In message , Neil Williams
writes
On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 21:26:34 GMT, wrote:

I remember on the RMs once when somebody kept pulling on the cord. The bus
driver leaned out of his cab into the bus and told everybody off.

I got told off once for using the bell *at all* on a Blackpool tram.
Apparently the expectation was that you tell the conductor when you
want to get off, and that that was his job.

And I had the same on a WMPTE Leyland National once (in the early
eighties).

I rang the bell and the driver gave me a bit of a tongue-lashing saying
that it wasn't necessary on one man operated buses. I then pointed out
that the said vehicle was built with bell pushes and after the
introduction of OPO.

With hindsight, I must have sounded like a prime anorak! Still right,
though.......
--
Ian Jelf, MITG
Birmingham, UK

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