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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The New School Term at Transpora
Reading Time: 2 minutesSo with the school holidays now in full swing, and the countries families busily packing themselves into the local Butlin’s or Pontins (other holiday suppliers are available) the local bus operators are having a bit of a shuffle in advance…
New U Links (and more)
Reading Time: 6 minutesLots of little changes are coming up in the coming months which we are quickly going to report on today. I regret that many of the bus rally organisers have really been collaborating this year and yet again I am…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
School Buses Start to Stop
Reading Time: 3 minutesFollowing on from the impending closure of the Yellow Coaches operation in Bournemouth (albeit not the closure of Yellow Coaches Ltd) there have been some updates of late. I was quite keen for Yellow Coaches and/or XelaGroup to actually tell…