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Strangest bus destination screens?
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Go-Coach of Sevenoaks run a contract service, and the blinds show "It's all Go"!
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The excellent, detailed GS book arrived yesterday, and I can now say pretty authoritatively that no 471, or any other postwar bus route, ever terminated at Pratts Bottom. Incredible now to think that what was primarily a rural route used five buses in the rush hour, four of which returned to the garage at Dunton Green after the a.m. peak, reappearing for the p.m. peak. As an aside, a wonderful photo taken early Jan 1963 shows the front of a GS on the 471 totally covered otherwise by a snow drift in Cudham, with another similarly stranded 50 yards away. Despite Dunton Green garage being only a few miles distant it took THREE DAYS to recover them. Remember it!I've drawn a blank so far in finding Pratts Bottom on a destination blind. I was rather hoping that when the 47 got extended from Farnborough to Knockholt Pound on Sundays, off and on for several years in and just after WW2, their blinds might have incorporated PB as a turning point for late runners, but I can find no evidence for it. On the 471. Cudham was a destination for a school journey. However, I have on order a copy of the new Capital Transport book on the GS class, and I'm expecting quite a lot on the 471, with photos, so I live in hope. In my attic are hundreds of timetables from the 1950s, including several of the Orpington and district area, but I'm unfortunately utterly incapable of going up there to look through them, and no-one else is volunteering.
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Eastern Counties and Cambus vehicles based at Newmarket had "Six Mile Bottom" on their blinds. A couple of services had trips terminating there ; 114 was one I seem to recall.
The drivers also, rather rudely, called one of the regular passengers by the same name. The poor lady struggled to get onto any bus with a centre pole in the doorway.
The drivers also, rather rudely, called one of the regular passengers by the same name. The poor lady struggled to get onto any bus with a centre pole in the doorway.
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In Cheshire there's a village called Lower Peover, the name is spelt Peover, it's actually pronounced 'Peever' which derives from the anglo saxon Peeffer, meaning bright river, being the River Peover, don't know if it's ever appeared on a bus blind, there's a few other Peovers nearby including an Inferior Peover & Superior Peover
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I am sure that Warrington route 47 occasionally ran to Lower Peover when I lived in the area inthe 1990s. If I could find my notebooks from the time I could check whether it appeared on the blinds. I think it did, but it is some years ago and the memory can play tricks.
Statto
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I found an a bus with Lower Peover on the blinds after a quick search
https://www.flickr.com/photos/selmerorselnec/14187698337
https://www.flickr.com/photos/selmerorselnec/14187698337
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Malleable, which I assume refers to the Stockton Malleable Ironworks.
Photo by my husband in 2002.
Photo by my husband in 2002.
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Stagecoach (somewhere, I don't remember where) had their destinations in Comic Sans font for a short time. I believe it was due to people who suffer from dyslexia apparently being able to read it easier because of the way the letter A is written.
Someone questioned it on Twitter, to which Stagecoach replied 'we tried Wingdings but nobody could read it'.
Thought it was quite funny!
Someone questioned it on Twitter, to which Stagecoach replied 'we tried Wingdings but nobody could read it'.
Thought it was quite funny!
edwin_m
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Looking at your avatar, are/were there any buses to Lost?
Tetchytyke
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They certainly used to, including buses all the way from Newcastle. No Place and Pity Me never had regular terminating services.
It's not a proper destination, I know, but United used to have issues with the roller blind lining up on some buses. HARTLEPOO always seemed apt.
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.....now long gone, but the first thing you would see driving into Muff was the diving school......
Called, yes, you've guessed it....
Muff Diving School
.....Oh dear......
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I could have sworn I have seen a Northern bus signed either " No Place" or "Via No Place" pre dereg.
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Q : 'which bus do I get to X?'
A : 'you get the Lost bus'
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.....now long gone, but the first thing you would see driving into Muff was the diving school......
Called, yes, you've guessed it....
Muff Diving School
.....Oh dear......
Translink 1a is going to Muff from their website via Colmore Point.
