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356
Usually an Alexander Dennis Adl Enviro 200 Mmc.

No on-time figurewe can't yet publish a reliable on-time figure for route 356. Below is how long people waited, against what the timetable alone would give.

The last week, day by day
Chance of waiting more than ten minutes if you turn up at random.

Watch a day of route 356’s buses: every bus, replayed on the map. Or click a day on the chart.

The weekly figures

The chance of waiting more than ten minutes if you turn up at random.

Week endingtowards Sydenham Hill / Kirkdaletowards Wickham Road
21 Jun 2025no datano data
28 Jun 202559%59%
5 Jul 202562% thin61% thin
12 Jul 2025no data58% thin
19 Jul 202562%62%
26 Jul 202564%60%
2 Aug 202560%60%
9 Aug 202560%60%
16 Aug 202557%58%
23 Aug 202559%60%
30 Aug 202561%60%
6 Sept 202558%56%
13 Sept 2025no datano data
20 Sept 202560%60%
27 Sept 202557%58%
4 Oct 202558%57%
11 Oct 202559%58%
18 Oct 202559%59%
25 Oct 202561%58%
1 Nov 202557%58%
8 Nov 202557%58%
15 Nov 202558% thin58% thin
22 Nov 202555% thin57% thin
29 Nov 202555%56%
6 Dec 202558%59%
13 Dec 202559%59%
20 Dec 202557%56%
27 Dec 202561% thin59% thin
3 Jan 202661%60%
10 Jan 202657%58%
17 Jan 202658%59%
24 Jan 202659%61%
31 Jan 202657%57%
7 Feb 202656%56%
14 Feb 202658%56%
21 Feb 2026no datano data
28 Feb 2026no datano data
7 Mar 202659%58%
14 Mar 202661%64%
21 Mar 202658%57%
28 Mar 202656%57%
4 Apr 202658%59%
11 Apr 202660%61%
18 Apr 202658%59%
25 Apr 202659% thin60% thin
2 May 202658%58%
9 May 202660%61%
16 May 202658%59%
23 May 202657%55%
30 May 202658%58%
6 Jun 202659%59%
13 Jun 202658%58%
20 Jun 202657%57%
27 Jun 202658%59%
4 Jul 2026no datano data
11 Jul 202657%60%
18 Jul 202659%61%
25 Jul 202659%59%
1 Aug 2026no datano data
8 Aug 2026no datano data
15 Aug 2026no datano data
22 Aug 2026no datano data
29 Aug 2026no datano data
5 Sept 202656%57%
12 Sept 202661%61%
19 Sept 202659%56%
26 Sept 202658%58%
3 Oct 202656%57%
10 Oct 202657%57%
17 Oct 2026no data63%

Waiting for a bus towards Wickham Road, more than ten minutes goes by on about 63% of trips. Running exactly to the timetable it would be 58% of trips.

towards Sydenham Hill / Kirkdale
Wait > 10 min
no data
Cut short
27.8% 25 of 90 journeys
towards Wickham Road
Wait > 10 min
63%timetable alone: 58%
Wait > 20 min
32%timetable alone: 17%
Wait > 30 min
11%timetable alone: 0%
1 in 20 wait over
38 min
Cut short
15.3% 21 of 137 journeys

68 minutes was the longest gap between buses this week, at Forest Hill Station / London Road towards Wickham Road, on Tuesday 13 October from 17:54 to 19:02. This excludes any gaps caused by holes in our own data. Watch it happen →

When it goes wrong

Chance of waiting more than twenty minutes if you turn up at random, by time of day, averaged over the most recent weeks of data. The mark on each bar is the chance if everything ran to timetable.

