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Similar to the Stoke one, which went "How do you get an elephant to Talke" -"Put him on a bus outside Argos".
There's one right next door called Talke Pits which appears on blinds too.
Similar to the Stoke one, which went "How do you get an elephant to Talke" -"Put him on a bus outside Argos".
So brazen it only gets an annual airing!BRAZEN BOTTOM
on the 23A on IMBERBUS DAY annually.
There is a Quaking Houses in North Durham area.
Believe it now is a Go North East service 30 going through to Lanchester. There may be an odd one terminating at Quaking Houses.Do any routes terminate there or do they just go in and out on their way to Lanchester, as the M8 used to?
That place belongs of course belongs in a category with Mottingham and possibly others - places who could be confused with much larger cities if you don't read the first letter carefully!
Do any routes terminate there or do they just go in and out on their way to Lanchester, as the M8 used to?
SPICE GIRLS
MASSIVE ATTACK
MADNESS
ROD STEWART
are just a few that appeared on Bristols destinations in 2019 for the shuttle buses taking concert goers to the various gigs.
There is a Beatles video for the song " Penny Lane" that has a bus screened " Penny Lane", the song is now way more famous than the place. Is there still a service screened as such?
Do any routes terminate there or do they just go in and out on their way to Lanchester, as the M8 used to?
That place belongs of course belongs in a category with Mottingham and possibly others - places who could be confused with much larger cities if you don't read the first letter carefully!
There is a Beatles video for the song " Penny Lane" that has a bus screened " Penny Lane", the song is now way more famous than the place. Is there still a service screened as such?
the M6 only goes as far as Stanley now
Go North East 638 / NK12 HCE by kieron mathews, on Flickr
This has since been discontinued in favour of service 30 which passes through without terminating there, the M6 only goes as far as Stanley now
Ah, talking of music, you've reminded me of my favourite one... (and it was a proper bus destination rather than just a village with a quirky name which services pass through)
Radio One's "big weekend" is back in Dundee this year - it was last there in 2006 - for those who don't know, the event goes round places in the UK that wouldn't have their own major festivals (Sunderland, Preston, Swindon etc - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Radio_1's_Big_Weekend) - a bit like the way that the UK Capital Of Culture is places like Hull rather than more obvious places like York.
You know the way that a lot of towns/cities have that one sentence that encapsulates the local dialect? Often as a test for incomers (often Students), trying to show whether they can understand natives. In Sheffield we have "tin tin tins" (it isn't in tins"). In Aberdeen it's the bloke who walks into a shoe shop and asks "fit fit fits fit fit" ("which shoe fits which foot"), that kind of thing. But in Dundee it's something along the line of the bloke entering the Bakers and saying "eh'm gonna hae twa pehs, a plehn bridie an’ an inyin in an’ a”" (I'm going to have two pies, a plain bridie and an onion one as well"). So, "eh'm" is Dundonain for "I am".
Given Scotland's biggest music festival was "T In The Park" (a play on the quaint idea of "tea in the park" but with the logo of the less quaint Tennent's lager), the destination screens for the Radio One event showed "M In The Park" on Stagecoach Strathtay vehicles << as in "I Am In The Park", but in the style of "T In The Park". Something that would only make sense if you knew Dundonian (but hopefully raised a smile).
There's one right next door called Talke Pits which appears on blinds too.
This one which could be seen on Pride of the Dales buses in 2003 was a bit odd.
It was actually a promotion for a local brewery, but it confused me somewhat when I first saw it in Ilkley, as seen in this rather poor photo.View attachment 74277
Stagecoach Hartlepool have an evening short journey on service 1 from Middlesbrough to Hartlepool which reads ‘Town Centre 1’ - neglecting to mention which town on a cross-boundary service.
In Sheffield of recent times I've seen buses displaying 'engineer on road test'.
In olden times of Sheffield on the syt blinds there was a place called Fence.
I'll try and remember to check my timetables at some point as for the works services I'm almost sure Izal Factory was on the syt blinds.
Often used to see the syt number blinds showing XXX or 0X0.
Once upon a time Pennine ran the 580 Skipton to Settle, but it regularly extended to the delightfully named Giggleswick.
Bus 581 still runs through, but none terminate there any more.
http://getdown.org.uk/bus/bus/581.shtml
If you want to go somewhere else from Giggleswick, some may be amused by Tosside.
https://www.dalesbus.org/uploads/1/1/3/9/113919127/11.pdf
I believe TM Travel also have 'Ford' on their dot matrix indicators for short 252 runs.