Dateline Sunday 29 May 1949<\/p>\n
<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n … giving a 15 minute combined timetable – every 10 min in 1949.<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n <\/p><\/span>\n Then turn through 180 degrees and you will be on the old main road to Petersfield, called, oddly, Petersfield Road – but today renamed as Leight Road.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n The time point, West Leigh crossroads is bottom right on the modern street map below (possibly??) …<\/p>\n <\/p><\/span><\/div>\n Again only one bus an hour ran to the new estate.<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n … and, from the other side, looking south.<\/p>\n This bit is renamed Staunton Road. But conceptually it soon becomes Stockheath Lane.<\/p>\n Here is a sample N …<\/p>\n … and a short working N …<\/p>\n … showing, helpfully, “<\/p><\/span>FARLINGTON ONLY<\/span>“.<\/span><\/div>\n <\/p><\/span><\/div>\n Try to pretend that the A3(M) isn’t there!<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n This hourly service provides some extra links to Leigh Park from Havant, but at 2100 yesterday evening, fbb’s brain had become too addled, so will add a 48b route map to tomorrow’s blog.<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n The route\u00a0 has been extended via Stockheath Lane, turn right into Riders Lane, left <\/span>into\u00a0Purbrook Way and right into Botley Drive to its Rownhams Road terminus.<\/span><\/p>\n
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![<\/a><\/div>\n<\/span><\/p>\nThe two bus operators, Portsmouth Corporation and Southdown, started the first services to Leigh Park at the end of May 1949. Both operators chose a fairly low key advance into the embryo housing estate.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nSouthdown’s 46 an 46a<\/span>\u00a0provided a somewhat more complex service to Hayling Island. The company simply extended one journey an hour to Leigh Park. Southdown experts will enjoy working out where the buses ran on the Island. Today’s service is a simple both ways round lollipop …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… giving a 15 minute combined timetable – every 10 min in 1949.<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nBut where in Leigh Park did the Southdown 46 run? Back then, the road network was very different. Petersfield road crossed the railway at a level crossing at the eastern end of the station, seen today, looking north …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… and from the other side, looking south.<\/div>\n<\/p><\/span>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThen turn through 180 degrees and you will be on the old main road to Petersfield, called, oddly, Petersfield Road – but today renamed as Leight Road.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nThe station has moved as well!\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe time point, West Leigh crossroads is bottom right on the modern street map below (possibly??) …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n… and the Southdown bus ran via Bedhampton Way to its terminus, (possibly again) where the main shopping centre was to materialise.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nOn the same day Portsmouth Corporation started their first service to Leigh Park lettered M and N<\/span>. M ran from Leigh Park, N ran to.\n<\/a><\/div>\nAgain only one bus an hour ran to the new estate.<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nThis time we have a route description.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nFrom Dockyard via Park Road, Guildhall (City Centre), Commercial Road, North End Junction, London Road, Northern Road, Spur Road, Havant Road, Bedhampton Halt, Stockheath Lane and Stockheath Common.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nAfter Bedhampton Halt (now without the “Halt”), the N ran via Stockheath Lane to much the same terminus as the Southdown route.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nSimilar to Havant station, Stockheath Lane used to cross the railway via a level crossing, remnants of which are seen here today looking north …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… and, from the other side, looking south.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThis bit is renamed Staunton Road. But conceptually it soon becomes Stockheath Lane.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nHere is a sample N …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… and a short working N …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… showing, helpfully, “<\/p><\/span>FARLINGTON ONLY<\/span>“.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nDateline 24th May 1952<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nIt’s all change. The 47 disappears and in comes Southdown 48, 48a.<\/span>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/span><\/div>\nUnfortunately, this timetable comes without a route description, but fbb guesses that the <\/span>xx16<\/span> departure from Southsea runs to Havant, then via a similar route to the 47 above, extending to Botley Drive in the same way at the revised M\/N below. The <\/span>xx46<\/span>\u00a0journey jdoesn’t served Leigh Park as such but travels north on the Petersfield Road to Rowlands Castle and then on to Horndean. It is more of a country bus.\n<\/a><\/div>\nTry to pretend that the A3(M) isn’t there!<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nAnd Southdown 48b<\/span>.\n<\/a><\/div>\nThis hourly service provides some extra links to Leigh Park from Havant, but at 2100 yesterday evening, fbb’s brain had become too addled, so will add a 48b route map to tomorrow’s blog.<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nWith apologies for poor service! Bit you know how it is …<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nDateline 30th May 1954.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nThere was a revised\u00a0<\/span>Portsmouth\u00a0Corporation M\/N<\/span> timetable with less short workings and a bus every 30 minutes to Leigh Park.<\/span>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe route\u00a0 has been extended via Stockheath Lane, turn right into Riders Lane, left <\/span>into\u00a0Purbrook Way and right into Botley Drive to its Rownhams Road terminus.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nAnd the revised route now uses a new road from Bedhampton station, called memorably “New Road”.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nAnd here is a very fizzy <\/span>picture\u00a0of an M to Portsmouth coming down Botley Road from the terminus.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nWhat would Elf abd Safety say today about running a bus through a building site? <\/span>But if the bus is there when people move in, they will use it!\u00a0<\/span>Today’s route planner please note.<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n\nThere is more to come next week.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nDon’t miss the upcoming thrilling episode.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Saturday 12th August\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dateline Sunday 29 May 1949 The two bus operators, Portsmouth Corporation and Southdown, started the first services to Leigh Park at the end of May 1949. Both operators chose a fairly low key advance into the embryo housing estate. Southdown’s 46 an 46a\u00a0provided a somewhat more complex service to Hayling Island. The company simply extended one journey an hour to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camcab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhs55F4_nQVT6fT6kHdtt_Z0drGm5yg4Nd6Wwa6lOshWoRgqm1afnn_PFQh4QVinllrzt-LnUh523RcR4oOFhMXuqrpbLoelCB18GG-O24Dxq-a5eKZqFx5ZVItbJQ3lgJCigy6oqboO_5sKZ1EZPxEQBhivwZn0qwHkZWy0YevBY8WrlW37SDHvW-FvNES\/s598\/screenshot.22092.jpg\"){kind=link}
