A Tale of Two 50s?

Reading Time: 8 minutesGood morning from a train racing through the Hampshire and Dorset countryside as I spend my Saturday heading down to Bournemouth to enjoy a number of open top buses. The weather is not expected to be bad, but it is…

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Touring the New Forest – Open Top style

Reading Time: 2 minutesWith the summer fast approaching (or already been and gone) regular special services on the New Forest Tour are already slated for a return. The routes are planned to run for eleven weeks from 1st July to 17th September and…

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A Trip to Bournemouth

Reading Time: 5 minutesWith a new open top bus operator and a new summer timetable for the incumbent; who could turn do a day at the seaside? It’s turns about just about no-one. The school day start time, on the first weekend of…

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A General Roundup

Reading Time: 4 minutesThere are lots of little things that are going on at the moment. If things were delivered in nice neat little parcels then some of them could have been whole posts in their own right, but I am not convinced…

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Timetable Changes at morebus

Reading Time: 3 minutesI remember back last year when Yellow Buses collapsed in the summer, when the more enthusiastic members of the transport community were screaming from the rooftops about how to recast the Bournemouth and Poole service monopoly. In between the calls…

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Easter Service Levels

Reading Time: 2 minutesI would love to be able to tell you that every operator is doing the same thing on the same day over Easter this year; but not even brands within a single operator are all doing the same thing for…

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Two Weeks of Updates

Reading Time: 4 minutesRegretfully, I have been deeply, deeply involved in the foundations of a completely different website recently, so I have not been keeping up with posts as much as I would have liked. I know, I built this up during the…

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Go Ahead Changes in April

Reading Time: 2 minutesWith Easter approaching, Go South Coast have announced some of their summer service uplift. There are also changes in some parts as the Hampshire County Council funding cuts and bus tenders take effect in Romsey. All of the changes on…

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A bit of a late running roundup

Reading Time: 4 minutesPicture: entirely random, but Routemaster buses are still operating in Central London on tourist service A. This runs from Waterloo Station to Piccadilly Circus using three buses on an every 20 minute service. it is operated by Transpora Group’s Londoner…

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New Years Day 2023

Reading Time: 2 minutesHow’s the Head this morning? Wherever you chose to listen to the fireworks from, may I be the last to wish you a Happy New Year – primarily because everyone else did it between 2330 and 0030. Yes, I was…

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