If Manchester can have Bees, so can Lincolnshire! Harrogate had them for a while as 'The Bilton Bs", a collection of minibus services to the Bilton estate ...
... for which fbb produced a leaflet hundreds if years ago. The picture above shows pre-privatisation West Yorkshire branding at Bilton.
The provider of the Boston Bs is Brylaine, a company which has been around for about 45 years. It operates a number of inter-urban routes ...
... centred on Boston; all of which, a while back, were renumbered into a tidy sequence and given a 'B' prefix, 'B' for Brylaine and/or (?) 'B' for Boston.
fbb does not know the history of the 96A, but it certainly doesn't enter Boston. 
It runs on schooldays and Saturdays with only a couple of 'short' journeys running Mon to Fri during school holidays. Sounds odd but it is rural Lincolnshire!
What you would expect to be the 'main' service 96 isn't; it is one school journey run by Stagecoach!
Brylaine also runs a significant number of school contracts.
The company began with a blue and white livery and second hand DP coach bodied vehicles; this one being a Ford, ex Southdown.
A rather unhappy and cluttered Preston Bus paint job ...
... re-appeared as a smart but non-standard yellow with lovely blue bits!
Lothian buses ...
... begat a smart, mostly red, livery with a rebuilt destination display.
The livery used to be more complex ...
... incorporating diagonal yellow flashes listing the towns served.
The 'ST' is, in fact, 'TS', standing for Transport Services - a concept which is even more baffling when the device is applied to an offside body panel!
The company provides excellent printed timetable leaflets ...
... as well as a profusion of on-line material via social media. It also advertises its own telephone enquiry service.
Well done!
Now it is a simpler red all over plus ...
... a touch of tasteful blue. The above was also known as a Konnectbus motor!
The name Brylaine derives from the first names (Bryan, Elaine???) of its founders but the logo is a bit of a mystery.
'TZ' - To the Zoo?
One disappointment for fbb is that the company on-line "timetables" page is a right mess and simply doesn't work on fbb's tablet.
Is it any better on the laptop?
Thankfully, yes. Stuff no longer covers stuff.
But of route B617, more tomorrow.
Next Boston Bs Bus blog : Weds 9th July
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