Bus Routes In Derbyshire
351: Glossop to Holmfirth
The 351 is as quirky a bus as you’ll find in the UK. It’s also the only service I’ve ever known which had its frequency halved thanks to it becoming too popular.
Bus Routes In Greater Manchester
X58: Rochdale to Halifax
Happy to be out of the rain, but with my glasses fully steamed up, it takes a few seconds to suss out that we’ve accidentally gate-crashed a funeral.
Bus Routes In Manchester
CityZap: Manchester to Leeds
A saintly Marcel Marceau, the conductor holds a bus pass to the side of his face and mouths to the more senior contingent that they’ll need one of them to get on for free. The eldest lady pulls out a casino membership card, which doesn’t quite work.
Bus Routes In West Yorkshire
901: Huddersfield to Hebden Bridge
The scenery lightens with a lily pond just as we reach Cragg Vale. It’s so perfect that it was surely the inspiration for Paul McCartney’s seminal Frog Chorus, a song I got in trouble for humming while being read a story in the first year of primary school…
Bus Routes In Lancashire
184: Oldham to Huddersfield
There don’t appear to be any more interchanges in the UK which are named after infectious viral diseases, so we’re cruelly denied a Runcorn Rubella or Malmesbury Manflu. More’s the pity…
Bus Routes In Lancashire
589/592: Burnley to Todmorden
Of all the days we could’ve stumbled across The Golden Lion, we’ve somehow found it on the day that Jarvis Cocker is playing a DJ set upstairs, and Andy Votel is doing a pub quiz…