Tuesday 19th October 2021 As regular readers will know I’m very partial to a lovely rural bus ride. The more infrequent and quirky the better. I always feel a sense … Continue Reading Three rural bus rides in East Cheshire
Sunday 17th October 2021 A surprise ending And so to the fourth and final quadrant of our London encirclement commemorating last year’s fiftieth anniversary of the much missed London Country … Continue Reading LCBS 50th Anniversary Tour: Part 4
Friday 15th October 2021 Rail. Replacement. Bus. As you can see down here in Sussex Rail Replacement Buses are front page news again as GTR and Network Rail’s media machine … Continue Reading Three Dreaded Words
Wednesday 13th October 2021 As promised last month, a further quick update on my recent experiences with customer service teams in the public transport sector. In my Sunday 19th September … Continue Reading Three refunds and a bouquet for TfL
Monday 11th October 2021 Following the success of the Route 65 Running Day in April, the London Bus Museum held a similar nostalgia fest on Saturday recreating London bus route … Continue Reading Route 93 Running Day
Saturday 9th October 2021 A couple of exciting zero emission developments were added to the Leeds bus scene in September. I caught up with both during a visit on Thursday. … Continue Reading Leeds plugs in more leads
Thursday 7th October 2021 While down in Cornwall last weekend I took the opportunity to take a ride on First Kernow’s new-for-the-2021-summer-season Falmouth Coaster branded open top bus tour of … Continue Reading Rain doesn’t stop the Falmouth Coaster
Tuesday 5th October 2021 First the good news. Go-Ahead’s Go Cornwall Bus website which acts on behalf of Transport for Cornwall (TfC) now includes a comprehensive map of the combined … Continue Reading Cornish crackers
Sunday 3rd October 2021 I wrote about TfL’s new route 497 on its first day of operation back on 25th January 2020. Here’s a quick recap: the 497 links Harold … Continue Reading Are TfL about to ditch new route 497?
Friday 1st October 2021 The DRT craze reached Aberdeenshire on 16th August when the snazzily named Ready2Go five vehicle operation hit the road. Six weeks on it was time for … Continue Reading Ready2Go is not ready to go for Ian
Wednesday 29th September 2021 I explored the Isle of Sheppey back in April as my very own ‘Farewell to Arriva on the Island’ Tribute Tour. The Arriva bus garage alongside … Continue Reading Sheppey goes against the Grain
Monday 27th September 2021 It was inevitable. As soon as Ministers appeared in the media on Thursday afternoon telling us “there’s no need to panic buy petrol as there’s no … Continue Reading You can’t panic buy bus journeys
From A to B (Amersham to Bishop’s Stortford) Saturday 25th September 2021 Friday of last week saw the LCBS Tour Gang reconvene for our wander through the third quadrant of … Continue Reading LCBS 50th Anniversary Tour: Part 3
YorBus and HertsLynx Thursday 23rd September 2021 I’ve been back out and about on the DRT trail again. It’s almost becoming a full time occupation as the DfT’s Rural Mobility … Continue Reading More DRT riding
Tuesday 21st September 2021 The last time a new station opened on the London Underground was 2008; the year the Piccadilly Line reached Heathrow’s Terminal 5 and Wood Lane opened … Continue Reading A power for good station design at Battersea
Sunday 19th September 2021 I thought I should provide a few updates after my post a month ago about unsatisfactory experiences at the hands of various rail companies and their … Continue Reading Customer service resolutions (or not).