![<\/a><\/div>\nSouthdown’s 46 an 46a<\/span>\u00a0provided a somewhat more complex service to Hayling Island. The company simply extended one journey an hour to Leigh Park. Southdown experts will enjoy working out where the buses ran on the Island. Today’s service is a simple both ways round lollipop …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… giving a 15 minute combined timetable – every 10 min in 1949.<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nBut where in Leigh Park did the Southdown 46 run? Back then, the road network was very different. Petersfield road crossed the railway at a level crossing at the eastern end of the station, seen today, looking north …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… and from the other side, looking south.<\/div>\n<\/p><\/span>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThen turn through 180 degrees and you will be on the old main road to Petersfield, called, oddly, Petersfield Road – but today renamed as Leight Road.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nThe station has moved as well!\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe time point, West Leigh crossroads is bottom right on the modern street map below (possibly??) …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n… and the Southdown bus ran via Bedhampton Way to its terminus, (possibly again) where the main shopping centre was to materialise.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nOn the same day Portsmouth Corporation started their first service to Leigh Park lettered M and N<\/span>. M ran from Leigh Park, N ran to.\n<\/a><\/div>\nAgain only one bus an hour ran to the new estate.<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nThis time we have a route description.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nFrom Dockyard via Park Road, Guildhall (City Centre), Commercial Road, North End Junction, London Road, Northern Road, Spur Road, Havant Road, Bedhampton Halt, Stockheath Lane and Stockheath Common.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nAfter Bedhampton Halt (now without the “Halt”), the N ran via Stockheath Lane to much the same terminus as the Southdown route.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nSimilar to Havant station, Stockheath Lane used to cross the railway via a level crossing, remnants of which are seen here today looking north …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… and, from the other side, looking south.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThis bit is renamed Staunton Road. But conceptually it soon becomes Stockheath Lane.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nHere is a sample N …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… and a short working N …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… showing, helpfully, “<\/p><\/span>FARLINGTON ONLY<\/span>“.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nDateline 24th May 1952<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nIt’s all change. The 47 disappears and in comes Southdown 48, 48a.<\/span>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/span><\/div>\nUnfortunately, this timetable comes without a route description, but fbb guesses that the <\/span>xx16<\/span> departure from Southsea runs to Havant, then via a similar route to the 47 above, extending to Botley Drive in the same way at the revised M\/N below. The <\/span>xx46<\/span>\u00a0journey jdoesn’t served Leigh Park as such but travels north on the Petersfield Road to Rowlands Castle and then on to Horndean. It is more of a country bus.\n<\/a><\/div>\nTry to pretend that the A3(M) isn’t there!<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nAnd Southdown 48b<\/span>.\n<\/a><\/div>\nThis hourly service provides some extra links to Leigh Park from Havant, but at 2100 yesterday evening, fbb’s brain had become too addled, so will add a 48b route map to tomorrow’s blog.<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nWith apologies for poor service! Bit you know how it is …<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nDateline 30th May 1954.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nThere was a revised\u00a0<\/span>Portsmouth\u00a0Corporation M\/N<\/span> timetable with less short workings and a bus every 30 minutes to Leigh Park.<\/span>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe route\u00a0 has been extended via Stockheath Lane, turn right into Riders Lane, left <\/span>into\u00a0Purbrook Way and right into Botley Drive to its Rownhams Road terminus.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nAnd the revised route now uses a new road from Bedhampton station, called memorably “New Road”.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nAnd here is a very fizzy <\/span>picture\u00a0of an M to Portsmouth coming down Botley Road from the terminus.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nWhat would Elf abd Safety say today about running a bus through a building site? <\/span>But if the bus is there when people move in, they will use it!\u00a0<\/span>Today’s route planner please note.<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n\nThere is more to come next week.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nDon’t miss the upcoming thrilling episode.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Saturday 12th August\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dateline Sunday 29 May 1949 The two bus operators, Portsmouth Corporation and Southdown, started the first services to Leigh Park at the end of May 1949. Both operators chose a fairly low key advance into the embryo housing estate. Southdown’s 46 an 46a\u00a0provided a somewhat more complex service to Hayling Island. The company simply extended one journey an hour to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camcab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjOqbcMKHH6q0zz52Sk7URdlyam3fLhzGMOpJEiU51L3qcuqhCiK_dL8blUSYx5BAa9oMQnClrfRApv6Ym3XT8Vh91yDXPv1iJ7OTgLd7IkS2OzvJ20cykB1RRbkYE1iDBQ5uq9oVHnbqvnwsyZOZZc6pW0yz1jF3TZ_C1MztGMUm5OJ-ZEmigLN56bDbsr\/s674\/screenshot.22123.jpg\"){kind=link}
![<\/a><\/div>\n… giving a 15 minute combined timetable – every 10 min in 1949.<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nBut where in Leigh Park did the Southdown 46 run? Back then, the road network was very different. Petersfield road crossed the railway at a level crossing at the eastern end of the station, seen today, looking north …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… and from the other side, looking south.<\/div>\n<\/p><\/span>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThen turn through 180 degrees and you will be on the old main road to Petersfield, called, oddly, Petersfield Road – but today renamed as Leight Road.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nThe station has moved as well!\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe time point, West Leigh crossroads is bottom right on the modern street map below (possibly??) …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n… and the Southdown bus ran via Bedhampton Way to its terminus, (possibly again) where the main shopping centre was to materialise.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nOn the same day Portsmouth Corporation started their first service to Leigh Park lettered M and N<\/span>. M ran from Leigh Park, N ran to.\n<\/a><\/div>\nAgain only one bus an hour ran to the new estate.<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nThis time we have a route description.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nFrom Dockyard via Park Road, Guildhall (City Centre), Commercial Road, North End Junction, London Road, Northern Road, Spur Road, Havant Road, Bedhampton Halt, Stockheath Lane and Stockheath Common.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nAfter Bedhampton Halt (now without the “Halt”), the N ran via Stockheath Lane to much the same terminus as the Southdown route.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nSimilar to Havant station, Stockheath Lane used to cross the railway via a level crossing, remnants of which are seen here today looking north …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… and, from the other side, looking south.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThis bit is renamed Staunton Road. But conceptually it soon becomes Stockheath Lane.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nHere is a sample N …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… and a short working N …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… showing, helpfully, “<\/p><\/span>FARLINGTON ONLY<\/span>“.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nDateline 24th May 1952<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nIt’s all change. The 47 disappears and in comes Southdown 48, 48a.<\/span>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/span><\/div>\nUnfortunately, this timetable comes without a route description, but fbb guesses that the <\/span>xx16<\/span> departure from Southsea runs to Havant, then via a similar route to the 47 above, extending to Botley Drive in the same way at the revised M\/N below. The <\/span>xx46<\/span>\u00a0journey jdoesn’t served Leigh Park as such but travels north on the Petersfield Road to Rowlands Castle and then on to Horndean. It is more of a country bus.\n<\/a><\/div>\nTry to pretend that the A3(M) isn’t there!<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nAnd Southdown 48b<\/span>.\n<\/a><\/div>\nThis hourly service provides some extra links to Leigh Park from Havant, but at 2100 yesterday evening, fbb’s brain had become too addled, so will add a 48b route map to tomorrow’s blog.<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nWith apologies for poor service! Bit you know how it is …<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nDateline 30th May 1954.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nThere was a revised\u00a0<\/span>Portsmouth\u00a0Corporation M\/N<\/span> timetable with less short workings and a bus every 30 minutes to Leigh Park.<\/span>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe route\u00a0 has been extended via Stockheath Lane, turn right into Riders Lane, left <\/span>into\u00a0Purbrook Way and right into Botley Drive to its Rownhams Road terminus.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nAnd the revised route now uses a new road from Bedhampton station, called memorably “New Road”.