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Post by sparko74 on Apr 6, 2021 19:20:39 GMT 1
Can anyone remember back in the very early 80's a National Express service, 281 I think, that crossed over the Pennines? I remember getting it with my mum from Bradford to Colne. I think it went to Blackpool but not sure.
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Post by Bradford Traveller on Apr 6, 2021 21:43:36 GMT 1
Can anyone remember back in the very early 80's a National Express service, 281 I think, that crossed over the Pennines? I remember getting it with my mum from Bradford to Colne. I think it went to Blackpool but not sure. Remember it running but don't remember traveling on it. Replacement for the WYRCC J1/J2, stopper via Keighley and East Lancashire towns. Mid 80s route altered to run via Calder Valley towns, then via Accrington etc. I think this variation ran through from the Sheffield Interchange (this was a bus garage just outside Sheffield where many routes departed at 15:00, not the bus station opposite Sheffield Midland). |
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Post by ratty on Apr 7, 2021 11:01:43 GMT 1
I might be wrong, but I think when I started at Blackpool Transport in 1996, the 281 still ran, and did indeed go to Sheffield in about 6 hours. What I do know is that although the NE service dropped me in the bus Station, I decided that although it was dearer by train, the 1 hour 20 mins on the train, meant I was back home with my wife and kids, eaten my tea/dinner, read the paper, put my clothes in the washer, probably dried them as well before the NE had arrived in Halifax!! Plus I hadn't died of boredom or travel sickness. Yes, I know, a bus driver of 42 years that has travel sickness on a bus as a passenger, takes some believing!!!  |
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