What a 1st week at new job!

[J T]

I say wooden panel, I mean the bit of chipboard they call a seat. Like this style seating (I can't believe I Googled this...)

Wow! Check out that borwn-leather look vinyl! Awesome. And the pattern. So retro.

(In fact, reminds me a bit of Life on Mars. What a good series that was).

Also, on the subject of crashes - I was on the bus a few months ago and some dozy bint stepped out right in front of it. Luckily (for her) the bus driver absolutely STOOD on the brakes and she wasn't hit. Everyone on the bus, however, was slung forward with quite some force. I was sitting upstairs at the back - right in the middle seat, reading the Metro. I ended up on the floor (not sprawled, I kind of caught myself and only went down to one knee). Annoyingly, my copy of Metro went whizzing along the floor towards the front where some git picked it up and starting reading it

I'm just glad I had finished eating my pan au raisin breakfast. I would have been mega-pissed if that had ended up on the floor.

[Harrison]

(In fact, reminds me a bit of Life on Mars. What a good series that was).

Brilliant series. I was so sad when it ended. They are making a follow up series though, set in the 80's and still featuring Hunt.

[Buleste]

The reasoning besign the "design" on the seat covers is for hiding the vomit of late night revellers and kids with travell sickness. Seat belts in buses has always unnerved me. The buses where i live have all the power of a milk float with a flat battery so the seat belts can only be in there if there is a psychopath running around deliberatly ramming buses.

[Harrison]

In contrast the bus drivers in my area are quite mad. I had to brake hard the other night as a bus came flying out of a junction in front of me and hammered it down the road. He couldn't have slowed below 40MPH taking the corner, and it was in service too! I hope there were no passengers on board. But rural buses have always been like that around here.

[Stephen Coates]

(In fact, reminds me a bit of Life on Mars. What a good series that was).

Brilliant series. I was so sad when it ended. They are making a follow up series though, set in the 80's and still featuring Hunt.

I never got to watch that, but it sounds good. Can you buy a video of the series?

I have been on a few fast busses. I thought the X78 went quite fast once. The 19 also went quite fast the other day, and I was standing up. Just glad it didn't have to stop suddenly.

Sitting at the front of the top of a double decker bus easily beats going anywhere in a car. Especially on a nice day.

[Harrison]

Sitting at the front of the top of a double decker bus easily beats going anywhere in a car. Especially on a nice day.

Unless the driver decides to take a detour under a low bridge, then you are buggered!

[J T]

I never got to watch that, but it sounds good. Can you buy a video of the series?

My mum gave me both series on DVD, so yes you can get them (not sure if available on VHS, price etc). Well worth checking out. Great music for that series too. Hope the new one (Ashes to Ashes) set in London in the 80s is as good. 80s music wasn't so good as 70s rock.

I have been on a few fast busses. I thought the X78 went quite fast once. The 19 also went quite fast the other day, and I was standing up. Just glad it didn't have to stop suddenly.

It's the 'X' that makes it fast, just like the XR4x4, XKR, CCX, Bell X-1 and Fireball XL5.

[AlexJ]

I never got to watch that, but it sounds good. Can you buy a video of the series?

I'm pretty sure BBC Worldwide are done with VHS so it won't be available on video, but DVD's are available either separately or as a box set (buying the 2 series separate is slightly cheaper on Amazon for some reason):

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Life-Mars-Co...0425454&sr=8-2

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Life-Mars-Co...0425454&sr=8-1

[TiredOfLife]

Buses on subsidised routs often hammer it.
The reason being, they usually get heavy fines for not keeping to the timetable.