Nothing At Northampton
West Northamptonshire Council, that bastion of bus bountifuness (NOT), way back in 2021 (in the early enthusiastic days of the rejigged council system because the last lot went bust) wrote …
most commercial bus operators produce leaflets.
They didn’t then and they don’t now. Well observed West Northants – you should get out more!
We intend to produce printed leaflets for supported services where these are not produced by the bus operator.
We will provide maps, available on our website, and possibly in printed form, showing all bus services in West Northamptonshire, including summary information on service frequencies.
Bus stop publicity – We are considering the reintroduction of displays for bus stops with timetable cases, which show in a consistent manner the times, routes and destinations of all bus services using that stop.
Nothing has happened!
But, shock horror as ravens leave the Tower of London, Stagecoach has just published a leaflet for Northampton.
And it has got a map – too small to read easily.
It commemorates new buses for routes 1 and 2.
And are the times coordinated so that you really can wait at Rectory Farm for a bus every 7/8 minutes?
Thus it is that the 8 buses an hour to rotwn leave Goldings at …
And the list goes on – and on – and on – and on; to include every route with a digit “1” in its number, right up to 169.
Aha! Kings Heath is an estate in Northampton; it must be a long route to Solihull in Birmingham.
Pulverbatch – A P.S.
Now, let’s see, where is the 544 to Little Lyth?
Don’t bother to look, it breathes its last on 2nd December.
It is a cracker of a livery. Does fbb smell the whiff of the Stenning, the Bravado of the Bearded Bus Beautifier from the Bush?
Still impressive, but …
… why has fbb never heard of this trendy and successful outfit?
That’s because it is the private hire department of GoAhead Brighton and Hove! The company is, presumably, having a pop at the quality private hire market.
Buoyed up by the astounding success of his signal box window box of stocks of phlox, fbb decided to begin an emulation of the Chelsea Flower show and create more displays for Peterville.
… and all for just three quid including postage from China for oodles of diamond bits. What a bargain!
The “diamonds” were all browns, greys and dull reds – quite unsuitable for a gorgeous floral display at the station.
The idea was to scrape them off the greaseproof paper (when dry) and sprinkle them on the greenery in the long planter, bodged by fbb out of some odd bits of plastic strip with added plastic greenery.
What about smaller clumps?
Better, but the colour was too dull, to subdued. Most flowers are richly hued and bright to behold. So fbb repainted his clumps a lighter primrose yellow.
Much much better. And that is how a bed of sort-of primroses now adorns a gap in the sidings at Peterville station.
Not exactly like like the real thing, but, as ever, OK at normal viewing distance.
It will always be spring at Peterville.
A few weeks back First South Yorkshire had to eat humble pie and announce that their super smashing fare technology wouldn’t work.
In an fbb exclusive, herewith a picture of First’s technology staff as they left at the end of the working day (1300) yesterday.
Tomorrow, amongst other variety, a marriage in Wales.
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