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Metro Christchurch seems to have pulled at least one gem out of the rubble of cut-backs in bus services - this is the new Blue Line (or B Line) to operate between Princess Margaret Hospital and Belfast in the far north of the city, with some trips extending to Rangiora. It replaces five different routes that used to share the Colombo Street and Papanui Road corridors. Arguably these corridors north of Milton Street carried far too many buses in the day time, even before the earthquakes, with each bus often nudging the next and most only having a handful of passengers. On the other hand these multiple routes were only crudely integrated in off peak. They were operated without consistent or predictable spacing between services during evening and weekend services. Indeed several some services were virtually timed to run simultaneously, such as out-bound 8 and 12 services on weekends - even though they shared the same corridor for probably about 8 km (Milton Street to QEII Drive corner).
All this has now been swept aside and reconstituted as one route, the Blue Line. This is adopting best practice coming in around the world, a flow on from light rail and bus rapid transit.
The core formula is a simplified route, a distinctively branded bus fleet specific to that route, no complicated mix of route numbers or which bus goes where, good frequency and good spread of service hours - high visibility and as reliable and predictable as a tram line!
As has often been campaigned, "how can people buy a product they can't understand' - all the dial up and high tech "next bus" is good, but what better than a logical pattern that embeds itself in the brain, that makes remembering times a simple matter. What is easier than knowing for a large chunk of the day Monday to Saturday (and the middle of the day Sunday)
Blue Line buses run in each direction every 15 minutes. Every ten minutes would be nicer and may indeed come one day when the central city begins really buzzin' again - but 15 minutes if consistent hour after hour is still good all the same. You can check the timetable or online links or get to know the simple same every hour pattern. Or, even if you don't know the exact departure time, or are a casual tourist, just bowl along anyway- there is a 50% chance you won't wait more than 7 minutes, a 97% chance you won't wait more than 15 minutes max. That is within bearable waiting time, particular when the Real Time signage is there to reassure intending passengers the bus is getting closer by the minute.
Another feature of the Blue Line is the spread of hours - a lot of Sunday workers are going to love the new early start, that will allow them to get to work by bus in a way not previously possible unless one could use the Orbiter. Likewise Blue Line runs reasonably late into the evening including Sundays.
The Blue Line timetable format builds on the attractive quality of Metro's new timetable info. The design style of this timetable presentation format may look a bit like it was designed by a kiddies toy manufacturer with lots of exciting colour buttons but these systems work well for the user, ten times more effective and easy to follow than previous timetable layouts.
The simplification comes with a cost - the brave new world of transfers! Services to many outer suburbs have been reduced to mere shuttle buses linking to the Blue Line or transfer points at Malls. This is forced by the cost savings and may be prove to cost a great deal of lost patronage by people who get mucked around once too often.
This said, going against some of the past mediocre marketing efforts, timetables are simple and clear.. Transfer route timetables are fully integrated with mainline bus routes to which passengers tofro the city can transfer and transfer theoretically with relatively little wait.
Of particular note is that persons in these shuttle route areas are curfewed with no services after 7pm at night - apparently they will need to get cabs to and for mainline routes and transfer points if they are not young and fit enough to walk a few minutes further to a mainline or cross town route. This may be very early for after work grocery shopping and getting back to one's home.
It is an unfortunate cut back but possibly the one area of service reduction least likely to effect a large number of people, allowing for the fact that many of those handicapped by age, mental or physical disability etc are less likely to go out by themselves (say for shopping) in the evenings, and more likely to have support people such as family members or care group if going to events.
It also recognises that a lot of people catching buses especially in the outer areas do actually have some access of sorts to vehicles - students and teens in particular - and having regular simple and predictable patterns encourages parents or spouses to meet and drop off at busy bus points close to home, rather than cross town ferrying. I have a suspicion when fuel costs really start to rise, the addiction to car convenience will continue but in this sort of form, that there will be far more short trips made, to mainline bus routes...but keep cross-town routes in high demand areas as well.
Not all areas are winners in these bus route changes and the St Albans block south of Edgeware - from Hills Road to Papanui Road - despite higher density housing than most areas - loses much service quality and frequency. One route section - the 18 St Albans route section between city and Edgeware Road (along which in my experience about 40% of passengers used to board or get get off!) is eliminated completely.
A deviation due to replacement of earthquake damaged sewers has created a far more useful and effective MetroStar route linking much better to central St Albans high density areas, and offering access to far more residents to jobs, schools, shopping and social facilities spread across key sections of the whole city.
Barbadoes Street (and parallel streets such as Madras and Champion Street) one of the city's most densely populated areas inexplicably is reduced to an hourly service (Route 44) for most of the day, yet patrons in outer areas - often nothing but cows, or sea gulls and golf balls - for several kilometres - (such as Route 60) get 15 minute or 30 minute minimum service frequency! This seem a very crappy way to treat the L3 areas with lots of young working population and where over 20% of the population often don't have access to cars.
