Just in case no one believed me. And one other point, there were over 150 other drivers receiving a similar Diploma so we are providing a very safe bus service here in the Bay.Yesterday was very windy, as was today and being an easterly it was cold. But yesterday the sun shone all day where as today it was dull. Yesterday was busy, today was very quiet.
An other difference between today and yesterday was today the waves crashing over the sea wall were 10 feet high and the road was closed at 18:30, ten minutes after high water. Yesterday the waves were 25 feet high but no one told the powers that be and the road remained open. Strange.
Tomorrow the wind is forecast for easterly, which brings the sea over what is laughingly called the sea wall and 23 mph which is certainly strong enough to give everything on the road at Livermead a drenching. High Tide is for 18:52 by which time I will have finished for the weekend. I might go down and get some photos of buses vanishing under the sea.
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Maybe now Stagecoach will give the Torquay-Paignton-Brixham ferry service another thought?
Re your photo at the top of the page. The bus looks like a Mk1 Leyland National. The location is Vaughan Road.
The building on the right- There was a Wallace Arnold booking office, a Grey Car booking office, and a booking office , I think, for boat trips, and the rest was public toilets- the building originally was part of the old coal stores that used to be on North Quay.
Speaking of waves, there's a construction site right next to where I catch my bus in the afternoon. For quite a while there was a dip in the road there and every time it rained there'd be a big puddle. I used to love watching the pedestrians get splashed every time a bus went past. I'm sure the Bisbane City Council bus drivers did it deliberately.
When I got back from my holidays in February they'd put a drain in, so no more puddles.
Spoil sports.
Having seen the apartment buildings in the background, I thought that it would have been Torquay. But then I don't recall Leyland Nationals being too commonplace in Torquay, neither the 'inner circle' route.
OH Yes John- Torquay had Leyland Nationals.
In my day the inner circle was the 114/5,Used half cab Double deckers, up through Market Street, Hoxton Rd, Ellacombe Church Road, Winsor Rd, Reddenhill Rd, Quinta Road, Hr Warberry Rd to Wellswood, down Babbacombe Road to the Strand, and the reverse.
AS against the circle which was 50/55
55 went straight up Babbacombe Road down Manor Road at St Marychurch, then changed to a 50, through Plainmoor, Forest Road, Shirburn Road to Hatfield cross, down Hatfield Road, Ellacombe Church Rd, Hoxton Road,Princes Rd, Market Street to the Strand, The reverse was 50 to St Marychurch via Ellacombe, then as a 66 down Babbacombe Road.
This was one of the few routes where you could carry in Excess of 1000 passengers in an 8 and a half hr shift- with half hour break. Running time per circuit 30 mins.
Hi David, They gave you that certificate despite you demolishing a bus stop at the college?
Thanks ex DG for the information about the innner circle route, long before my time. And to Anon, the bus shelter was in November 2006; the certificate was for the year 2007 in which I had two RTCs but niether were my fault.
Do they do a certificate for drivers who manage to turn the heaters off on their vehicles when it's blazing hot outside?
During the summer it is not unknown for drivers to be heard begging control for a change of vehicle because the heater control is stuck on hot. The fitters have little sympathy because the same drivers spent all winter complaining the heating didn't work, but then fitters don't have to drive the buses.
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