[TRIVIA] Incorrectly spelt destinations

[AwkwardHail]

When the then Wilts & Dorset acquired 2901 BX02 YYZ from London, it had the destination glass vinyled over, but they mispelt "Cranborne House" as "Cranbourne House" - once they realised the mistake it resulted in some weird spacing until it was replaced with LED displays.

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Not a misspelling as such, but for years Yorkshire Rider ran a 370 service which had the destination "Moorhill Road" (the actual road is called Moor Hill Road) as part of the Lindley/HRI group of routes. There is no nearby place called either Moorhill or Moor Hill, it's just a road name... referring to Lindley Moor.
That however didn't stop FirstGroup (long after they'd taken over) from displaying "Lindley via Moorhill" on their boards.

 

[Mal]

Before deregulation, Merseybus tried flipover destination screens and I saw a bus screened 'Pie Head' instead of ''PIER HEAD'!

 

[Mcr Warrior]

At what point do these various destination location name typos occur? By the driver setting up for their first run of the day? Before then, back at the depot?

 

[Busaholic]

"Tunbridge Wells Girls Grammer School" on (I think) Ham's Travel double decker service. It's been like that for years.

*It might be Tonbridge Grammer School, I can't remember.

A sertane ironny their.

 

[SteveHFC]

At what point do these various destination location name typos occur? By the driver setting up for their first run of the day? Before then, back at the depot?

With the electronic systems we now see I believe they are set up at the depot, and the driver just has a code to enter to get the correct screen showing. Happy to be corrected if that's not the case.

Clearly with the old roller blinds, the errors will either have been when the bus company drafted what they wanted, or when the manufacturer produced the blinds.

 

[vlad]

The other year, Station's of Stoke had Bradley Vollage on their 61, instead of Village.

If it said "Station's" on the side then that's another misspelling. It's Stantons! (By rights there should be an apostrophe given it's the Stanton family's company but....)

 

[Geordie driver]

At what point do these various destination location name typos occur? By the driver setting up for their first run of the day? Before then, back at the depot?

By a preset code, if drivers were permitted to set any destination they wished you would get all sorts, many not repeatable on here.

 

[Roger1973]

At what point do these various destination location name typos occur? By the driver setting up for their first run of the day? Before then, back at the depot?

By a preset code, if drivers were permitted to set any destination they wished you would get all sorts, many not repeatable on here.

Indeed - a few operators did make that mistake...

Basically, someone at the depot end needs to set it all up, and then transfer the data (can usually be done with a pen drive sort of thing with systems I've met) to each bus.

Think I've been to one or two bus depot open days where they have had someone with a laptop who can (for a modest fee / charity donation) set up bespoke messages or kids' names on the destination display of a bus.

 

[Purple Train]

I don't have any examples that follow the letter of this thread (apologies mods), but I can remember listening to a friend of mine from Birmingham who shares my somewhat pedantic traits ranting about how dreadful it was that the automated announcements couldn't pronounce the Weoley Park Road bus stop correctly.
Though I do remember seeing a bus stop in North Yorkshire that had got its own name wrong...

 

[MaidaVale]

Arriva Midlands had "10 Wo;lverhampton" as the destination on Mobitec destinationed vehicles only for a while (so just E200s), as well as "Srevice supported by Telford & Wrekin Council" scrolling on the second line of route 8 (both directions), again only ever on E200s with Mobitecs.

Note to moderators: This is a thread entirely created for and regarding incorrectly spelled destinations, please stop deleting and editing my posts due to incorrect spelling, as in this case it relates entirely to the topic of the thread.

 

[py_megapixel]

I can't think of any examples specifically of incorrect spellings, but I can think of other misconfigurations of destination display equipment.

Last time I visited Manchester I noticed that Stagecoach have messed up the configuration on their new batch of E400s with full-width rear displays - the destination is missing and the route number is awkwardly centred.

The newer buses also have text-to-speech announcements, but nobody's given much thought to the stop names. For example it announces for a certain stop "Next stop: Royal Infirmary, Manchester Royal Infirmary, MRI"

High Peak Buses have "we now accept contactless payments" in the list of "via" locations on some routes - so it says, for example "via [....], Chapel-en-le-Frith, Buxton & We Now Accept Contactless Payments"

 

[MaidaVale]

Last time I visited Manchester I noticed that Stagecoach have messed up the configuration on their new batch of E400s with full-width rear displays - the destination is missing and the route number is awkwardly centred.

Another issue with the same operator in Manchester that I noticed when visiting the other day, a lot of the E400s have oddly configured front dests with a space left for a via underneath the main destination, yet no actual via present. Particularly odd considering these routes have had vias in the recent past.

