Public Transport Experience: Saturday Variety

Silly Sensational Screens

There must be some hidden YouTube regulation that compels contributors to 'headline' their carefully crafted videos with utter nonsense.

Unfortunately fbb must have missed the only news item with the headline "Supersonic Jet Falls On Superfast Train". The article will have revealed that the jet was undamaged, the pilot walked free and the high speed train was able to stop and miraculously avoid derailment. Yes, and the fuel in the plane equally miraculously did not explode.

Very likely.

The incident does not feature in the video. But pilots must be very careless as another of the same brand of plane has inpelled utself ...

... into a passing cruise liner. How careless!

Then there is this horrific incident.

Amazingly some sort of tectonic plate breach occured in exactly the same place. This spectacular earthquake caused the sea to evaporate and delivered a slough of magma across the very same road.

In a weird revelation of coincidence, many if the same vehicles were passing as both horrors occurred.

Neither of these events featured in the video.

Now, how do you transport a giant stealth bomber from airfield to maintenance depot?

Easy peasy. you build a dangerously long and wide transporter vehicle, hauled by three tractor units side by side ...

... and you run it along a five carriageway road with just two carriageways in the opposite direction. It would appear that one of the technical problem with the plane is that the wings are incapable of lifting the enormous fuselage.

will the 56 wheels be strong enough? And how does it steer?

Of course, the item being carried is a top secret UFO from the planet Zog!

That explains it!

Yeoman In Trouble

No, it's the Herefordshire bus company that seems to have been in a bit of bovver with the Traffic Commissioners.

Yeomans runs the Hereford city centre free bus service, recently under threat (Guess why? To save money! Oh, you guessed!) of Oblivion. Apparently Yeomans have failed a safety inspection.

The article is, as ever, totally speculative. It would have to be, it is the internet after all,

Readers may remember the excitement of January 2025. Another Hereford bus company, Lugg Valley Travel, was closed down completely due to failure of several safety inspections.

Readers may notice that Yeomans has a very similar livery to Lugg Valley.

Then, Yeomans shared a depot with Lugg Valley; the companies have the same director and vehicles were often 'hired' between the two operators.

But the companies were totally separate.

Of course they were.

So, when Lugg Valley lost its operator's licence last year, another company stepped in and took over operation of all of Lugg Valley's services.

Readers may be able to guess which noble and altruistic operator bravely took on Lugg Valley's routes.

Have you guessed?

Now Yeomans seems to be following the same path.

Two New Stations

Not reported by fbb; not visited by video producer Geoff Marshall; even ignored by Bus and Train User blog a k a Roger French; two new stations have opened on an important transport link in glorious Devon.

But, somewhat delayed, fbb is on the job!

This is one of them.

And this us where it's at,

The wetlands are part of the River Axe lying between Seaton and Axmouth. But the wet land and the river are a haven for huge herds of birds. The watchers can hide ...