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TfL have announced that Metroline have re-won the contract for this route, commencing in July, but they are awarding it on a short term basis, terminating December 2019 at latest, 'to allow for restructuring,,, in connection with the opening of the Elizabeth Line.' This intrigued me, as the...

In the New Year's Honours:doubtful if it's for services to the Inland Revenue:)

November 4th marks the 80th anniversary of the first TV transmission from Alexandra Palace. On BBC2 'Newsnight' tonight Evan Davis interviewed 104 year old Paul Reveley, who was John Logie Baird's Personal Assistant from 1933 to 1938. His mind seems as sharp as ever, and I commend the item to...

Truro is not only a city and the administrative centre of Cornwall but has never had a McDonalds. There is one a few miles out, beyond Treliske Hospital, which is mainly drive-through, but that is it,

Just been pondering a few song titles, some with suitable amendments. to reflect the recent experiences of the woebegone Southern commuter: please do add to them:- 24 Hours from Tulse Hill London Bridge is Falling Down Give Peacehaven a Chance (and Peacxehaven of My Heart) Crawley Through...

I am sure this information is available with a bit of research, but just in case anyone has it to hand, I'm interested to know the relative lengths of continuous new tunnelling on Crossrail and on the proposed route(s) of Crossrail 2 - I know there are two alternatives for the south London...

The Work and Pensions Secretary has announced his resignation, presumably on the grounds that the disabled will not be further targeted by his government (this month, anyway) owing to some spirited resistance from some Tory backbenchers. What a man, the Leave campaign should be proud of him!

'To the World's End: Scenes and Characters from a London Bus Route' can be found on the BBC iplayer service. I found it entirely by chance: it dates from 1985 and is not really about buses, although there are plenty of shots of Routemasters on route 31 from Camden Town to Chelsea, World's End...

The idea for this thread came to me from reading the Green Line 797 thread responses. Has anyone ever been hitchhiking and been picked up by a bus, whether in public service or not? It happened to me once, when I was a callow youth almost fifty years ago, in December 1966. I had got...

I daresay a similar thread has appeared before but, if it has, it was quite a while ago, so here goes. My version of this is to choose four people, all in the public eye, who would be the last people you'd want to spend any length of time with, let alone be stranded with for an indefinite...

My apologies if this has been raised before, but Danny Finkelstein in his 'Times' column yesterday was asking, why the apostrophe in the former and not the latter? He is inviting a response, so if anyone knows the answer.... No prizes!

The prototype Routemaster RM1 went into passenger service sixty years ago in February 1956. I was reminded of this by an article in today's 'Daily Telegraph' in their Cars(!) supplement. The article was reasonably well researched but let itself down by printing a photo of an RT, the RM's...

I expect there has been such a thread in the past but I can't find any recent one just for those items, perhaps mildly amusing or of no great import, about bus operation without regard to particular operators or the fate of bus no. 12345. Just to start it off, I was tickled by reading that...

I don't know whether this subject has come up before, and, if it has, apologies in advance, but we are always being told that tax evasion is criminal but tax avoidance is legal. This has always seemed a somewhat semantic view to me, but then I've never been in a high-earning bracket. Is there a...

Seeing how such a bus adorns this page heading, just thought I'd mention that RF 180, now owned by the London Bus Co. saw passenger service on 4th December as an 'extra' on London route 108 between Stratford and North Greenwich when DLR services were strike-hit, along with another RF in...

10 years to the day from the conversion of London's last Routemaster route, the 159, to opo buses, RMs and other old London buses will partially recreate the route on Wednesday 9th, between Marble Arch and Brixton Station from around midday to 6/7 p.m. Buses will operate every 10 minutes over...

Quoting directly from Robert Munster's wonderful LondonBusRoutes net website, this one tickled me so much I had to share it:- Route 200 - ''Owing to a bend in the road in Phipps Bridge Road, temporarily diverted in both directions direct via Church Road''. Does Uri Geller live down Mitcham...

Another dodgy Bishop story... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-34807620

The Met Office has now decided to follow the American practice of naming hurricanes by doing the same with storms. An alphabetical sequence using female names has just started with the name Abigail attached to it. I do hope this impending storm doesn't intend holding a party.

Some of you may be aware of this dictionary, a product of the fertile minds of writers on the 'I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue' radio programme. I have a new entry: CHILCOT - a safe haven for members of the Establishment to chillax in. Any further entries?