christopher
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555 from Windermere to Keswick is pretty scenic
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Chambers 753/754 Colchester - Bures - Sudbury - Long Melford - Lavenham - Bury St Edmunds service. A journey of just over two hours which winds its way through the north Essex and south Suffolk landscape that inspired Gainsborough and Constable, taking in towns and villages that grew rich on the back of the wool trade.
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After a month, I'd thought I'd reopen this thread.
Is the X5 (operated by Salisbury Reds) from Salisbury to Swindon a good route to film a full route visual?
Is the X5 (operated by Salisbury Reds) from Salisbury to Swindon a good route to film a full route visual?
It's not bad but I've always found it a tedious journey which feels pretty long (to the extent I got the 2 and 49 instead when returning northwards). There are some nice bits to it - particularly around the Marlborough Downs, but it wouldn't be my first choice even amongst Salisbury Reds routes (that'd be the X7)!
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I plan to do the X7 soon. Afterwards I'll do the Activ8. Are they both nice routes as well?
The X7 is great, a lot of it is up hill and down dale and there's some good New Forest scenery too, but you also get an interesting contrast with Totton and Southampton - the route is mostly dual carriageway and goes through some fairly gritty areas. The X7R variant has less of the rural countryside, but adds the town of Romsey which is reasonably pleasant, if brief.
I've never been on the Activ8, and I don't really know the area heading down towards Andover, but I could imagine it being decent, just going off the countryside it goes through.
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IMO the best route in East Kent is the 18A ashford to Canterbury school route. It starts through the urban scenery of Ashford Town Centre and then heads into the Kent Countryside before terminating in the great City of Canterbury. (Do it in late October and you get a great sunset over farthing common!!!)
The allocation is always deckers, usually 54 reg Scania Tridents but sometimes Scania E400s.
(Ps don’t be put off that it’s a double decker on a schoolroute, it’s practically empty!! The double deck allocation comes from the 2 Canterbury afternoon routes it does on its duty!!)
The allocation is always deckers, usually 54 reg Scania Tridents but sometimes Scania E400s.
(Ps don’t be put off that it’s a double decker on a schoolroute, it’s practically empty!! The double deck allocation comes from the 2 Canterbury afternoon routes it does on its duty!!)
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Nice! About East Kent, routes I plan to do are as follows:
Wave 100/101/102
10X/10
1/1A/1X
2/2A
Triangle
Breeze 8/9
The Loop (not to be confused with Eastbourne's Loop)
Are they good routes?
(sorry for the very late reply, I only saw the reply now)
Wave 100/101/102
10X/10
1/1A/1X
2/2A
Triangle
Breeze 8/9
The Loop (not to be confused with Eastbourne's Loop)
Are they good routes?
(sorry for the very late reply, I only saw the reply now)
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102 is a great route with massive contrast if you do the full Dover to Rye the 100/101 is nice as well but beware of the tight connections in Rye.
10X is alright but you get a lot of E200 (check the usual allocation on Bustimes.org as ashford don’t normally stray from this)
10 is a good route but you do get a bit of a tour around the estates in folkestone - normally a Trident 2, Gold 400 or Mmc as Folkestone have no concept of route specific branding (again check on bustimes an you can see allocation)
1/1A/1X is alright - but if u do it do the Full Ashford to Canterbury (1X during the day)
never been on the 2/2A so can’t say but I’d say it’s a bit boring
Not based in North East Kent so cant comment on the Triangle/Breeze and Loop
Other good ones :
18 is really nice but is always a single
17 is good as passes through the Elham Valley and you can get a decker most times
And 111 Thursdays only is a good one although run by a dart
The 11A and 123 are also worth a mention
10X is alright but you get a lot of E200 (check the usual allocation on Bustimes.org as ashford don’t normally stray from this)
10 is a good route but you do get a bit of a tour around the estates in folkestone - normally a Trident 2, Gold 400 or Mmc as Folkestone have no concept of route specific branding (again check on bustimes an you can see allocation)
1/1A/1X is alright - but if u do it do the Full Ashford to Canterbury (1X during the day)
never been on the 2/2A so can’t say but I’d say it’s a bit boring
Not based in North East Kent so cant comment on the Triangle/Breeze and Loop
Other good ones :
18 is really nice but is always a single
17 is good as passes through the Elham Valley and you can get a decker most times
And 111 Thursdays only is a good one although run by a dart
The 11A and 123 are also worth a mention
The B3 may not be so good. Most of the buses on the route have no glass in the rear of the bus. Getting a view from the front isn't easy. I'm not sure if they use double decker when some of the events in Haworth are on.
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Oh, so the Stagecoach E200 and Darts have adverts on the rear?
My local Stagecoach South E200s, except for a very few if not any, all have rear glass windows.
My local Stagecoach South E200s, except for a very few if not any, all have rear glass windows.
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102 is a great route with massive contrast if you do the full Dover to Rye the 100/101 is nice as well but beware of the tight connections in Rye.
10X is alright but you get a lot of E200 (check the usual allocation on Bustimes.org as ashford don’t normally stray from this)
10 is a good route but you do get a bit of a tour around the estates in folkestone - normally a Trident 2, Gold 400 or Mmc as Folkestone have no concept of route specific branding (again check on bustimes an you can see allocation)
1/1A/1X is alright - but if u do it do the Full Ashford to Canterbury (1X during the day)
never been on the 2/2A so can’t say but I’d say it’s a bit boring
Not based in North East Kent so cant comment on the Triangle/Breeze and Loop
Other good ones :
18 is really nice but is always a single
17 is good as passes through the Elham Valley and you can get a decker most times
And 111 Thursdays only is a good one although run by a dart
The 11A and 123 are also worth a mention
Thanks! But I thought the 10X was mainly double decker? I know because not only I did a lot of research on the bustimes tracker, but when I went to Maidstone sometime in January 2020 I remember seeing 15488 or something like that do a 10X to Ashford.
