First Buses

[raveydavey]

BLAKEY wrote: raveydavey wrote: I saw a purple slug, loaded on a low loader being transported onto the M621 at Elland Road heading towards the M1 on Monday teatime.Hopefully they're shipping them out of here too.... Sorry to disappoint, and horrify, you raveydavey but in October they are putting them on the 72 route from Leeds to Bradford - sorry if I've missed a lot on here but been on holiday for 10 days, but this lunatic scheme is almost certain to be the biggest pantomime since the Theatre Royal closed many decades ago - I can't wait as I need cheering up.Are you sure the one you saw hadn't "crash landed" - they are aircraft pilotted from a cockpit you know - and was being ferried to Crossroads Commercials the Volvo agents ?? No Blakey, I'd seen that story and just hoped they'd seen sense and decided to change their plans again. I guess not!

[somme1916]

BLAKEY wrote: raveydavey wrote: I saw a purple slug, loaded on a low loader being transported onto the M621 at Elland Road heading towards the M1 on Monday teatime.Hopefully they're shipping them out of here too.... Sorry to disappoint, and horrify, you raveydavey but in October they are putting them on the 72 route from Leeds to Bradford - sorry if I've missed a lot on here but been on holiday for 10 days, but this lunatic scheme is almost certain to be the biggest pantomime since the Theatre Royal closed many decades ago - I can't wait as I need cheering up.Are you sure the one you saw hadn't "crash landed" - they are aircraft pilotted from a cockpit you know - and was being ferried to Crossroads Commercials the Volvo agents ?? Welcome back Blakey.....I trust you had a good holiday and are suitably refreshed.

[biofichompinc]

BLAKEY wrote: .......sorry if I've missed a lot on here but been on holiday for 10 days, but ........ Come on then Blakey. What does a former busman do for his holidays these days?Sorry. Bit intrusive but I couldn't resist it.

[trophy]

the new ticket machines have a brilliant design feature so that when you put your pass on the machine it covers the lights that tellyou the pass is accepted ???

[BLAKEY]

salt 'n pepper wrote: BLAKEY wrote: .......sorry if I've missed a lot on here but been on holiday for 10 days, but ........ Come on then Blakey. What does a former busman do for his holidays these days?Sorry. Bit intrusive but I couldn't resist it. Hi salt 'n pepper - not intrusive at all - been to Interlaken and the Jungfrau mountain top. A wonderful, but very, tiring holiday and its refreshing to see as always that they KNOW how to run clean, comfortable, punctual public transport in Europe and staffed by polite smart folks too. I took myself off, on one of the free days on the tour, to Berne - a positive Mecca for transport enthusiasts. I bought an "all day" ticket (half price as our tour included a Bernese Oberland 50% discount seven day card) - cost to me around £5, and spent hours and hours hopping on and off buses, trams and trolleybuses galore. The latest trams are SEVEN section beauties which miraculously snake their easy way through narrow streets and corners. The trolleybuses are magnificent vehicles which ascend steep gradients superbly.Sad to say that on return here the 2035 from King's Cross was late arriving - and was naturally one of the latest electric trains which are abominably uncomfortable in my opinion - I've no technical knowledge of railways but it is obvious, as with many modern British buses, that there is insufficient strength in the flooring of the carriages. This causes the complete seats to visibly "wag about" and reading and doing a crossword are nigh on impossible. To round off the evening nicely the Firstbus at 2324 from Infirmary Street to Ireland Wood was late - at THAT time of night !! Now the good news - the kettle and toaster still worked well as I staggered in the flat at Midnight.

[Si]

Oh dear! But what a fantastic rail journey. I went up there several years ago. Beautiful views.Here's a reminder of your holiday, Blakey.Eiger on the left, Jungfrau on the right.    

[String o' beads]

I'm so envious! I've wanted to visit the Bernese Oberland since reading as a child a story book about a girl who went to live there. Maybe one day!

[Jogon]

Blakey, looks terrif. I'm told that once you get to 1900m above sea it is like breathing in HD, explained by lack of pollen + dust mites.

[BLAKEY]

Si wrote: Oh dear! But what a fantastic rail journey. I went up there several years ago. Beautiful views.Here's a reminder of your holiday, Blakey.Eiger on the left, Jungfrau on the right.     Wow thanks Si - what a lovely picture and a great reminder - I must say that its perhaps the most spectacular holiday I've ever had. On my last free day I took a Swiss Postbus up to Swarscap ??? and had ahlf an hour there, AND a quarter of a dinner plate sized apricot tart with fresh cream, before descending by another bus and different route to Grindelwald showing the treacherous sheer sides of the Eiger. The motif on the sdie of the Postbuses is a lovely picture of a post horn - and that is exactly the noise they make, very loudly, when approaching bad corners of which there are dozens.

[BLAKEY]

Geordie-exile wrote: I'm so envious! I've wanted to visit the Bernese Oberland since reading as a child a story book about a girl who went to live there. Maybe one day! I really hope that you can do it Geordie, and I can promise that you will be literally gobsmacked at the endless beauty and definitely not disappointed in any way. The icing on the cake revealed itelf as we booked into the hotel in Interlaken - being in single roms I'm always prepared for the inevitable vista of the back yard and the dustbins - I had to pinch myself to find that I was on one of the upper floors at the front - with large balcony, table and chairs, and a direct view across the Town to the ice capped peaks of the Jungfrau