon) ceased to be a terminus in 1978 when the first bus station opened. The second bus station has also now closed.
Eltham Well Hall bus station got moved alongside the new Eltham Station (not to be confused with New Eltham Station) whenever that happened.
There must be quite a few other sites where bus stations / termini have moved like that, though.
There are now closed garages that were termini (e.g Sidcup) or had termini on the nearest main road (e.g. Poplar 'Iron Bridge' from which point buses ran to PR to turn round - this was the regular terminus in the early 80s for route 40, not just for garage journeys.)
Some now closed Hospitals (e.g. Banstead, Bexley) were bus termini - sometimes only on Sundays for visiting.
Quite a few locations were on the red bus network but fell off the network because they are outside what's now Greater London (particularly the Loughton network and the routes south west from Kingston.)
As for locations no longer used as regular termini (although may retain stands for short turned buses)-
Moorgate, Finsbury Square has a lot less than it used to, as does Greenwich 'Cutty Sark'
Farringdon Street, Stonecutter Street, is no longer a terminus
the old Smithfield terminus of the 679 / 279 on St John Street is no longer on a London bus route
neither is Victoria Embankment - a loop terminus for South London's trams, still used in to the late 80s by a dwindling number of tram replacement routes
Tooting Bec used to be terminus for the 19, no longer a terminus
Peckham, 'Lord Hill' (a pub not a street) was replaced when PM garage opened in the early 50s.
Waterloo, Cornwall Road bus stand is no longer a bus stand as it's now the 'garage' for some of the 'Red Arrow' buses.
Farnborough 'George' ceased when the 261 replaced bits of the 47 and 229 in about 1983
Plumstead Common - 53s used to terminate there except for garage journeys to AM and later PD garage - the full service now continues to PD
Downham, Bromley Way was for a while the 47s southern terminus (although crews usually did all they could to run late in the hope of getting a 'turn' at TL garage)
most routes that terminated at Surrey Docks Station now continue to Canada Water, the P12 has a new stand.
Dartford Home Gardens is no longer a TfL terminus - all TfL routes now continue to Bluewater
Forest Hill is no longer a terminus
nor is Welling - the stand at the 'Guy, Earl of Warwick' pub was replaced by one at Welling Corner (think this moved for OMO conversion in the early 70s)
Lower Sydenham Station went out of use when the 181 replaced the south end of the 180 (the terminus involved a reverse, hence crew operation)
Thanks for such a comprehensive list. As I knew a lot of these places pretty well (some, like Eltham Well Hall exceptionally so) I' d like to add some thoughts.
Eltham Well Hall, as you say was moved to the other side of Well Hall Road to the new Eltham Station which replaced WH as well as my local station Eltham Park. There was always a very difficult turn from Well Hall Road into Sherard Road to access the bus station, which didn't stop 36 ft long MBs being allocated to the 21A and the 126 in the late '60s. One quirky point, which may have been unique in London to WH, was that terminating buses from Chislehurst on the 161 showed Eltham Well Hall on their destination blind and approached in the usual way, but terminating buses from the Woolwich direction (and on the 161A) showed Eltham Church because they went up the hill in Well Hall Road first. then 'dead' via Eltham Hill, into the other part of Sherard Rd to the side of Eltham Baths and down to the bus station, departing the same way, usually about half an hour later! (There was a staff canteen at Well Hall).The Eltham Station terminus only sees a small percentage of the terminating buses that used to use WH especially with the 132 extension to North Greenwich and the disappearance long ago of the 21a, 61 and 228.
Bexley Hospital was an interesting one too, and one I never travelled on, for the reason that the 132 was then a circular route, but had this separate Sunday afternoon service from Well Hall to Bexley Hospital via Old Bexley tacked on. The buses on it always displayed a blank, black via points display at the front and similar blanks at the side and back, which meant the only route number on display was at the front, apart from canopy number and offside stencil of course! As far as I know, this was the only scheduled red bus route that adopted this practice. I know from my observations from my grandmother's flat in Well Hall Road that the circular and the hospital buses always came up from Well Hall Station within a minute of each other.
Moorgate, Finsbury Square was another old favourite of mine, being a 21 bus ride away (although not at weekends when I went there, had to get another bus from London Bridge or walk). Saw the first weekend of RMLs on the trolleybus replacement route 104 (the initial batch 880-904) and before that the unique arrangement whereby HT garage operated RMs on Sunday on trolley route 609 alongside Finchley trolleys. Got a feeling that once Crossrail works are complete Finsbury Square will disappear off the bus map too as a terminus.
