Saturday 17th May 2025 New Mills Central looking west towards Manchester Welcome to another town with a station pair located virtually on the same line of longitude (see also Canterbury and Yeovil, previously featured in this fortnightly series). We're in the Derbyshire town of New Mills visiting its stations known as New Mills Central and... Continue Reading →
Thursday 8th May 2025 Here’s another fabulous bus route that needs adding to the list of Britain’s Most Scenic Bus Routes. Introduced in June 2024, thanks to Bus Service Improvement Plan funding from Derbyshire County Council, it's another star performer in the Derbyshire Peak District. Branded as PeakPathfinder, High Peak operated route 62 comprises three... Continue Reading →
Saturday 29th March 2025 It's been on the cards for months, if not a couple of years; it’s the sad demise of Hulleys of Baslow (“Proudly serving the Peak District since 1921”) which finally came to pass on Wednesday. Emergency short term contracts were awarded by Derbyshire County Council commencing on Thursday, just in the... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 21st May 2024 Matt Kitchin and his Stagecoach Yorkshire team launched the Peak Sightseer open-top bus route in conjunction with Derbyshire County Council last summer. As explained when I blogged about the route last August, the route was a collaboration between Stagecoach, the County Council, the National Park Authority and Chatsworth House operating to... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 5th March 2024 I’ve recently caught up with the three latest additions to Britain’s burgeoning DRT landscape. They’re in West Berkshire, West Sussex and Derbyshire. West Berkshire’s scheme was launched on 15th January. There’s a rather cute home made video on YouTube explaining the background to it here featuring West Berkshire's Councillor Denis Gaines,... Continue Reading →
Wednesday 30th August 2023 I left yesterday's blog somewhat disappointed at missing out on a Breezer open-top bus ride from Baslow over to Castleton, but the upside was it gave me more time to explore the other open-top bus route introduced this summer for Peak District tourists - Stagecoach Yorkshire's Peak Sightseer. This came about... Continue Reading →
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