That is double the value of keeping The MetroStar on Manchester Street and Canon Street - stops which in my regular trips seem to get much better patronage than ever did those two stops bypassed on Edgeware Road (and patrons to those stops can anyway reach other stops on the new deviation in most cases just as easily).
Keeping The Orbiter on Gloucester -Stanmore is another obvious and sensible thing to do - even before the earthquake reduced housing and population, Gayhurst Road area hardly had the population or density to warrant a ten minute service, but the Linwood-Richmond area certainly does.
In the long run the city needs a specialised inner city-suburb service because of the walk/wait/ride ratios involved. When multiple routes came together as they drew closer to the city this need was met - a consistent 15 minute only service is less attractive if actual journeys are shorter. People making ten minute journeys don't want to walk 500 metres and wait 20 minutes for a bus - for short journeys, from high density area, services have to be frequent. And should be in the democratic costing of services' cost per head delivered.
At the same time mobility of the "car less/ less car" inner city suburbs needs to addressed, allowing social movement within areas of common interests and access to social and shopping services. If the Council wants to attract inner city living it must actively promote the inner city as an accessible playground for residents. Relying only on infrequent incoming and outgoing radial bus routes will not achieve that end for the L3 sector, if these services are non-existent, or only hourly; or if cross town or orbital movement is too far out for them to easily utilise.
An inner suburb & city orbital, or perhaps X pattern route - one that links Hagley Park and Hospital, and Central Bus Exchange to the ring of new apartments, central city north east, St Albans, Richmond, Linwood-Stanmore, Waltham , Sydenham, Selwyn Street, Addington (except perhaps those in Riccarton well served by the current diverse route structure) could phase in between half hourly services on those other routes, both increasing total frequency and creating short hop transfer links and connections. - 'NZ In Tranzit', Independent public transport news & commentary and a advocacy for better public transport in Christchurch & NZ. Sunday, December 2, 2012.
Photo by Nick Stoneman, February 2015.
Rock Island suburban train schedule between Englewood and La Salle Street stations, effective October 31, 1965, front and back side, Chuck Zeiler collection.
Using their Trislander aircraft Loganair operates to Scotland’s disparate western and northern islands. Amazing that the Shetland Service can leave Sumburgh for Unst with three stops and take 52 minutes. Ground time is 7 minutes. Each of those sectors cost around £5 then.
Possil station was opened as the northern terminal of the Lanarkshire and Dunbartonshire Railway in 1897. Apparently it closed to passengers in 1908, but reopened in 1934 and survived for a further thirty years.
By the time services were withdrawn in October 1964, the routes centred upon Glasgow Central (Low Level) had a truly abysmal timetable*. In contrast to the frequent 'Blue Trains' running all day on the newly electrified suburban network, the irregularly-spaced 'Central Low Level' services continued with a combination of steam traction and diesel multiple units. Most trains only ran on Mondays to Fridays, with the service being wound up in early evening.
Whifflet Upper, the eastern terminus, had only one departure and one arrival; and even the latter didn't run on Saturdays. Possil enjoyed the grand total of four departures and five arrivals, Monday to Friday. On Saturdays there was one arrival and one departure - the 8.40 am to Rutherglen.
*The error of closing down the central section was soon recognised when, in 1979, it was electrified and reopened as the Argyle Line. Trains are also running to Whifflet again, although now departing from Central (High Level).
Pictured upstairs inside Swift Link liveried Leyland Olympian A952SAE now owned by Kelvin Amos as his display, photo stall and Badgerline history bus.
Manchester Bus Timetable, June 1967. The 24 hour clock was being introduced in timetables at his time rather than the use of am and pm.
With the December timetable change Rotherham Central retained its one and only TPE stopping service .
Seen on a dreary Saturday morning , 185133 pauses working the 1B65 Doncaster - Liverpool Lime Street .
To the right is one of Travelodge's newest hotels opened in Summer 2024 .The hotel is built on a new leisure complex known as Forge Island which also consists of a 8 screen cinema and 6 independent restaurants,
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First West of England Hengrove based 37669 YJ58 RSX is seen approaching Hengrove Depot working a 75 towards Hengrove Depot, a vehicle originally loaned to Lawrence Hill from Bradford however moved to Hengrove for the PVR uplift, a temporary measure until the electrics arrive when it will return to Bradford.
A piece of memorabilia from recent history is seen here having been removed from a timetable case in Biggleswade where it had been used as a backing sheet for more recent timetables. The 'Planets' routes were a series of routes set up in 2006 by Stagecoach radiating from Bedford to Biggleswade / Hitchin (Mars), Flitwick (Jupiter), Wootton / Cranfield (Venus), Luton (Saturn), Kettering (Mercury) and Northampton (Pluto). Ultimately unsuccessful, the branding was a well publicised attempt to improve bus services on these main corridors. For some reason Uranus was not used as one of the route brandings...?!
