{"id":4001,"date":"2024-03-22T06:37:09","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T06:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/not-sheffield-but-doncaster-catch-up-3-5\/"},"modified":"2024-03-22T06:37:09","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T06:37:09","slug":"not-sheffield-but-doncaster-catch-up-3-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/not-sheffield-but-doncaster-catch-up-3-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Sheffield But Doncaster Catch-Up (3)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Numbers Game – Not All Bad?<\/span><\/p>\n The above book does contain part of a timetable leaflet after the PTE absorbed these routes.<\/p>\n Over the years, the detail changed but the broad pattern remained. Lindholme Aerodrome (blind on the bus at the top) became RAF Limdholme and then just Lindholme.<\/p>\n The route numbers shown above were consistent with the SYPTE policy because the 18x routes remained resolutely in South Yorkshire, but the\u00a0 2xx service numbers applied to buses (and the associated service pattern) than continued to Goole. Goole, of course, is in East Yorkshire (where be dragons) hence the “out of county” numbers.<\/p>\n The 87a has become 388 rather than 387a to allow the latter number to be used for occasional evening and Sunday journeys which have a portmanteau route, different from the daytime 87.\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n … every 10 minutes with half hourly to Thorne and hourly to Goole.<\/p><\/div>\n … just off the top of the above map. Evening journeys continue to Thorne also as 84 …<\/p>\n … whilst 84a is used for buses to Lindolme (now “Prison”) which shuttle from Barnby Dun with no journeys through from Doncaster.\u00a0<\/p>\n The timetable presentation is economical with the truth as the 84b is a very large lollipop, not shown on the PTE map, but available for the current routes on the PTE non-leaflet.<\/p>\n It should be shown as a circular with point times as follows:-<\/p>\n At least, then, you would know which way the buses go round the loop.<\/p><\/div>\n Once again the 84a becomes\u00a0 385 and not 384a, leaving the latter for a renumbered evening service as with the 387. Former 84b buses to Sykehouse will show 386.<\/p><\/div>\n Which leaves is with the elephant in the room question.<\/p><\/div>\n The original (called Lindholme) is lower right. The newer facility is called HMP Moorland and is the part served by the 84a\/385.<\/p><\/div>\n