  • Weekdays 05:00–07:00 8.4%
  • Weekdays 07:00–10:00 11.7%
  • Weekdays 10:00–16:00 12.4%
  • Weekdays 16:00–19:00 13.3%
  • Weekdays 19:00–24:00 27.2%
  • Saturdays 25.7%
  • Sundays and bank holidays 35.8%

Journeys cut short

Last week: 20.3% of journeys were turned back before the end of the line in the week ending 17 October 2026. Everyone on board has to get off; for anyone waiting further along the route it's effectively a cancellation.

Last four weeks: 247 journeys on route 356 were turned back before the end of the line over four weeks of watching, 26 September to 17 October 2026 — about 8.8 a day.

00.20.40.60.8journeys cut short a day, by hour00:00–01:00: 0.0 cut short on an average day00:0001:00–02:00: 0.0 cut short on an average day02:00–03:00: 0.0 cut short on an average day03:00–04:00: 0.0 cut short on an average day04:00–05:00: 0.0 cut short on an average day05:00–06:00: 0.1 cut short on an average day06:00–07:00: 0.4 cut short on an average day06:0007:00–08:00: 0.4 cut short on an average day08:00–09:00: 0.6 cut short on an average day09:00–10:00: 0.4 cut short on an average day10:00–11:00: 0.5 cut short on an average day11:00–12:00: 0.5 cut short on an average day12:00–13:00: 0.4 cut short on an average day12:0013:00–14:00: 0.6 cut short on an average day14:00–15:00: 0.6 cut short on an average day15:00–16:00: 0.7 cut short on an average day16:00–17:00: 0.6 cut short on an average day17:00–18:00: 0.6 cut short on an average day18:00–19:00: 0.6 cut short on an average day18:0019:00–20:00: 0.5 cut short on an average day20:00–21:00: 0.6 cut short on an average day21:00–22:00: 0.4 cut short on an average day22:00–23:00: 0.2 cut short on an average day23:00–00:00: 0.1 cut short on an average daybusiest hour 15:00 — 0.7 a day

Where those journeys fall across the day. Each bar is the number cut short in that hour on an average day, so the bars together come to the daily figure above; hover a bar for its hour. Hours the route was not watched enough to say are shaded rather than drawn as nought.

towards Sydenham Hill / Kirkdale

Last week, 25 of 90 journeys (28%) were turned short.

  • Sydenham / The Woodman0.6 km short of the end 13
  • Church Vale2.2 km short of the end 5
  • Mount Ash Road0.9 km short of the end 3
  • Forest Hill Station / London Road1.6 km short of the end 1
  • Windrush Lane2.6 km short of the end 1
  • Elsewhere along the route 2

towards Wickham Road

Last week, 21 of 137 journeys (15%) were turned short.

  • Elmers End Green3.5 km short of the end 13
  • Bell Green / Sainsbury's10.1 km short of the end 3
  • Links Way1.3 km short of the end 2
  • Eden Park Station1.7 km short of the end 1
  • Adamsrill Road10.8 km short of the end 1
  • Elsewhere along the route 1

Each place is the last stop the bus was timed at before it turned round, with the typical distance it fell short of the end of the line. The five busiest are named; the rest are counted together.

Compared with TfL's own figures

QuarterTfLOurs
2025/26 Q313 Sept – 2 Jan 202683% on timeno figure
2026/27 Q11 Apr – 26 Jun 202686% on timeno figure

TfL's figures come from its own tracking equipment and its own timetable; mine are computed from the buses' public position feed. They are the same calculation on independent data, so they should broadly agree and move together rather than match exactly.

About this data
Data collected, week ending 17 October 2026
100% of the week. This is the share of the week for which we hold bus location data at all, across the whole of London rather than for this route. A week under 60% is not published; under 90% it is marked as thin.
Journeys observed
  • towards Sydenham Hill / Kirkdale: 90 journeys tracked across two days
  • towards Wickham Road: 137 journeys tracked across three days
A guide to how much evidence sits behind this week's figures, not a measure of the service.
How it is measured
Every day, 05:00–23:59. Waits are measured along the route at TfL's timing points, in each direction, against the timetable — not at the ends of the route, where a bus turned back early counts as if it had run. This route runs to a timetable, but we can't yet publish a reliable on-time figure for it, so it is measured by how long people waited, as a frequent route is. A day with less than four hours of data collected shows no daily figure. How these figures are made.
Gaps in the record for this period (39)

Most recent first. Hover a week on the chart and it will name the gap behind it. Most are a few missing hours on an otherwise ordinary day.

