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Towards Birmingam

Towards Birmingam

Does this bus go into town?, originally uploaded by H4NUM4N. Look closely…

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Brum Link 21st April

Found this on teh interwebs: Ask The Driver « Twmdriver’s Weblog – Ever wanted to ask a bus driver a question that wasn’t “How much to town, mate?”. TWMDriver is ready and willing to answer your questions…

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We can has daysaver

My new favourite blog is Twmdriver – as the name suggests the blog of a driver on a TWM bus. It’s honest, well written, funny, and has that righteous anger of a world not quite how it should be. It reminds me a lot of Random Acts of Reality – the blog of a London E.M.T (ambulance driver/medic) – although there, so far, has been a lot less blood. Tom Reynolds the pseudonymious ambulance author has done a fine job in keeping that blog interesting over the years, and it has spawned a book and a radio play. I really hope that Twmdriver can keep it up too. What might be interesting to other would-be bloggers is that this is not the first time that TWMdriver has tried to start a blog – “I have tried several times to start a blog about my life driving a bus. Each time, though, i have hit a wall and can never think of things to write. Now with the wonder that is Twitter I can post little snippets on the road and then, I hope, expand on them at a later date.”. There are also as we’ve previously mentioned Bus Driving...

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You wait fifty odd years

And then you can watch blurry unsaturated footage of some buses on You Tube. Been scratching my head as to where the main vantage point for this was, but I can’t quite place it (some might be filmed from opposite where the Square Peg is now, maybe?).

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you wait years for one, and…

you wait years for one, and…

then Centro go and do it for you.One weekend a year or two back I spent taking photos of those statues you get on bus timetables round Brum. I was intending to get pics of them all and put them on some sort of interactive map, but I never got round to it. Centro have tho.

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