Spot The Difference! (Part 1)

There are only four differences on the above pair, one of which is hard to spot at this size, so fbb wll give it to you. The bus (bottom right) is showing a different route number. Now you can find the other three!

From a correspondent in Cornwall, fbb has recently received a Transport for Cornwall timetable book, an excellent production as ever. However, a month or so back, fbb’s kind contributor forwarded a timetable book that looked much the same.

Here is the older arrival …

And here is the newest.

Here are the inside pages from the first delivered …

…and from the second.

OK, fbb cheated and used the same picture.

So have you spotted the difference?

Well done! Here is an enlargement of part of the first cover …

… and similarly for the recent delivery.

Well done, the dates on the cover are different.

fbb’s eyes are not the best, these days, and a magnifier helps, but even with that advanced optical technology, fbb could not find a list of changes and updates to help the puzzled passenger work out what they needed to check before travelling.

So, in the end, the old man had to place the two books on his carved antique oak desk (actually the dining table, the breakfast table and the lunch table) and compare each double set of pages.

There were a few schoolday tinkerings on routes 11, 21 and 35 but the first exciting development (?) is at the bottom of First’s U4 pages.

There you will find the N1! Obviously.

A First Bus night service. So after you have spent the day surfing the macking and riding the barrell, you can enjoy an occasional glass of ale, perhaps indulge in a large bag of curry and chips anf then wend your way unsteadily on the N1 back to your tent.

It is in the index … but NOT on the map …

… so without a panel highlighting the changes, how would you know about it in advance?

Likewise the new 72 at Looe …

… which is cunningly hidden with existing service 10 in the book. As with N1 it is indexed but not on the map.

The empty space to Launceston is for a beginning of shift and end of shift positioning journey. 

Would an eager tourist be wondering if there is a bus from Launceston to Looe and Polperro? 

Doubtful.

As far as fbb can tell, these are the only completely new services from 24th July. 

There are other routes which get a significant enhancement.

Here is the 93 fom March …

… and the 93 from July.

Here the 56 from March …

Most of these enhancements are simply extra trips added to the pre-existing timetable.

It is probably obvious that these improvements are for the peak holiday period only. But where is that made clear? Will there be a THIRD version of this book sometime in September removing the extras?

As there is no terminating date on the book, how will anyone know?

But there is a further question to be posed.

There are no changes to First Bus schedules except for the N1. Many of the timetables have three versions for different dates.

They are clearly shown with distinct headings and the last date being 28th September.

So that’s when we will be needing a new timetable book.

It seems odd that First can plan ahead in full detail but Transport for Cornwall and GoAhead didn’t seem to know what they were doing, even at the end of March.

So there has been a huge timetable reprint cost for a very few changes which could have, should have, been available from the beginning.

COULD DO BETTER!

But at least you can get printed timetables in Cornwall (and in Devon!) but in Dorset you have to guess.

But the changes to ONE of the services in the new Cornwall timetable open up another of these.

Historically, at least, it all starts here with a tram near a bridge.

The tram has gone, but the hut and the main building still stand. There seems to be another bridge now!

Otherwise, it is much the same!!

Puzzle Picture

It is a very early picture from the front seats of a Glasgow “Blue Train”.

Later the graceful curved windows were removed and replaced with ugly flat glass.

The Puzzle Picture shows a train en route to Helensburgh with the River Clyde on the left.

The puzzles were taken from three pages of a four page leaflet which is why some bits are repeated.

The theme is “Bread”, looking at some of the Parables of Jesus and ending with the Feeding of the 5000. 

To get the answer, you may want to solve the clues in RED first.

 Next Spot The Difference : Tues Aug 6th