#AYearOfBuses 66: Superoute 66 Ipswich – Martlesham Heath
It’s day 66 on #AYearOfBuses, and today, we’re taking a look at Superoute 66 – Britain’s first ‘serious’ guided busway. Ipswich’s Superoute 66 (or just plain old ’66’, as it’s now known), was the first kerb-guided busway to open in the UK, if you don’t count Birmingham’s now-closed Tracline experiment. Opened in January 1995, Ipswich’s […]
#AYearOfBuses 65: Ealing Broadway – Chessington
We haven’t featured a London route for quite a while on #AYearOfBuses, so for day 65, we’re checking out another of the city’s long-established routes. London’s route 65 has been around for a while – since 1934, in fact. It’s changed very little in that time, taking people from Surrey and the outskirts of London […]
#AYearOfBuses 64: Winchester – Alton
We’re heading to the city of Winchester for the first time today on #AYearOfBuses – it’s Stagecoach’s recently-upgraded 64. The 64 is Stagecoach South’s main route between Winchester, Alresford and Alton. It links Winchester city centre, Alresford, Ropley, Four Marks & Alton where it connects with South Western Railway services offering connections to London. In 2017, the […]
#AYearOfBuses 63: The Sixes Derby – Ripley
For day 63 on #AYearOfBuses, we’re taking a trip to the heart of Derbyshire. The Sixes, from Trent Barton, are a collection of routes with a rather unusual numbering system! They are the 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, and 6.X, and they run together from Derby to Belper every 15 mins, before splitting up with buses […]
#AYearOfBuses 62: theSHUTTLE Keighley – Bradford
It’s day 62 on #AYearOfBuses, and once more, we’re taking a trip to West Yorkshire, for theSHUTTLE, from The Keighley Bus Company. TheSHUTTLE 662 runs every 10 mins, from early morning until late in the evening, linking the city of Bradford with Shipley, Bingley and Keighley in the Aire & Worth Valley. In 2015, it […]
#AYearOfBuses 61: X61 Blackpool – Manchester – Preston
Today’s entry on #AYearOfBuses marks the sadly now-deceased, long-standing former Ribble route linking the city of Manchester with the seaside resort of Blackpool. Blackpool is the ‘go-to’ British seaside resort of choice for most Mancunians, and ever since the 1950s, the city had enjoyed a bus link with the town. The X61 was undoubtedly the […]
#AYearOfBuses 60: Aireline Keighley – Leeds
We’re 60 days in on #AYearOfBuses, and for the first of our routes in March, we’re taking a look at The Keighley Bus Company’s Aireline. With a fleet of shiny new Versas built at Optare’s factory in Yorkshire, Aireline is a proper local route, through and through. The buses hit the road in late 2017, […]
#AYearOfBuses 59: Preston – Blackburn
It’s a tale of two rivals today, as we take a look at Stagecoach Merseyside & South Lancashire’s interurban route connecting the city of Preston with Blackburn on #AYearOfBuses. The 59 is one of two main routes connecting the east Lancashire town of Blackburn with Preston, the other being Transdev’s Hotline 152. The 59 takes […]
#AYearOfBuses 58: Rochdale – Oldham
Today’s winner on #AYearOfBuses isn’t the most scenic route in the world, nor does it run to any particularly interesting places…anymore. First Manchester’s route 58 is one of the main bus routes linking the two Greater Manchester towns of Oldham and Rochdale, calling at Shaw, Crompton and Milnrow along the way. It’s changed very little […]
#AYearOfBuses 57: Exeter – Exmouth
On day 57 of #AYearOfBuses, we’re staying put right here in Exeter! It’s the bigger brother of yesterday’s CONNexIONS 56 – Stagecoach Gold 57, linking Exeter with Exmouth. Only the second Stagecoach Gold route we’ve featured in this series, the 57 is Stagecoach South West’s luxury link between the city of Exeter, and the coastal […]