Friday 17th September 2021 The Snowdon Sherpa network of bus routes provides a great way to explore the Snowdonia National Park. It links the six walking paths which give access … Continue Reading The Snowdon Sherpa
Wednesday 15th September 2021 Transport for Wales have only gone and done it again. They’ve further expanded the TrawsCymru network of bus routes with a brand new route – the … Continue Reading Another new TrawsCymru route
Monday 13th September 2021 I’ve been meaning to pay a visit to take a look at Chester’s relatively new “Bus Interchange”, opened in March 2017, for some time and a … Continue Reading A visit to Crewe and Chester
Saturday 11th September It’s sad when a bus garage closes. There’s so much transport history within the fabric of the building and it always seems such a shame to lose … Continue Reading ON and off
Thursday 9th September 2021 Buckinghamshire’s expansionist bus company Redline has upped the stakes in its competitive battle with Arriva by introducing of a new hourly route X20 between Aylesbury and … Continue Reading Redline goes for the Oxford market
Tuesday 7th September 2021 Thanks for the guesses following Sunday’s post. Some of you were spot on identifying Britain’s most westerly bus stop. Bearing in mind we’re talking ‘Britain’ (therefore … Continue Reading Britain’s most westerly bus stop eludes us
Sunday 5th September 2021 I visited Britain’s northernmost bus stop in July 2018. It’s on Unst, the furthest north island in the Shetland archipelago, in the small hamlet of Valsgarth. … Continue Reading Britain’s most easterly bus stop
How that campaign should have looked Friday 3rd September 2021 Instead of this…. This…. This week’s controversy over Channel 4’s national advertising campaign for Naked Attraction using T shape bus … Continue Reading The Naked Truth about bus advertising
Wednesday 1st September 2021 Apologies for the London and South East centric blogposts of late. That’ll change in the next few posts, but here’s just one more featuring a quick … Continue Reading Aldwych to Aldenham via Whitechapel
Monday 30th August 2021 ‘Back in the day’ (I’m thinking the fifties and sixties) when the UK had a sizeable manufacturing industry and car ownership was much lower bus companies … Continue Reading Amazon’s prime bus route
Saturday 28th August 2021 Sooner or later the bubble had to burst. For years London’s buses have been hailed as an exemplar for how bus networks should be across the … Continue Reading TfL’s downward spiral continues
From Compass to Carousel Thursday 26th August 2021 The LCBS Anniversary Tour Gang of Four (now joined by Mike Best and David Cole to make Six of the Best) reconvened … Continue Reading The LCBS 50th Anniversary Tour: Part 2
Tuesday 24th August 2021 One of London’s most unusual bus routes makes its final journey this week. I write ‘London’s bus route’, but it’s not a TfL route and only … Continue Reading End of the road for London’s route 575
Sunday 22nd August 2021 Britain has three* bus networks using the prefix W. They’re a very diverse threesome. One comprises frequent routes in Wood Green and Walthamstow in north London … Continue Reading Route W13. All three of them.
Friday 20th August 2021 A new name to the open-top bus scene this year is Reading based coach operator Aldermaston Coach Lines, the trading name of Southern Coach Lines Ltd. … Continue Reading An open-top bus is back in Southsea
Wednesday 18th August 2021 It’s always impressive to read corporate vision documents. You know the kind of thing. Glossy photos of staff helping smiling customers and paragraphs full of glowing … Continue Reading Committed to Customers?
Monday 16th August 2021 After my recent visit to Safeguard, I thought I’d feature another small bus operator exuding quality and that’s Kings Lynn based Lynx operating a network of … Continue Reading History repeats itself in Norfolk
Saturday 14th August 2021 After being relegated to online ‘virtual tours’ in March 2020 due to lockdown, the London Transport Museum’s programme of real life ‘Hidden London’ tours are finally … Continue Reading The Kingsway Tramway Subway
From Gravesend to Dorking Thursday 12th August 2021 OK, I realise I’m a year late, but just like the Tokyo Olympics, due to the uncertainty of Covid restrictions this project … Continue Reading The LCBS 50th Anniversary Tour: Part 1
Tuesday 10th August 2021 As well as bringing back open top bus routes all along Bournemouth’s seafront between Mudeford and Alum Chine this summer, Yellow Buses have also introduced a … Continue Reading Buster’s Forest Explorer explored
Sunday 8th August 2021 It’s always a pleasure to visit one of Britain’s quality smaller bus and coach companies. Safeguard Coaches has been trading for nigh on 100 years having … Continue Reading The pride of Guildford
Friday 6th August 2021 After I’d checked out Exeter’s new bus station on Monday last week it seemed a good opportunity to take a ride on First South West’s new … Continue Reading Discover Exeter
Wednesday 4th August 2021 This week has seen Stagecoach South East revamp its bus routes between Canterbury, Faversham and Sittingbourne and introduce an exciting new extension onwards to Maidstone. Southeastern … Continue Reading Canterbury and Maidstone get connected
Monday 2nd August 2021 It was a welcome makeover at the time. In September 2013 Arriva bought out its majority partner shareholders in Centrebus Holdings which had been running buses … Continue Reading Making the Tiger better
