Photo by Lawrence Living.

The 175 is scheduled for operation by short wheelbase Tridents, and TAS 447 (Y447 NHK) is one of the batch purchased for it and the 174.

Also in common with the 174, the 175 combines a short link from Romford to Dagenham with a local service to the north of the town, in this case to what LT calls Hillrise Estate, though I am not aware of any evidence to support this name. (It refers to a group of roads around Hillrise Road.)

However, the 175 used to run out into the Essex countryside, its northern terminus being Ongar until 1973. The relatively low frequency section from Chase Cross to Ongar via Stapleford Abbots and Passingford Bridge was then hived off to the 175A (Romford to Chipping Ongar), which in turn was renumbered 247B in 1976, and then reduced from Mondays to Saturdays to Romford Market days only (i.e. Wednesday, Friday and Saturday) the following year. The service was later handed over to London Country who re-numbered it 501; it no longer survives.

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See also routes 174