bodied
TransBus Trident at
Walthamstow Central station in November 2014 Introduced in February 1960 to replace Trolleybus route 669 Stratford to North Woolwich Ferry, Route 69 was extended in April 1960 from Stratford to Chingford Mount and, as part of London Transport's 'Reshaping' plan in 1968, further extended to
Chingford station. Upon the sale of London Buses' East London subsidiary in 1994, the route passed to Stagecoach, then operating between
Walthamstow bus station and
North Woolwich. Upon being re-tendered in 1999, it was retained by
Stagecoach London with a new southern terminus, London City Airport. The North Woolwich section being covered by new route 474. The contract was again renewed, as a 24-hour service, commencing on 30 April 2004. On 17 December 2005, it was withdrawn between
London City Airport and
Canning Town station as part of a series of changes in connection with the
Docklands Light Railway being extended.
Stagecoach London commenced a further contract on 30 April 2011. In October 2015, three
Alexander Dennis Enviro400VE MMCs with inductive wireless charging technology, which allows its batteries to receive a charging boost when stationary at specially equipped bus stops entered service on route 69. When next tendered, it was awarded to
Tower Transit. The new contract commenced on 6 February. In 2012, vandals damaged a bus by setting it on fire. The bus,
Spirit of London, was a tribute to the victims of the 2005 London bombings. The police later arrested some teenagers. The route transferred from
Tower Transit to
Go-Ahead London on 1 May 2021. ==Current route==