tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432323264902617108.post5051559799767676543..comments2024-03-25T22:17:35.616+00:00Comments on Public Transport Experience: Web Sites, Used or Confused? [3]fatbusblokehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06833340546527596517noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432323264902617108.post-67861603300893489312011-09-17T15:15:20.027+01:002011-09-17T15:15:20.027+01:00Remove these photos at once you are breaking a cop...Remove these photos at once you are breaking a copyright law!<br /><br />THESE ARE MY PHOTOS!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432323264902617108.post-63337370882461005892011-09-09T14:16:13.860+01:002011-09-09T14:16:13.860+01:00Passing through Corby a couple of months ago, I tr...Passing through Corby a couple of months ago, I tried to find paper timetables, without much success. At least the web offers something.Invictanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432323264902617108.post-22385240500887804582011-09-08T23:46:11.817+01:002011-09-08T23:46:11.817+01:00Thanks for the confirmation regarding legal letter...Thanks for the confirmation regarding legal lettering. If there was no 'on hire' notice, then I would agree with you about the legality. <br /><br />However, an interesting curiosity from the 1970s raises another issue, in slightly different circumstances. Despite NBC's apparent spendthriftiness, some of its subsidiaries were actually quite 'strapped for cash', and several had resorted to leasing new vehicles rather than buying them. Some used finance companies - I recall seeing an invoice that my employers sent to a finance company for half a dozen new Leyland Nationals that we were operating. The Bristol OC and Hants & Dorset were particularly challenged financially, and they came up with a novel wheeze - they swopped half a dozen new Tins (sorry, Leyland Nationals) with each other, and then leased them back (as I understand it, leasing principally brings tax benefits). The vehicles carried the livery and fleetnames of their operators, but the legal lettering of the owners. The irony of this came home when a friend and I made a journey from Bath to Southampton, entirely on Bristol OC buses. Bath-Trowbridge was a BOC service; Trowbridge-Salisbury was a joint BOC/H&D service, but we had a BOC vehicle; while Salisbury-Southampton was an H&D service, but operated on that occasion with one of the leased vehicles - so with H&D livery and fleetname, but BOC legal lettering. No sign of an 'on hire' notice, but then an 'on hire to H&D' notice on an H&D bus would have looked pretty daft to Mr Average! I cannot help but wonder what the legal position would have been, but I imagine the operators in question would not have knowingly broken the law!RC169https://www.blogger.com/profile/03921368833118123055noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432323264902617108.post-15215894955315566812011-09-08T10:55:51.050+01:002011-09-08T10:55:51.050+01:00As someone that does live in Corby, one had to lau...As someone that does live in Corby, one had to laugh at the new state of the timetables.<br /><br />You listed *most* of the replacements, here are a couple more:<br /><br />- 2 replaced the 5A/5B between the Railway Station and old village<br />- 19 extended routed to replace X1 on Butland Road<br /><br />Oh, and regarding the Stagecoach site - it says that it remembers your location (it groups it as "Northampton"), but it still wants you to seek out Northampton. And then it refreshes the page. It's rather off putting.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432323264902617108.post-65677065876769313482011-09-08T09:44:47.704+01:002011-09-08T09:44:47.704+01:00Correct RC169. But no such notices were displayed ...Correct RC169. But no such notices were displayed on the ex Veolia vehicles, certainly not by yesterday (Wednesday). There are five such vehicles on the Island, covering for remedial work needed on recent arrivals. And the do show FULL route branding for service 600 from Cardiff (now withdrawn).fatbusblokehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06833340546527596517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432323264902617108.post-28634108012187811922011-09-08T08:45:11.946+01:002011-09-08T08:45:11.946+01:00Re the Veolia bus being used by SV - does the lega...Re the Veolia bus being used by SV - does the legal lettering actually make it illegal? I can think of plenty of instances where bus services have been operated with borrowed buses, for any number of reasons, but the legal lettering was not changed. As far as I am aware, a notice indicating that the bus was 'on hire' to the operator of the service was sufficient.RC169https://www.blogger.com/profile/03921368833118123055noreply@blogger.com