#AYearOfBuses 334: Lambton Worm
Welcome to day 334 on #AYearOfBuses – and perhaps the route with the quirkiest branding we’ve ever featured! Go North East’s Lambton Worm buses 34 and 34A provide convenient links and connections in and around Chester-le-Street Town Centre. Buses run up to every 15 minutes between Waldridge Park, Chester-le-Street, Ouston and Urpeth Grange. Lambton Worm […]
#AYearOfBuses 333: Elephant & Castle – Tooting Broadway
It’s all the threes! Welcome to day 333 on #AYearOfBuses – and London’s route 333. And the 333 started life in…2003! Running around every 10-12 mins, Arriva London’s 333 links Elephant & Castle with Kennington, Brixton, Streatham and Tooting Broadway. It was introduced to replace part of the 133 between Streatham and Tooting, and was […]
#AYearOfBuses 332: BlueLine Warrington – Widnes Market
It’s day 332 on #AYearOfBuses, and guess what – we’re heading back to Warrington! For only the second time in our series, that is. Today’s winner is the 32, recently rebranded as Warrington’s Own Buses ‘Blueline’, using a fleet of smartly revitalised Optare Versa hybrids. It runs up to every 15 mins between Warrington, Penketh […]
#AYearOfBuses 331: Lincoln – Sleaford
Welcome to day 331 on #AYearOfBuses, and to a place we haven’t visited very often in this series – Lincoln. Stagecoach’s 31 runs from the small, historic city of Lincoln – home of Lincoln Castle and Steep Hill, one of the steepest streets in England – to Sleaford via a winding, scenic route through the […]
#AYearOfBuses 330: Stockport – Manchester Airport
It’s day 330 on #AYearOfBuses! Today’s winner is a recently refreshed bus route linking Stockport with Manchester Airport. Stagecoach Manchester’s X30 runs from Stockport, in Greater Manchester, fast and direct to Manchester Airport via the M60 and M56 motorways. There are other buses running between the two places, but with a typical journey time of […]
#AYearOfBuses 329: Wood Green – Trafalgar Square
Day 329 on #AYearOfBuses takes us back to London, to look at a route we haven’t managed to feature yet – the 29. Today’s route 29, run by Arriva London, can trace its history all the way back to 1911, when it started running from Victoria to Wood Green via Whitehall, Charing Cross Road, Camden […]
#AYearOfBuses 328: Taunton – Minehead
Today’s winner on #AYearOfBuses is a scenic Somerset bus route which comes complete with its own real ale guide! First Buses of Somerset’s route 28 runs from the seaside resort of Minehead, Somerset, to Washford, Bishops Lydeard and Taunton, just a little further inland. It follows a route closely parallel to that of the West […]
#AYearOfBuses 327: Waltham Cross – Elsinge Estate
We’re sticking with short bus routes today on #AYearOfBuses – and today’s winner is quite possibly one of the shortest in London! At a mere two miles long and with a peak vehicle requirement of just one bus, the 327 runs from Waltham Cross bus station to the Elsinge Estate, just on the opposite side […]
#AYearOfBuses 326: Llandudno – Great Orme
It’s day 326 on #AYearOfBuses – and today’s winner is one of the shortest routes we’ve ever featured! Arriva Wales’ 26 runs from Llandudno town centre, to the summit of the Great Orme, the limestone headland off the northwest coast of Llandudno. The 26 might be one of our shortest routes, but it climbs over […]
#AYearOfBuses 325: Ilford – City Thameslink
For a long time, the 25 was London’s busiest bus route, until it was cut back recently and overtaken by the 18. It’s day 325 on #AYearofBuses! Tracing its history back to 1910, the 25 started life running between Old Ford and Victoria via Bank, Holborn, Oxford Circus and Piccadilly. In 1912, it swapped its […]