Where are you on the transport network?

[pseudonarcissus]

I’m on a bus..I’ve been on the bus since 10:30 this morning. It’s now 7pm. I did get off the bus for an hour and a half to check onto a helicopter flight, but that was cancelled..pilot out of hours..hence the return to the Covid quarantine hotel. The rumour is we will have a 7am flight in the morning..so I’ll probably be back on the bus around 2am.

 

[hash tag]

Indeed they are/were…

 

[existentialist]

This was where I was last night. Only last night, the tree blocked the whole road. Because I am too lazy to turn around and make a 5 mile detour, I stuck the car in the middle of the road with hazards on, and RIPPED BRANCHES OFF THE TREE WITH MY BARE HANDS. Someone coming the other way also stopped (ha, they had no choice!) to help. Hence the now-passable road you see below.

 

[Winot]

 

[teuchter]

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This very same sign is visible in my post 1264 on the previous page

 

[[62]]

Bechyně, Czechia. Worth a go if you're in the area. Mad branchline from Tábor that twists, turns, climbs and drops to a quite-nice spa town with a brewery. Lots of tiny request stop stations in the middle of fields too.

 

[teuchter]

Bechyně, Czechia. Worth a go if you're in the area. Mad branchline from Tábor that twists, turns, climbs and drops to a quite-nice spa town with a brewery. Lots of tiny request stop stations in the middle of fields too.
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You win the thread for a few pages

 

[davesgcr]

You win the thread for a few pages

Very much so ! - excellent pix ...

 

[[62]]

Cheers. As I say, worth doing if you get a chance. It's a bit of an anachronism, being the first electrified railway in the former Czechoslovakia back in the 1900s, but at 1500 DC it's out of step with the rest of the network. Plans are afoot to convert it to 25 Kv and standardise it, presumably with modern units.

 

[teuchter]

Anachronistic branch lines are pretty much like crack cocaine to me. Especially if you show me a photo of an odd looking locomotive attached to some mismatched stock. That sort of thing is becoming increasingly hard to find in Europe.

 

[marty21]

Just outside Liverpool St Station

 

[A380]

I've been stuck on the bloody M01 for almost three weeks now...

 

[editor]

Coming home from Manchester

 

[blossie33]

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Just outside Liverpool St Station

Yes, I recognise that - I was on the Overground to Liverpool Street myself today - bit later than you

 

[marty21]

Hitchin

 

[hash tag]

One for teuchter

 

[teuchter]

Lots Road. But why me?

 

[hash tag]

I remember your posts about liking the river buses. Good spot for Lots Road

 

[hash tag]

A little piece of history that has survived

 

[Elpenor]

But it’s not my mode of transport today

 

[ouirdeaux]

I am on a 53 bus, which seems to have a dodgy relationship with the truth. Formerly many buses claimed to end at County Hall, but they didn't. The last stop was Lower Marsh, one stop before. Imagine all the lost and disappointed people.

Now they claim to terminate at Lambeth North, two stops before. I am looking forward to seeing what this means in reality. But the display at the bus stop reads 'Lamberth". Why? Are there transport systems outside London that lie so blatantly and pointlessly?

 

[teuchter]

Last week i was on a train where the conductor announced several times that it would be calling at St Pancreas.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

currently on a 1949 london bus between beckton and east ham

 

[A380]

Last week i was on a train where the conductor announced several times that it would be calling at St Pancreas.

Had you come from Liverpool? (You'd have to change obviously.)

 

[ouirdeaux]

The bus terminated at Lower Marsh, one stop beyond its declared destination. I don't get it.

Why can't the 53 admit where it's going? What is wrong with Lower Marsh? Does it have a bad rep, or is it a sweary word in a foreign language?

 

[Puddy_Tat]

The bus terminated at Lower Marsh, one stop beyond its declared destination. I don't get it.

Why can't the 53 admit where it's going? What is wrong with Lower Marsh? Does it have a bad rep, or is it a sweary word in a foreign language?

i suspect that would confuse people who don't know where it is

how about "arse end of waterloo station"?

 

[Elpenor]

 

[Puddy_Tat]

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they must have been scraping the barrel for rail replacement buses this weekend...

 

[teuchter]

Had you come from Liverpool? (You'd have to change obviously.)

I can definitively say that he did not have being Liverpudlian as a valid excuse.

 

[davesgcr]

currently on a 1949 london bus between beckton and east ham

Possibly driven by one of my mates - an impeccable bus driver from way back in LT days , who has had a superb day out "on the road"....