Trivia: Stations where the town's bus station is placed.

[greaterwest]

Aldershot
Haslemere (although it's not a bus station in the traditional sense, drivers and routes do change over there though)
Portsmouth & Southsea for the City Centre Interchange
Bracknell

 

[Shimbleshanks]

Belfast Great Victoria Street - station is in the basement as I remember. Probably is the largest bus station in the city.

Cardiff main bus station used to be adjacent to Central station though not physically part of it.

 

[Harbornite]

Cradley Heath.

 

[AndrewR232]

Does Nelson count? Or Huyton?

 

[Howardh]

As mentioned above, Clitheroe; although to be fair I've never yet seen a bus in it....

Bury's bus station is next to the Metrolink which used to be a train!

 

[anti-pacer]

Does Nelson count? Or Huyton?

I mentioned Nelson on my opening post.

 

[61653 HTAFC]

A handful of "close, but no cigar" suggestions coming in: Ormskirk would be another.

 

[sjoh]

Chingford, Walthamstow, and Leytonstone (Central line if that counts)

 

[hassaanhc]

Finsbury Park (Station Place) bus station is pretty much the front forecourt of the station (there is a second bus station north of the railway line, and a low bridge between the two which manages an instant open top conversion every few years.

Quite a few London Underground stations were designed with a bus interchange / station outside the door - much of the Underground being in the same ownership as London General from the 1920s - Morden, Edgware, Golders Green, Turnpike Lane, Newbury Park, Southgate - and more recently North Greenwich, immediately come to mind.

Several more London Underground and DLR examples:
Uxbridge, Ruislip, Canada Water, Canning Town, Stratford (both the main bus station and the Stratford City one), Heathrow Terminals 1,2,3 (Heathrow Central Bus Station), Heathrow Terminal 5, Prince Regent.

 

[bramling]

When I say town it can also apply to cities. It has to be the MAIN bus station though so for example Leeds wouldn't count. It has to be attached too and not just close, like Sheffield for instance. That would not count. Only stations on the National Rail network too please.

I'll start with...

Bradford Interchange
Nelson Interchange
Rhyl

This is quite tough. I can't think of anymore.

Hitchin - sort of.

And a right pain it is too. Bus passengers have to endure extra time whilst the bus turns off the main road, negotiates the station approach, and re-joins the main road - often having to turn right. Whilst rail passengers arriving on foot get subject to a mouthful of bus fumes, the front of buses impinging on footpaths as they turn, and attitude from bus drivers if they dare to cross the bus area to reach the station.

 

[Grumpy]

Ilkley?

 

[30907]

As mentioned above, Clitheroe; although to be fair I've never yet seen a bus in it....

Even with the recent cuts, it has more buses than the station has trains (even if you discount non-terminating workings).

There's a decent new(?) bus interchange at Cradley Heath.

 

[Clansman]

Aberdeen
Perth
Stirling

 

[Old Hill Bank]

Supprised no one mentioned Coventy where they started with a black canvas and put the bus station the opposite side of the city to the railway station.

 

[AndrewR232]

I mentioned Nelson on my opening post.

Oops.

I don't think Lanark has been mentioned yet.

 

[richard1976]

Hull ?

 

[6Gman]

The bus station at Longton is very close to the railway station.

Neither lifts the spirits!

 

[Penmorfa]

Blaenau Ffestiniog, although buses and trains are rather thin on the ground there.

 

[Busaholic]

Eltham, possibly a unique example in that when the station was relocated (Eltham Well Hall being the original) the accompanying bus station also moved: also unusual in the London area for being a national rail suburban station with an attached bus station.

I would say Romford also qualifies, but only for buses going through the town first.

 

[Dr_Paul]

The bus station at Vauxhall is right outside the railway station. It's been designed so that all buses (I think it's all of them) actually stop in it, which is quite rare with a London station with a lot of bus routes going to it.

There is a kind of bus station at Waterloo, but it serves just north-bound buses; the southbound buses have to make to do with stops in the street; some other routes have their own stops in various streets around the station. Space is limited and the number of buses serving Waterloo so great that a proper bus station would have to be pretty big: I can't see there ever being a proper bus station there.

 

[martinsh]

Matlock
Huyton

 

[philthetube]

Watford Junction.

 

[Statto]

Matlock
Huyton

Huyton is not part of the station, & is 100 yards away from the Station, there's a bus stop just before Huyton bus station which serves the rail station although it's an alighting point only.

 

[mind the gap]

Portsmouth Harbour?

 

[David Andrews]

Inverkeithing.

 

[PHILIPE]

Cardiff Central until the Council in their wisdom cancelled the planned re-development of the bus station but then after a few years decided to knock down and let the BBC build a new building on the site. Busses now call at stops all over the place but there are plans to build another bus station as part of the BBC building and Central Square development. The Council only listened to their own ideas and ignored public opinion.

 

[gswindale]

Would the new "Northern Interchange" in Reading count?

Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk

 

[IanXC]

Such a colocated bus station is currently in the works for Bridlington, in the area between what was platform 8 and Tescos, alongside the station car park.

 

[Robertj21a]

Tottenham Hale
Edgware
Luton
Meadowhall
Caerphilly

 

[HowardGWR]

Would this thread not have been more relevant to the issue of integrated transport if it had asked for stations without such a facility. I would have kicked off with Bristol TM. On the other hand, folk who know that several central Bristol shuttle services, and the airport bus, stop there, would possibly wonder what is the point of this thread, as surely the ability to interchange is more important than where buses are stabled. Bristol's 'bus station' is just a nasty smelly garage, as are most of such places.