What number is this bus?

[madannie77]

That's the right route. The floor is yours. But would you like to tell us which operator runs the route ?

When I was in the Huddersfield area regularly it was Stotts, but if I remember correctly it didn't have the Pole Moor extension at the time.

edit to above: I note from a look at the current timetable that it is still operated by Stotts.

Next puzzle:

This bus route links Kendal with two railway stations and is booked to pass through a town no longer on the railway map.

 

[Blindtraveler]

stagecoach 555?

 

[madannie77]

stagecoach 555?

Not the 555, which I think links Kendal with four other railway stations. The route I'm thinking of is rather less frequent than the 555.

 

[gnolife]

Stagecoach 554 to Carlisle/WIgton?

 

[madannie77]

Stagecoach 554 to Carlisle/WIgton?

Not the 554, which is Carlisle to Keswick and doesn't reach Kendal. The route I have in mind is not operated by Stagecoach.

 

[gnolife]

and thats why i should learn to read! I misread Kendal for Keswick.

564B to Dent?

 

[madannie77]

and thats why i should learn to read! I misread Kendal for Keswick.

564B to Dent?

564B is the right answer. It passes Oxenholme Station and on Saturdays terminates at Dent Station, having passed through the "book town" of Sedbergh, hence my rather poor clue.

I have lived in Carlisle for 10 years and I still confuse Kendal and Keswick occasionally.

Over to you.

 

[gnolife]

This Monday to Saturday service has a bus each hour (each way) at a point on its route, which is served by all buses except the first southbound of the day. This route has a northbound service and a southbound service terminate at this point within 3 minutes, and has a northbound service and a southbound service depart within three minutes an hour later.

 

[martinsh]

564B is the right answer. It passes Oxenholme Station and on Saturdays terminates at Dent Station, having passed through the "book town" of Sedbergh, hence my rather poor clue.

I have lived in Carlisle for 10 years and I still confuse Kendal and Keswick occasionally.

Over to you.

Who runs this route ?

 

[gnolife]

Woofs of Sedburgh

 

[madannie77]

Woofs of Sedburgh

Woofs run the Wednesday service, Apollo 8 run the Saturday service, according to Cumbria County Council.

http://www.cumbria.gov.uk/elibrary/Content/Internet/544/931/6270/40674144350.pdf
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This Monday to Saturday service has a bus each hour (each way) at a point on its route, which is served by all buses except the first southbound of the day. This route has a northbound service and a southbound service terminate at this point within 3 minutes, and has a northbound service and a southbound service depart within three minutes an hour later.

We are short of information here. According to the rules given in post #1, "you MUST provide the buses start point".

 

[Statto]

What's happening with this quiz now, the FM hasn't replied to his original question, & he's left out the route's starting point?

 

[gnolife]

Oh, I'd forgotten about this. The start point is Manchester Piccadilly

 

[madannie77]

173, Manchester Piccadilly to Stepping Hill

 

[gnolife]

is right

 

[madannie77]

is right

Sorry: I assume from the sad face that I wasn't supposed to get that so quickly. A bit of local knowledge (from over a decade ago) and too much useless information in my head pointed me in the right direction.

And so to my next bus route.

This route, with three journeys each way on Monday to Saturday, starts in Guildford and takes more than twice as long as the direct route to it's destination, which is a lot closer to Guildford than the furthest point served.

 

[Ivo]

44 I think. Guildford to Cranleigh, via Godalming - and a short stretch of West Sussex.

Collecting timetables is sometimes pretty useful!

 

[madannie77]

44 I think. Guildford to Cranleigh, via Godalming - and a short stretch of West Sussex.

Well that didn't take long. My turn for the
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Collecting timetables is sometimes pretty useful!

That I have to agree with, although there comes a time when storage becomes an issue.

 

[Ivo]

It'll be my turn to do a sad face (saving the exact emoticon for the moment in question) in a few minutes I expect.

This Arriva route is shadowed by an express route whose number bears no relation to it for its entire journey. Instead, the express route takes its number from a different route operated by Stagecoach that overlaps the Arriva route for a short stretch (the two routes' termini are about three miles apart). The route in question was blessed with brand new buses in 2010, and is numbered in such a way that it is assumed to be a part of the network in the area where the two different local routes overlap. A small stretch of the Stagecoach-overlapped section aside, the entire route is within the boundaries of a PTE.

That I have to agree with, although there comes a time when storage becomes an issue.

Yes. Like living in University accommodation

 

[burns20]

47, 48a banks to liverpool?

 

[Ivo]

As stated above:



I only actually wanted the 47, but it is correct nonetheless. Oddly though, the two times I had used the 2 - the Stagecoach route - it couldn't decide what vehicle to use! One was a Solo, the other a Trident...

 

[burns20]

It can be a transbus trident, e400 trident, volvo olympian, dart, solo or versa depending on what the depots got.

Custom built buses built in northern england operate this rural summer only service and occassionally a city service in the winter whose termini are over 30 miles apart.

 

[gnolife]

Just to bring up the rules. You MUST state a terminus for the service.

 

[burns20]

The termini is Keswick

 

[madannie77]

77/77A Honister Rambler, which uses slimline Optare Solos, often used on Carlisle local service 69 in the winter.

 

[burns20]

Correct

 

[madannie77]

This bus route starts in Chesterfield and runs approximately hourly on Mon-Sat daytimes with three journeys on Sundays. There are three different terminal points at the other end of the route, and in the evenings a different operator runs two journeys to a fourth different terminal point.

 

[Welshman]

Hulleys of Baslow service 89 Chesterfield-Barlow/Holmesfield and Dronfield?

 

[madannie77]

Hulleys of Baslow service 89 Chesterfield-Barlow/Holmesfield and Dronfield?

Is right, with Stagecoach running the evening service from Chesterfield to Sheffield.

 

[Welshman]

OK.

This service starts in Halifax and is roughly hourly during the day Mon-Sat.
On a Sunday, another operator runs 4 services per day but the terminus is extended to another town.