Ian's Bus Stop

[47444]

The website countrybus.org linking to Ian's Bus Stop, the definitive history of London Transport buses appears to have "gone down" and is now shown as a website "under construction".

Can anyone shed any light on whether this is a temporary situation or whether we have permanently lost this research resource?

TIA

== Doublepost prevention - post automatically merged: 15 Jul 2024 ==

Just found the answer to my own question.

The information is now at busspotter.com

 

[Shaw S Hunter]

The website countrybus.org linking to Ian's Bus Stop, the definitive history of London Transport buses appears to have "gone down" and is now shown as a website "under construction".

Can anyone shed any light on whether this is a temporary situation or whether we have permanently lost this research resource?

TIA

== Doublepost prevention - post automatically merged: 15 Jul 2024 ==

Just found the answer to my own question.

The information is now at busspotter.com

Which is in fact it's original "home", it's only taken 8 years to get back there!

 

[47634 "Holbeck]

The website countrybus.org linking to Ian's Bus Stop, the definitive history of London Transport buses appears to have "gone down" and is now shown as a website "under construction".

Can anyone shed any light on whether this is a temporary situation or whether we have permanently lost this research resource?

TIA

== Doublepost prevention - post automatically merged: 15 Jul 2024 ==

Just found the answer to my own question.

The information is now at busspotter.com

Thank you! I've been trying for the last 24 hours trying to use the Bus Stop and now realised it's not there anymore!

 

[92209]

I, too, have been wondering what happened to countrybus.org. Ian's last entry was sometime in March 2024, then the site "got nabbed". It happened to him before - some years ago. I hope he's still around to keep up the good work on busspotter.com

 

[BeeBus]

The busspotter.com site is not as up-to-date as the countrybus.org had become and was possibly a backup version of the site. It only goes up to March, although that is still a long way better than nothing.

I'm not clear what's happening, the situation being confused for me as it happened at about the same time I changed ISP and I know some people had problems reaching the site when they used certain ISPs and I wondered whether I had fallen foul of the same problem.

 

[CastlebarKeith]

Well, it looks as if several of us are 'on the case'

Similarly, there was another site run by Alan Gryfe about L.T bus stops and "E plates"
That suddenly disappeared once and was stuffed full of irreplaceable info. Has that ever re-surfaced anywhere?

 

[duncombec]

Well, it looks as if several of us are 'on the case'

Similarly, there was another site run by Alan Gryfe about L.T bus stops and "E plates"
That suddenly disappeared once and was stuffed full of irreplaceable info. Has that ever re-surfaced anywhere?

If you still know the web address, have you tried archive.org? What it archives often depends on how the website was put together (pictures and file downloads can be intermittent, anything active such as a search box probably won't work), but it can be very useful.