One of the less well-known bus services in the old LT Country Area is the Stevenage Farmers’ Market bus, which runs on the second Saturday of the month from Ware and Hertford to Stevenage, on which the regular vehicle is RT3254 (LLU 613). During the morning it shuttles between Stevenage bus station and the old town, where the market is held, before returning to Ware after lunch.
My first photo of an 84 since Stagecoach took it over from Abellio from September 2013, an Olympian was in use.
Of course, they went a couple of years back, and the new order are Tridents, the same as Abellio used.
Today, ALX400 17734 (SK52 USN) was doing the honours on the afternoon run, seen here approaching Knaphill Sainsbury's about five minutes early, when it should have still been in Bisley.
In the afternoon, the stop at Knaphill Sainsbury's (in the store car park) is only served on request, so I made sure I waited on the road outside. I'm sure I've once waited for an 84 to come all the way along Redding Way from Hermitage Road, only for it to go Brookwood Lye Road way instead. This time, it turned left into Redding Way, so I assumed it must have someone to drop off at Sainsbury's - but it went past the car park entrance and did run all the way via Redding Way this time rather than Brookwood Lye Road!
About ten minutes later, it came back past along Redding Way out of service, doors open in the heat! Does Aldershot depot run this one?
Timetable as of July 2017:
Hermitage Road, The Surrey 0731
Knaphill, Sainsbury's 0736
Bisley, The Fox 0741
Bisley, Hen & Chickens 0745
West End, The Inn 0750
Collingwood College 0815
Collingwood College 1515
West End, The Inn 1535
Bisley, Hen & Chickens 1538
Bisley, The Fox 1540
Knaphill, Sainsbury's 1544R On request only
Hermitage Road, The Surrey 1549
Bagshot Road, Knaphill, Woking, Surrey.
The Lincoln Gettysburg address train and the Lincoln funeral Train both traversed this route. The PRR in 1936 ran 18 passenger trains over this track in 1936. At one point the PRR K5 Pacific was also tested on this line. At present service is disrupted by numerous everchanging economic events and we are stymied in out efforts to view the K5, The Statesman and the Liberty Limited symbol Passenger Trains because Mr. Peabody and Sherman's Way Back Machine is being repaired.
First West of England WsM based 35681 MF22 SYS is seen approaching WsM interchange working an X5 towards WsM interchange, the route was returned to original routing via the M5 and Locking Road in this timetable change as well as back to decker allocation rather than a mix of Singles and doubles.
Streetcar timetable for the 40 Mt. Washington, 44 Knoxville, 48 Arlington, and 49 Beltzhoover. The 40 was abandoned a few months later on September 3, 1966. The 48 was gone sometime in 1968. The 44 and 49 hung in till November 13, 1971.
Seaford & District asked if they could use my photos on their new timetable leaflets. They chose this photo of their open topper at Beachy Head.
March 2017
Copyright Steve Guess / Seaford & District MMXVII
I hadn't actually intended to take this shot of LMS Ivatt no.41312, instead I was walking back to Ropley to take this train to Alton. However, after consulting the timetable and realising that the loco wasn't far off I decided to stay and risk it in case a break in the clouds held out. Sure enough, as soon as I arrived back at the foot crossing 41312 stormed out of the cutting at Northside Lane with the 13:35 Alresford to Alton service on 11th February 2018. Even the sun held out, just!
I literally threw a bunch of timetables from my collection onto the scanner so I could make an illustration for an article I wrote for Railfan & Railroad's web site: www.railfan.com/extraboard/rf_extra_may2013.php
This is an extrract from the Kelvin Scottish timetabel for the D16 / D17 dated 9th January 1989. The D17 timetable is a bit of an oddity and may well have been filling in a gap in the railway timetable. Mondays to Fridays there were two journies a day between Garelochhead and Tarbet numbered 317 which were operated by Garelochhead Minibuses which only ran if requested.
The interesting thing here is that the services to the new campus work on a circular basis. 18 and 19 going in via Cotton End at West Cotton Close and returning from Bedford Rd via Derngate and the infrequent 20 the other way round.
Source: Scan of original item.
Date: May 29th 1957.
Repository: Local Studies at Swindon Central Library.
From the defunct PATrain commuter rail service that operated out of Pittsburgh between 1974 and 1989.
New timetables for the tendered services taken over as from Monday 17th August. The 17A/B timetable features the statue of the miner outside Kelty library, the 20 timetable features the winding gear and pug from Lochore Colliery which are lcoated within Lochore Meadows, whilst the 89 timetable features the iconic Forth Bridge, now awarded World Heritage Status. The B1 Burtisland local service timetable has also been revised in the same style, featuring an image of Burntisland Parish Church.
