Guardian: All aboard the UK's rarest bus service

[jamesontheroad]

From today's Guardian, surely enough to prompt a few spontaneous trips down to Tavistock this weekend:

http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2013/aug/28/britains-rarest-bus-service

If you're planning on catching the 09.05 bus from Tavistock to Dawlish this Saturday (31 August), it might be a good idea to get to the stop in plenty of time – if you miss it, it's a seven-month wait for the next one.

In a piece of scheduling that looks at first glance to have come straight from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the Tavistock Country Bus company's 113 service runs only on the fifth Saturday of the month and only once in each direction, and only from March to October.

 

[34D]

Does the similar one in MK still run?

 

[MK Tom]

Does the similar one in MK still run?

The W13 from Stondon to CMK? Yeah, 08:55 from Stondon on the fifth Tuesday of the months that have a fifth Tuesday. Return working leaves CMK at 12:45 if anyone's on it.

 

[harry42]

Like this! Thanks for sharing

 

[mancnq]

Apologies for the shameless plug, but my new blog features scenic and useful bus routes from around the country. It will feature some obvious ones like the X53 Poole to Exeter but also some less obvious ones that still serve a useful purpose.

http://gbbusroutes.blogspot.co.uk

Comments welcome!

 

[harry42]

Apologies for the shameless plug, but my new blog features scenic and useful bus routes from around the country. It will feature some obvious ones like the X53 Poole to Exeter but also some less obvious ones that still serve a useful purpose.

http://gbbusroutes.blogspot.co.uk

Comments welcome!

Will have a good read later, thanks

 

[martinsh]

Apologies for the shameless plug, but my new blog features scenic and useful bus routes from around the country. It will feature some obvious ones like the X53 Poole to Exeter but also some less obvious ones that still serve a useful purpose.

http://gbbusroutes.blogspot.co.uk

Comments welcome!

Very interesting. Are you taking suggestions for future routes to include ?

 

[Welshman]

Apologies for the shameless plug, but my new blog features scenic and useful bus routes from around the country. It will feature some obvious ones like the X53 Poole to Exeter but also some less obvious ones that still serve a useful purpose.

http://gbbusroutes.blogspot.co.uk

Comments welcome!

Have you read David McKie's "Great British Bus Journeys" published in 2006 by Atlantic Books?

 

[mancnq]

Very interesting. Are you taking suggestions for future routes to include ?

Yes please, the more the merrier!

I've browsed through the book in Waterstone's. Does look good, but I was looking for something that features more of an overview of more routes. Couldn't find it, so decided to start the blog to cater for that niche.

 

[overthewater]

Try X95 Carlise - Edinburgh

 

[martinsh]

172 Matlock - Bakewell via Winster (run by Hulleys)

 

[61653 HTAFC]

935 Huddersfield to Glossop/Buxton. though I think you'll have to wait til next June to do it now!

 

[Liam]

Bluebird 35/35A - Aberdeen to Inverness via MacDuff.

 

[Deerfold]

Try X95 Carlise - Edinburgh

Or even Carlisle to Edinburgh.
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935 Huddersfield to Glossop/Buxton. though I think you'll have to wait til next June to do it now!

951?

http://www.wymetro.com/uploadedFiles/WYMetro/Content/BusTravel/bustimetables/951_2013.pdf

Though it's not clear from that page the service has now finished for summer.

The 935 is a rather shorter route!

http://www.wymetro.com/BusTravel/bustimetables/Bustimetable/935/