An understatement, I don't think they even pretend there is a connection. I agree with the 102 - particularly the section after New Romney towards Camber.
Nothing special. I personally prefer the 2A from the top deck - simply because you can see where you think you are going to be in 5 minutes time - but wouldn't go out of my way to catch it.
Triangle: Bits are OK - Blean to Long Reach and Herne to Broad Oak turn are largely hilly (partly wooded) country. The best part is (clockwise) from the top of Borstal Hill towards Whitstable but only lasts a couple of minutes, top deck front - you can see quite a bit of the Whitstable coast.
Breeze: Canterbury to Hersden is dull, from there to the edge of Birchington is fine but flat, then you hit suburbia with the sole exception of the Margate sea front and the farms between the hospital and the shopping centre. The 9 is better as you get a decent view over Pegwell Bay but again suburbia kicks in soon after, Ramsgate harbour and the climb up the hill afterwards are OK.
Loop: the Loop largely links just about every populated part of Thanet so if you like shops and houses (of many different types)... Plus point - its very frequent so you don't have to stick around.
17 and 18 - definitely agree but 18 was much better when it was double decker operated as you got a great view.
I would add the 11B - anything that crosses Romney Marsh is worth doing, its a world of its own.
My understanding is that slightly more than half the journeys on the 10X are scheduled for DD operation, the rest being run by single deckers, which also operate all Sunday journeys (1 vehicle).
(The word 'scheduled' is probably important, I find this is increasingly flexible in East Kent.)
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A couple of lesser-known suggestions local to me, Yorkshire Tiger's 233 (Huddersfield to Denby Dale) and 435/436/437 (Wakefield to Holmfirth) are quite scenic at the 'country' end, with a contrast from the urban start. 233 gets deckers on some journeys, and Tiger do have a few singles with a forward view (not well up on types, I'm afraid!).
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Singles with front view, as far I know they have Optare Tempos.
@Typhoon As for the 10X, that makes sense! Thanks! When I check on bustimes there is normally always 3 double deckers and 1 single decker, at least on Mondays to Fridays.
Ploughman
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St Mary's on the Scilly Isles, Circular trip on an ex LT RT.
Or it was when I rode it back in about 2005 or so.
Or it was when I rode it back in about 2005 or so.
Pat1105
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16 from Stourbridge to Wolverhampton is nice. Transitions from to built up, urban areas to country lanes and then back to urban again. E400’s allocated to this although you can sometimes get a Dennis Trident on it.
Agreed, plus the tight turns at both Abbotsbury and Lyme Regis give a nice scare.
But yes, the views on the section between Abbotsbury and Bridport are fantastic, plus both the entrance to Lyme Regs from the Bridport direction and from Uplyme are amazing as well. Plus do one at night and you should see the lights of the Stockland Hill transmitter from Hunters Lodge/Axminster.
I would suggest the morebus Breezer 50 from Bournemouth through Canford Cliffs and around Poole Harbour to Sandbanks then over on the chain ferry to the Isle of Purbeck for a very fresh rural run through the Studland peninsula and over the hills into Swanage. However, it's already been filmed and is on YouTube.
I am probably the only person who has driven both the 50 and the Coastliner 840 and would say the 50 is by far the more scenic of the two. I found the 840 over the Moors quite boring (and tiring) to work. The diversion through Goathland was tedious and Whitby was always fairly grim.
I am probably the only person who has driven both the 50 and the Coastliner 840 and would say the 50 is by far the more scenic of the two. I found the 840 over the Moors quite boring (and tiring) to work. The diversion through Goathland was tedious and Whitby was always fairly grim.
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paul1609
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The 102 is a good route just for the contrasts starts in Dover and then goes on the Old Dover Road increasingly on the cliff tops until it drops down in to Folkestone Harbour and then the town centre, passes through Hythe past the RHDR and then along the Romney Marsh Coast to Dungeness. Heads across the Dungeness Nature Reserve to Lydd where at a windswept bus stop on the edge of Lydd Army Camp the bus service changes from being the 102 to Lydd (for Rye) to being the 102 to Rye.(In the other direction 102 to Lydd (for Dover) Although the same bus continues through this buggers up all the journey planners as the 1 min isn't considered to be a safe connection in either direction. It then continues behind the sea wall through Camber Sands to Rye.
If your continuing to Hastings the 101 is the better route as it goes across the Pett Levels to Cliff End and then a very narrow road to Fairlight with good views of the coast along Rye bay before dropping down to Hastings Old Town.
Alternatively from Rye you can get my home route the 312 to Tenterden which is a very rural route across the High Weald AONB. Very friendly drivers and locals with quite old stagecoach buses which struggle up the steep gradients at little more than walking pace. The schooldays only buses do a loop near the village of Iden to deliver/pick up the pupils of Houghton green Primary School through an impressively narrow network of lanes.
Route 312,313, 102 Rye to New Romney and 100/1 to Winchelsea form the Rye Plus bus Area https://www.plusbus.info/sites/default/files/pdfs/Rye 2019.pdf
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X53 sounds interesting and so does the 50 and all routes in Dorset. I've got to do them (once when coronavirus is over).
Yeah, 127. I remember watching someone's timelapse and I thought I'd be a nice route to timelapse
Yeah, 127. I remember watching someone's timelapse and I thought I'd be a nice route to timelapse
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