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Alton's timetable.
London, United kingdom,2015 … 4 / 6
(Today's picture. That's unannounced.)
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Mandalay - This Life
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(This book is Dedicated to the future artist.)
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U2 - No Line On The Horizon Live in Dublin
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There are two reasons why a person faces the sea.
One, to enjoy a slice of shine in the sea like children bubbling over in the beach.
The other, to brush the dust of memory like an old man who misses old days, staring at the shine
quietly.
Those lead to only one meaning though they do not seem to overlap. It’s a rebirth.
I face myself to change tomorrow, a vague day into something certain.
That is the meaning of a rebirth.
I had a very sweet girlfriend when I was 18.
After she left, I knew the meaning of gentleness for the first time and also a true pain of loss. After
she left, how many times did I depend too much on her, doubt her, envy her and keep on telling lies
until I realized it is love?
I wonder whether a nobody like me could have given something to her who was struggling in the
daily life in those days. Giving something is arrogant conceit. It is nothing but self-satisfaction.
I had been thinking about such a thing.
However, I guess what she saw in me was because I had nothing. That‘s why she tried to see
something in me. Perhaps she found a slight possibility in me, a guy filled with ambiguous, unstable
tomorrow. But I wasted days depending too much on her gentleness.
Now I finally can convey how I felt in those days when we met.
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Title of my book > unforgettable'
Author : Mitsushiro Nakagawa
Out Now.
ISBN978-4-86264-866-2
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Schedule of the next novel.
Still would stand all time.(unforgettable'2)
2018. Spring. It's expected to open it. That's Japanese.
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Autumn.
Theme.
This must be the place I waited years to leave .
Place. Tokyo Big Sight.
Sponsoring. Design festa.
2018.
The uncertainness of date and time.
Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art Annex Gallery.
Place. Sakura-shi, Chiba.
Theme.
From that day ....
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Future's photography place.
2017.
Manhattan. New York. The United States.
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I went to New York 2007.
Day when Japan was left. March 9. Afternoon.
Day where it returned to Japan. March 14. Afternoon.
I am in Japan now.
The photograph in New York starts as follows.
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タイトル。
Altonの時刻表。
次の小説のイメージ。
Still would stand all time.(unforgettable'2)
（いつまでもなくならないだろう）
London, United kingdom,2015 … 4 / 6
(今日の写真。それは未発表です。)
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僕の小説。英語版
My Novel Unforgettable' (This book is Dedicated to the future artist.)
Mitsushiro Nakagawa
All Translated by Yumi Ikeda .
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Title of my book > unforgettable'
Author : Mitsushiro Nakagawa
Out Now.
ISBN978-4-86264-866-2
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次の小説の予定。
Still would stand all time.(unforgettable'2)
（いつまでもなくならないだろう）
２０１８年。春。公開予定。それは日本語です。
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２０１7年。秋。
テーマ。
This must be the place I waited years to leave .
場所。東京ビッグサイト。
Sponsoring. Design festa.
２０１８年。
日時未定。
DIC川村記念美術館付属ギャラリー。
場所。千葉県佐倉市。
テーマ。
あの日から、ずっと…
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今後の撮影地。
２０１７年。
マンハッタン。ニューヨーク。アメリカ。
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Day when Japan was left. March 9. Afternoon.
Day where it returned to Japan. March 14. Afternoon.
I am in Japan now.
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Other than remembering there's a reflection involved, I'm genuinely not sure how I captured all of the elements of this photo at once. Not a double exposure.
Of course no vacation for a transitfan is complete without collecting a few souvenirs :)
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Please do not use this photo or any part of this photo without first asking for permission, thank you.
MacBrayne's was a shipping, bus and road haulage company which served the west coast of Scotland and its islands.
It was jointly owned in 1950 by British Railways (the UK state rail company) and private shipping company Coast Lines (taken over by P&O in 1970).
In 1969, MacBrayne's was transferred to the state owned Scottish Transport Group and in 1973, its shipping operations were merged with the Caledonian Steam Packet Company (wholly owned by BR to serve the Firth of Clyde and also transferred to the STG in 1969) to form Caledonian MacBrayne which still serves the islands of the west coast of Scotland to this day under state ownership. (The bus and road haulage operations of MacBrayne's were privatised under different names in the 80s.)
This is the cover of MacBrayne's 1950 summer brochure for their passenger shipping services. It depicts images of Staffa (top left), Iona (top right) and the Spanish Armada galleon sunk in Tobermory. The red funnel is that of the steamer King George V which served all these locations on a pleasure cruise in summer from Oban 1936-74.