[2] In 1985, it was withdrawn between Waterloo and Victoria, and further cut back to Liverpool Street in 1991 apart from a few early weekday journeys to Mansion House station.

The service was converted to an articulated bus operation in 2004 with a fleet of Mercedes-Benz O530G and withdrawn north of Edmonton, with new route 349 taking over.

[3] A year later the route was used to test the iBus recorded announcements system to aid visually impaired passengers.

[11] In 2007, the route was highlighted as having extremely high levels of pickpocketing by London Assembly member Jeanette Arnold.

Ken Livingstone, then Mayor of London, was called upon to increase policing on the route, but stated that pickpocket activity had in fact decreased between 2005 and 2007.

[13][14] On 27 February 2010, a bus driver working on the route was assaulted by a passenger who had failed to alight at the correct stop.