You Wait Ages For A Bus

Phill_dvsn · Post by **Phill_dvsn** » Sat 11 Aug, 2012 12:57 pm

BIG N wrote: Quote: No details here but it involved a fraud investigation on a massive scale resulting in lots of convictions and sackings - remember Wakey haveing a sudden influx of Polish drivers ? well that was the reason, they weren't driving around with their noses turned up for quite a long time after that lol Well well. always interesting to here a nice bit of dirty gossip about a big corporate company.I'll too say nothing about it, but if you want to find out about it off your own back-you can, it isn't too hard to find out about it It just reminds me of the time I was a lad way back in time, scissors, glue, used day rider tickets=any day bargain dayrider...say no more lol

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Sat 11 Aug, 2012 1:34 pm

Phill_dvsn wrote: It just reminds me of the time I was a lad way back in time, scissors, glue, used day rider tickets=any day bargain dayrider...say no more lol When the very first LCT ten journey tickets came out in the mid 1960s they were plain card with no electronic protection of any kind - the insertion of the card in the first giant red "Ker ching" machines supposedly clipped off one journey and printed the stage number etc etc - I think it was that performance that fostered the invention of the word "MALFUNCTION" - in fact I'm sure it must have been.Well, there was at a certain highly respected educational establishment in Moorland Road a thriving cottage industry in the manufacture of what are known these days in the ink cartridge area as "Compatibles" - and compatible they certainly were - in fact they were more successful than the real thing - far fewer malfunctions !!Cereal packets appeared to provide raw material of just the ideal specification. Were you a fervent consumer of corn flakes by any chance Phill ??

Phill_dvsn · Post by **Phill_dvsn** » Sat 11 Aug, 2012 1:53 pm

BLAKEY wrote: Were you a fervent consumer of corn flakes by any chance Phill ?? Here's one I made earlier All you needed were a few old used day riders and you had unlimited travel. If you wanted to use that Rider card again in November say, all you had to do was cut out an unscratched 24th date from another old rider card. You could keep using the cards in any month, or date, even change the year..You could very easily split the card in half to have only the silver foil with date as one half, then simply glue it over the scratched off date. You never could tell it had been tampered with, and we used those tickets for donkey years That was until one day a rather keen guard on a train decided to pull one of the lads day riders out of the plastic wallet he kept it in, this particular lad hadn't done a very good job of glueing his dates back on the card, all the bits of silver card fell off and floated onto the carriage floor like confetti The rider tickets were soon changed over the next few months lol.The Day Riders were great for bus and train travel in West Yorkshire, for further afield trips we just used the '6p all over rover' which of course was the good old platform ticket. There was quite an art to dodging the guard on a train, and many of us had it cracked rather well. I liked my old nickname I earned in those days the 'Darth Fare Evader' 'It still makes me laugh today Well we were only lads with basic pocket, and paper round money, so we had to improvise really

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Sat 11 Aug, 2012 2:16 pm

Phill_dvsn wrote: I liked my old nickname I earned in those days the 'Darth Fare Evader' 'It still makes me laugh today Well we were only lads with basic pocket, and paper round money, so we had to improvise really "Improvise - IMPROVISE !!" I like your style Phill - I''ve always admired those who can "manipulate" the English language to suit the occasion !!

Phill_dvsn · Post by **Phill_dvsn** » Sat 11 Aug, 2012 2:28 pm

BLAKEY wrote: "Improvise - IMPROVISE !!" I like your style Phill - I''ve always admired those who can "manipulate" the English language to suit the occasion !! Politicians are very good at that, especially Prime Sinister Scameron Technically it was a little naughty yes, but by the age of 15 I'd travelled wide and far, and visited most major cities in the U.K. I'd probably seen more of the U.K at that date than most adults do in their lifetime. I was able to look after myself, met some really good friends, and by and large we weren't annoying people by hanging around city centres in large groups of irritating teenagers. So all in all it wasn't a bad thing!

BIG N · Post by **BIG N** » Mon 13 Aug, 2012 2:51 pm

Phill_dvsn wrote: BLAKEY wrote: Were you a fervent consumer of corn flakes by any chance Phill ?? Here's one I made earlier All you needed were a few old used day riders and you had unlimited travel. If you wanted to use that Rider card again in November say, all you had to do was cut out an unscratched 24th date from another old rider card. You could keep using the cards in any month, or date, even change the year..You could very easily split the card in half to have only the silver foil with date as one half, then simply glue it over the scratched off date. You never could tell it had been tampered with, and we used those tickets for donkey years That was until one day a rather keen guard on a train decided to pull one of the lads day riders out of the plastic wallet he kept it in, this particular lad hadn't done a very good job of glueing his dates back on the card, all the bits of silver card fell off and floated onto the carriage floor like confetti The rider tickets were soon changed over the next few months lol.The Day Riders were great for bus and train travel in West Yorkshire, for further afield trips we just used the '6p all over rover' which of course was the good old platform ticket. There was quite an art to dodging the guard on a train, and many of us had it cracked rather well. I liked my old nickname I earned in those days the 'Darth Fare Evader' 'It still makes me laugh today Well we were only lads with basic pocket, and paper round money, so we had to improvise really Virtually the way we did it Phill - we just scratched all the silver off the squares we wanted to re-cover then cut the required dates etc from a spare card, held them in hot water with tweezers for a few seconds and the silver seperated from the card, just like decals in an airfix kit, then it was simply a case of laying them on the pre-prepaired card, scratching off the new dates, inserting in a wallet and away you go.Thats the reason they have altered two things, the fact each date is no longer a seperate square, its one sheet of silver over the entire card now, and of course the stick down clear flap on the front puts paid to re-using one.

BIG N · Post by **BIG N** » Mon 13 Aug, 2012 2:56 pm

BLAKEY wrote: Wow BIG N - we do learn some stuff on here don't we ?? So, as an innocent Pontefract driver helping out quite often at Belle Isle between 1994 and 2001, I seem to have unwittingly been involved in a thriving criminal cash Mafia eh ?? I know you can't say any more, and I possibly wouldn't remember many of the stars, but I'd love to know who they all were. No mate, I think your integrity is well and truely intact, This particular fiddle started after your time there, but in all fairness, not that long after.And I will add in all fairness, not all Belle Isle drivers are up themselves, I have a few good friends who work out of there but as is always the case, its the few that earn a name for the whole.

Phill_dvsn · Post by **Phill_dvsn** » Mon 13 Aug, 2012 2:57 pm

BIG N wrote: Virtually the way we did it Phill Aye, them were days! It was the blatant cheek of it was so funny, every date on those cards must have been scratched off and had new dates stuck over them at least three times. Half fare riders were only a pound too, what value for money they were

raveydavey · Post by **raveydavey** » Mon 13 Aug, 2012 9:52 pm

Phill_dvsn wrote: BIG N wrote: Virtually the way we did it Phill Aye, them were days! It was the blatant cheek of it was so funny, every date on those cards must have been scratched off and had new dates stuck over them at least three times. Half fare riders were only a pound too, what value for money they were Next you'll be telling us tales of getting on non-stop express trains to places outside the Metro area and then acting all innocent if the guard found you...sorry mister, the man at Leeds station said this one went to Bradford....

Phill_dvsn · Post by **Phill_dvsn** » Mon 13 Aug, 2012 10:09 pm

raveydavey wrote: Next you'll be telling us tales of getting on non-stop express trains to places outside the Metro area and then acting all innocent if the guard found you...sorry mister, the man at Leeds station said this one went to Bradford.... Oh yes, out of the metro area, this is one such occasion I recall http://www.flickr.com/photos/patric_rof ... otostream/