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English Riviera Sightseeing, rain or shine « Busman's Holiday

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The occasional adventures of a heritage bus driver. A Day in the Life of a Bus Conductor. A Transport of Delight – Flanders & Swann. Conducting for Wilts and Dorset, 1973. How to drive a vintage bus. English Riviera Sightseeing, rain or shine. We’re just coming to the end of our first three weeks on the sightseeing bus and the popularity of our tours has been, rather like the weather of late, mixed. But there have been some highlights, such as the one pictured below. We’ve had a few days like this ...

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A Day in the Life of a Bus Conductor « Busman's Holiday

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The occasional adventures of a heritage bus driver. A Day in the Life of a Bus Conductor. A Transport of Delight – Flanders & Swann. Conducting for Wilts and Dorset, 1973. How to drive a vintage bus. A Day in the Life of a Bus Conductor. Although everything described in this article is true, the events didn’t all happen on the same day, nor to the same person. It is presented here to give you a flavour of what has become perhaps one of the UK’s most unusual jobs: a bus conductor on a public service.

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Busman's Holiday « The occasional adventures of a heritage bus driver « Page 2

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The occasional adventures of a heritage bus driver. A Day in the Life of a Bus Conductor. A Transport of Delight – Flanders & Swann. Conducting for Wilts and Dorset, 1973. How to drive a vintage bus. Newer posts →. The Weston-Keynsham Shuttle with YDL318. Some private hire duties with heritage buses involve driving many miles to reach a far-distant destination. On others, the destination is just around the corner. For this job, it was both. By the time everyone had boarded we had half a bus-load. Und...

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A Transport of Delight – Flanders & Swann « Busman's Holiday

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The occasional adventures of a heritage bus driver. A Day in the Life of a Bus Conductor. A Transport of Delight – Flanders & Swann. Conducting for Wilts and Dorset, 1973. How to drive a vintage bus. A Transport of Delight – Flanders & Swann. Music has always played a big part in my life but one song in particular may well have helped form my budding interest in buses as a child. Quite often my Dad would play me a record on the old radiogram. Remember those? Leave a Reply Cancel reply. You are commenting...

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Conducting for Wilts & Dorset, 1973 « Busman's Holiday

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The occasional adventures of a heritage bus driver. A Day in the Life of a Bus Conductor. A Transport of Delight – Flanders & Swann. Conducting for Wilts and Dorset, 1973. How to drive a vintage bus. Conducting for Wilts and Dorset, 1973. Conducting was a completely different job in winter! In the summer some buses got very hot and I especially hated the Bristol FLFs which had very few opening windows. It wasn’t safe to run with the doors open either, although when almost empty we sometimes did. However,...

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Maudslay FJ6154 returns to Exeter: Empty to Depot « Busman's Holiday

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The occasional adventures of a heritage bus driver. A Day in the Life of a Bus Conductor. A Transport of Delight – Flanders & Swann. Conducting for Wilts and Dorset, 1973. How to drive a vintage bus. Maudslay FJ6154 returns to Exeter: Empty to Depot. Having performed faultlessly in Exeter the previous day, Exeter Corporation No 5 gathered up her skirts and headed back to mid Devon, ‘Empty to Depot’. In which cameraman Mike rides inside the bus during its historic arrival in Exeter. Thanks for reading!

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How to drive a vintage bus « Busman's Holiday

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The occasional adventures of a heritage bus driver. A Day in the Life of a Bus Conductor. A Transport of Delight – Flanders & Swann. Conducting for Wilts and Dorset, 1973. How to drive a vintage bus. How to drive a vintage bus. It could be argued that the skills required to drive a vintage* bus successfully are significantly greater than those required to drive a modern bus or coach. THE SAME, BUT DIFFERENT. THE CAB – A LONG WAY UP! The handbrake (parking brake) is nearly always mechanical and the handbr...