'another day on the buses'

I hate making them. I reversed the 13:40 Megabus off the stand in Brighton today exactly on time and then proceeded through Brighton, while I was waiting at a set of traffic lights I heard a tap on my window, glanced right and there was a guy holding up a ticket for the journey I’m [...]

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However you book your Megabus seat you will receive a booking reference. It may be e-mailed to you, it may also be sent by text to your mobile if you requested this (10p charge) or, in the case of a telephone booking, read out to you. Before they left the depot the Megabus driver will [...]

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This morning I did the earliest start on our rota, 04:50. Since June the days have been getting shorter and now 04:50 is truly night time again. The first part of the duty is driving ‘Not in Service’ to Bournemouth and as soon as I got onto the M27, driving westwards, one of the compensations [...]

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Well, I’ve done it and the link to it will stay in it’s current position. If your question isn’t covered by the FAQ you can email me at faq@loades.net with your question and I’ll do my best to answer it. If something is asked often enough it will be added to the FAQ, as will [...]

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Today’s duty was 193 …. the one I rant about everytime I have to do it. But today is an exception, I’m going to rant about Subway instead :-) I’ve never ever had a Subway before today. But, seeing as I had to get up at 03:30 to do the MegaBus part of the duty [...]

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I’ve got what I believe to be a very good stats addon to this website, in that I’m able to see the search terms visitors use and then end up reading a page from this website. For example, today visitors have arrived after searching for how+do+i+reserve+tickets+for+a+bus+from+my+mobile, megaus+booking+problem, megabus+newport, bus+times+brighton+to+london, megabus+stand+for+brighton+coach+at+victoria, megabus+headoffice and megabus+stop+birmingham. It would [...]

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