#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 […]
#AYearOfBuses 324: Gold X24 Blaenavon – Newport
We haven’t featured a Stagecoach Gold route for quite a while on #AYearOfBuses – so let’s take a look at one! Stagecoach’s Gold X24 links the city of Newport with Cwmbran, Pontypool and Blaenavon. As you’d expect from a Gold route, it features a fleet of pimped-up Alexander Dennis Enviro300s, tricked out with a range […]
#AYearOfBuses 323: Trinity – Greenbank
Yesterday, we featured a Lothian bus route – and today, we’re featuring another! It’s day 323 on #AYearOfBuses. Yesterday, we took a look at the 22, which runs roughly east-west through the city. Today’s winner is the 23, running from the fashionable district of Trinity in the north of the city, through the city centre, […]
#AYearOfBuses 322: Gyle Centre – Ocean Terminal
It’s been a while since we featured a Scottish bus route on #AYearOfBuses, so today, we’re putting that right! The 22 is one of Edinburgh’s busiest – and most frequent – bus routes, with buses running up to every 7 mins through the day between the Ocean Terminal shopping centre, Edinburgh city centre and the […]
#AYearOfBuses 321: Sapphire Luton – Watford
3, 2, 1! Counting down the days until the end of our series, today’s day 321 on #AYearOfBuses. Arriva’s Sapphire 321 is a high-profile bus route, linking the town of Luton with Harpenden, St Albans and Watford, in Hertfordshire. It runs through a mixture of long stretches of countryside and densely packed commuter towns, making […]
#AYearOfBuses 320: the pops Warrington – Orford
We’re 320 days in on #AYearOfBuses – and would you believe it, this is the first time we’ve featured a Warrington bus route! ‘The pops’ are two circular routes, the 20 and 21, which run clockwise and anti-clockwise respectively from Warrington Interchange to and from Orford, along Poplars Avenue – hence the name. The pops […]
#AYearOfBuses 319: Barnstaple – Hartland & Bude
Today’s day 319 on #AYearOfBuses, and that’s cause enough to celebrate one of Devon’s most spectacular bus routes. Stagecoach South West’s 319 runs from the former river port of Barnstaple, in North Devon, along the Hartland Heritage Coast road to the village of Hartland, on the picturesque Hartland peninsula. After Hartland, some buses continue to […]
#AYearOfBuses 318: Euston – Sudbury
Day 318 on #AYearOfBuses takes us back to the capital – and we’re taking a look at London’s second-busiest bus route. After the 25, that is. Once the preserve of a fleet of Ken Livingstone’s bendybuses, the 18 is a high frequency, high capacity bus route running up to every 4 mins from Euston to […]
#AYearOfBuses 317: Rochdale – Manchester
Today on #AYearOfBuses, we’re taking a look at one of Greater Manchester’s core bus routes – the 17. Now in the hands of newcomer Go North West, the 17 is a long-standing bus route linking the Greater Manchester town of Rochdale with Middleton, Blackley, Harpurhey and Manchester. It originated in 1914, when the tram route […]