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    Trivia: largest place without late evening journeys

    Am guessing that when we are talking about late evening journeys we are mainly talking about Monday to Saturday evening but what about Sunday evening provision? Sunday evening provision seems to either largely mirror the Monday to Saturday evening provision, be largely similar but perhaps finish...
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    Quirky or quaint practices on buses in the past

    Back when Andybus used to do the 41 between Malmesbury and Yate, I remember the regular driver often stopping off at the Post Office/Newsgaents in Badminton. Particularly on the last trip of the day towards Yate.
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    D&G Buses

    I remember that service. Was a real shame that it never got to launch. Is there any realistic possibility that Shavington will ever get a Sunday service back? Know its been said before that extending the current service to Shavington would neccesiate an extra bus so am guessing the current...
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    D&G Buses

    That makes sense. If such a service is introduced it would make sense to give it a different number to make clear its different to the main Sunday service. Have the 37 and 42 ever had Sunday provision before out of interest?
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    D&G Buses

    Would a Sunday service on the 37 likely be the full route from Crewe or be a shortened version that is truncated in Sandbach? Is there any need for any more buses between Crewe and Sandbach on a Sunday or does the current 38 do the job?
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    Flixbus Discussion

    Used Flixbus for a journey between Stoke and Birmingham yesterday afternoon. I'd paid for a front seat but upon boarding the driver told me the front seats were unavailable. Two were belted off and the other two were being used for the driver's bags. I questioned why Flixbus were allowing...
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    National Express Coaches Discussion

    I used the 101 service back from Birmingham to Bristol yesterday afternoon and had a non NX liveried coach (Merc Benz Tourismo) from a company called Amans Travel. This seems to be a scheduled working for the company thats run for the last few months. Would anyone happen to know why Amans are...
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    National Express Coaches Discussion

    I do think there would be some merit in NX having some 'through' journeys but surely a series of shorter journeys which connect in Birmingham cost less to operate and breakdowns are presumably easier to deal with? Plus I'm pretty sure that since NX have started splitting journeys in Birmingham...
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    D&G Buses

    For anyone on here who has experience of the 84x between Crewe and Nantwich I would be interested in your opinion, do you think the service should run later into the evening or do you think 20.58 from Crewe and 21:31 from Nantwich are adequate times for the last buses? Would there be...
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    Trivia: largest place without late evening journeys

    Thanks for this interesting information. I apologise for the delay in getting back to you. Telford (and Shropshire in general) isn't an area I'm too up on so any information that others can provide is helpful. A few other areas where services finish quite early are Alsager (last bus on the...
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    Trivia: largest place without late evening journeys

    Can you recall whenabouts the evening services were cut back? Before, during or post Covid? I'd also be interested to find out have Telford buses ever ran late on Sunday evenings?
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    D&G Buses

    Thanks for clarifying this.
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    Trivia: largest place without late evening journeys

    Thanks for clarifying this
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    D&G Buses

    When the 38 was last half hourly under Arriva, did it operate in tandem with D&G's journeys or were they all evenly spaced out?
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    Trivia: largest place without late evening journeys

    Are the late evening journeys from Macclesfield to Crewe well used ? Have only ever used these journeys from Haslington towards Crewe and when I have, there has always only ever been a few people on the bus. Is the demand in the evening more at the Macclesfield end of the route rather than...
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    Women bus drivers

    There was a female bus driver who worked at South Gloucestershire Bus and Coach for a good while and who at one point was the regular driver on the route that served my school. She was a really kind lady even if she did once tell me off for standing up whilst the bus was in motion. "Is there...
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    D&G Buses

    Thanks for this interesting information. Not had much experience of the 8 but am aware of the 12 and 84 being busy when I've used them in the week. My experience of the 38 in the week has always been that a lot of passengers seem to travel between Crewe and Sandbach/Congleton or between...
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    D&G Buses

    Has anyone on here had experience of using the current Sunday journeys on the 8, 12 or 38 and if so what was your impression? Were the journeys you were on being well used or were there only a few passengers? Was usage at a similar level to what you remember when the services ran...
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    Amusing/Unusual items taken on buses/coaches

    Has anyone ever been on a bus or coach journeys where a passenger has brought an amusing item on board (or transported an amusing item themselves)? I've travelled on buses a number of times with joblots of VHS tapes, audio tapes or vinyl records which I've brought from places like Facebook...
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    National Express Coaches Discussion

    Have noticed Amans Travel covering Parks duties a number of times in recent weeks. Specifically the 101/102 service from Birmingham to Plymouth via Bristol. Other times, Parks have regularly put out a Levante that has their own livery rather than that of NX.

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