'another day on the buses'

A pretty uneventful day! The duty was M3 in which I travel as passenger from Winchester (07:40) to London and then take over as driver for the 10:00 to Brighton. The trip to London is sheduled for an 09:40 arrival but rarely makes it before 10:00. Today we arrived on time so I was able [...]

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I came across this on YouTube – no, it’s not me!

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This is the Megabus luggage policy taken from the website where you book tickets: “Passengers are advised that megabus.com will accept up to one piece of luggage per passenger. For guidance this should be no more than the size of a standard suitcase. Passengers can also take on board one piece of hand luggage up [...]

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My passenger carrying day started at Bournemouth Uni. with an 06:30 departure for Winchester where another driver takes over for the remainder of the trip to London. I left the Uni. dead on 06:30 and then went to Bournemouth Triangle and picked up a couple more passengers, left dead on 06:40 as per the timetable. [...]

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Just found this http://buspics.photos.gb.net/c1213191.html I don’t know Chris King but he’s in ‘my depot’ type training on the new Paxton Panther I wrote about yesterday. Shame he didn’t photograph the seat rearrangement necessary to accomodate the wheelchair. Update 20 Feb 2007. I’d missed the fact that there is more than 1 page of thumbnails! There [...]

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Stagecoach list it on the rota as ‘rest’ – if only! I’ve been wallpapering all day in a frantic effort to complete the job I told my wife would be done while she visited her family. Essy is Zimbabwean and her family are all in Zimbabwe, for the past two weeks she’s been enjoying a [...]

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