 

[py_megapixel]

Another issue with the same operator in Manchester that I noticed when visiting the other day, a lot of the E400s have oddly configured front dests with a space left for a via underneath the main destination, yet no actual via present. Particularly odd considering these routes have had vias in the recent past.

Yes, I noticed that too.
In 2020, all of the vias were removed and replaced with Covid messaging. It appears they've now removed the Covid stuff but not put the vias back.

 

[MaidaVale]

Yes, I noticed that too.
In 2020, all of the vias were removed and replaced with Covid messaging. It appears they've now removed the Covid stuff but not put the vias back.

How strange, Seems to only be on the E400s (or at least the only ones I noticed). Some did have vias, and most MMC variants did.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

The newer buses also have text-to-speech announcements, but nobody's given much thought to the stop names. For example it announces for a certain stop "Next stop: Royal Infirmary, Manchester Royal Infirmary, MRI"

To be fair, that kind of does cover all the bases!

 

[WibbleWobble]

When First Manchester had the ex-Glasgow Citybuses, the blinds had "Lowtown" on them instead of Lowton

 

[Contains Nuts]

Arriva Manchester’s Enviro300’s have ‘via Collage of Music’ on the Altrincham-bound rear display for route 263.

 

[CBlue]

Not sure why East Anglia had so many of these, but here goes....

Back in Eastern Counties/Cambus days, the misspelled blind legend was always the renaming of the village of Fowlmere to "Foulmere".

Not to be outdone we also had First spelling Hunstanton as "Hunstation" for a while on their LED screens.

Local independent Whippet also managed this within a matter of months of First.

A few years before they had ordered lovely fresh sets of manual wound blinds for the fleet they had at the time. Every single one proudly displayed "Addenbrooks Hospital" instead of Addenbrookes.

Not to be outdone, Huntingdon & District decided to drop a similar misspell on their own destination blinds. Buses were proudly displaying "Huntington" for at least a decade to my knowledge. Huntingdon to Chester or New York would have been a bloody long way on an elderly Volvo B6.

 

[kez19]

This is going back a few years ago but on Xplore Dundee they misspelt St Marys .. it was St Mary(o)s (assuming input character error), was later corrected

 

[paulmch]

For a long time route Stagecoach route 2 between Corby and Kettering was shown as "Kettering Tesco's". Infuriating!

 

[Stephen1001]

Spotted in Cheltenham today, a Stagecoach Enviro200 on route 42 to "Ashcurch".

Arriva in Wycombe have a long-standing habit of spelling Hazlemere as Hazelmere.

Not an error as neither is strictly wrong, but still worth mentioning: Arriva Buses Wales were for several years unable to decide whether to name Chester railway station in Welsh as "Caer gorsaf tren" or "Caer gorsaf rheilfford".

 

[ElBoiii]

"Tunbridge Wells Girls Grammer School" on (I think) Ham's Travel double decker service. It's been like that for years.

*It might be Tonbridge Grammer School, I can't remember.

maybe the error was "grammer"

 

[Christmas]

Golden Eagle used to have AIRDIRE on at least one blind

 

[py_megapixel]

Golden Eagle used to have AIRDIRE on at least one blind

On a bus with a particularly dodgy exhaust, perhaps?

 

[150249]

Saw 37469 today. As far as I know, they haven't changed the blinds for the I since July so this must have been running around like this for a while.

"And" has to be one of the easiest words to spell. It was correct on the front and the side.

 

[geoffk]

I remember from my Bristol days the letter Z printed backwards on the "linen". And (on a bus station departure screen rather than the bus itself) - "Skye" as a destination from Rochdale bus station instead of the suburb of Syke just up the road!

 

[SCH117X]

The Flying Tiger 747 apparently went via Pannel rather than Pannal; at least they kept both n's in

Picture on Flickr

 

[LUYMun]

Fleet Buzz had one ALX200 display "Notth Camp" that one time on their route 41:

41's last day as its own route

From Monday 6th January 2014, route 41 will interwork with the 42, and it's been given more running time (nine more minutes in fact) to improve reliability. The changes will see it run - at first, as normal - from Farnborough ASDA to Ash Vale, round Ash and back again to Farnborough Kingsmead...

flic.kr

 

[py_megapixel]

Saw 37469 today. As far as I know, they haven't changed the blinds for the I since July so this must have been running around like this for a while.

The display doesn't seem to fit the enclosure properly on that bus either!

I wouldn't be surprised if it were to stay like until next time they do some kind of major update. It may not even have been noticed by anyone at the company; the driver would rarely look at the rear destination blind mid-route anyway and even if they did, they'd probably take the view that they have better things to do than report typos in the display.

"And" has to be one of the easiest words to spell. It was correct on the front and the side.

B and N are next to each other on a QWERTY keyboard. If "abd" appears in a computer system it's usually just a sign that someone's typed something hurriedly.