On 14 Nov, 14:05, Mr Thant
wrote:
On 11 Nov, 10:01, Stephen Furley wrote:

Does anybody have a full list of the announcements available, other than the
route, destination and next stop?

"Ticket inspectors operate on this bus" (I think I've only ever heard
it on bendies)

U

I was at Euston bus station when a bus came round (people inside and
outside looking bemused) making an external announcement that "this
bus is under attack". I think this was before ibus though.

"MIG" wrote
I was at Euston bus station when a bus came round (people inside and
outside looking bemused) making an external announcement that "this
bus is under attack". I think this was before ibus though.

That was a pre-ibus thing. I've heard it a couple of times.
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Andrew

"Andrew Heenan" wrote ...
I was at Euston bus station when a bus came round (people inside and
outside looking bemused) making an external announcement that "this
bus is under attack". I think this was before ibus though.
That was a pre-ibus thing. I've heard it a couple of times.

This example is from outside London:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=iDGHuNfQZjA

I think the London version sounds less panicky.
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Andrew

On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:38:09 -0000, "Andrew Heenan"
wrote:

"Andrew Heenan" wrote ...
I was at Euston bus station when a bus came round (people inside and
outside looking bemused) making an external announcement that "this
bus is under attack". I think this was before ibus though.
That was a pre-ibus thing. I've heard it a couple of times.

This example is from outside London:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=iDGHuNfQZjA

I think the London version sounds less panicky.

That looks like a London bus but it's going to Brighton...

"James Farrar" wrote:
This example is from outside London:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=iDGHuNfQZjA
I think the London version sounds less panicky.
That looks like a London bus but it's going to Brighton...

Metrobus (Go-Ahead Group) operates from SE London through a lot of of Sussex
to the south coast.

Their allover red buses are mostly confined to SE London, however.
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On Nov 15, 11:06*am, "Andrew Heenan" wrote:
"James Farrar" wrote:
This example is from outside London:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=iDGHuNfQZjA
I think the London version sounds less panicky.
That looks like a London bus but it's going to Brighton...

Metrobus (Go-Ahead Group) operates from SE London through a lot of of Sussex
to the south coast.

Their allover red buses are mostly confined to SE London, however.

They seem to be better at keeping the right colours in the right
places now. Till fairly recently, it was common to see garish yellow
and blue buses on routes like the 261 (London), but it doesn't seem to
happen any more.

"MIG" wrote:
Their allover red buses are mostly confined to SE London.
They seem to be better at keeping the right colours in the right
places now. Till fairly recently, it was common to see garish
yellow and blue buses on routes like the 261 (London), but it
doesn't seem to happen any more.

That was partly a tender thing - the 261 was the very last contract before
the "red rule" came in, so it seemed to linger longer.
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Andrew

On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:38:09 -0000, Andrew Heenan wrote:

I was at Euston bus station when a bus came round (people inside and
outside looking bemused) making an external announcement that "this
bus is under attack". I think this was before ibus though.
That was a pre-ibus thing. I've heard it a couple of times.

This example is from outside London:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=iDGHuNfQZjA

I think the London version sounds less panicky.

Why doesn't it just send an automatic radio message to control telling
them to call 999, rather than relying on passers-by?

On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 13:52:31 +0000, asdf
wrote:

Why doesn't it just send an automatic radio message to control telling
them to call 999, rather than relying on passers-by?

Because it might be too late, and also because it may act (like a
burglar alarm bell) as a deterrent.

Neil

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