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    Running times.

    No it’s always been 50 for buses, it’s been raised from 40 to 50 for trucks...
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    What are the worst rolling stock subsitutions you've experienced?

    Not sure but I’ve seen a HST on it before!!
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    Fastest double decker?

    Ex Megabus, 49mph from Winchester to Nottingham and back...
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    Strangest bus destination screens?

    Via Thicket Mead...
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    Best bus driven or passenger

    Not a bus but a coach, but an 08 plate Scania Irizar PB even to this day the best coach I’ve driven...
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    Leyland Olympian Tri-Axle (Ex- China Motor Bus)

    Drove this one on Nottingham rail replacement quite a few years ago...
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    Leyland Olympian Tri-Axle (Ex- China Motor Bus)

    The 07s, when the 58s came in the MD of South happened to be at the bus station and asked what I thought of them (driving a 58) and said it sounds like something rolling around in the roof, he took that onboard (forget the actual fleet number now) but it turns out it WAS a screwdriver in the roof!!!
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    Leyland Olympian Tri-Axle (Ex- China Motor Bus)

    Well I enjoyed driving them, until the crappy E200s arrived...
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    Bristol Diesel Charge

    Excellent, another city I won’t be able to go to with my 03 Scania coach, despite being fitted with an Eminox...!!!
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    Halton Transport

    It’s DVSA now...
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    Freightliner Various Trainee Drivers

    I’ve applied and live 5 minutes away from the quarry!!!
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    Most Hated Bus

    Disagree there, I normally drive a Century 1 and it’s not that well thought out and very occasionally drive an i6, and once again definitely not a drivers coach...
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    Bus drivers, how would you handle a car blocking the road?

    Car driver didn’t even look at me when he appeared...
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    Bus drivers, how would you handle a car blocking the road?

    This is on a school run we do regularly, I sat and blocked the road up whilst the locals located the car driver...
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    Class 387

    Last week I observed a class 37 pulling a pair of 387s into Reading depot whilst it was waiting for a path into Reading depot... Has anybody else noticed the GWR 387s have a third rail pick up as well?
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    More nonsense from the incompetent GTR "Gatwick Express" staff.

    How charming!!! Having been dismissed because of a bus passenger "complaint" I can tell it's not nice...
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    Are our railways haunted? (ghost stories)

    I certainly do believe in ghosts and have experienced several goings on, non railway and railway!! In chronological order :- When I was probably in my early teens (or slightly younger, baring in mind I'm 34 now) we were living in an ex council house in Basingstoke and for some strange...
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    Great Western Livery

    There are drivers being trained on them, I know a driver manager who has been doing it!!!
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    Most Hated Bus

    Most hated bus? Any I'm paid to drive... :evil: But definitely the Enviro 200 and Leyland Olympian... Did quite like the Volvo Olympian and Volvo B10M with Northern Counties bodywork...
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    Truck driver to tram driver

    Ex truck driver here driving a Railair coach and maybe making a move to Stagecoach...:wink: Toilet rolls make a nice comfy bed on the top deck of a double deck trailer btw :wink:

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