#AYearOfBuses 156: Wensleydale Voyager Leyburn – Hawes

Little White Bus 156

We’re taking another foray deep into the Dales today on #AYearOfBuses. The Little White Bus are a small community bus company, centred on Hawes in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales National Park. They run a number of routes connecting villages across the Dales, including the 156 – the Wensleydale Voyager. Using a small fleet […]

#AYearOfBuses 155: Hull – Goole

Petuaria Express

East Yorkshire’s Petuaria Express is today’s winner on #AYearOfBuses! Petuaria (or Petuaria Parisorum) was originally a Roman fort, situated where the town of Brough in the East Riding of Yorkshire now stands. East Yorkshire’s 155 and X55 express buses run fast between Goole, Brough and Hull, previously using a fleet of navy and blue branded […]

#AYearOfBuses 154: Loughborough – Leicester

Centrebus 154

Today’s feature on #AYearOfBuses loosely follows the route of the Great Central Railway across Leicestershire – it’s Centrebus 154. Had the Great Central Railway still been open between Loughborough and Leicester, Centrebus 154 would have faced some quite serious competition! The 154 snakes its way south from Loughborough taking in some of Leicestershire’s most picturesque […]

#AYearOfBuses 153: Tigermoth Welwyn Garden City – New Greens

Uno Tigermoth 653

The second of their aviation-themed routes to appear in our list, today’s winner on #AYearOfBuses is Tigermoth, from Uno. Earlier in 2019, Uno relaunched the 653 between Welwyn Garden City and St Albans as Tigermoth, commemorating the biplanes manufactured by de Havilland at Hatfield. In January 1940 at Hatfield aerodrome, 8 women pilots joined the ranks […]

#AYearOfBuses 152: Hotline Preston – Burnley

Hotline 152

Welcome to June! Today’s winner on #AYearOfBuses is a route steeped in history, being the first route which Ribble Motor Services ran when they were formed in 1919. Named after the river flowing through Preston, Ribble began in 1919 when three entrepreneurs bought out James Hodson, who’d started a bus service nine years earlier linking […]

#AYearOfBuses 151: Blackwood – Newport

Stagecoach 151

Day 151 on #AYearOfBuses has to be one of South Wales’ most scenic routes, full stop. Stagecoach’s Gold 151 links Blackwood, in the Valleys of Wales, with the city of Newport with buses running up to every 10 mins. As it snakes it way down through the valleys, the 151 passes through historic villages such […]

#AYearOfBuses 150: MAX Aylesbury – Milton Keynes

Arriva MAX 150

We’re taking a trip through rural Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire today here on #AYearOfBuses – it’s Arriva’s MAX 150. And it’s a good one. At the western end, the 150 starts from the lovely central England town of Aylesbury, with its quintessentially English Georgian, Jacobean and Tudor buildings. From there, it strolls on through the delightful […]

#AYearOfBuses 149: Edmonton Green – London Bridge

London bus 149

One of London’s busiest routes is our winner today on #AYearOfBuses – it’s former bendybus route 149. The 149 began all the way back in 1961, as a replacement for former trolleybus route 649. Over the years, it’s been chopped and changed, rerouted and shortened, and it’s been through a whole raft of vehicle types […]

#AYearOfBuses 148: Shepherd’s Bush – Camberwell Green

London bus 148

It’s back to London today here on #AYearOfBuses, for a relative newcomer to the scene. The 148 came to life in 2002, running between Shepherd’s Bush Green and Camberwell Green, through the heart of central London and Westminster. It was one of a number routes introduced in the lead up to the introduction of Ken […]

#AYearOfBuses 147: Manchester – West Didsbury

Magic Bus 147

Another weapon in Stagecoach’s Oxford Road arsenal, today’s winner on #AYearOfBuses is Magic Bus 147. The 147 started life in 2005 as Manchester’s ‘Oxford Road Link’, a university and hospital contract ran by Bullocks with a small fleet of brand new Scania Omnicities. Stagecoach gobbled up Bullocks’ local bus operations in 2008, but interestingly, the […]

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