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  1. Busaholic

    Cricket

    Today's play should reassure you about getting a full day's worth - mind, if Australia had held their chances, it might have been a different picture. I suspect you might see a batting masterclass from Marnus tomorrow if he can find some to support him. A declaration would seem unlikely. I'll be...
  2. Busaholic

    Rishi Sunak and the Conservative Party.

    Where's Martin Bell when you need him? If anti-Tories would only coalesce behind a candidate, it'd be possible the Tory successor to Dorries could be defeated. Even without that, there's a chance the Cons could be run close, most likely by the LibDem; Labour and Green supporters must then think...
  3. Busaholic

    Bus restoration blog - former North Western KJA299G

    Heartiest congratulations. My only personal experience of Bristol REs was as a student in South Bristol travelling on the Wells route 476.
  4. Busaholic

    Sunday, 11 June — London Bus Routes 65 and 71 Heritage Bus Event

    Given this is a virtual repeat of a successful event from 2021, I think you'll find there'll be future opportunities. The proximity of the London Bus Museum to the Kingston area helps enormously too.
  5. Busaholic

    First South West (Kernow & Buses of Somerset)

    I don't think the error can be pinned on a timetable, :smile:
  6. Busaholic

    London Buses Discussion

    I wouldn't disagree.
  7. Busaholic

    London Buses Discussion

    Sorry to be so dilatory, but was incapacitated at the time: West Wickham is one of the stops, whereas Hayes is not, so don't think you're right. unless you have more information than was provided by the press releases.
  8. Busaholic

    Cricket

    More than that, the first test captain to finish a match never having batted, bowled or kept wicket. Now, if he can achieve the former just the once over the next few weeks I'll really be impressed!
  9. Busaholic

    Can I Legally Use A Body Camera?

    I agree with that viewpoint.
  10. Busaholic

    Where to buy London Annual Bus and Tram pass for cash?

    I'd be surprised if one of the few remaining Visitor Centres was prepared to accept £988 in cash, at least without advance warning. It seems obvious to me from the TfL website that they'd be unhappy not to have verified information on any holder of such an expensive and valuable (to the holder)...
  11. Busaholic

    Can I Legally Use A Body Camera?

    without claiming this is in any way a definitive legal position, I would say you have the liberty to wear and use a body camera from the moment you leave your house, walk/cycle/drive/bus/train to your place of work (presumably a bus depot/garage), but the moment you enter your employer's...
  12. Busaholic

    Side lights only at night

    My memory too, in relation to RMs anyway. I don't recollect RTs only running on one headlight (deliberately, anyway!} In the current edition of Buses magazine in a photo accompanying a reader's letter, there is a photo taken late at night in 1959 of the first RM used on trolleybus conversion...
  13. Busaholic

    London area dialling and post code boundaries.

    You're right. and just as a finale on the LCC/ILEA matter, the only difference in the boundaries was that North Woolwich was placed in the London County but not in the ILEA area.
  14. Busaholic

    London area dialling and post code boundaries.

    The Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich extended eastwards to Abbey Wood and some of the developing Thamesmead, The 'old' London County Council area then became replicated in the Inner London Education Area of the new Greater London Council, I was born and spent all my youth in Woolwich borough...
  15. Busaholic

    Are some of these rural bus stops real?

    You cynic! :D
  16. Busaholic

    Supermarkets discussion

    I'm unable to carry a shopping basket, and my usual supermarket is bad about bringing empty trolleys back to near the entrance, so in that event I walk with stick in one hand and bag in the other. I have to put the bag on the floor on occasion, but have never been challenged, If I was to be, I'd...
  17. Busaholic

    Petrol and diesel prices - how much have you been paying?

    Under Walmart's ownership low fuel prices were meant to draw shoppers into Asda, but the current owners thought they had better ideas. Now they're trying to cut some workers' hourly wage rates to help their overpaying for the stores, 1685483510
  18. Busaholic

    Do trams need L plates?

    Many first generation tram drivers in London (and maybe other cities and towns) had never driven cars. so when conversion to trolleybus and diesel buses came they had to make a big decision: many. by no means just the oldest ones, never made the switch.
  19. Busaholic

    Side lights only at night

    I suspected it was during the last years of Chatham and District. I remember getting a copy of an A.A. newsletter in the 1980s, having passed my driving test in 1981, that brought the news of a court case taken to appeal regarding the necessity of driving with lights on during bad weather. It...
  20. Busaholic

    Side lights only at night

    4 December 1951 - a troop of naval cadets were marching from their base in Gillingham, Kent to Chatham Dockyard on a foggy night when a double decker bus being driven on sidelights alone, as was customary at the time, ran into the back of the marchers killing 24 of them; it remains the county's...

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