Thursday 19th December 2024 The final bus route numbered 100 to feature in this blog series is the newest, the least frequent and the least used of all the 26. The route between Devizes and Marlborough only began in October 2023 and was initially part of Wiltshire Council’s semi-flex DRT initiative. It's operated by Go... Continue Reading →
Saturday 7th December 2024 As this fortnightly series moves ever closer towards its terminus today’s penultimate route 100 to be featured is Cheltenham’s Park and Ride operation. And if that sounds familiar, you’ve got good recall as I half featured the route back in June while on my 7-day All Line Rail Rover and stopped... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 26th November 2024 Photo courtesy: Mark Lyons This antepenultimate entry in my fortnightly travels on all Britain’s 26 bus routes numbered 100 series is one of the city of Oxford’s bus routes primarily aimed at students travelling to and from Brookes University, but open for anyone to use. Photo courtesy: Mark Lyons Oxford Bus... Continue Reading →
Saturday 9th November 2024 This route 100 is the only one operated by First Bus as well as the only one of that number in the whole of East Anglia now the summer only Wherry Line 100 in Great Yarmouth has ended. It’s actually mainly in the Thurrock local authority area with less than 20%... Continue Reading →
Saturday 26th October 2024 Three of Britain's bus routes numbered 100 serve airports. We've already ridden Metrobus's Crawley to Redhill via Gatwick Airport and Arriva's Stevenage to Luton via Luton Airport, and this latest review features the third - and one aimed specifically at serving the airport market; in Edinburgh. Lothian Buses operates three routes... Continue Reading →
Sunday 13th October 2024 There are two bus routes numbered 100 in Greater Glasgow. I’ve already featured Glasgow Community Transport’s service to the Riverside Transport Museum in this series, so here's the other route operated by Avondale Coaches over in Clydebank. It’s a route in two halves with two buses shuttling between Clydebank town centre... Continue Reading →
Saturday 12th October 2024 Many apologies for the late running of this 'Every route 100' blog. This is due to 'blog uploading congestion' over the last couple of weeks so to get things back on schedule, welcome to a special weekend 'Every route 100' double with the next route 100 appearing in an extra Sunday... Continue Reading →
Saturday 14th Septmber 2024 I featured an early morning journey on Preston’s bus route numbered 100 last month and it made sense on the same visit to head on northwards to explore Lancashire’s other route 100 in the lovely city of Lancaster. Operated by Stagecoach this busy double deck route is part of a mini... Continue Reading →
Thursday 29th August 2024 I took a ride on Stagecoach South East's route 100 last year and blogged about it at the time. It turned out to be the inspiration for this year’s fortnightly series. While enjoying the East Sussex scenery between Hastings and Rye last summer, it set me wondering how many other bus... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 27th August 2024 When I set out to ride and blog about all Britain’s 26 bus routes numbered 100 at the beginning of the year I explained I was ignoring school journeys and sightseeing specials (eg Chester) which often don’t even display the number but use it for administrative reasons. However two additional route... Continue Reading →
Saturday 17th August 2024 After my abandoned ride on the Sunday only route 100 around Barry, described last time, I headed up to Preston for an overnight stay before an early Monday morning exploration of that city’s route 100, one of two in the county of Lancashire. And, it turns out just in the nick... Continue Reading →
Saturday 3rd August 2024 Welcome to the second of only two bus routes numbered 100 in Wales which, as mentioned last time, are both to be found in the south. This one is in Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan. Of all Britain’s 26 bus routes numbered 100, this one is unique in that it... Continue Reading →
Saturday 6th July 2024 Time for another exploration of one of Britain’s 26 bus routes numbered 100. And this time I’m back in the Home Counties taking a ride on Red Rose Travel’s route between Aylesbury and Milton Keynes. In what is a topical piece of history, the route was introduced as recently as 2020... Continue Reading →