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nAnd here is a very fizzy <\/span>picture\u00a0of an M to Portsmouth coming down Botley Road from the terminus.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nWhat would Elf abd Safety say today about running a bus through a building site? <\/span>But if the bus is there when people move in, they will use it!\u00a0<\/span>Today’s route planner please note.<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n\nThere is more to come next week.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nDon’t miss the upcoming thrilling episode.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Saturday 12th August\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dateline Sunday 29 May 1949 The two bus operators, Portsmouth Corporation and Southdown, started the first services to Leigh Park at the end of May 1949. Both operators chose a fairly low key advance into the embryo housing estate. Southdown’s 46 an 46a\u00a0provided a somewhat more complex service to Hayling Island. The company simply extended one journey an hour to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camcab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEimgdMU3WA85zaNdRHqfeA_lovJjVDATl7ybWhYE-hLPUpwYwQ0tYKcAl4PrI2Gjg2bGUUL_exSuYt0pI5fQYP4xyRs6nG8Zjm_STWRuK13AaejE8IRZwBLAyn0HrXwYKbggJv2ujJSdmDpcrFX32i-dS1Cp-tEbK9ORRmtOBQDedW8V5B_SuOGSejC3dUx\/s644\/screenshot.22128.jpg\"){kind=link}
![<\/a><\/div>\n… and from the other side, looking south.<\/div>\n<\/p><\/span>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThen turn through 180 degrees and you will be on the old main road to Petersfield, called, oddly, Petersfield Road – but today renamed as Leight Road.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nThe station has moved as well!\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe time point, West Leigh crossroads is bottom right on the modern street map below (possibly??) …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n… and the Southdown bus ran via Bedhampton Way to its terminus, (possibly again) where the main shopping centre was to materialise.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nOn the same day Portsmouth Corporation started their first service to Leigh Park lettered M and N<\/span>. M ran from Leigh Park, N ran to.\n<\/a><\/div>\nAgain only one bus an hour ran to the new estate.<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nThis time we have a route description.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nFrom Dockyard via Park Road, Guildhall (City Centre), Commercial Road, North End Junction, London Road, Northern Road, Spur Road, Havant Road, Bedhampton Halt, Stockheath Lane and Stockheath Common.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nAfter Bedhampton Halt (now without the “Halt”), the N ran via Stockheath Lane to much the same terminus as the Southdown route.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nSimilar to Havant station, Stockheath Lane used to cross the railway via a level crossing, remnants of which are seen here today looking north …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… and, from the other side, looking south.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThis bit is renamed Staunton Road. But conceptually it soon becomes Stockheath Lane.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nHere is a sample N …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… and a short working N …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… showing, helpfully, “<\/p><\/span>FARLINGTON ONLY<\/span>“.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nDateline 24th May 1952<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nIt’s all change. The 47 disappears and in comes Southdown 48, 48a.<\/span>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/span><\/div>\nUnfortunately, this timetable comes without a route description, but fbb guesses that the <\/span>xx16<\/span> departure from Southsea runs to Havant, then via a similar route to the 47 above, extending to Botley Drive in the same way at the revised M\/N below. The <\/span>xx46<\/span>\u00a0journey jdoesn’t served Leigh Park as such but travels north on the Petersfield Road to Rowlands Castle and then on to Horndean. It is more of a country bus.\n<\/a><\/div>\nTry to pretend that the A3(M) isn’t there!<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nAnd Southdown 48b<\/span>.\n<\/a><\/div>\nThis hourly service provides some extra links to Leigh Park from Havant, but at 2100 yesterday evening, fbb’s brain had become too addled, so will add a 48b route map to tomorrow’s blog.<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nWith apologies for poor service! Bit you know how it is …<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nDateline 30th May 1954.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nThere was a revised\u00a0<\/span>Portsmouth\u00a0Corporation M\/N<\/span> timetable with less short workings and a bus every 30 minutes to Leigh Park.<\/span>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe route\u00a0 has been extended via Stockheath Lane, turn right into Riders Lane, left <\/span>into\u00a0Purbrook Way and right into Botley Drive to its Rownhams Road terminus.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nAnd the revised route now uses a new road from Bedhampton station, called memorably “New Road”.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nAnd here is a very fizzy <\/span>picture\u00a0of an M to Portsmouth coming down Botley Road from the terminus.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nWhat would Elf abd Safety say today about running a bus through a building site? <\/span>But if the bus is there when people move in, they will use it!\u00a0<\/span>Today’s route planner please note.<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n\nThere is more to come next week.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nDon’t miss the upcoming thrilling episode.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Saturday 12th August\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dateline Sunday 29 May 1949 The two bus operators, Portsmouth Corporation and Southdown, started the first services to Leigh Park at the end of May 1949. Both operators chose a fairly low key advance into the embryo housing estate. Southdown’s 46 an 46a\u00a0provided a somewhat more complex service to Hayling Island. 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![<\/a><\/div>\nThen turn through 180 degrees and you will be on the old main road to Petersfield, called, oddly, Petersfield Road – but today renamed as Leight Road.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nThe station has moved as well!\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe time point, West Leigh crossroads is bottom right on the modern street map below (possibly??) …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n… and the Southdown bus ran via Bedhampton Way to its terminus, (possibly again) where the main shopping centre was to materialise.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nOn the same day Portsmouth Corporation started their first service to Leigh Park lettered M and N<\/span>. M ran from Leigh Park, N ran to.\n<\/a><\/div>\nAgain only one bus an hour ran to the new estate.<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nThis time we have a route description.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nFrom Dockyard via Park Road, Guildhall (City Centre), Commercial Road, North End Junction, London Road, Northern Road, Spur Road, Havant Road, Bedhampton Halt, Stockheath Lane and Stockheath Common.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nAfter Bedhampton Halt (now without the “Halt”), the N ran via Stockheath Lane to much the same terminus as the Southdown route.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nSimilar to Havant station, Stockheath Lane used to cross the railway via a level crossing, remnants of which are seen here today looking north …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… and, from the other side, looking south.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThis bit is renamed Staunton Road. But conceptually it soon becomes Stockheath Lane.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nHere is a sample N …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… and a short working N …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… showing, helpfully, “<\/p><\/span>FARLINGTON ONLY<\/span>“.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nDateline 24th May 1952<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nIt’s all change. The 47 disappears and in comes Southdown 48, 48a.<\/span>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/span><\/div>\nUnfortunately, this timetable comes without a route description, but fbb guesses that the <\/span>xx16<\/span> departure from Southsea runs to Havant, then via a similar route to the 47 above, extending to Botley Drive in the same way at the revised M\/N below. The <\/span>xx46<\/span>\u00a0journey jdoesn’t served Leigh Park as such but travels north on the Petersfield Road to Rowlands Castle and then on to Horndean. It is more of a country bus.\n<\/a><\/div>\nTry to pretend that the A3(M) isn’t there!<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nAnd Southdown 48b<\/span>.\n<\/a><\/div>\nThis hourly service provides some extra links to Leigh Park from Havant, but at 2100 yesterday evening, fbb’s brain had become too addled, so will add a 48b route map to tomorrow’s blog.<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nWith apologies for poor service! Bit you know how it is …<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nDateline 30th May 1954.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nThere was a revised\u00a0<\/span>Portsmouth\u00a0Corporation M\/N<\/span> timetable with less short workings and a bus every 30 minutes to Leigh Park.<\/span>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe route\u00a0 has been extended via Stockheath Lane, turn right into Riders Lane, left <\/span>into\u00a0Purbrook Way and right into Botley Drive to its Rownhams Road terminus.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nAnd the revised route now uses a new road from Bedhampton station, called memorably “New Road”.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nAnd here is a very fizzy <\/span>picture\u00a0of an M to Portsmouth coming down Botley Road from the terminus.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nWhat would Elf abd Safety say today about running a bus through a building site? <\/span>But if the bus is there when people move in, they will use it!\u00a0<\/span>Today’s route planner please note.<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n\nThere is more to come next week.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nDon’t miss the upcoming thrilling episode.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Saturday 12th August\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dateline Sunday 29 May 1949 The two bus operators, Portsmouth Corporation and Southdown, started the first services to Leigh Park at the end of May 1949. Both operators chose a fairly low key advance into the embryo housing estate. Southdown’s 46 an 46a\u00a0provided a somewhat more complex service to Hayling Island. The company simply extended one journey an hour to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camcab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjZambqPnNBTg2YZ_DECYnOjwRFmlw7XZsTjCcFkPnFIkmlmDk0od5VK_LtEKj6jARqQETjvGCkEqUOHRVcG9wfT4QHR2OtRt8qc9YKRPLi7i4AUEyJFgusvUT8UT32dpZ4jY-HlUBQPK65KJ1BdDbpk0zJQ3jJJIkkqLPGMAvzKeAVP49z6F7rPTyTELiu\/s698\/screenshot.22130.jpg\"){kind=link}
![<\/a><\/div>\nThe time point, West Leigh crossroads is bottom right on the modern street map below (possibly??) …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n… and the Southdown bus ran via Bedhampton Way to its terminus, (possibly again) where the main shopping centre was to materialise.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nOn the same day Portsmouth Corporation started their first service to Leigh Park lettered M and N<\/span>. M ran from Leigh Park, N ran to.\n<\/a><\/div>\nAgain only one bus an hour ran to the new estate.<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nThis time we have a route description.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nFrom Dockyard via Park Road, Guildhall (City Centre), Commercial Road, North End Junction, London Road, Northern Road, Spur Road, Havant Road, Bedhampton Halt, Stockheath Lane and Stockheath Common.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nAfter Bedhampton Halt (now without the “Halt”), the N ran via Stockheath Lane to much the same terminus as the Southdown route.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nSimilar to Havant station, Stockheath Lane used to cross the railway via a level crossing, remnants of which are seen here today looking north …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… and, from the other side, looking south.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThis bit is renamed Staunton Road. But conceptually it soon becomes Stockheath Lane.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nHere is a sample N …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… and a short working N …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… showing, helpfully, “<\/p><\/span>FARLINGTON ONLY<\/span>“.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nDateline 24th May 1952<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nIt’s all change. The 47 disappears and in comes Southdown 48, 48a.<\/span>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/span><\/div>\nUnfortunately, this timetable comes without a route description, but fbb guesses that the <\/span>xx16<\/span> departure from Southsea runs to Havant, then via a similar route to the 47 above, extending to Botley Drive in the same way at the revised M\/N below. The <\/span>xx46<\/span>\u00a0journey jdoesn’t served Leigh Park as such but travels north on the Petersfield Road to Rowlands Castle and then on to Horndean. It is more of a country bus.\n<\/a><\/div>\nTry to pretend that the A3(M) isn’t there!<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nAnd Southdown 48b<\/span>.\n<\/a><\/div>\nThis hourly service provides some extra links to Leigh Park from Havant, but at 2100 yesterday evening, fbb’s brain had become too addled, so will add a 48b route map to tomorrow’s blog.<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nWith apologies for poor service! Bit you know how it is …<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nDateline 30th May 1954.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nThere was a revised\u00a0<\/span>Portsmouth\u00a0Corporation M\/N<\/span> timetable with less short workings and a bus every 30 minutes to Leigh Park.<\/span>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe route\u00a0 has been extended via Stockheath Lane, turn right into Riders Lane, left <\/span>into\u00a0Purbrook Way and right into Botley Drive to its Rownhams Road terminus.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nAnd the revised route now uses a new road from Bedhampton station, called memorably “New Road”.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nAnd here is a very fizzy <\/span>picture\u00a0of an M to Portsmouth coming down Botley Road from the terminus.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nWhat would Elf abd Safety say today about running a bus through a building site? <\/span>But if the bus is there when people move in, they will use it!\u00a0<\/span>Today’s route planner please note.<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n\nThere is more to come next week.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nDon’t miss the upcoming thrilling episode.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Saturday 12th August\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dateline Sunday 29 May 1949 The two bus operators, Portsmouth Corporation and Southdown, started the first services to Leigh Park at the end of May 1949. Both operators chose a fairly low key advance into the embryo housing estate. Southdown’s 46 an 46a\u00a0provided a somewhat more complex service to Hayling Island. The company simply extended one journey an hour to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camcab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhcvtXssSSjTZwsLbuw-m6q0WKso9M3lCe4ACIcKPhk8B8WPwmMlbs6ZHiwpCRnYTwC6vm_WqS0g-yUDcegWgHyRBh1f4yv58P8BKUrtYPhDNCn2P7lz3af0HaSqUkmURNwdn40sGZqjXTfiz-uJL-o-rxfMpa3hyfN89BxcEJbcHpgNxQD7MeJ8Ha7McnG\/s564\/screenshot.22132.jpg\"){kind=link}
![<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n… and the Southdown bus ran via Bedhampton Way to its terminus, (possibly again) where the main shopping centre was to materialise.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nOn the same day Portsmouth Corporation started their first service to Leigh Park lettered M and N<\/span>. M ran from Leigh Park, N ran to.\n<\/a><\/div>\nAgain only one bus an hour ran to the new estate.<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nThis time we have a route description.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nFrom Dockyard via Park Road, Guildhall (City Centre), Commercial Road, North End Junction, London Road, Northern Road, Spur Road, Havant Road, Bedhampton Halt, Stockheath Lane and Stockheath Common.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nAfter Bedhampton Halt (now without the “Halt”), the N ran via Stockheath Lane to much the same terminus as the Southdown route.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nSimilar to Havant station, Stockheath Lane used to cross the railway via a level crossing, remnants of which are seen here today looking north …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… and, from the other side, looking south.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThis bit is renamed Staunton Road. But conceptually it soon becomes Stockheath Lane.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nHere is a sample N …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… and a short working N …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… showing, helpfully, “<\/p><\/span>FARLINGTON ONLY<\/span>“.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nDateline 24th May 1952<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nIt’s all change. The 47 disappears and in comes Southdown 48, 48a.<\/span>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/span><\/div>\nUnfortunately, this timetable comes without a route description, but fbb guesses that the <\/span>xx16<\/span> departure from Southsea runs to Havant, then via a similar route to the 47 above, extending to Botley Drive in the same way at the revised M\/N below. The <\/span>xx46<\/span>\u00a0journey jdoesn’t served Leigh Park as such but travels north on the Petersfield Road to Rowlands Castle and then on to Horndean. It is more of a country bus.\n<\/a><\/div>\nTry to pretend that the A3(M) isn’t there!<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nAnd Southdown 48b<\/span>.\n<\/a><\/div>\nThis hourly service provides some extra links to Leigh Park from Havant, but at 2100 yesterday evening, fbb’s brain had become too addled, so will add a 48b route map to tomorrow’s blog.<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nWith apologies for poor service! Bit you know how it is …<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nDateline 30th May 1954.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nThere was a revised\u00a0<\/span>Portsmouth\u00a0Corporation M\/N<\/span> timetable with less short workings and a bus every 30 minutes to Leigh Park.<\/span>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe route\u00a0 has been extended via Stockheath Lane, turn right into Riders Lane, left <\/span>into\u00a0Purbrook Way and right into Botley Drive to its Rownhams Road terminus.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nAnd the revised route now uses a new road from Bedhampton station, called memorably “New Road”.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nAnd here is a very fizzy <\/span>picture\u00a0of an M to Portsmouth coming down Botley Road from the terminus.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nWhat would Elf abd Safety say today about running a bus through a building site? <\/span>But if the bus is there when people move in, they will use it!\u00a0<\/span>Today’s route planner please note.<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n\nThere is more to come next week.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nDon’t miss the upcoming thrilling episode.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Saturday 12th August\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dateline Sunday 29 May 1949 The two bus operators, Portsmouth Corporation and Southdown, started the first services to Leigh Park at the end of May 1949. Both operators chose a fairly low key advance into the embryo housing estate. Southdown’s 46 an 46a\u00a0provided a somewhat more complex service to Hayling Island. 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![<\/a><\/div>\nAgain only one bus an hour ran to the new estate.<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nThis time we have a route description.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nFrom Dockyard via Park Road, Guildhall (City Centre), Commercial Road, North End Junction, London Road, Northern Road, Spur Road, Havant Road, Bedhampton Halt, Stockheath Lane and Stockheath Common.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nAfter Bedhampton Halt (now without the “Halt”), the N ran via Stockheath Lane to much the same terminus as the Southdown route.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nSimilar to Havant station, Stockheath Lane used to cross the railway via a level crossing, remnants of which are seen here today looking north …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… and, from the other side, looking south.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThis bit is renamed Staunton Road. But conceptually it soon becomes Stockheath Lane.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nHere is a sample N …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… and a short working N …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… showing, helpfully, “<\/p><\/span>FARLINGTON ONLY<\/span>“.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nDateline 24th May 1952<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nIt’s all change. The 47 disappears and in comes Southdown 48, 48a.<\/span>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/span><\/div>\nUnfortunately, this timetable comes without a route description, but fbb guesses that the <\/span>xx16<\/span> departure from Southsea runs to Havant, then via a similar route to the 47 above, extending to Botley Drive in the same way at the revised M\/N below. The <\/span>xx46<\/span>\u00a0journey jdoesn’t served Leigh Park as such but travels north on the Petersfield Road to Rowlands Castle and then on to Horndean. It is more of a country bus.\n<\/a><\/div>\nTry to pretend that the A3(M) isn’t there!<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nAnd Southdown 48b<\/span>.\n<\/a><\/div>\nThis hourly service provides some extra links to Leigh Park from Havant, but at 2100 yesterday evening, fbb’s brain had become too addled, so will add a 48b route map to tomorrow’s blog.<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nWith apologies for poor service! Bit you know how it is …<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nDateline 30th May 1954.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nThere was a revised\u00a0<\/span>Portsmouth\u00a0Corporation M\/N<\/span> timetable with less short workings and a bus every 30 minutes to Leigh Park.<\/span>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe route\u00a0 has been extended via Stockheath Lane, turn right into Riders Lane, left <\/span>into\u00a0Purbrook Way and right into Botley Drive to its Rownhams Road terminus.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nAnd the revised route now uses a new road from Bedhampton station, called memorably “New Road”.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nAnd here is a very fizzy <\/span>picture\u00a0of an M to Portsmouth coming down Botley Road from the terminus.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nWhat would Elf abd Safety say today about running a bus through a building site? <\/span>But if the bus is there when people move in, they will use it!\u00a0<\/span>Today’s route planner please note.<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n\nThere is more to come next week.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nDon’t miss the upcoming thrilling episode.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Saturday 12th August\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dateline Sunday 29 May 1949 The two bus operators, Portsmouth Corporation and Southdown, started the first services to Leigh Park at the end of May 1949. 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![<\/a><\/div>\n… and, from the other side, looking south.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThis bit is renamed Staunton Road. But conceptually it soon becomes Stockheath Lane.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nHere is a sample N …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… and a short working N …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… showing, helpfully, “<\/p><\/span>FARLINGTON ONLY<\/span>“.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nDateline 24th May 1952<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nIt’s all change. The 47 disappears and in comes Southdown 48, 48a.<\/span>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/span><\/div>\nUnfortunately, this timetable comes without a route description, but fbb guesses that the <\/span>xx16<\/span> departure from Southsea runs to Havant, then via a similar route to the 47 above, extending to Botley Drive in the same way at the revised M\/N below. The <\/span>xx46<\/span>\u00a0journey jdoesn’t served Leigh Park as such but travels north on the Petersfield Road to Rowlands Castle and then on to Horndean. It is more of a country bus.\n<\/a><\/div>\nTry to pretend that the A3(M) isn’t there!<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nAnd Southdown 48b<\/span>.\n<\/a><\/div>\nThis hourly service provides some extra links to Leigh Park from Havant, but at 2100 yesterday evening, fbb’s brain had become too addled, so will add a 48b route map to tomorrow’s blog.<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nWith apologies for poor service! Bit you know how it is …<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nDateline 30th May 1954.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nThere was a revised\u00a0<\/span>Portsmouth\u00a0Corporation M\/N<\/span> timetable with less short workings and a bus every 30 minutes to Leigh Park.<\/span>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe route\u00a0 has been extended via Stockheath Lane, turn right into Riders Lane, left <\/span>into\u00a0Purbrook Way and right into Botley Drive to its Rownhams Road terminus.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nAnd the revised route now uses a new road from Bedhampton station, called memorably “New Road”.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nAnd here is a very fizzy <\/span>picture\u00a0of an M to Portsmouth coming down Botley Road from the terminus.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nWhat would Elf abd Safety say today about running a bus through a building site? <\/span>But if the bus is there when people move in, they will use it!\u00a0<\/span>Today’s route planner please note.<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n\nThere is more to come next week.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nDon’t miss the upcoming thrilling episode.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Saturday 12th August\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dateline Sunday 29 May 1949 The two bus operators, Portsmouth Corporation and Southdown, started the first services to Leigh Park at the end of May 1949. Both operators chose a fairly low key advance into the embryo housing estate. Southdown’s 46 an 46a\u00a0provided a somewhat more complex service to Hayling Island. The company simply extended one journey an hour to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camcab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEilFddHd3vHMV6fkunVwPQrwNu2YV0F6lQBFHOVIqCpoJmydjmvVlfm6R91QA5lCScH32LbfLg6XBfmUFWn74GfZpt_-iie_bs6qR8s4pHk4MtOTy3X09Q0IUM7T2FPxh0DY-HWdisGuBCuQzR6pJv6sBlXJhrwy2_8BWwtMtba7HbXvfcCqTuDlkTHhdHU\/s696\/screenshot.22134.jpg\"){kind=link}
![<\/a><\/div>\nThis bit is renamed Staunton Road. But conceptually it soon becomes Stockheath Lane.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nHere is a sample N …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… and a short working N …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… showing, helpfully, “<\/p><\/span>FARLINGTON ONLY<\/span>“.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nDateline 24th May 1952<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nIt’s all change. The 47 disappears and in comes Southdown 48, 48a.<\/span>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/span><\/div>\nUnfortunately, this timetable comes without a route description, but fbb guesses that the <\/span>xx16<\/span> departure from Southsea runs to Havant, then via a similar route to the 47 above, extending to Botley Drive in the same way at the revised M\/N below. The <\/span>xx46<\/span>\u00a0journey jdoesn’t served Leigh Park as such but travels north on the Petersfield Road to Rowlands Castle and then on to Horndean. It is more of a country bus.\n<\/a><\/div>\nTry to pretend that the A3(M) isn’t there!<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nAnd Southdown 48b<\/span>.\n<\/a><\/div>\nThis hourly service provides some extra links to Leigh Park from Havant, but at 2100 yesterday evening, fbb’s brain had become too addled, so will add a 48b route map to tomorrow’s blog.<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nWith apologies for poor service! Bit you know how it is …<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nDateline 30th May 1954.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nThere was a revised\u00a0<\/span>Portsmouth\u00a0Corporation M\/N<\/span> timetable with less short workings and a bus every 30 minutes to Leigh Park.<\/span>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe route\u00a0 has been extended via Stockheath Lane, turn right into Riders Lane, left <\/span>into\u00a0Purbrook Way and right into Botley Drive to its Rownhams Road terminus.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nAnd the revised route now uses a new road from Bedhampton station, called memorably “New Road”.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nAnd here is a very fizzy <\/span>picture\u00a0of an M to Portsmouth coming down Botley Road from the terminus.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nWhat would Elf abd Safety say today about running a bus through a building site? <\/span>But if the bus is there when people move in, they will use it!\u00a0<\/span>Today’s route planner please note.<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n\nThere is more to come next week.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nDon’t miss the upcoming thrilling episode.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Saturday 12th August\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dateline Sunday 29 May 1949 The two bus operators, Portsmouth Corporation and Southdown, started the first services to Leigh Park at the end of May 1949. Both operators chose a fairly low key advance into the embryo housing estate. Southdown’s 46 an 46a\u00a0provided a somewhat more complex service to Hayling Island. The company simply extended one journey an hour to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camcab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhhv8XocHJPxOE787Ym5kISn51bCiotDs1t2gxcLZIYhHW1JD5dJB2rAq2o-D7aS4KBaNWB8tT4XwpVLylqcAWVF4e5RwFlM5WBglGP6GrM2t8RSXaGl7wXQNzEazS4ngZ9no4yhBLhFjQKcNHIz1h6PiAd--9PnAuaIsfDCweeXSgcD6MLUFYisAVRUPOZ\/s618\/screenshot.22135.jpg\"){kind=link}
![<\/a><\/div>\nHere is a sample N …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… and a short working N …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… showing, helpfully, “<\/p><\/span>FARLINGTON ONLY<\/span>“.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nDateline 24th May 1952<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nIt’s all change. The 47 disappears and in comes Southdown 48, 48a.<\/span>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/span><\/div>\nUnfortunately, this timetable comes without a route description, but fbb guesses that the <\/span>xx16<\/span> departure from Southsea runs to Havant, then via a similar route to the 47 above, extending to Botley Drive in the same way at the revised M\/N below. The <\/span>xx46<\/span>\u00a0journey jdoesn’t served Leigh Park as such but travels north on the Petersfield Road to Rowlands Castle and then on to Horndean. It is more of a country bus.\n<\/a><\/div>\nTry to pretend that the A3(M) isn’t there!<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nAnd Southdown 48b<\/span>.\n<\/a><\/div>\nThis hourly service provides some extra links to Leigh Park from Havant, but at 2100 yesterday evening, fbb’s brain had become too addled, so will add a 48b route map to tomorrow’s blog.<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nWith apologies for poor service! Bit you know how it is …<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nDateline 30th May 1954.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nThere was a revised\u00a0<\/span>Portsmouth\u00a0Corporation M\/N<\/span> timetable with less short workings and a bus every 30 minutes to Leigh Park.<\/span>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe route\u00a0 has been extended via Stockheath Lane, turn right into Riders Lane, left <\/span>into\u00a0Purbrook Way and right into Botley Drive to its Rownhams Road terminus.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nAnd the revised route now uses a new road from Bedhampton station, called memorably “New Road”.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nAnd here is a very fizzy <\/span>picture\u00a0of an M to Portsmouth coming down Botley Road from the terminus.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nWhat would Elf abd Safety say today about running a bus through a building site? <\/span>But if the bus is there when people move in, they will use it!\u00a0<\/span>Today’s route planner please note.<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n\nThere is more to come next week.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nDon’t miss the upcoming thrilling episode.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Saturday 12th August\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dateline Sunday 29 May 1949 The two bus operators, Portsmouth Corporation and Southdown, started the first services to Leigh Park at the end of May 1949. Both operators chose a fairly low key advance into the embryo housing estate. Southdown’s 46 an 46a\u00a0provided a somewhat more complex service to Hayling Island. The company simply extended one journey an hour to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camcab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEibbqyIAmlVxeJPgf7xwiXsTMiOXF51zdHa5xhzIbR_gbjlIiSXDbED4qGDJ4pR13mPtNebK8pjtZ7A4zdZ9xDelJZPg1B-2vghOVsn_MvnjkG5QpjnhyyXtriunF-SjTvN2KkHVYD91m8xXU_zcCf6y8aCszZO0XWR-kjd6_eXdirninA-Qp3A8HxKCPSz\/s606\/screenshot.22136.jpg\"){kind=link}
![<\/a><\/div>\n… and a short working N …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n… showing, helpfully, “<\/p><\/span>FARLINGTON ONLY<\/span>“.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nDateline 24th May 1952<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nIt’s all change. The 47 disappears and in comes Southdown 48, 48a.<\/span>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/span><\/div>\nUnfortunately, this timetable comes without a route description, but fbb guesses that the <\/span>xx16<\/span> departure from Southsea runs to Havant, then via a similar route to the 47 above, extending to Botley Drive in the same way at the revised M\/N below. The <\/span>xx46<\/span>\u00a0journey jdoesn’t served Leigh Park as such but travels north on the Petersfield Road to Rowlands Castle and then on to Horndean. It is more of a country bus.\n<\/a><\/div>\nTry to pretend that the A3(M) isn’t there!<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nAnd Southdown 48b<\/span>.\n<\/a><\/div>\nThis hourly service provides some extra links to Leigh Park from Havant, but at 2100 yesterday evening, fbb’s brain had become too addled, so will add a 48b route map to tomorrow’s blog.<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nWith apologies for poor service! Bit you know how it is …<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nDateline 30th May 1954.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nThere was a revised\u00a0<\/span>Portsmouth\u00a0Corporation M\/N<\/span> timetable with less short workings and a bus every 30 minutes to Leigh Park.<\/span>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe route\u00a0 has been extended via Stockheath Lane, turn right into Riders Lane, left <\/span>into\u00a0Purbrook Way and right into Botley Drive to its Rownhams Road terminus.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nAnd the revised route now uses a new road from Bedhampton station, called memorably “New Road”.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nAnd here is a very fizzy <\/span>picture\u00a0of an M to Portsmouth coming down Botley Road from the terminus.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nWhat would Elf abd Safety say today about running a bus through a building site? <\/span>But if the bus is there when people move in, they will use it!\u00a0<\/span>Today’s route planner please note.<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n\nThere is more to come next week.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nDon’t miss the upcoming thrilling episode.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Saturday 12th August\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dateline Sunday 29 May 1949 The two bus operators, Portsmouth Corporation and Southdown, started the first services to Leigh Park at the end of May 1949. Both operators chose a fairly low key advance into the embryo housing estate. Southdown’s 46 an 46a\u00a0provided a somewhat more complex service to Hayling Island. The company simply extended one journey an hour to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camcab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgVb4d4lZ4579xNYtO_6s6C7tWZVjQarLuWU_D-dkvGMRjnTIlsEc5miJlWCu3VE5WJphGsYuPTnQL1YphUDsGcxFfFjfgLW04A5kZDlgWETL7uhh07CWgo724dmAF-mK3QvYWRMhbHXNmvgBupIMs9TLHPWM5Xvy7OzIIrdhSIaMeoY5f0LBwfKqlh09jB\/s698\/screenshot.22119.jpg\"){kind=link}
![<\/a><\/div>\n… showing, helpfully, “<\/p><\/span>FARLINGTON ONLY<\/span>“.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nDateline 24th May 1952<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nIt’s all change. The 47 disappears and in comes Southdown 48, 48a.<\/span>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/span><\/div>\nUnfortunately, this timetable comes without a route description, but fbb guesses that the <\/span>xx16<\/span> departure from Southsea runs to Havant, then via a similar route to the 47 above, extending to Botley Drive in the same way at the revised M\/N below. The <\/span>xx46<\/span>\u00a0journey jdoesn’t served Leigh Park as such but travels north on the Petersfield Road to Rowlands Castle and then on to Horndean. It is more of a country bus.\n<\/a><\/div>\nTry to pretend that the A3(M) isn’t there!<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nAnd Southdown 48b<\/span>.\n<\/a><\/div>\nThis hourly service provides some extra links to Leigh Park from Havant, but at 2100 yesterday evening, fbb’s brain had become too addled, so will add a 48b route map to tomorrow’s blog.<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nWith apologies for poor service! Bit you know how it is …<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nDateline 30th May 1954.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nThere was a revised\u00a0<\/span>Portsmouth\u00a0Corporation M\/N<\/span> timetable with less short workings and a bus every 30 minutes to Leigh Park.<\/span>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe route\u00a0 has been extended via Stockheath Lane, turn right into Riders Lane, left <\/span>into\u00a0Purbrook Way and right into Botley Drive to its Rownhams Road terminus.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nAnd the revised route now uses a new road from Bedhampton station, called memorably “New Road”.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nAnd here is a very fizzy <\/span>picture\u00a0of an M to Portsmouth coming down Botley Road from the terminus.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nWhat would Elf abd Safety say today about running a bus through a building site? <\/span>But if the bus is there when people move in, they will use it!\u00a0<\/span>Today’s route planner please note.<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n\nThere is more to come next week.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nDon’t miss the upcoming thrilling episode.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Saturday 12th August\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dateline Sunday 29 May 1949 The two bus operators, Portsmouth Corporation and Southdown, started the first services to Leigh Park at the end of May 1949. Both operators chose a fairly low key advance into the embryo housing estate. Southdown’s 46 an 46a\u00a0provided a somewhat more complex service to Hayling Island. The company simply extended one journey an hour to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camcab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEigz9VtPt0D2LbdhQXGwehB9IEJL9w6wj04qtD08ifa3MsjBuR0Qeb9KSpptqTtbnnwoGPDUGGWig8DSEBqtTVpd0BD1I_qse__vhjSEy4jTqbcKP8qM4Wq-r3R2ow9nDt5wfhv_rRh3KESY-rwIItMjFpCUklecFfhh7XaIXdO2rKNAhZCHa46YEKSRnx1\/s494\/screenshot.22120.jpg\"){kind=link}
![<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/span><\/div>\nUnfortunately, this timetable comes without a route description, but fbb guesses that the <\/span>xx16<\/span> departure from Southsea runs to Havant, then via a similar route to the 47 above, extending to Botley Drive in the same way at the revised M\/N below. The <\/span>xx46<\/span>\u00a0journey jdoesn’t served Leigh Park as such but travels north on the Petersfield Road to Rowlands Castle and then on to Horndean. It is more of a country bus.\n<\/a><\/div>\nTry to pretend that the A3(M) isn’t there!<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nAnd Southdown 48b<\/span>.\n<\/a><\/div>\nThis hourly service provides some extra links to Leigh Park from Havant, but at 2100 yesterday evening, fbb’s brain had become too addled, so will add a 48b route map to tomorrow’s blog.<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nWith apologies for poor service! Bit you know how it is …<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nDateline 30th May 1954.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nThere was a revised\u00a0<\/span>Portsmouth\u00a0Corporation M\/N<\/span> timetable with less short workings and a bus every 30 minutes to Leigh Park.<\/span>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe route\u00a0 has been extended via Stockheath Lane, turn right into Riders Lane, left <\/span>into\u00a0Purbrook Way and right into Botley Drive to its Rownhams Road terminus.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nAnd the revised route now uses a new road from Bedhampton station, called memorably “New Road”.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nAnd here is a very fizzy <\/span>picture\u00a0of an M to Portsmouth coming down Botley Road from the terminus.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nWhat would Elf abd Safety say today about running a bus through a building site? <\/span>But if the bus is there when people move in, they will use it!\u00a0<\/span>Today’s route planner please note.<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n\nThere is more to come next week.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nDon’t miss the upcoming thrilling episode.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Saturday 12th August\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dateline Sunday 29 May 1949 The two bus operators, Portsmouth Corporation and Southdown, started the first services to Leigh Park at the end of May 1949. Both operators chose a fairly low key advance into the embryo housing estate. Southdown’s 46 an 46a\u00a0provided a somewhat more complex service to Hayling Island. The company simply extended one journey an hour to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camcab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjV18XgtBzXgxm_4Hu31ceDnk5uJiVqtSYw4K_tGdP8_sv44HhLlWZ4-Mw9YGSZXHRzM7mW4kxQwmU8aa2zxUUjpYLFmnO79wsSOrb6Q9Vb6J-rl0GqOtULj5AorkY44jitHD9WeNDLULxT9WPn5vIU4tjQJ4icA3KFsLObJU9DD9ktI9tXJXAyxyYZ7UDT\/s746\/screenshot.22124.jpg\"){kind=link}
![<\/a><\/div>\nTry to pretend that the A3(M) isn’t there!<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nAnd Southdown 48b<\/span>.\n<\/a><\/div>\nThis hourly service provides some extra links to Leigh Park from Havant, but at 2100 yesterday evening, fbb’s brain had become too addled, so will add a 48b route map to tomorrow’s blog.<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nWith apologies for poor service! Bit you know how it is …<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nDateline 30th May 1954.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nThere was a revised\u00a0<\/span>Portsmouth\u00a0Corporation M\/N<\/span> timetable with less short workings and a bus every 30 minutes to Leigh Park.<\/span>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe route\u00a0 has been extended via Stockheath Lane, turn right into Riders Lane, left <\/span>into\u00a0Purbrook Way and right into Botley Drive to its Rownhams Road terminus.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nAnd the revised route now uses a new road from Bedhampton station, called memorably “New Road”.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nAnd here is a very fizzy <\/span>picture\u00a0of an M to Portsmouth coming down Botley Road from the terminus.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nWhat would Elf abd Safety say today about running a bus through a building site? <\/span>But if the bus is there when people move in, they will use it!\u00a0<\/span>Today’s route planner please note.<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n\nThere is more to come next week.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nDon’t miss the upcoming thrilling episode.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Saturday 12th August\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dateline Sunday 29 May 1949 The two bus operators, Portsmouth Corporation and Southdown, started the first services to Leigh Park at the end of May 1949. Both operators chose a fairly low key advance into the embryo housing estate. Southdown’s 46 an 46a\u00a0provided a somewhat more complex service to Hayling Island. The company simply extended one journey an hour to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camcab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhvkndwuV1E0N1X9xrEYtgvQ_6JcIhBnKocxKE8NihZDaENzTw2JHHww3ovpOs_x7fGhk48Louf0veOED6HawMxL8Yv0t9YhrPaVwE-ZBNvRSbzhmgWDudc-TyZia8JkUGPFzBuLP5kEOnxBQx_UOBt_54AbDVx7SzjDQ-mC6T2JBd4bf3-_kzSZOt01Pym\/s504\/screenshot.22140.jpg\"){kind=link}
![<\/a><\/div>\nThis hourly service provides some extra links to Leigh Park from Havant, but at 2100 yesterday evening, fbb’s brain had become too addled, so will add a 48b route map to tomorrow’s blog.<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nWith apologies for poor service! Bit you know how it is …<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nDateline 30th May 1954.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\nThere was a revised\u00a0<\/span>Portsmouth\u00a0Corporation M\/N<\/span> timetable with less short workings and a bus every 30 minutes to Leigh Park.<\/span>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe route\u00a0 has been extended via Stockheath Lane, turn right into Riders Lane, left <\/span>into\u00a0Purbrook Way and right into Botley Drive to its Rownhams Road terminus.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nAnd the revised route now uses a new road from Bedhampton station, called memorably “New Road”.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nAnd here is a very fizzy <\/span>picture\u00a0of an M to Portsmouth coming down Botley Road from the terminus.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nWhat would Elf abd Safety say today about running a bus through a building site? <\/span>But if the bus is there when people move in, they will use it!\u00a0<\/span>Today’s route planner please note.<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n\nThere is more to come next week.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nDon’t miss the upcoming thrilling episode.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Saturday 12th August\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dateline Sunday 29 May 1949 The two bus operators, Portsmouth Corporation and Southdown, started the first services to Leigh Park at the end of May 1949. Both operators chose a fairly low key advance into the embryo housing estate. Southdown’s 46 an 46a\u00a0provided a somewhat more complex service to Hayling Island. The company simply extended one journey an hour to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camcab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEh69kpE7kA79YcFybsuYP0CFFfGTjEfcXeNIC2UIFjXamjzv8aDplfJFDqgNL8KKbu2TOvzuSegukZew2uT4Blq1oxLftN09s0jaAJrw4ki5HvOnMAi39V22eAk1Otj_PyTWdHRaHfiD0TfGFDXMJUM5mJWRPDwpKfH5EljrTRBjmu2sMuiR29b3j4oTqF-\/s794\/screenshot.22103.jpg\"){kind=link}
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![<\/a><\/div>\nAnd the revised route now uses a new road from Bedhampton station, called memorably “New Road”.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nAnd here is a very fizzy <\/span>picture\u00a0of an M to Portsmouth coming down Botley Road from the terminus.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nWhat would Elf abd Safety say today about running a bus through a building site? <\/span>But if the bus is there when people move in, they will use it!\u00a0<\/span>Today’s route planner please note.<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n\nThere is more to come next week.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nDon’t miss the upcoming thrilling episode.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Saturday 12th August\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dateline Sunday 29 May 1949 The two bus operators, Portsmouth Corporation and Southdown, started the first services to Leigh Park at the end of May 1949. Both operators chose a fairly low key advance into the embryo housing estate. Southdown’s 46 an 46a\u00a0provided a somewhat more complex service to Hayling Island. The company simply extended one journey an hour to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camcab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEivY_knr-b3cfYauPBooTTFvv89XonrZ0V6p6foIkyeJkgXlcUuP6NprxwRBymSu4iXElGu4EWaITMexslPuavQhfIrLN175-AHoytYuS7SmqaJlH0dC6YIcnig_GTDhwOoaQ8xh01jUlmiIPBweSMv6OKixj7IDrbq9qdlAa0Ij4_IhT_eeblZDm2I_ogk\/s738\/screenshot.22138.jpg\"){kind=link}
![<\/a><\/div>\nAnd here is a very fizzy <\/span>picture\u00a0of an M to Portsmouth coming down Botley Road from the terminus.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nWhat would Elf abd Safety say today about running a bus through a building site? <\/span>But if the bus is there when people move in, they will use it!\u00a0<\/span>Today’s route planner please note.<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n\nThere is more to come next week.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nDon’t miss the upcoming thrilling episode.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Saturday 12th August\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dateline Sunday 29 May 1949 The two bus operators, Portsmouth Corporation and Southdown, started the first services to Leigh Park at the end of May 1949. Both operators chose a fairly low key advance into the embryo housing estate. Southdown’s 46 an 46a\u00a0provided a somewhat more complex service to Hayling Island. The company simply extended one journey an hour to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camcab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEj0S5Wtgh0eCHxvO6hWpjjP15TJFdjgskH8ljX95NX0_x94Yv6lGQU2kmjW5F9LyQ_zUP7lsFmMq3KpkiGBVZDqzK1wzRQIvmRQp2zXXCO8o7OB69GQtydv1QyNi9A6PRRzSLgopzL8zV_uyckbkVrrPdGBLI9jBvLX7sLfVoVBnYv7CHyx257V5qwpbmgH\/s560\/screenshot.22139.jpg\"){kind=link}
![<\/a><\/div>\nWhat would Elf abd Safety say today about running a bus through a building site? <\/span>But if the bus is there when people move in, they will use it!\u00a0<\/span>Today’s route planner please note.<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n\nThere is more to come next week.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nDon’t miss the upcoming thrilling episode.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Saturday 12th August\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dateline Sunday 29 May 1949 The two bus operators, Portsmouth Corporation and Southdown, started the first services to Leigh Park at the end of May 1949. Both operators chose a fairly low key advance into the embryo housing estate. Southdown’s 46 an 46a\u00a0provided a somewhat more complex service to Hayling Island. The company simply extended one journey an hour to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camcab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhNc_tIiDpeME2CcSBQKhIwOWseL5bCOd0MSmClLRgwa7JJUOAc6RLS3jO_b0_NiS1rv-81ZSQesRgkW-ZnY37HJMa1_m4GM1eQOhIP8sgBxBYIUyUdQW7hIU1ioHn8jlHUQDiI5RU9YnBZKdTrPDeq6sjVD6FYiGLVXgbmRgOzfCDLoaE-3n-yw17xBXTq\/s910\/screenshot.22094.jpg\"){kind=link}