tbtc
Veteran Member
The standard Monday-Saturday daytime service pattern of the cross city 120 in Sheffield has four termini (First run Fulwood to Crystal Peaks, Stagecoach run Ranmoor to Halfway, so overlapping between Ranmoor and Crystal Peaks).
So that’s four different off-peak termini for the same route number (ignoring suffixes, prefixes, express versions). There are some journeys which terminate at the Hallamshire Hospital or City Centre, but I’m only talking about the standard off-peak Monday to Saturday timetable.
Some service corridors have more off-peak termini but they are spread over different prefixes/ suffixes (e.g. the 38/38A/38B/38C/38E in Glasgow have half a dozen but that’s five separate versions of the route so not valid for the purpose of this thread).
Plenty of route numbers have three off-peak termini (e.g. the 26/31/33 in Edinburgh have one western terminus but two south/eastern ones though all journeys use the same number), but are there any/many with four or more?
Rules:
So that’s four different off-peak termini for the same route number (ignoring suffixes, prefixes, express versions). There are some journeys which terminate at the Hallamshire Hospital or City Centre, but I’m only talking about the standard off-peak Monday to Saturday timetable.
Some service corridors have more off-peak termini but they are spread over different prefixes/ suffixes (e.g. the 38/38A/38B/38C/38E in Glasgow have half a dozen but that’s five separate versions of the route so not valid for the purpose of this thread).
Plenty of route numbers have three off-peak termini (e.g. the 26/31/33 in Edinburgh have one western terminus but two south/eastern ones though all journeys use the same number), but are there any/many with four or more?
Rules:
- No variety of prefixes/ suffixes – all vehicles must have the same route number on the front of the vehicle (e.g. the 1 and 1A are different routes, as are the X1 and 1)
- Routes run by more than one operator are fine, as long as they are clearly part of the same overlapping corridor (e.g. the Transdev 7 in Leeds has clearly nothing to do with the First 7 in that city but there are cities where different operators run slightly different services with the same number along the same corridor)
- Unadvertised duplicates, peak extras and evening/weekend variations don’t count – I’m only talking about the standard Monday to Saturday off-peak service
- If in doubt, I’d go with the place on the destination screen (to determine whether there are more than one destination – e.g. different stances in the same bus station wouldn’t count as they’d not be distinguished on the destination screen)