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Not local, by any means, but I remember back in the mid 90s on my first visit to Hong Kong, seeing a 3-axle double-decker, rammed to the seams with local folk, going to Pak Tin. Not a word of a lie. (Would be appropriate to some of our trains, possibly).
https://www.flickr.com/photos/acbestphotography/8719147370/
My favourite was this... School bus from The Priory LSST School to the Swanpool/Hartsholme area of Lincoln - which used the name of a local pub on the display: The Wildlife! I suppose it could've been a description of those on board too...!
My favourite was this... School bus from The Priory LSST School to the Swanpool/Hartsholme area of Lincoln - which used the name of a local pub on the display: The Wildlife! I suppose it could've been a description of those on board too...!
Not strictly a strange destination, but the council estate at Halton Moor in Leeds was known as the Zoo, as a result of the behaviour of some of its denizens. In the 1960s it was served by two routes, the 44 to Stanningley which went in a large loop around the northern suburbs and the 54 to Rodley which went through the city centre. However, from 1962 buses began to appear with new-fangled destination screens with a three-character number screen in place of the old cloth screens displaying a single route number, and the first character could now be set to a letter. It wasn't long before buses began appearing - presumably once in the estate rather than in the city centre - with the destination Z00 Halton Moor, and then it wasn't long before this was discovered and crews were warned it would be a serious disciplinary issue.
In Liverpool, one of the first buses to have flip dot screens regularly showed 'Pie Head' instead of 'Pier Head!'
As an aside, the main terminus for all Hawick town services was screened as 'Horse' after the statue in the town centre.
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In German speaking countries you will sometimes see a bus where the driver is taking his break showing “pause” and a coffee cup.
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I remember seeing buses in Exeter years ago with "Pennsylvania" on the destination boards. I also have a vague memory of seeing "Paris" on a minibus in Holmfirth but that last one may be a false memory.
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Around 2005 Arriva Merseyside Speke depot decided to use the informative “PSBS” and “QSBS” on their rollerblinds referring to Paradise Street and Queen Square Bus Stations much to the confusion of many locals!
Southport depot in the late 00’s similarly used “Liverpool JLA” on their Volvo B10B’s for an extended 2 hour trip on 48A to the Airport, again an abbreviation not frequently used or common at the time
Another one from Merseyside was when route 89 was extended from Speke to the Airport, only the wrightbus cadets purchased for the route had the final destination displayable, being one of the few buses in the region at the time fitted with Hanover destination displays, blinded substitutes would either display “Speke” or yellow blank. Likewise with morning subsidised service 889 (later 89A) to Liverpool South Parkway, buses could only display “Garston” which was a handful of stops earlier
Southport depot in the late 00’s similarly used “Liverpool JLA” on their Volvo B10B’s for an extended 2 hour trip on 48A to the Airport, again an abbreviation not frequently used or common at the time
Another one from Merseyside was when route 89 was extended from Speke to the Airport, only the wrightbus cadets purchased for the route had the final destination displayable, being one of the few buses in the region at the time fitted with Hanover destination displays, blinded substitutes would either display “Speke” or yellow blank. Likewise with morning subsidised service 889 (later 89A) to Liverpool South Parkway, buses could only display “Garston” which was a handful of stops earlier
edwin_m
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I was driving along behind one of NCT's newest Enviro 200s, someone stopped to let it out of a stop bay and the back destination screen changed to "
Thank You".
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Once again dragging my own topic off route, in the early days after deregulation I used to catch a very early bus from Walker to Newcastle, it was always rammed with post office workers and cleaners going to work. It was operated by a now defunct coach company and the destination was a chalk board propped up in front of the driver.
It was a secured service and they got booked every time they were seen by a PTE checky but they didn't seem to care. They were also very sketchy on maintenance, I recall my mate driving one day and he told me his vehicle had virtually no brakes. RIP Geordie.
It was a secured service and they got booked every time they were seen by a PTE checky but they didn't seem to care. They were also very sketchy on maintenance, I recall my mate driving one day and he told me his vehicle had virtually no brakes. RIP Geordie.
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