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Number 11 to the Cemetery Gates, he was good friends with BlakeyWhich bus route did he travel on?
Number 11 to the Cemetery Gates, he was good friends with BlakeyWhich bus route did he travel on?
Number 11 to the Cemetery Gates, he was good friends with Blakey
Cemetery Gates is a rock climb on Dinas y Gromlech in the Llanberis pass first climbed by Joe Brown & Don Whillans. Named after a bus destination blind. Think Liverpool.Number 11 to the Cemetery Gates, he was good friends with Blakey
Never knew thatCemetery Gates is a rock climb on Dinas y Gromlech in the Llanberis pass first climbed by Joe Brown & Don Whillans. Named after a bus destination blind. Think Liverpool.
Ooh you rebelI left my ticket on the bus once…
There is an actual stop called Cemetery Gates in Newport.Cemetery Gates is a rock climb on Dinas y Gromlech in the Llanberis pass first climbed by Joe Brown & Don Whillans. Named after a bus destination blind. Think Liverpool.
I failed to pay the conductor on one occasion. when he'd not bothered to come upstairs once during a half hour journey, instead waiting at the bottom of the stairs to collect any cash proffered to him as people got off, all of which was properly accounted for to London Transport I am sure.I left my ticket on the bus once…
Think you mean without serious injury?Nothing too serious, I think. We also did the bang to seats to make 'smoke' on some of the older buses. Then there's the old rude gesture thing I think most have done.
One more serious situation was when two boys had a fight at the back of the bus and, somehow, fell out of the fire exit. The driver didn't notice and ignored calls to stop the bus until a mile or two down the road. He then turned around, picked them back up and carried on as if nothing had happened! Luckily the bus was going quite slowly and they fell into a bush/ grass embankment with serious injury. This was in the 2000s too so hardly a different time.
That I did. Though I couldn't stick one of the boys so maybe luckily was the wrong word!Think you mean without serious injury?
Nothing too serious, I think. We also did the bang to seats to make 'smoke' on some of the older buses. Then there's the old rude gesture thing I think most have done.
One more serious situation was when two boys had a fight at the back of the bus and, somehow, fell out of the fire exit. The driver didn't notice and ignored calls to stop the bus until a mile or two down the road. He then turned around, picked them back up and carried on as if nothing had happened! Luckily the bus was going quite slowly and they fell into a bush/ grass embankment without serious injury. This was in the 2000s too so hardly a different time.
... happened twenty years ago ... a Lothian dual-door Trident
It was indeed. Hard to believe I know.I assume it was a single decker?
You drove the St. Trinian's school bus? Respect!...Kids dodge on to avoid paying, passing passes out of the window to be reused by their mate, throwing stuff off the bus at passing vehicles, fighting, launching the seats out of the side windows ( that would result in me taking the bus back to the school, the only recourse we had). Mostly good fun.
More serious stuff, smoking dope, urinating, defecating, smashing windows, knives,racist abuse, spitting on the driver...
Thats 15 years condensed into one post, mostly it was great. A bit more support and I would still be there, there is a reason they can't keep drivers and it's not just the wages.You drove the St. Trinian's school bus? Respect!
That's one way to make bus services pay, I suppose!Reminds me of the time a bus returned from a school run in a state with eggs, flour, tomatoes etc having been thrown all over the interior. The then depot supervisor got someone to come down from the school. Net result was the parents of every child on the bus were sent a bill for £200 to cover the cleaning. Those who refused to pay were told their child wouldnt be going to that school's 6th form, or in the case of 6th formers they wouldn't be returning the next year. As far as I know everyone paid.
What's the alternative, though? The school paying up from out of non-existent school funds? The bus being withdrawn so that the kids have to walk to/from school?Being serious, that sounds extremely bad. Collective punishment is not okay, regardless of the damage done. Nor is extortion, which is what the scenario described above amounts to.
The latter option would be better than billing every parent £200. Presumably this was before CCTV was widespread, so £200 would have been more than it is now. If there were 50 kids from unique households on the bus, the bus company has just raised ten grand. There's no way it would cost that much to clean up flour and eggs, even in the worst-case scenario.What's the alternative, though? The school paying up from out of non-existent school funds? The bus being withdrawn so that the kids have to walk to/from school?
Yep, that doesn't quite make sense.Presumably this was before CCTV was widespread, so £200 would have been more than it is now. If there were 50 kids from unique households on the bus, the bus company has just raised ten grand. There's no way it would cost that much to clean up flour and eggs, even in the worst-case scenario.
As I mentioned earlier up thread, a Lothian bus driver did the same to deal with a ned who was just about to throw a lit firework into his bus - except that the bottle wasn't lobbed at the ned, it was emptied all over him!My brother filled a squash bottle with urine and that went out the back side window
Half on the bus. Hanging on the rear of the RT 409 from Caterham valley to Caterham on the hill while on the bike. Conductor very often knocked you off,As I mentioned earlier up thread, a Lothian bus driver did the same to deal with a ned who was just about to throw a lit firework into his bus - except that the bottle wasn't lobbed at the ned, it was emptied all over him!