In the run-down on what GoAhead is buying from First in Manchester, fbb forgot the 149. also operated from the Queens Road depot. It would appear that the route once ran into central Manchester ...
... but now is one of several serving the North Manchester Hospital.
It makes its way across via Moston ...
... and you may presume that it is not one of Oldham depot's routes for historic reasons - a Mancunian expert may be able to help. The route runs every half an hour and from the PDF timetable notes ...
... you can assume that it hasn't changed much.
Do Not Eat Too Many Do Nuts?
A while back, in yet another mixed bag of blogging, fbb referred to a family favourite foodstuff. (read again) Thus when No 2 grandson visited at half term, a trip to Sidmouth for nuts of do (dough?) was an absolute necessity.
But, shock horror, the emporium of sugary bliss had changed hands and has had a refit!
The signs suggested a wider range of unhealthy snacks from the bijou premises. There was also a change of name ...
... possibly pronounced Doughnut Terry Eh. Eh?
And were the tasty rings still as tasty?
The emporium was resolutely closed and remained so for the whole of half term.
Toby Takes To The Tracks
News for lovers of the oeuvre of The Rev Wilbert Awdry is that Model Rail magazine has produced (or, more correctly, has had produced) a model of the Wisbech and Upwey tram engine now operating on the Island of Sodor.
You can have one for a modest (!) £127.50 ...
... and you will get a very high level of accuracy. Or you can shell out less than half this wedge ...+
... and, like fbb, buy a Bachmann import. fbb's was £40 pre owned. But there is one problem with the Model Rail version.
Where are Toby's face and moving eyes?
Sheffield Timetable Changes Snippet
Sunday marks another sludge of revisions to timetables (of which more next week). Most are simply tinkering with the times of individual journeys "to improve reliability" but a few are of more interest.
For countless generations the main bus service between Sheffield and Bakewell has run direct along the busy Abbeydale Road, the A621.
But from tomorrow it is diverted away from the built-up sections of that thoroughfare. It will run via the tree-lined delights of Psalter Lane ...
... via Ecclesall of lavish shelter fame ...
... and on via the full length of Abbey Lane, a road never before served by bus - although it probably won't stop!
The new route is show diagrammatically in the GoTimetable App.
Sadly, as this blog was written at 1600 yesterday, there was not a dicky bird about this dramatic change on the T M travel web site.
The PDF file is dated October 2018 and the map ...
... will indubitably be wrong in a few hours.
You are forced to wonder how many hoping to excurse to Bakewell from tomorrow onwards will wait rather a long time at e.g. the Edgedale Road stop.
Picture from the lat days of Abbeydale Road operation from Roy in Sheffield.
Travel South Yorkshire (TSY) is on the on-line ball with its service change leaflet ...
... as, of course is GoTimetable!
Less happy is the TSY map ...
... which shows 218s going both ways out of the city. Clever blog readers and/or timetable experts will be able to fathom why TSY chooses to be so confusing.
Or look again at the GoTimetable map.
Do Not Eat Too Many Do Nuts?
A while back, in yet another mixed bag of blogging, fbb referred to a family favourite foodstuff. (read again) Thus when No 2 grandson visited at half term, a trip to Sidmouth for nuts of do (dough?) was an absolute necessity.
And were the tasty rings still as tasty?
The emporium was resolutely closed and remained so for the whole of half term.
Toby Takes To The Tracks
News for lovers of the oeuvre of The Rev Wilbert Awdry is that Model Rail magazine has produced (or, more correctly, has had produced) a model of the Wisbech and Upwey tram engine now operating on the Island of Sodor.
Where are Toby's face and moving eyes?
Sheffield Timetable Changes Snippet
Sunday marks another sludge of revisions to timetables (of which more next week). Most are simply tinkering with the times of individual journeys "to improve reliability" but a few are of more interest.
For countless generations the main bus service between Sheffield and Bakewell has run direct along the busy Abbeydale Road, the A621.
You are forced to wonder how many hoping to excurse to Bakewell from tomorrow onwards will wait rather a long time at e.g. the Edgedale Road stop.
Travel South Yorkshire (TSY) is on the on-line ball with its service change leaflet ...
Or look again at the GoTimetable map.
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STOP PRESS
T M Travel's timetable changes have appeared on their web site this morning. In the case of the 218, the link leads to the TSY timetable page.
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More assorted bits tomorrow.
Next "Collection" blog - Sunday 3rd March
There have been notices about the 218 change on the buses for some weeks so most users would know about it.
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