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Are Paper Bus Timetables still in your area?
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Parebunks
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I was very pleased whilst visiting Preston today to find a comprehensive selection of paper publicity in the Harris gallery/cultural centre, including:
- Two Stagecoach booklets for North and South Lancashire - both to a high standard and including maps, in the North Stagecoach really seems to be doing well on this.
- A Preston Bus booklet covering all their routes with individual maps for each route but no network map I could see.
- Three county council maps for Lancaster, Fylde Coast and Hyndburn.
- Council produced leaflets for pretty much every other route in a fairly wide area - I assume these are mostly tenders?
Does anyone know if the council produce these maps for any other areas of the country? They were numbered 1, 2 and 7 which suggests so but couldn't find any evidence online, or even easily accessible pdf versions.
Confusingly, with both operators and the council producing these impressive publications, they were nowhere to be seen at Preston Bus Station, which does seems an odd choice.
- Two Stagecoach booklets for North and South Lancashire - both to a high standard and including maps, in the North Stagecoach really seems to be doing well on this.
- A Preston Bus booklet covering all their routes with individual maps for each route but no network map I could see.
- Three county council maps for Lancaster, Fylde Coast and Hyndburn.
- Council produced leaflets for pretty much every other route in a fairly wide area - I assume these are mostly tenders?
Does anyone know if the council produce these maps for any other areas of the country? They were numbered 1, 2 and 7 which suggests so but couldn't find any evidence online, or even easily accessible pdf versions.
Confusingly, with both operators and the council producing these impressive publications, they were nowhere to be seen at Preston Bus Station, which does seems an odd choice.
barringtoncem
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Further to my orginal post it looks like that whippet no longer do printed timetables apart from a flyer for the Hunstanton service and 67 service i mentioned has been withdrawn to lack of patronage
They are new, reinstating maps that they used to do years ago. I don’t think a full set has been created as yet.
Lancashire is interesting where due to a combination of operators doing timetables and the council doing them for their tendered routes, there are printed timetables available for the vast majority of routes in the county.
Parebunks
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Very encouraging to hear - there's a similar project in Oxfordshire but yet to go to print AFAIK.
Hadn't previously thought of Stagecoach as good with printed publicity but between these, the excellent Peak and Lake District books, and West's booklets, they're now perhaps among the best of the big groups? Although Midlands and Scotland still leave much to be desired.
There was Dales Bus guides at Carlisle Railway Station.
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Must be the last proper first bus timetable booklet.
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I found a Lancashire Bus Map for Accrington earlier this year.
I haven't seen any timetables at Preston Bus Station. Perhaps they are in the office but I have seen it it open. It would make sense to have a rack of timetables, Lancaster does this.
Cardiff Bus Interchange had Cardiff Bus Map and a North East Cardiff Bus guide on two racks.
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Yes the hut is still on Weymouth seafront with Dave at the helm, lots of positive comments about all his help online. First have produced 2 excellent guides this year:
- Regular timetable book for all services (there are a few proofing mistakes and also missed opportunities to promote, I.e. showing on Route 4 timetable that later journeys to Preston run on Route 2). Still excellent though.
- An Explore Open Top bus guide. Features a brilliant set of places to visit and timetables for all the Open Top services.
Good to see these back this year!
It is the first down here for two years after their pursued their digital only strategy, not realising how poor their app and website is.
Simonm1978
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I think the Preston Bus desk at Preston Bus Station now only opens for a couple of hours a day. And I don’t think the LCC window next to it opens at all. I remember seeing something about it being reopened as part of the BSIP funding (page 2 of https://council.lancashire.gov.uk/documents/s232444/Report.pdf) but it doesn’t seem to have happened yet.
But yes it would be helpful if they had a timetable rack for passengers.
I haven’t seen the Preston & South Ribble map in print yet, but one has been produced as it’s available to download on the Preston Bus website:
I don't think Stagecoach print any timetables in Scotland now.