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During the expansion of the Dublin bus network in the 1990s, and early 2000s, one Dublin bus depot was so crowded overnight, a few Volvo Olympian double deckers had to be parked on the street outside the depot. This stopped once Harristown depot opened, allowing some routes, duties, and vehicles...

Until 2019, there was a coach from Festival travels Inverkeithing depot, parked during the day, in between school runs, on Auchterderran Road, Lochgelly. The practice ended when the contract passed to Stagecoach. One thing that would probably prevent such practices now, even if legislation...

I've an idea for a corporate livery, the old Dublin bus city swift livery!

Slightly off topic, but wasn't Hulleys once called Silver Service for a bit, with a base in Darley Dale? If so when did the name change occur?

One issue with supermarket free buses was, they could have abstracted custom from normal bus services. In some ways, a different route or different stopping arrangements solved that issue. It last ran in 2002, but what's now Morrisons in Cowdenbeath had a free bus service to it, from Cardenden...

The statement is a bit ambiguous. It could mean what you've suggested, that Rosso has taken the decision, or TfGM has taken the decision that Hopper tickets won't be valid on Rosso.

In the early hours of this morning, the first of the E100 EVs for Glenrothes depot arrived. These will mainly be found on the 34 group in kirkcaldy

A friend of mine said he's seen this happen a couple of times on the bee network, sometimes just eat delivery people using it.

One interesting bus war ended twenty years ago, next month. In greenock, harte buses were the only other operator in the area, apart from mcgills. They had a route to Midton. In 2002, mcgills launched a rival service, yet most people stayed loyal to Harte. They launched a braehead express in...

The ex stagecoach vehicle is Dennis trident 18097 from stagecoach east Scotland.

In the 1990s, there was a proposal by Fife Council to transport pupils from Cardenden, to Lochgelly high school, by train, as Lochgelly Station is a few minutes walk away, and most pupils could walk to Cardenden Station in 10-15 minutes. The plan was never carried out.

Double deckers was the Bristol VRT and for single decker the mk1 Leyland national

I suppose to answer that, you need to go back to the late 80s, when drivers at Central Scottish went on strike, over changes to things they were used to, as a result of the merger with Kelvin, and the introduction of new working practices. It lasted several weeks.

I'm one of them! There used to be a network of services, called Eurolines. Does that still exist?

If we're on about uk to overseas coach services, then I'd say Belfast to Dublin, if Bus Eireann still runs it.

Such an example exists in Cluny, between Cardenden and Kirkcaldy, at the entrance to Coalden Farm. Pavement on one side, but the entrance to the farm is what is used for Cardenden bound buses.

A friend of mine knows someone who has recently retired from Moffat and Williamson, at their St. Fort depot. That person has said that M&W ran bingo buses from Newburgh and Newport on Tay to the Kingsway Bingo Hall in Cupar. M&W also ran a bingo bus from St Monans to the Kingsway in Leven, and...

As an aside, some of the East Kent willowbrook bodied VRs moved in 1994 to Fife Scottish. Speaking of Northern, later Go Ahead Northern, I don't believe that their North Tyneside depots, Wallsend and Percy Main, had any. I wonder if any depots within NBC companies, which bought the VR, didn't...

Back in the day go ahead northern ran some peak hour express services x16 and x38, and a few 3xx routes were limited stop in Newcastle.

Last week Premier Bingo, who had halls in Alloa and Cowdenbeath, ceased trading. I was reminded that, for a time in the early 1990s, the Bingo ran a free service from cardenden and lochgelly, to the hall. It was operated by Kelty coaches, but it ended mid 1990s. My mum used to use it. A post I...