  • 17 Sept 2026 partial day, no data 12:00-12:59: our collector was down (machine off or power cut)
  • 28 Aug 2026 partial day, no data 20:00-23:59: our collector was down (machine off or power cut)
  • 29 Jul – 26 Aug 2026 no collection: the volunteer BODS archive was down and our own collector had not yet started
  • 28 Jul 2026 partial day, no data 11:00-23:59: no collection: the volunteer BODS archive was down and our own collector had not yet started
  • 7 Jul 2026 partial day, no data 15:00-15:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 5 Jul 2026 partial day, no data 06:00-11:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 4 Jul 2026 partial day, no data 06:00-21:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 2 Jul – 3 Jul 2026 gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 8 Jun 2026 partial day, no data 07:00-08:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 7 Jun 2026 partial day, no data 12:00-12:59, 18:00-19:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 6 Jun 2026 partial day, no data 12:00-12:59, 16:00-16:59, 18:00-18:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 27 Apr 2026 partial day, no data 12:00-12:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 21 Apr 2026 partial day, no data 06:00-11:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 20 Apr 2026 partial day, no data 15:00-23:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 16 Apr 2026 partial day, no data 12:00-15:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 28 Feb 2026 partial day, no data 06:00-18:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 16 Feb – 27 Feb 2026 gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 15 Feb 2026 partial day, no data 16:00-23:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 30 Jan 2026 partial day, no data 20:00-23:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 25 Dec 2025 no bus service on Christmas Day
  • 23 Dec 2025 partial day, no data 06:00-07:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 5 Dec 2025 partial day, no data 06:00-08:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 24 Nov 2025 partial day, no data 17:00-17:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 17 Nov 2025 partial day, no data 06:00-09:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 15 Nov – 16 Nov 2025 no London vehicles in the national feed — TfL's export to BODS was down (the volunteer archive itself was collecting)
  • 14 Nov 2025 partial day, no data 06:00-07:59, 13:00-23:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 31 Oct 2025 partial day, no data 06:00-07:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 17 Oct 2025 partial day, no data 06:00-07:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 10 Oct 2025 partial day, no data 06:00-08:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 3 Oct 2025 partial day, no data 06:00-11:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 19 Sept 2025 partial day, no data 06:00-08:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 5 Sept 2025 partial day, no data 06:00-09:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 1 Aug 2025 partial day, no data 06:00-09:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 18 Jul 2025 partial day, no data 06:00-09:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 8 Jul 2025 partial day, no data 06:00-08:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 6 Jul – 7 Jul 2025 gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 5 Jul 2025 partial day, no data 18:00-23:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 4 Jul 2025 partial day, no data 06:00-14:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)
  • 25 Jun 2025 partial day, no data 06:00-11:59: gap in the volunteer BODS archive (its collector was down)

For latest timetable and route information, see TfL's official page.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0; bus data via the DfT Bus Open Data Service and Transport for London. Figures are computed from observed bus positions, every day, 05:00–23:59. How these figures are made. Bus positions from the Department for Transport’s Bus Open Data Service (BODS); the Department for Transport cannot warrant the accuracy or quality of the data published there. Positions before September 2026 come from the Bus Open Data archive generously built and kept by Open Innovations, with thanks. Route lines and stops: Powered by TfL Open Data. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2016. Geomni UK Map data © and database rights [2019]. These pages and the bus replay are built independently from open data: Transport for London, the Department for Transport and the bus operators had no part in making them, and none of them endorses them. Not for planning a journey.