Saturday 22nd June 2024 We’re at the halfway stage on this fortnightly odyssey of all Britain’s 26 bus routes numbered 100 so I thought I’d celebrate by taking a ride on my local route 100 in West Sussex. It’s a fascinating route connecting many small and mid sized towns and villages as it criss-crosses the... Continue Reading →
Saturday 8th June 2024 It seems a good idea to complete the trio of bus routes numbered 100, all operated by the associated bus companies of Centrebus, Chaserider and D&G Bus, by taking a ride on the latter’s service between Hanley and Stone in Staffordshire. Routes 100 operated by the other two companies (in Melton... Continue Reading →
Saturday 25th May 2024 After last time’s wander from Syston to Melton Mowbray it’s the turn of the second of three route 100s operated by associated companies CentreBus, Chaserider and D&G Bus. We’re in Chaserider's Shropshire territory travelling between Wellington and the suburbs of neighbouring Telford now administered by Telford & Wrekin Council. And if... Continue Reading →
Saturday 11th May 2024 My latest ride on a bus route numbered 100 is one of three to be featured in this fortnightly series operated by the closely linked bus companies of Centrebus, Chaserider and D&G Bus; all having ownership interests by bus entrepreneur Julian Peddle. This time it's the Centrebus operated route between Syston... Continue Reading →
Saturday 27th April 2024 We're now a third of the way through this fortnightly series featuring all of Britain's bus routes numbered 100 and having been to Stevenage, Crawley, Lincoln, Glasgow, Campbeltown, Guildford and Manchester I thought it was time to head to London and take a ride on TfL’s route 100. It’s odd to... Continue Reading →
Saturday 13th April 2024 The eighth route 100 to be featured in this fortnightly series must rank as one of the quirkiest. It’s Arriva's second of that Company’s two routes numbered 100 but unlike its busy Stevenage to Luton route already featured, and certainly unlike the lengthy Manchester to Warrington featured last time, this 100... Continue Reading →
Saturday 30th March 2024 I took a ride on the busy inter-urban route 100 linking Manchester and Warrington on its very last day as a commercial operation by Go North West - last Saturday, 23rd March. The following day, Sunday, the route became part of Greater Manchester’s expanding franchised controlled Bee Network. Buses were already... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 19th March 2024 Two of Britain’s bus services numbered 100 are Park & Ride routes and in a happy numerical coincidence when I took a ride on Guildford's route 100 on Saturday afternoon, the first of the two to be featured in this fortnightly blog series, the car park was packed with people ...... Continue Reading →
Saturday 2nd March I’m back in Scotland for this fifth journey exploring all Britain’s 26 bus routes numbered 100, and it's another short one Or should I use the plural, as it’s really two mini town routes for the price of one, and in my case just £1.65 for a complete five mile rounder covering... Continue Reading →
Saturday 17th February 2024 Having featured three fairly strategic route 100s so far in this year’s meander around the country ticking off all 26 similar numerically defined bus services, this latest route 100 journey experience is much more of a quirky oddball kind of a route. It’s one of four route 100s to be found... Continue Reading →
Saturday 3rd February 2024 Third in this year’s fortnightly route 100 odyssey is another cross-county-border inter-urban bus route but, unlike the first two already featured (Stevenage/Hitchin and Crawley/Redhill), this one really is pure inter-urban. No wandering around residential estates in the urban centres for this double deck operated 35 mile route across some of England’s... Continue Reading →
Saturday 20th January 2024 Metrobus 100 between Crawley and Redhill Second in this years fortnightly series featuring all Britain’s 26 bus routes numbered 100 brings us to another busy cross county border, inter-urban route in the shape of the Metrobus operated service between Crawley’s Maidenbower residential area and Redhill’s Park 25 development. It has similar... Continue Reading →
Saturday 6th January 2024 A new year heralds a new fortnightly series of BusAndTrainUser blogposts. And for 2024, instead of another A-to-Z, I'll be featuring all Britain's bus routes numbered 100, as by the wonders of numerical coincidence there just happen to be 26 of them. Britain's bus routes numbered 100 provide a fascinating mixture... Continue Reading →
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