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Old 10th October 2008, 17:23
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The different Bus Fleets

Hi, My father used to drive for Morecambe and Heysham Transport Dept, Just after the war.

It was always handy if I wanted a free ride, The downside was my father was always told by his mates if they saw me out, ( Big brother but in the 60's )

Then you had to change to get on a Ribble bus to get into Lancaster, The one thing I used to love as a child was Holidays, Seeing all different coloured Buses as I traveled through the Uk.

Now sadly a most of that has now gone and we are left with a lot of plain buses owned by one company.

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Old 10th October 2008, 18:22
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At least when they all merged, it did away with 'staircasing'. I assume that that was a nationwide problem. On some of our routes, we would start or finish the run on routes which were common to the 'town buses', the cagey ones would hang back before joining a main road to give us time to get ahead and pick up people doing short to middling journies and when we had a standing load, ( at peak times), they would go on past, whilst we gradually disgorged the locals, trouble was, it meant at times, that people who needed the Rural bus for their longer journey, were left, as it was full before they got aboard, they would do the same on our return runs as well sometimes. (staircasing, from the days of all backloaders).

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Old 10th October 2008, 18:41
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I recall arriving in Nottingham by train in the early 1990s and needing to catch a bus to Brislington. There were several different bus companies and no central source of information advising which number bus served which destination or from which stand they departed!
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