Orbital Links That Are Missing Or Too Infrequent

[DunsBus]

But, for a period (late 1980s?), Easter Scottish won the tender for the 38 (Crewe Toll - Morningside - Cameron Toll) and turned it into a 38/58 circular that competed with the north/eastern side of the LRT 32/52

Correct, Eastern had the tender for the 38 from deregulation until losing it on retendering to LRT in July 1989.
The C38/C58 circular ran for a few months in 1987 and was formed out of merging the C38 and the C6, whilst also serving Goldenacre, East Pilton and Muirhouse. It wasn't successful and soon reverted to its former route.

 

[InOban]

Being a regular visitor to Edinburgh nowadays, rather than a resident, I haven't followed the twists and turns! Did the 32/52 run along Seafield past Marine? I remember the irony in the past when there was no scheduled service past the garage.

I could also have mentioned the 400 which goes from the SE round to the airport, but further out than the 38, while the 300 also misses the centre but is closer in. I would have thought that these orbital routes would find it easier to keep time.

 

[DunsBus]

Being a regular visitor to Edinburgh nowadays, rather than a resident, I haven't followed the twists and turns! Did the 32/52 run along Seafield past Marine? I remember the irony in the past when there was no scheduled service past the garage.

I could also have mentioned the 400 which goes from the SE round to the airport, but further out than the 38, while the 300 also misses the centre but is closer in. I would have thought that these orbital routes would find it easier to keep time.

32/52 served Portobello High Street, a small section of Portobello Road and Wakefield Avenue. Pre-deregulation, the 48/49 ran past Marine Garage; after then, it was the 89 until 1990 and again from 1991 until 1993.

On the latter occasion, the 89 actually terminated outside the garage, with a spare bus parked on the ramp so that if an incoming 89 ran late, which was often, this formed the next departure and the late-runner, when it arrived, then became the spare.

 

[BVW]

Eastern Counties introduced the City (originally 560/1) and University (556/7) Circle routes in Norwich during the early 1970s. The 560/1 followed the outer Ring Road either side of the city while the 556/7 connected the UEA with Fifers Lane halls of residence on the old RAF Horsham St Faith site. The University Circle ran in various forms until the Fifers Lane blocks were vacated during the 1990s while the City Circle ceased some while later. Norfolk County Council attempted a relaunch of sorts as the Norwich Orbital in 2006 in order to connect city residents with places of work but this was short-lived, not helped by major new developments such as the Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital and Broadland Business Park being situated some way outside the city boundary. Whereas the old City/University Circles took one hour to do a circuit, the Norwich Orbital took twice as long with its increased footprint.

 

[urpert]

In my part of London, the 726 did an excellent if slow job of linking all the major centres: Bexleyheath-Bromley-Croydon-Sutton-Kingston. Since it was cut back to Croydon and became the X26, a journey like Bromley-Sutton is frustrating (and quickest by rail via Herne Hill which is in Zone 2!)