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Interesting, but what service bus goes York to Darlington?

Remember driving up Weardale about 10 years ago and not far short of Eastgate I saw a Virgin Voyager parked up filming their big advert at the time. So they do use a lot of "licence" when filming adverts.

Started as an Apprentice Electrician on Railways 1966 on 45 Shillings a week. £30 Shillings to Mam for board, and 15 shillings for myself! Still managed 2 nights out on that. Bliss.

The Gold Card is not a "freebie" as you state. It has to be purchased annually.

Last Tuesday, with son by train to Edinburgh. Walk to St Andrews bus station and a freedom of Fife Plus ticket promotion for 2 travelling together was £11.50 offered by Stagecoach. Not bad as far as Dundee/Perth/all of Fife and Edinburgh for £5.60 for the day. I believe it finishes this weekend

Ah, but it's a warm country. No Snowflakes their!

Which throws up something to ponder, as I don't have a clue myself. If from the top of Cheviot for example, you can see all the way from Bleaklow Head to Lochnagar, where do you think the longest example in the UK may be between 2 points via the 3rd if you get my drift?

My depot was at the end of the route(s), and they often stood for a few minutes between reliefs. If we had information that a particular driver was on the fiddle, me and a colleague would go on board with a brush and pan, and sweep up. Studying the tickets hung many a fiddler. Before free travel...

Up to the 60's South Shields to Blackpool via Stainmore

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That would be a fair distance then.

The disabled and elderly you had to be very sensitive with. Checked a bus and came across an elderly gentleman who could not produce his concessionary pass. Driver should have asked for it when he boarded, but that's another story. Hunches sometimes work. I asked if he had the same jacket on as...

My son tells me the tip of Lochnagar through a gap from the top of Cheviot. Anyone comment?

One day, out checking tickets, I caught a housewife overriding her ticket. Asked where she was going, Another 3 stops. So done it all by the book and just charged her the fare between the stop she paid to, and the stop she was going to. A fairly routine happening. Was working my way back to the...

Boss had me in the office one day saying a driver was sick of people, especially on a Saturday night, just walking on the bus dropping pennies in the tray telling him to keep the ticket. So I was asked to "sort it." Now this was before mobile phones and bus radios. So what to do? Wait at the...

Go Ahead. Well, when I started it was VFM, then merged into Coastline.

You obviously didn't work at my depot! I can honestly put hand on heart and say I was there to compliment what the drivers were doing. Having said that, there was always the odd "rotten apple" in the barrel which needed sorting out. Believe me most of the information that came our way came from...

A driver's union representative went into my Managers office to complain about myself and colleague. The complaint? "You never know where they are going to be." Isn't that the general idea, was the Managers obvious reply. Absolutely unbelievable. This I find an interesting thread, but only seem...