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Journeys around Britain by bus and train
Memorable bus journeys
Wednesday 22nd January 2020 Social media was buzzing this morning with news the previously announced withdrawal of Blackburn Bus Company’s Red Express route X41 had been rescinded and the route … Continue Reading Red Express reprieve
Friday 17th Janurary 2020 Last month’s timetable change saw a greatly improved train service for Harrogate with LNER introducing direct trains to and from London Kings Cross every two hours; … Continue Reading Revolutionising the Harrogate experience
Wednesday 1st January 2020 Head to head competition between First Essex and Go-Ahead owned Hedingham between Colchester and Clacton-on-Sea comes to an end on Saturday. First Essex closed its Clacton-on-Sea … Continue Reading Will Clacton be all at sea?
Wednesday 4th December 2019 The recent announcement by Oxford Bus of the withdrawal of their long standing X90 coach route between Oxford and London in a month’s time on 4th … Continue Reading The soon to be ex X90
Sunday 1st December 2019 There was a time when Oxford was the oft quoted example of head-to-head quality competition between two major bus companies as each operator aimed for a … Continue Reading Bus battle Southampton style
Wednesday 16th October 2019 Xplore Dundee, the National Express owned bus company in Dundee, launched a brand new airport express coach service back in June linking the city directly with … Continue Reading Xpress Dundee done, (and Airlink)
Friday 11th October 2019 TfL’s next round of reductions to bus routes servIng central London begins tomorrow. This one is much less extensive than in June, involving changes to just a … Continue Reading Farewell 48 after fifty years
Sunday 6th October 2019 I picked up an old Western National timetable book for Cornwall when visiting the Isle of Wight Bus Museum last weekend. It’s always fascinating to see … Continue Reading 43 years later in Cornwall
Wednesday 2nd October I travelled on Britain’s longest bus route from Glasgow to Skye at the beginning of last month so decided to give Britain’s shortest bus route a ride … Continue Reading Britain’s shortest bus route
Monday 16th September 2019 Back in July I took a ride on Nu-Venture’s route 58 between Maidstone, East and West Malling and villages and hamlets close to Wrotham Heath in … Continue Reading Only Connect in Kent
Tuesday 3rd September 2019 It’s about 230 miles long. It takes 7 hours and 50 minutes. It’s Scottish Citylink’s route 915 (or 916) from Glasgow’s Buchanan Bus Station all the … Continue Reading Britain’s longest bus* route
Monday 2nd September 2019 I’ve ridden round Birmingham (on both NatEx’s inner and outer circular bus routes); round Leicester with Centrebus; round Coventry before that city’s circular route (neatly numbered … Continue Reading Ninety round Glasgow
Saturday 31st August 2019 Route 888 between Newcastle and Keswick is the lesser known bus service across the Pennines. Whereas the more famous route 685 takes a direct westerly trajectory … Continue Reading Crossing the Pennines
Wednesday 28th August 2019 I was puzzled by a recent news item that Merseytravel are withdrawing a local bus route they fund in the Speke area of south east … Continue Reading Speke up for Arriva Click
Tuesday 27th August 2019 It’s not often a National Park Authority trials a new bus service these days so hats off to the Peak District for funding the new H1 … Continue Reading There’s Hope in Derbyshire
Wednesday 21st August 2019 I sampled zeelo’s new commuter coach service between Newport and Bristol back in the Spring and wrote about the company and my travel experience on 24th May. … Continue Reading zeelo lands at Gatwick Airport
