Well there is one picture.
https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8051/8...d9fd0abf_b.jpg

"District Line" wrote in message
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Well there is one picture.
https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8051/8...d9fd0abf_b.jpg

OMG there are three young children in the picture

Pixilate them out immediately

tim

On Mon, 18 Sep 2017 13:48:45 +0100, "tim..."
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"District Line" wrote in message
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Well there is one picture.
https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8051/8...d9fd0abf_b.jpg

OMG there are three young children in the picture

Pixilate them out immediately

It's curious that there's only three: I thought kids were magnetically
attracted to the front and back seats of buses.

On Monday, 18 September 2017 14:31:51 UTC+1, Recliner wrote:

It's curious that there's only three: I thought kids were magnetically
attracted to the front and back seats of buses.

In my experience kids HATE school buses, and wait for the next available standard bus. DRIVERS hate schoolkids and will do ANYTHING to be very early or very late for the route. My local bus is the 655. I holds about 100 but it is normally about half full.

I think I use the 655 more often than the school children.

On Mon, 18 Sep 2017 09:52:14 -0700 (PDT), Offramp
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I think I use the 655 more often than the school children.

So non-school people can use school buses in London?

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jhk

On Mon, 18 Sep 2017 19:57:45 +0200, Jarle Hammen Knudsen
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On Mon, 18 Sep 2017 09:52:14 -0700 (PDT), Offramp
wrote:

I think I use the 655 more often than the school children.

So non-school people can use school buses in London?

From the picture, it's not actually a school bus as such, just an
ordinary double-decker bus deployed to a route aimed mainly at school
kids.

Recliner wrote:

On Mon, 18 Sep 2017 19:57:45 +0200, Jarle Hammen Knudsen
wrote:

On Mon, 18 Sep 2017 09:52:14 -0700 (PDT), Offramp
wrote:

I think I use the 655 more often than the school children.

So non-school people can use school buses in London?

From the picture, it's not actually a school bus as such, just an
ordinary double-decker bus deployed to a route aimed mainly at school
kids.

hich is what a school bus is in London (and I think UK) We don't have
the silly waste of separate school buses that the US have. Although that
does mean that some of ours are not very good buses.

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Mark

In message , at 19:57:45 on
Mon, 18 Sep 2017, Jarle Hammen Knudsen remarked:

I think I use the 655 more often than the school children.

So non-school people can use school buses in London?

If a bus has a "number" from the local fare stage operator, I don't see
why not.

On the other hand, outside London they are often privately run by other
companies, with specific termly season tickets.
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Roland Perry

On 2017-09-19 06:31:59 +0000, Roland Perry said:

If a bus has a "number" from the local fare stage operator, I don't see
why not.

On the other hand, outside London they are often privately run by other
companies, with specific termly season tickets.

They are usually open to the public so BSOG can be claimed (typically a
cash fare is paid by a member of the public using one). Whether the
public would want to go within 100 miles of them is quite another
question.

Neil
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Neil Williams
Put my first name before the @ to reply.

On Mon, 18 Sep 2017 19:57:45 +0200, Jarle Hammen Knudsen
wrote:

On Mon, 18 Sep 2017 09:52:14 -0700 (PDT), Offramp
wrote:

I think I use the 655 more often than the school children.

So non-school people can use school buses in London?

When we lived in Berkshire my sons went to school on a private
charter. Here in Somerset I think all the local secondary schools
run school buses which are usually (but not exclusively) hand me down
coaches provided by local coach companies and most don't appear in
public timetables. There is one route from a sixth form college
which does appear in the timetable and I phoned the operator once to
ask if it was open to use by non-pupils (by the time I wanted to get
on it would have dropped at least part of the load) and the person I
talked to didn't really know but guessed (!) I'd be OK. In the end I
used a different mode so I never found out!

The simple, but probably unsatisfactory, answer is "it varies". There
is no hard and fast rule.