{"id":3831,"date":"2024-02-26T02:29:44","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T02:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/its-as-easi-as-a-b-c-not-1\/"},"modified":"2024-02-26T02:29:44","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T02:29:44","slug":"its-as-easi-as-a-b-c-not-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/its-as-easi-as-a-b-c-not-1\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s As Easi As A B C – NOT! (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"
That’s\u00a0A<\/span>skern,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>B<\/span>urghwallis,\u00a0<\/span>C<\/span>ampsall<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n … and Yorkshire Traction …<\/p>\n This all worked out very happily and led to that joy of a passenger’s life, namely a good reliable and stable service. Sadly he creations of the PTE and later privatisation led to much re-jiggling and a good few changes.\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n The corporation routes …<\/p>\n Ultimately First Bus had a tidy up to create a sensible block of routes all running our of town along the A1.<\/p>\n But now the 54 just went one way round the Woodlands loop, not alternately as with the 177 and 178.<\/p><\/div>\n … but, to add to the fun, a 50B now served both bits evenings, Sundays and early mornings. This is a chunk of the current Saturday timetable.<\/p>\n The terminus of the then 51\/51A was given as Instoneville which is a sort of detached estate at Askern.<\/p>\n As far as fbb can tell, with no corroborative evidence. buses just reversed at an innocuous junction in the middle of the housing. The time point was Avenue Road Green Lane …<\/p>\n … with no turning facility, so just a reverse.<\/p>\n There is no evidence of the terminus now; buses no longer serve Instoneville estate but only stop on the main road.<\/p><\/div>\n … which, of course they didn’t!\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n In the opposite direction there is some help from the point times\u00a0<\/p>\n Historically these were West Riding bus routes to Selby and Pontefract which sort of skulked into a small bus station north of the railway bridge, called, surprisingly, North Bridge bus station.<\/p>\n The 412 was a local-to-Doncaster route, the X45 was an occasional evening variant so we are looking for 405, 408, and 409. These are services that passed to Arriva on privatisation.<\/p><\/div>\n