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Contents

50 BUS JOURNEYS

LONDON AND THE HOME COUNTIES

1 A Divine Capital Taster

Paddington to Bow Church (by Fran Martin)

2 Simply Red: a Capital Route

Trafalgar Square to Blackwall (by Alastair Willis)

3 Shades of the Suburbs: London’s Social Mix

Clapham Junction to Shoreditch (by Francesca Rushton

and Gregory Gardner)

4 Red Bus at Night: Clubber’s Delight

Trafalgar Square to Cockfosters (by Rebecca Reynolds)

5 Natural Selection: Downe Your Way

Bromley to Downe (by Brian Grigg)

6 South through Surrey: By Bus to Dorking

Kingston upon Thames to Dorking (by Martin Stribblehill)

7 A Sussex Centurion

Horsham to Burgess Hill (by Brian Grigg)

8 Three Counties River Run 37

High Wycombe to Reading (by Kate Booth)

BUS STOP: GREEN AND RED

SOUTHERN ENGLAND

9 Into the Magic Forest: Pony Country

Southampton to Lymington (by Jane Westlake)

10 Beautifully Bleak: Visiting West Wight

Newport to Totland (by Emily Bullock)

11 Moonraker Country

Trowbridge to Swindon (by Vicki Messam)

12 The Secret Delights of North Hampshire

Newbury to Andover (by Pauline Phillips)

13 The Purbeck Breezer

Bournemouth to Swanage (by Angela Simpkins)

BUS STOP: ARE BUSES BORING?

SOUTHWEST ENGLAND

14 The Jurassic Coast: West

Exeter to Lyme Regis (by Hilary Bradt)

15 The Jurassic Coast: East

Lyme Regis to Poole (by Ronald Lee)

16 Vintage Seaside: Off to Sand Bay

Weston-super-Mare to Sand Bay (by Fraser Balaam)

17 By Bus Along the Atlantic Highway

Barnstaple to Hartland (by Nicky Gardner)

18 Dipping into Devon’s Past

Okehampton to Newton Abbot (by Janice Booth)

BUS STOP: BRITAIN’S RAREST BUS

19 Sauntering through the South Hams

Plymouth to Dartmouth (by John Deacon)

MIDLANDS AND EAST ANGLIA

20 Over the Hills to Chippy

Banbury to Chipping Norton (by Peter Draper)

21 Orbital Delights

Birmingham circular route (by Nicky Gardner)

22 Austin to Elgar: Beyond Brummagem

Birmingham to Worcester (by Nigel Roberts)

23 A Tale of Two Doctors: Prose and Poison

Staff ord to Lichfi eld (by Richard Lakin)

24 The Medieval and Postmodern Fens

Chatteris to Cambridge (by Anna Blair)

25 From End of the Pier to Under the Pier

Great Yarmouth to Southwold (by Laurence Mitchell)

26 With the Sea to your Right

Cromer to King’s Lynn (by Laurence Mitchell)

BUS STOP: A FAMILY TALE

WALES AND THE BORDERS

27 Off a’s Country: Westward to Wales

Ludlow to Knighton (by Les Lumsdon)

28 Border Crossing

Hereford to Llandrindod Wells (by Tim Locke)

29 Through Snowdonia: Wild Wales

Bangor to Aberystwyth (by Julie Brominicks)

30 A Taste of Wild Wales

Aberystwyth to Tregaron (by Nicky Gardner)

31 East to West Across North Wales

Wrexham to Barmouth (by Tony Hopkins)

32 Cutting Across the Brecon Beacons

Newtown to Cardiff (by Tudor Thomas)

BUS STOP: COMMUNITY BUS SERVICES

THE PENNINES

33 Mills Along the Derwent Valley

Derby to Bakewell (by Helen Moat)

34 Hey Diddle Diddle, the Cat and the Fiddle

Buxton to Macclesfi eld (by Ann Clark)

35 A Peek at the Peaks: Off to Mam Tor

Sheffi eld to Castleton (by Ian M Packham)

36 Crossing the Buttertubs: Northern Dalesman

Morecambe to Richmond (by Colin Speakman)

37 A Wensleydale Double Delight

Leyburn to Gayle (by Richard Kingsbury)

BUS STOP: BENDY OR BORIS?

CUMBRIA AND NORTHUMBERLAND

38 Escape from Penrith

Penrith to Windermere (by Ruth Kershaw and Paul Heels)

39 The Honister Rambler

Lake District circular route (by Michael Holmes)

40 Coals to Newcastle: Tyne Tees Express

Middlesbrough to Newcastle upon Tyne (by Brian Robson)

41 Coast to Coast

Carlisle to Newcastle upon Tyne (by Carol Purves)

42 North Sea Coastal Splendour

Newcastle upon Tyne to Berwick-upon-Tweed (by David Beilby)

BUS STOP: TRAMS AND TROLLEYBUSES

SCOTLAND

43 By Bus with the Bard: a Burns Encounter

Dumfries to Edinburgh (by Richard West)

44 Exploring the Tweed Valley

Berwick-upon-Tweed to Galashiels (by Richard West)

45 Essential Scotland

Glasgow to Campbeltown (by Deirdre Forsyth)

46 Jewel in the Clyde: the Isle of Arran

Brodick to Blackwaterfoot (by Helen Hughes)

47 The 456 to Inverlussa: a Jura Journey

Feolin to Inverlussa (by David Hoult)

48 Four Firths in the Far North

Inverness to Thurso (by Eric Newton)

BUS STOP: LOST AND FOUND

49 Suas Gu Deas: Going ‘up South’

Berneray to Eriskay (by Rhona NicDhùghaill)

50 Next Stop St Kilda: By Bus Across Harris

Tarbert to Hushinish (by Fiona Rintoul)

POSTSCRIPTS

Marking Time

Meet the Team

Index of Bus Operators

Index of Place Names