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[otd] 4th November 2000 - Final printed Great Britain Bus Timetable
 
[otd] 4th November 2000 - Final printed Great Britain Bus Timetable
Posted by grahame at 05:38, 4th November 2025
 
25 years ago today - 4th November 2000 - publication of final edition of the Great Britain Bus Timetable.



Fascinating to see how some of the services that were very thin have been lost completely, but others which weren't frequent are now much more frequent.




Re: [otd] 4th November 2000 - Final printed Great Britain Bus Timetable
Posted by Mark A at 09:16, 4th November 2025
 
Never heard of that, and what a candid graphic on the cover.

Mark

Re: [otd] 4th November 2000 - Final printed Great Britain Bus Timetable
Posted by chuffed at 11:40, 4th November 2025
 
I had one from Southern Vectis  ( late 80s?) which had a most amusing front and back cover.

The front cover showed a bucolic country scene with an old country farmer in a bus shelter with a printed timetable. An old lady is cycling in the mello mists of an Autumn morning, to church and the cows are grazing contentedly in the fields.

The back cover shows the bus shelter partially demolished, the old lady in the road, bike wheel spinning, the farmer dazed and winded, the cows upside down in the field ....all because a lightning bolt from the clouds is saying 'the next bus to.......and there were references to a digital scrolling display on it somehere....


Prophetic or what ?

Nowadays , you are only likely to get those reactions when the bus actually turns up.....

 
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