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I assume that the date of 1946 came from the LT Museum, but it is wrong. The new Aldgate East station pictured here came into use in October 1938, so I suspect this was taken just prior to that.

On the header page for the collection it states The images in this set were taken from ZSPC 11/256: The Railway Gazette: Improving London's Transport (Special Number of the Railway Gazette) dated 1946

The date of 1946 is obviously the date of publication in Railway Gazette, but it cannot be the date the photo was taken. Aldgate East station was rebuilt on a new site and brought into use in October 1938. The rebuiling involved lowering the track through the station. While the work was going on the tracks were carried on a tressle. In this photo you can see the old track on the tressle in the background, with the new track at a lower level in the foreground. Thus, the photo must have been taken while the lowering of the track was in progress, so cannot be later than October 1938 and was probably not much earlier.

A fantastic piece of history.

That's Tottenham Court Road at the junction with Oxford Street. The building on the left was demolished in 1928 to make way for the Dominion Theatre.

The bus on route 14, XN5034, is a Leyland LB of 'Omega', which they bought secondhand in 1924. It was their only bus and they kept it until replacement by a new bus in 1931. I cannot make out the full registration of the bus in front on route 284 but it is from the 'Overground' fleet and all their XT-registered buses were Dennises. It is going all the way to Hadley Highstone, north of Barnet. The covered top bus going the other way is a 'General' NS-type - the Metropolitan Police had only finally given permission for the operation of the covered top version at the beginning of 1926 following experimental operation the previous year, so this is an early one.