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On 03/09/2019 14:24, Basil Jet wrote:
On 01/09/2019 12:44, MissRiaElaine wrote: I spent 15+ years working for British Rail, not British Trains. It will always be a railway station as far as I'm concerned. If you'd spent fifteen years working for National Express or Green Line, what would you call a coach station? I did spend 15 years working for National Express actually, funny you should say that. After I left the railways I moved sideways. The National Express HQ is, believe it or not, based at Digbeth *Coach* Station in Birmingham. -- Ria in Aberdeen [Send address is invalid, use sipsoup at gmail dot com to reply direct] |
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MissRiaElaine wrote:
On 03/09/2019 14:24, Basil Jet wrote: On 01/09/2019 12:44, MissRiaElaine wrote: I spent 15+ years working for British Rail, not British Trains. It will always be a railway station as far as I'm concerned. If you'd spent fifteen years working for National Express or Green Line, what would you call a coach station? I did spend 15 years working for National Express actually, funny you should say that. After I left the railways I moved sideways. The National Express HQ is, believe it or not, based at Digbeth *Coach* Station in Birmingham. Why is that in any way surprising? |
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On 03/09/2019 23:43, Recliner wrote:
MissRiaElaine wrote: On 03/09/2019 14:24, Basil Jet wrote: On 01/09/2019 12:44, MissRiaElaine wrote: I spent 15+ years working for British Rail, not British Trains. It will always be a railway station as far as I'm concerned. If you'd spent fifteen years working for National Express or Green Line, what would you call a coach station? I did spend 15 years working for National Express actually, funny you should say that. After I left the railways I moved sideways. The National Express HQ is, believe it or not, based at Digbeth *Coach* Station in Birmingham. Why is that in any way surprising? Given that some people here seem to think it's surprising to call buses buses and coaches coaches it seemed possible. A lot of people seem to want to call coach stations bus stations as well. -- Ria in Aberdeen [Send address is invalid, use sipsoup at gmail dot com to reply direct] |
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"MissRiaElaine" wrote in message ... On 03/09/2019 23:43, Recliner wrote: MissRiaElaine wrote: On 03/09/2019 14:24, Basil Jet wrote: On 01/09/2019 12:44, MissRiaElaine wrote: I spent 15+ years working for British Rail, not British Trains. It will always be a railway station as far as I'm concerned. If you'd spent fifteen years working for National Express or Green Line, what would you call a coach station? I did spend 15 years working for National Express actually, funny you should say that. After I left the railways I moved sideways. The National Express HQ is, believe it or not, based at Digbeth *Coach* Station in Birmingham. Why is that in any way surprising? Given that some people here seem to think it's surprising to call buses buses and coaches coaches it seemed possible. A lot of people seem to want to call coach stations bus stations as well. Don't know about elsewhere but Barton Busses in Nottingham(shire) traditionally ran a fleet of what I would call coaches on their the single decker routes made getting on and off a full bus rather slow tim -- Ria in Aberdeen [Send address is invalid, use sipsoup at gmail dot com to reply direct] |
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In message , at 19:01:30 on Wed, 4 Sep 2019,
tim... remarked: Given that some people here seem to think it's surprising to call buses buses and coaches coaches it seemed possible. A lot of people seem to want to call coach stations bus stations as well. Don't know about elsewhere but Barton Busses in Nottingham(shire) traditionally ran a fleet of what I would call coaches on their the single decker routes Having used them myself, they are just single-decker buses. made getting on and off a full bus rather slow Ditto bendy-buses with the centre doors sealed off (for whatever reason). -- Roland Perry |
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On 04/09/2019 17:28, MissRiaElaine wrote:
A lot of people seem to want to call coach stations bus stations as well. There's no obvious difference between the structures - you'd be hard pushed to tell them apart unless the vehicles were present. In America they seem to say "Greyhound bus" where we would say "coach". I imagine all of their coach stations are called bus stations. -- Basil Jet recently enjoyed listening to Swans - 1984 - Cop & Young God |
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"Roland Perry" wrote in message ... In message , at 19:01:30 on Wed, 4 Sep 2019, tim... remarked: Given that some people here seem to think it's surprising to call buses buses and coaches coaches it seemed possible. A lot of people seem to want to call coach stations bus stations as well. Don't know about elsewhere but Barton Busses in Nottingham(shire) traditionally ran a fleet of what I would call coaches on their the single decker routes Having used them myself, they are just single-decker buses. before 1989 - when "Barton Busses" ceased to exist? I see that it was actually called Barton Transport https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barton_Transport tim |
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