{"id":2681,"date":"2023-05-06T01:29:04","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T01:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/best-oleicester-or-sometimes-not-part-5\/"},"modified":"2023-05-06T01:29:04","modified_gmt":"2023-05-06T01:29:04","slug":"best-oleicester-or-sometimes-not-part-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/best-oleicester-or-sometimes-not-part-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Best O’Leicester – Or Sometimes Not! (Part 5)"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u00a0But First …<\/span><\/p>\n Modellers’ Royal Aspirations<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Order it today and …<\/p>\n … you will get it in the autumn. At \u00a3130 its a good price by todays frightening standards.<\/p><\/div>\n These stops are on Westminster Bridge which isn’t on today’s ceremonial route.<\/p>\n Wherever the shelters are, fbb is pretty certain that HMK will have other things on his mind and not be unduly concerned about a few mucky bus sheyters.<\/p><\/div>\n “Camilla has advised lots of cushions in the old girl for the ride back!”<\/p>\n <\/p><\/div>\n … for a quick trip to Victoria for a practice!<\/p><\/div>\n Oadby caught fbb’s eye; (a) because he has ridden the services, albeit before the latest route change and (b) because Arriva’s presentation is always so utterly awful.<\/p><\/div>\n … is only shown as running to Sandhurst Street which, as we know from yesterday’s blog, is just off the A6 at the start of the main shopping street, The Parade.<\/p>\n But surely the outward timetable should show you where the buses go, NOT just as far as an arbitrary computer generated time point? The inward route, of course, starts at Sandhurst Street.<\/p><\/div>\n As a shot above shows, the bus layby is most definitely on The Parade.\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n … littered with empty space and not at all easy to match with the outward times as many morning trips start at The Parade.<\/p><\/div>\n But, we hear you cry, the 31 does not mention Sandhurst Street (or even The Parade) as it wends its way into the city. Does that mean it doesn’t stop there.<\/p><\/div>\n (Knighton Road is the yellow bit) and the outbound stop is here …<\/p>\n … with the inbound stop on the Leicester side of the junction. Also almost at the junction is Stoneygate Baptist Church, which fbb has, many aeons ago, visited.<\/p>\n You can’t miss it.<\/p><\/div>\n … with apologies for the red wiggly lines. fbb forgot how to get rid of them!<\/p><\/div>\n … and the peak hour X31.<\/p>\n It is odd that Arriva thinks their X31 terminates at a different Haymarket<\/span> bus station – fbb didn’t know Leicester had two!<\/p><\/div>\n