First South Yorkshire also serve a Halfway aswell (used to have a garage there, now owned bt TM Travel)
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Trivia - Do any operators serve places with the same or similar names?
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nathanclass323
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Trentbarton serve Stretton in Derbyshire with the comet and Stretton in Staffordshire with the villager and xprss38.
Until last year, Centrebus North served two different places called Syston - one in Lincolnshire, and one in Leicestershire - on two different service 27’s!
They still do serve both, but the Leicestershire one had its service re-numbered to LC5 during 2025.
They still do serve both, but the Leicestershire one had its service re-numbered to LC5 during 2025.
Buzby
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I’ll grant you the penultimate one - but apart from starting with the same first letter, they’re hardly in any danger of being construed as being the same. Forge / Fort, Balornock / Barlanark, Braehead / Barrhead would only confuse the inattentive.
Hyebone
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Stagecoach Yorkshire serve Grimesthorpe in Sheffield with the 137, and Grimethorpe in Barnsley with several services.
YorkRailFan
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Thats reminded me of Middleton (near Pickering, 28 & M3) and Middleton-On-The-Wolds (near Market Weighton, X45 & 142) both served by East Yorkshire Buses.
ls2270
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Two London examples:
Stagecoach London serve both Bromley by Bow and Bromley in South East London.
Transport UK serve both Hayes in West London and the one in South East London.
Stagecoach London serve both Bromley by Bow and Bromley in South East London.
Transport UK serve both Hayes in West London and the one in South East London.
AWWisher
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.....and, come to think of it, Keighley Bus served both Lintons when it extended the 760 through to Wetherby.
joieman
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Kinchbus's Skylink Derby service runs through Alvaston, a suburb of Derby, and also passes close to a village called Elvaston, which is situated only a few miles from the former.
Wawanesa
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In the good old days, Eastern Counties had loads of these, more than I can be bothered to type out.
For instance-
Bacton, Norfolk / Bacton, Suffolk
Billingford near Diss / Billingford near East Dereham
Denham near Bury St. Edmunds / Denham near Diss
Eye near Diss / Eye near Peterborough
For instance-
Bacton, Norfolk / Bacton, Suffolk
Billingford near Diss / Billingford near East Dereham
Denham near Bury St. Edmunds / Denham near Diss
Eye near Diss / Eye near Peterborough
tbtc
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The current Stagecoach Yorkshire 86 serves Hutcliffe Wood Road, and Archer Road, then passes the bottom of Woodseats Road on its route through southern Sheffield, all around half a mile from the suburb of Woodseats, (where Torville and Dean's skates were made for their Winter Olympic bolero)...
... AND then roughly an hour later it passes though Wood Seats in the north of the city on its way to Chapletown
... AND then roughly an hour later it passes though Wood Seats in the north of the city on its way to Chapletown
BVW
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Alveston and Olveston in South Gloucestershire are connected by Eurocoaches service Y2C.