Stan Drews
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Not sure if buses on Orkney have ever had the wonderfully named ****t as a destination?
I have lived near both, indeed my son now has a house near Wide Open, but both it and Pity Me seem normal to me. They are about 20 miles apart.It may have been a Part Route but Pity Me is a real village not too far from Wideopen.
I have lived near both, indeed my son now has a house near Wide Open, but both it and Pity Me seem normal to me. They are about 20 miles apart.
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.
"Wigan Corporation once had a service to Dangerous Corner."
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!)
I grew up in the area so Wideopen doesn't seem strange to me. You are right, it's never been a terminus, it's one of those places on the way to somewhere else.Been through Pity Me many times. Most (all?) routes that head from Chester le Street to Durham so they tend to pass through and always did.
There is the Arnison Centre (a sprawling retail park with a large Sainsbury) nearby and the local services to Newton Hall and Brasside that loop around the large housing development (rather than head to Pity Me) were extended there in the early 1990s but the services continue to stop short of Pity Me.
@Geordie driver might recall if journeys ever did run TO Wideopen. I can remember it being served by the slow Morpeth stopper, but don't know if any local services terminated there or if all continued to Brunswick/Dinnington?
Didn't know that ****t was moved from Shetland to Orkney! They may be a tad disappointed.Not sure if buses on Orkney have ever had the wonderfully named ****t as a destination?
I believe there are ****ts in both Shetland and Orkney.Didn't know that ****t was moved from Shetland to Orkney! They may be a tad disappointed.
Actually it would have been a little earlier than that. From deregulation until the new Halifax Bus Station opened (April 89?) the 592 (Halifax-Todmorden-Burnley) evening and Sunday service ran Halifax-Todmorden-Portsmouth, with Burnley being served by a Walsden-Todmorden-Burnley short working of the 589, plus the third side of the triangle, Halifax-Todmorden-Rochdale on the 590.In the late 90s there was a regular Sunday service terminating at Portsmouth. I can't remember if it ran from Todmorden or Walsden.
I've met one or two of themI believe there are ****ts in both Shetland and Orkney.
In the late 90s there was a regular Sunday service terminating at Portsmouth. I can't remember if it ran from Todmorden or Walsden.
Actually it would have been a little earlier than that. From deregulation until the new Halifax Bus Station opened (April 89?) the 592 (Halifax-Todmorden-Burnley) evening and Sunday service ran Halifax-Todmorden-Portsmouth, with Burnley being served by a Walsden-Todmorden-Burnley short working of the 589, plus the third side of the triangle, Halifax-Todmorden-Rochdale on the 590.
When the 590-3 services were extended to the new bus station (they had been terminating at George Street in Halifax), the retiming was used to change the evening and Sunday 592 to run through from Halifax to Burnley. In order to maintain two buses per hour in the Todmorden area, the 589 ran Walsden-Todmorden-Portsmouth on an hour round trip. Despite it being very easy work, most of the drivers hated it as time dragged, particularly on one long Sunday aftrnoon stretch (5 hours I think!). The last bus to Walsden at 2310 extended just over the boundary to Summit, turning by swinging across the road as buses from Rochdale had done in the past.
I can't say off the top of my head when the evening and Sunday part of the the 589 service was withdrawn, but I would guess around 1992/3 at the latest.
Barming lay at the other end of the trolleybus route from Loose: no-one ever asked, though, if Barming had a Women's Institute!The last bus at night from Halifax still terminates at Portsmouth.
A few others (mostly of historic interest now as I've shown the former operator)
Babes-in-the-Wood Yorkshire Woollen District
Tea House Barrow Corporation
Two Ball Lonnen Newcastle Corporation
Spittal Tongs ditto
Sea Beach Aberdeen Corporation
Bleak House Burnley, Colne & Nelson Jt Committee
Bleachworks Wigan Corporation
Water Rawtenstall Corporation
Battery Morecambe & Heysham Corporation
Bare ditto
Barming Maidstone Corporation
Clock Face St. Helens Corporation
Growing up in Bristol I never found Sea Mills or Fishponds odd but some visitors find them amusing.
"Sea Beach" was still a destination in Aberdeen when I lived there in the 90s. I'm happy to be corrected, but I think it was the no.14. It (and the 15) started at Woodend and the destination alternated between there and Balgownie Drive. The westbound journeys were numbered 15, regardless of where they originated.The last bus at night from Halifax still terminates at Portsmouth.
A few others (mostly of historic interest now as I've shown the former operator)
Babes-in-the-Wood Yorkshire Woollen District
Tea House Barrow Corporation
Two Ball Lonnen Newcastle Corporation
Spittal Tongs ditto
Sea Beach Aberdeen Corporation
Bleak House Burnley, Colne & Nelson Jt Committee
Bleachworks Wigan Corporation
Water Rawtenstall Corporation
Battery Morecambe & Heysham Corporation
Bare ditto
Barming Maidstone Corporation
Clock Face St. Helens Corporation
Growing up in Bristol I never found Sea Mills or Fishponds odd but some visitors find them amusing.
Not sure if buses on Orkney have ever had the wonderfully named ****t as a destination?
Bury Corporation (and Selnec and GMT) had an exotic short working to Jericho on the Rochdale route, and before that with its first electric tramway.
Is it possible to buy a return ticket?Some Manchester bus routes terminate at Southern Cemetery, which was previously a tram terminus (up to 1947).
You must be confusing it with the Idle Workingmen’s Club....
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...![]()
Many newcomers to Nottingham (ie Trent Poly students) were bemused by buses with Gotham emblazed on South Notts destination blinds (which is pronounced Goat-ham rather than Goth-am) . Pretty sure some also mistook those going to Thrumpton Lane End as going to Trumpton (as in Camblewick Green) especially as one working was the last bus.
I was thinking of this ****t...Didn't know that ****t was moved from Shetland to Orkney! They may be a tad disappointed.