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Brighton & Hove maintain a comprehensive route history on a page on their website: https://history.buses.co.uk/history/route/welcome.htm. It covers all routes operated by the company since deregulation, including the dates of route/terminus changes (even minor ones). Individual stops and roads...

Lowfield Heath, West Sussex (formerly Surrey) was gradually depopulated as a result of the southward expansion of Gatwick Airport.

Hi all, A question of local interest and nostalgia for anybody familiar with the Harrogate area and/or the WYRCC, if I may. I'm trying to find out more about the history of the building on Westmoreland Street, Harrogate, which since 2012 has been used by the Mowbray Community Church, but which...

The examples illustrated above are from a Setright machine, which were often used on Paytrain routes.

Here's an example of the list of codes on a randomly chosen Omniprinter ticket illustrated in the TTS publication referred to above. I'll leave it to your imagination as to which lines this ticket may have been issued on! These codes were printed across three columns. 19 Blackburn 20...

We certainly can! Over the years the Society has published numerous monographs and books on different ticket machines, including in 2014 The Omniprinter Portable Ticket Machine and its use with British Railways, which really is the last word in Omniprinter information*. A quick look at my...

Connex South Central briefly introduced one of their own ... and messed it up (!). At Hassocks station, an extra-large metal sign was erected at the north end of the Down platform at Hassocks, where none had ever been before - perhaps like a running-in board from the "old days" - proclaiming...

It has been announced that the bus station in the centre of Lewes, East Sussex, will close on (or by) Friday 16th September 2022. It has been bought by a developer, and notice has been served this week. Temporary bus stops will be put in place in School Hill and Friars Walk, both of which are...

I was wondering that. I've had a look through my notes and ticket scans and have found another issued to BPOOL NTHBUSTRAM dated mid-2009; and separately, a note that as from 2 January 2012 Blackpool PLUSBUS tickets were valid across the whole tram network rather than just "the central section"...

(Reaches up to box on top shelf...) The exact validation is BPOOL NTHBUSTRAM. The 2008 [Anytime] Day Return PRIV fare was £4.95.

It might be this ticket: https://www.brfares.com/!fares?orig=PRE&dest=QBN (Blackpool North version) https://www.brfares.com/!fares?orig=PRE&dest=QBS (Blackpool South version) Just a guess though. These did exist in the past: I have a Manchester - Blackpool North "Bus and Tram" ticket dated...

One of my pics from a few years ago - Brighton and Hove Buses school route 49E travelling to "Lower Bevedean" instead of "Lower Bevendean": https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-mpd/5218842435/

When I had an annual Brighton and Hove PLUSBUS ticket (every year from 2013 to 2020), I admit that I regularly did. I have stops at the top and bottom of my road. One of them is one stop from Hove station; the other is one stop from Church Road/the town hall (basically the centre of Hove). If...

I have been sent scans of two tickets issued this year to the Isles of Scilly (destination shown as "Scilly Isles"): one dated 31 March 2022 routed "Skybus" (now a light aircraft, no longer a helicopter) and the other dated 7 May 2022 routed "Via Scillonian Ferry". Both were issued at GWR...

Not exactly hitch-hiking, but a welcome offer of a lift just a few weeks ago: I was on one of my regular summer week-long bus trips photographing churches and chapels, which generally involve 10-15 miles of walking a day in very rural areas. I'd just got off the morning X20 Salisbury-Blandford...

Southern Scheidt & Bachmann machines can also sell Boundary Zone tickets. Same procedure as outlined in the post above.

Regarding machines of the more recent era: I will start by giving my usual plug for The Transport Ticket Society, which has extremely comprehensive publications on this subject and many others, including full listings of every known self-service machine since the start of BR's experimental...

Many thanks all. I suspect the ticket was issued for use on the shuttle trains from Bournemouth plus admission - the same arrangement as at Lovers Walk in 1991.

Hi all, A contact has sent me a scan of a SPORTIS ticket dated 16 May 1998, issued from BOURNEMOUTH to BOURNEMOUTH marked ADMISSION and priced at £3.50. The NLC shows it was a Southampton-based machine. Some web-searching suggests it was issued for an open day at Bournemouth Depot on that...

That doesn't bode well for my trip to West Yorkshire this weekend! :lol: