The Answer’s A Lemon
The timetable on Lemon’s web site is, perhaps, a little clearer than the over complex presentation c/o Traveline.
The route runs seven days a week with just the first journey out not operating at weekends. It serves areas to thy east of the city centre which lack a convenient and direct bus into town.
It wiggles, as does everything omnibological in Bristol, through the city centre …
Generally the publicity is good, but badly let down by a poor computer generated route map.
A spokesman explained a bit more.
And the article, but not the timetable, gives the route in more detail.
So please Big Lemon, give us a proper map showing stops and road names clearly!
But this blog will ignore Pat’s Jess and introduce its readers to this late felin Jess.
The report explains all, with one huge mistake.
Jess was not a resident of Andover Station, Jess was a cat; and therefore in full charge of Andover station!
A good and noble way of remembering such a much loved character!
… with dogged competitor Suncruiser offering an “interesting” mix of older OT conversions.
Viscount Travel is a recent contender with its “heritage” vehicles.
Their publicity shows a VR, now classed as vintage, but fbb can find no picture of the vehicle in reality.
fbb, showing his needle sharp memory and acute observational skills (snigger snigger) immediately recognised the bus.
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It was, of course, the open topper run for just one season by Hulleys of Baslow …
… before Stagecoach killed off any chance of success with its much expanded Peak Sightseer services.
But Ben Gilligan the Boss of Esst Yorkshire is far from happy. One of his competitors …
… yes it’s Suncruiser, has slapped a poster over the top of the Beachcomber poster and route map.
There is just a small possibility that he is not known to any of fbb’s transport enthusiast readers. But here is a brief biography.
The only translation necessary for the full and intellectual understanding of the above paragraph is to explain “gandy dancer“. Gandy was a manufacturer of large agricultural tools …
… including those in use on the railroad in the days before mechanisation.
The “dancer” refers to the songs and rhythmic body movements used by the mainly black workforce as they sought to cope with the back breaking work of keeping the track level and aligned.
They would probably be called “platelayers” in the UK.
If the cover illustrations are anything to go by, the present publisher’s name of “Pulp Fiction” could not be more appropriate.
The covers offer a vicarious joy in themselves. Here is just a sample.
Or maybe you would like this one.
You just have to wonder what dark deeds Kiamichi Bill gets up to as a Switcher on the Railroad.
Sadly, It Was The Wrong Size
Although it fitted the hole in the top of the cistern, the screw thread thingy on which a contraption screwed to fix it to the lid, was too small and you can’t by a new screwed thingy on its own. Not only that, but the white ribbed plunger that activates the flush valve is also too small, so when it activates, it falls out.
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A generous application of abrasive liquid kitchen cleaner and much manipulation of the plunger eased the embarrassing stickability and prevented the continuous flush problem. Nasty and bad for the water bills!
Talking Of Scarborough …
Yes, you did read it right! Just under £600 to make your toy trains go.
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… bought ten years ago. He shelled out a whole £45 of his precious pennies on this essential electrical equipment. Now it will cost you £53 and, no doubt more as inflation inflates.
fbb has taken on his duties as taste tester VERY seriously – well someone has to do it – and pronounces them super yummy; even though, normally, he is not at all keen on coconut!
To reduce pressure, Monday’s and Tuesday’s blogs will be a two-parter based on a recent television programme, but expanded and enhanced.
