Recent content by wellwhatitis

Hi I just wondered if any members have any current or previous experience of the commercial roles and set up at any of the UK Bus head office facilities? If so could you possibly DM me please? Much appreciated.

Agreed. All these posts are doing is repeating the law which is news to nobody and irrelevant to this situation until we know what actually happened. I have a traumatised colleague who does not need the added worry of a hypothetical witch hunt.

There is no local instruction. But I choose a door where I can see all the doors while they're closing, as oppose to one where you have to step out, step back to close and then step out again to check again, as too much can happen in the time it takes you to get back in and dispatch if you've...

If the poster of the draconian drivel demanding the stocks for the traincrew had intended those views in the context of the earlier post, he/she would have quoted it. Since he/she didn't it is quite reasonable to treat the outburst as a stand alone rant against people he/she doesn't know and...

Everybody keeping on about looking out of drop down windows. Again, if dispatching from a passenger door (which on most of the stock on this line we have no choice to as the middle cabs are dummies) then that is not an option, and what's more the official guidance here is to stand by the window...

I work trains through Droitwich Spa. The Birmingham bound platform is a wrong way curve for the guard, On a long train you can't see the front one or even two if you are at the back so I usually move forward and work from a passenger door. This also puts you level with the footbridge and...

Indeed, but of course when using a local door located in The passenger saloon, you can stand there all day long but still be unable to see anything once it has closed. Especially in the dark. And before anybody says why would you be doing that, there is still plenty of SDO on this line.

Seeing as nobody, especially you, has any idea atall what has happened yet, I would suggest that your comment is at best pointless and inflammatory and at worst unfounded and derogatory.

Let me know what you think of the book. A couple of Olympians and Leopards are preserved, notably 1902 EEH 902Y and 1918 G918 LHA, both of which I used to drive. National 2 808 is around somewhere too.

I can definitely recommend the book and they hold their value so can always be resold. The time around the Tiger rebodying programme was a very interesting one for MRN and British Bus which makes it all the more sad to see the shocking state of its successor. This area is very difficult bus...

Yes and they were operating 1724 and 1740 aswell at the same time (as Val's Classic Coaches before Tamworth C&B acquired the business) 1740 was in excellent condition. There is a book by Neil Macdonald on Midland Red North containing a great chapter on the development and purchase of these...

Cracking motors, loved driving them. The bodywork on the later longer examples was extremely high quality and I think they actually spent too much on them considering the life left in the chassis. Imagine a 61 seat bus on a single deck in the current environment! C141 SPB was operating daily...

They would definitely get my vote. Anywhere there are no alternatives, it's a top whack SDS point to point with no off peak.

I was just going to say. When I started I found that calling' tickets and passes' would soon generate a red light on a toilet door. But then I found out the hard way that the clever ones sit in there with the door unlocked to avoid detection. I have a regular dodger so desperate to avoid the £3...

I can assure you it doesn't happen on any LM 350's atall. However if you are on a multiple unit and are sat near to a connecting end cab, it is possible to hear it coming from there. --- old post above --- --- new post below --- LM can use both as they see fit.