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Bus Routes In West Yorkshire

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.

By Ian, 6 years4 years ago
Bull Brow, Rochdale
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.

By Ian, 6 years6 years ago
All Aboard The CityZap
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.

By Ian, 7 years7 years ago
Toboggan In Funchal, Madeira
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…

By Ian, 7 years6 years ago
Four Yorkshireman
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…

By Ian, 7 years5 years ago
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…

By Ian, 7 years6 years ago
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