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It takes a bit of self-belief to call yourself Confidence of Oadby - unsure they still do, though.

True, but there are as many execrable examples in Cornwall as anywhere else e.g. at a chain of Cornish bakers with three outlets in Penzance alone. :smile:

At least you weren't bitten by said dog! My first ever trip abroad as a schoolboy, landed at St Malo from Southampton, walking to waiting coach and a stray mongrel came up behind me and bit one of my legs behind the knee. Everyone bar me found it hilarious, but I had to visit a hospital for an...

Reading a letter in Buses magazine last night which mentioned a rare coach variant of the past and three coach operators. One was the aforementioned Excelsior of Bournemouth, but the other two brought a wry smile to my face. First there was Acorn Tours of Bedfont which led me to musing about...

According to David Braine, BBC SW meteorologist, yesterday was windiest day in the region since 1990.

Chiltern Queens was always a name I noticed in Buses magazine, though I didn't know their coaches. Is their old depot in Woodcote still there? I've seen photos of it c2010 looking derelict. Premier Travel was a huge player in the post war period right into deregulation and beyond, particularly...

The people of Guildford obviously don't take that view, as Safeguard flourishes, having seen off competition from both Arriva and Stagecoach in 'bus wars' in the recent past.

King Harry Coaches in Cornwall, Excelsior in Bournemouth (now part of Go Ahead South). Belle Vue Coaches in Manchester, An even older-established firm called Excelsior existed in Shropshire from the 1920s. and won a cup at the Blackpool Coach Rally on 1976, but I believe bit the dust some years...

Yes, I remember the snow starting, but it was pretty cold on Christmas Day too. A two-hourly suburban service might not have been sufficient to get the doctor to our house on time, and my older brother had died at that age.

I haven't seen the film yet, but as said pensioner lived near John o' Groats his pass issued in Scotland would not be valid in England, so it's quite possible a bus inspector might act like that, although the majority probably wouldn't. As for drivers, he'd have encountered humanity in all its...

I grew up in S.E.London in the midst of Southern Electricland on the Bexleyheath line to Dartford. My younger brother became quite ill on Christmas Day morning 1961, in the days when your G.P. was on call at all hours. Understandably, on Christmas Day other arrangements had to be made and so a...

Mustn't forget the special free service run on Christmas Day over the last few years on part of London's route 430 between Putney Bridge Station and Roehampton using RT family buses, usually two in number. It seems to carry more enthusiasts than people in genuine need of the bus, and has nothing...

Oh. indeed. In 1972 I was working for London Transport at HQ, lived close to Beckenham Junction and my family home was a stone's throw from Bromley South. The Bakerloo extension was very much being planned for after the Fleet (later Jubilee) got built, then later in the decade Bromley Council...

I totally agree with you. The only feasible tinkering would be to introduce an intermediate Blackfriars stop, which I believe is theoretically possible but has many other things stacked against it. Extending beyond Waterloo would be even crazier than the onetime plan to extend the DLR to the...

They'd have to travel a fair way from Bromley borough to reach a tube barrier!

You wouldn't be able to cite Christian religious objections to justify such restrictions, so I doubt it would get through Parliament. The Tories don't give a damn for workers' rights!

Greg Clark is/was a great mate of David Gauke, but failed to join the rebellion against Johnson that got so many of a more liberal persuasion losing the Tory whip and thus not being able to retain their seats in the 2019 election. It always has been less right wing than many other less...

Trolleybuses also operated Christmas Day services, with a couple of interesting variations unique to the day. For instance, Isleworth depot, which normally only worked the 657, also worked some 667s, whose usual depot Fulwell in turn worked some 657s. The arrangement went further too, so some...

Do you just mean outside? I walk around indoors most of the time barefoot. I've even got the NHS to accept that when I'm an inpatient in hospital I can and do function without slippers or other form of footwear, and won't be suing them if I get injured or inconvenienced as a direct result. Up...

Doubt it, though some might look at the financial pages. The 1%, if they read anything, would incline to the FT and The Times I'd think. The Telegraph is the home of the 'disgusted of Tunbridge Wells' Tory party male faithful, middle class, perhaps aspiring to be part of the 1%. though their...