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Strangest bus destination screens?
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ChilternTurbo
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I've always found the destination Halfway intriguing and also on a Sheffield theme, the alluring sounding Crystal Peaks. I even got the bus to Crystal Peaks when I was bunking off from attending a conference in Sheffield. Sadly the reality was a rather nondescript out of town shopping centre...
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The 183 to Marsden Hard End often seems to raise some amusement
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Diamond run to an area of Kidderminster called Rifle Range.
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Accrington Corporation had a route that terminated at a characterfully-named pub which led to buses heading to ‘LOAD OF MISCHIEF’. Ramsbottom UDC buses didn’t have ‘PRIVATE’ on the blind - instead it said ‘ENGAGED’. Leigh also went to the Dangerous Corner mentioned above, and North Western had a service to ‘61 MU’ (RAF 61st Maintenance Unit).
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Not far from there is Slag Lane in Lowton which is shown on the destination of some school buses.
Or the WI* in Ugley, Essex.
*I've no idea whether there really was/is one.
Back on topic, I remember seeing a bus in the days of roller blinds where the blind hadn't been wound far enough, so only the first word of 'Sorry, not in service' was visible, resulting in a generalised apology for unspecified failings of the bus company.
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There's a bus a day from Halifax that terminates at Portsmouth... leaving the West Yorkshire town at 22:22 - https://bustimes.org/services/592-halifax-burnley-2 << this is the Portsmouth between Todmorden and Burnley, rather than the south coast one!)
Reminds me of my favourite ladies football team - the Lewes Women >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewes_F.C._Women
I remember in the wild west days of the early 1990s, when cardboard/postcards in the windscreen were as common as a regular destination blind, seeing "Pistol Creaks" on a handwritten note on the front windscreen of a 41 to that side of Sheffield - one enterprising driver in the era before camera phones would get him into trouble!
Reminds me of my favourite ladies football team - the Lewes Women >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewes_F.C._Women
I've always found the destination Halfway intriguing and also on a Sheffield theme, the alluring sounding Crystal Peaks. I even got the bus to Crystal Peaks when I was bunking off from attending a conference in Sheffield. Sadly the reality was a rather nondescript out of town shopping centre...
I remember in the wild west days of the early 1990s, when cardboard/postcards in the windscreen were as common as a regular destination blind, seeing "Pistol Creaks" on a handwritten note on the front windscreen of a 41 to that side of Sheffield - one enterprising driver in the era before camera phones would get him into trouble!
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Has any bus had Pratts Bottom in Kent on there destination blinds?
Mold is another one i find amusing.
Mold is another one i find amusing.
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There was - photographic evidence exists from 1937! And, yes, it was called Loose Women's Institute. I used to work at Kent Probation HQ in College Road, Maidstone, and a couple of the admin staff were proud to describe themselves as Loose women! Personally, I used to find more amusement in the name Tovil, very close to hand, and which had long ceased to be served by either Maidstone Corporation buses (never trams or trolleybuses) or M&D.
A lot of Sheffield folk tend to call it Pistol Creaks; or do they mean the buses that go there?I've always found the destination Halfway intriguing and also on a Sheffield theme, the alluring sounding Crystal Peaks. I even got the bus to Crystal Peaks when I was bunking off from attending a conference in Sheffield. Sadly the reality was a rather nondescript out of town shopping centre...
johnnychips
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A great suggestion in Viz magazine was for town planners to build a new estate and call it ‘Sorry not in service’ just to confuse pensioners.
Brazen Bottom is a destination on the frequent, and regular, 23a service from Imber. Both frequent and regular are used in their purist terms here!Has any bus had Pratts Bottom in Kent on there destination blinds?
Mold is another one i find amusing.
Many years ago there was an estate called 'Service' that had multiple routes that ran to it provided by various Tilling group companies (Eastern and Western National being big providers).
TheGrandWazoo
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Think Eastern Counties were the main provider!!
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I'm sure that there is a bus that terminates in the West Midlands settlement of Bell End. There is also Penistone, more entertaining with a broken blind betwen the s and the route number.
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Loose still has a WI, although it now chooses to call itself "Loose (West Kent) Women's Institute". As for Ugley, its WI has been dormant for a decade or so for lack of members, but after some press coverage that it didn't really want it changed its name to "Women's Institute of Ugley".
Back in the good old days of Countdown, the late Richard Whiteley often used to talk about being the Honorary Mayor of a village in the East Riding. He didn't live there, although he did turn up to the fete and the carol service most years. And Acklam's Coaches (Beverley) sends a bus out of Driffield at 1710 every weekday with the destination blind showing "Wetwang".
Back in the good old days of Countdown, the late Richard Whiteley often used to talk about being the Honorary Mayor of a village in the East Riding. He didn't live there, although he did turn up to the fete and the carol service most years. And Acklam's Coaches (Beverley) sends a bus out of Driffield at 1710 every weekday with the destination blind showing "Wetwang".
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In Lanarkshire . There was bonkle . And also gowkthrapple. Amused me anyway . Glasgow has 2 destinations of halfway.not on the same route one at cambuslang and the other just beyond ibrox
Unfortunately, I think you may be referring to are in Coventry where there are very close termini of Bell Green and Wood End! There is a village called Bell End in Worcestershire which is on the long established 318 route between Stourbridge and Bromsgrove but it is unlikely to feature on the blind, the nearby Belbroughton is more significant!
Not quite what the OP had in mind but in Cuba I saw 1970s Dutch buses donated by Dutch sympathisers. The Cubans hadn't bothered to remove the old destination blinds, and it was rather disconcerting in the depths of the Cuban countryside to see a bus stating its destination as Utrecht CS.
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Strangely enough, as well as this Dangerous Corner west of Wigan (on a Wigan Corporation/Ribble route) there was a second, different Dangerous Corner a couple of miles east of Wigan in Hindley Green. This was the destination of a regular Leigh Corporation route (subsequently taken over by Selnec, after which Dangerous Corner disappeared when two nearby ex-Leigh routes were combined into a circular service)
Another former Wigan Corporation route was one to the pub & colliery known as Pony Dick.
Named, according to local legend, after the favourite pony of the local colliery owner.
This destination disappeared from the front of Wigan buses when the route was extended a bit further along the road to Windy Arbour (named after a farm at the bus turning circle).
Halifax Heart Of The Pennines Nocturnal Rally 2011 by Matty, on Flickr.
Finally the North West Road Car Company (the original one) had some short workings to the village of Flash (the highest village in England) on one of its routes from Buxton.
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TheGrandWazoo
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Bonkle was served by the old Central SMT and when changing screens, staff used to say "Are ye gaun tae Pather, Faither?" and the answer was "Naw, ah aff tae Bonkle, Uncle!"
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