Saturday 22nd November 2025 All this year, month by month, I've been counting down Britain's Top 10 Quirky Bus Routes and today I can finally reveal the prized holder of the coveted top slot - the one that's truly the country's Quirkiest Bus Route of all. Readers will have seen at No 10 the bus... Continue Reading →
Saturday 11th October 2025 Now, this route really is a Bucket List Must Do. Except it's probably one of Britain's most challenging bus routes to take a ride on. The service only runs in the summer and passengers need to first take a sporadically timed tiny passenger ferry boat run by one ferryman, Mr Morrison,... Continue Reading →
Saturday 13th September 2025 Imberbus 2024 Photo credit Steve Hutchings Obviously it just had to be in the Top 10 and very much deserves the coveted top three billing as an absolute sure fire example of Britain's Quirky Bus Routes. It is of course the annual outing for Wiltshire's very special bus route, the 23A,... Continue Reading →
Saturday 16th August 2025 Regular readers may recall I blogged about this quirky bus route three years ago. It’s the one where security personnel remove you from the bus six miles before it reaches the advertised terminus because it's out of bounds other than for a few residents who live there. It’s this unique characteristic... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 15th July 2025 It's the middle of the month, so time for another Quirky Bus Route. Cumbria Classic Coaches is based in Ravenstonedale, Cumbria about four miles south east of Kirkby Stephen. The company has a small collection of vintage vehicles for use on private hires, especially weddings. It also has a few more... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 17th June 2025 It’s the middle of the month so time for this year’s monthly countdown of quirky bus routes and after the inclusion of TfL route 969 as Britain's eighth quirkiest bus route in my Top 10, I'm back in south west London for a ride on another quirky favourite taking sixth place.... Continue Reading →
Saturday 10th May 2025 Continuing my Top 10 countdown towards the country's Quirkiest Bus Route takes us this month to Devon to ride Britain’s least frequent schedule bus service. Tavistock Country Bus operated route 112 famously runs just one return journey on the fifth Saturday of the month between April and September linking the company's... Continue Reading →
Saturday 12th April 2025 After Windsor and Northumberland I'm in south west London for this month's featured bus route I've ranked eighth in Britain's Top 10 Quirky Bus Routes. It's a TfL contracted route, operated by Transport UK (formerly Abelllio), running from Whitton via Richmond, Mortlake and Barnes to Roehampton. Some readers might be puzzling... Continue Reading →
Saturday 15th March 2025 This year's monthly blog series is counting down Britain's quirky bus routes. Following last month's wander through Windsor Great Park using roads out-of-bounds to ordinary traffic on White Bus route 01, this month we're heading north for a ride on a route where the bus timetable is determined by the tide... Continue Reading →
Saturday 15th February 2025 Welcome to a new series of monthly blog posts for 2025 where, over the next 10 months, I’ll be counting down Britain's Top 10 Quirky Bus Routes each with an increasing quirkiness factor as we head towards No 1 in November. Appropriately enough the countdown kicks off with a bus service... Continue Reading →
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