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22 Jun 14
22:19
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19 and 47 for me, work/town combo.
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what a great thread
I use the number 12 the most, followed by the 7S some weekends I use the 3A service |
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good thread |
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Number 3, goes from Crystal Palace to Oxford Circus.
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636/637 72 and X6, for me.
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the old 72 good choice
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Kenny, check out my Dads new feline on the photo thread. Soon as the mods sort it.
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message from Mrs Huggy
grown men talking bus numbers at 11pm very sad |
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Haven't caught a buss for 40 ears which is sad and THE CLAPP FOR30 YEARS which not so bad
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666....it keeps crashing though
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Stansted mid -stay bus shuttle
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get that bus out Butler |
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Before I got my first car,it was always the 104 into town.
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will do
blackestnight |
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6 and 76 for me. Anything less than 2 miles I walk.
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A bus should have a 2 digit number in my opinion, preferably ending in an odd number, and certainly no prefix letters.
The thought of getting on a single digit numbered bus makes me feel a bit queasy if truth be told, and sadly around here a lot of them are four hundred and something, e.g. 471, 482 which is stretching my credulity. I mean there aren't four hundred fecking bus routes so why pretend? My favourite bus number used to be the 79, then they introduced a route doing the circle the opposite way and called it the 80. I could live with that but, despite there being little difference in journey times, always preferred the good, honest, solid, dependable 79. I've just been flicking through a couple of local bus timetables and there's a 487 doing the rounds. I'm sorry, don't care where it goes, not for me, thanks. |
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Clouseau
A superb write up five star very witty  |
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 I was at some place today and they had an old bus parked up, not dissimilar to a Routemaster, in the original livery from the 1960s/70s... think they were advertising the transport museum.The bus was surrounded by blokes of about my age slavering... well there were 4 of us but we were all crowded the platform where the conductor used to stand, reminiscing about sitting in the seat behind the driver's compartment with the big window to pretend we were actually driving it; some of the mardy ones used to pull the blind down but often as not you got a clear view, driver's back and peaked capped head excepted. On our routes the bus conductor used to have this ticket machine with dials on it that he had to set before winding the handle to give you your ticket... how I longed to have one of those ticket machines of my own. Still do!  They had set the bus up with the number 11 with its old destination, via such and such a place. At the end of the route the conductor had to open up the flap and wind it around to get the return destination. Front and back mind! None of this digital modern stuff that doesn't bother displaying the number on the back of the bus so you don't know which one you have just missed. That must have been a tricky old job, up and down the stairs of a moving bus, remembering who hadn't paid, and resting his arse on the corner of the bar on the back of the seats, twisting the dials and winding the handle to issue the ticket, all whilst the bus was swinging around the corner. Also, I noticed when I popped upstairs for a mooch that the bus rocked from side to side as you walked along it. Felt like it would easily topple over but I suppose they knew what they were doing when they made them. Happy daze.  |
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They used to have a rough metal strip on the back of the seats upstairs so you could spark up a match to light your ciggy!
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This is really my favourite number :
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The old 249 Routemaster that ran from Victoria Dock to Chingford Mount. Or if you were on the last bus going back to Victoria Dock, at about 12-30 a.m. you never paid the fare as the conductor had all the cash counted and ticket machine boxed up. You could also smoke on the lower deck as inspectors never worked at night.
When the Routemaster was replaced by the more modern monstrosities, it kept to exactly the same route, but for some reason known only to London Transport executives, it was renumbered, and became the 262. The 278, that ran to and from the same places, but on a different route, became the 241 when the Routemasters were no longer used. Waiting for a 69  from Woolwich Ferry, also went to Chingford Mount, but by a long strangulated route. When the Routemaster went, the new model stayed as the 69. The S1, a new bus in the early 70s, was a circular route from Stratford, and took over an hour to get back to Stratford. Time to kill before going to Hackney dogs or the snooker hal, and it's raining? Hop on the S1 for a ride round the borough, for 4p The 101, that ran from Wanstead to north Woolwich, was the 'passive smoking' bus. For no obvious reason it was more full of smoke upstairs than any other route, no matter what time of day you got on it. Those above are all north to south buses. For east to west journeys, the London Underground was much quicker, as Bus Lanes weren't invented back then. I used to walk to most places but once injured my knee at work when I was in Bromley-By Bow. I hobbled up the rao and got an 86 to Forest Gate. A 3 mile ride from west to east in the rush hour. It took almost 90 minutes to get home, and it was a sweltering hot day, and that bus facking stank of sweaty bastards.  |
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Clouseau
Felt like it would easily topple over but I suppose they knew what they were doing when they made them. If you look at a bus from the front, imagine it tipping to your right. If the 'point' of the top left corner doesn't pass the perpendicular line going up from the outside of the right front wheel, it won't topple. If it passes that line, hang on facking tight!!  |
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http://londonbusesonebusatatime.blogspot.co.uk
This is a cracking review of every London bus route. A must read. As an aside, what is the best way to say a bus number? For example the 130 is obviously the 'one thirty' but the 468 is the 'four six eight'. Does anyone have any advice? It's a real minefield. |
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time much too hands etc
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69
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The 890 from Wolverhampton takes you to Bridgnorth.
Which is what I call going from one extreme to the other. |
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Speaking of numbers,I reckon my Freedom Pass saves me over £1000 per year.Would any politician dare to abolish it?
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Dr Crippen 23 Jun 14 11:34
The 890 from Wolverhampton takes you to Bridgnorth. Which is what I call going from one extreme to the other. I think the long mileage bus near here is the X1. From Peterborough to Great Yarmouth. A craphole at either end. |
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I use the number 1 and the number 5 most often. Two years ago they curtailed the number 5 route so you now have to use the number 1 to connect with the number 5 at the bus station. Prior to that the number 5 used to go from right near my house to as far as the Sainsburys superstore about 4 miles away, via the Guildhall, M&S/city centre, the library/theatre royal, railway station and hospital - it was a brilliant service until Stagecoach split it. Bastards.
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MosterBadger,
do you recall the number 5 route from your days in Newham? East Ham (White Horse) to Clerkenwell. |
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I never lived in Newham CMAT
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I don't think I have been on a bus since I left school
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MisterBadger 23 Jun 14 16:01
I never lived in Newham CMAT I thought you were asian, and must have done. |
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I really don't know.
I have no head for remembering numbers so just stick my hand out at a passing bus and ask them where they're going, if I don't know what route I'm on. I'm lucky in that I'm en route to a lot of places so can catch numerous buses to the town and back. However, when I have to go somewhere 'unusual' I have to check the route and the number of the bus on 'Route Planner'. I then make a note of the times and numbers of the buses, comprehensively. I have numerous pieces of paper in various jacket and coat pockets with these instructions written on them - if they've managed to make it there, as I usually leave them on the kitchen table before I go out so have no idea what bus number I have to catch. It's a right old bind parading up and down the bus station wondering which bus to pick! |
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Sometime around last Christmas I was waiting at a bus stop for about an hour and a half for one to take me home.
I asked every bus driver of every bus which pulled up at the stop if they were going my way. None were. I was frozen to the marra by the time I gave it up as a bad job and walked about half a mile to the bus station instead, where I caught a bus within minutes. I've never used the original bus stop since. |
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Any man who finds himself on a bus over the age of 30 can consider himself a failure in life.
Leave it out Maggie. |
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That just about sums the evil old hag Thatcher up to just what she was.
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- The most evil old hag in the world. Ever.
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Agreed.
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