Kevin Fitzpatrick
@probablyonabus.bsky.social
Public transport nerd. Scout. Goth.
Brummie in Banbury.
Brummie in Banbury.
Staying in Oxfordshire today, coming to Faringdon to ride the delightfully bonkers summer Saturday only Faringdon Tourist Bus service, providing a public transport connection to some lovely little villages usually inaccessible.
May 31, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Staying in Oxfordshire today, coming to Faringdon to ride the delightfully bonkers summer Saturday only Faringdon Tourist Bus service, providing a public transport connection to some lovely little villages usually inaccessible.
It's taken 4 attempts, partly my own fault not including this branch previously, partly engineering works prohibiting it, but...
✅️ Treherbert branch
✅️ Valley Lines
✅️ Wales
Now then... it's not even midday and it's gorgeous out in the sun, where now?
✅️ Treherbert branch
✅️ Valley Lines
✅️ Wales
Now then... it's not even midday and it's gorgeous out in the sun, where now?
May 17, 2025 at 10:10 AM
It's taken 4 attempts, partly my own fault not including this branch previously, partly engineering works prohibiting it, but...
✅️ Treherbert branch
✅️ Valley Lines
✅️ Wales
Now then... it's not even midday and it's gorgeous out in the sun, where now?
✅️ Treherbert branch
✅️ Valley Lines
✅️ Wales
Now then... it's not even midday and it's gorgeous out in the sun, where now?
This is how you do socialising, right?
May 13, 2025 at 6:04 AM
This is how you do socialising, right?
Don't know why it's taken me >6 years of living in Oxfordshire to visit Culham with it's cute old station building on the abandoned London bound platform. Off for a walk back north to Cowley for the first leg of a bank holiday Brum v Oxford speedway double header
May 5, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Don't know why it's taken me >6 years of living in Oxfordshire to visit Culham with it's cute old station building on the abandoned London bound platform. Off for a walk back north to Cowley for the first leg of a bank holiday Brum v Oxford speedway double header
You can excuse the unfortunate signal fault royally fucking things up at the moment. But I think there's been a major communication problem here...
April 13, 2025 at 10:05 AM
You can excuse the unfortunate signal fault royally fucking things up at the moment. But I think there's been a major communication problem here...
Coleford.
And, in things I didn't know existed, a railway museum. Sadly not open until 2.30
And, in things I didn't know existed, a railway museum. Sadly not open until 2.30
April 12, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Coleford.
And, in things I didn't know existed, a railway museum. Sadly not open until 2.30
And, in things I didn't know existed, a railway museum. Sadly not open until 2.30
On a bus day out across the Cotswolds. It's still weird seeing former Perry Barr buses out in this part of the world, still showing signs of it's NXWM past with grey 101 branding
March 22, 2025 at 9:31 AM
On a bus day out across the Cotswolds. It's still weird seeing former Perry Barr buses out in this part of the world, still showing signs of it's NXWM past with grey 101 branding
Pewsey.
One of those bus routes and small village rail stations I've wanted to use for a while. Perfect excuse today passing through the area en route to Taunton
One of those bus routes and small village rail stations I've wanted to use for a while. Perfect excuse today passing through the area en route to Taunton
March 15, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Pewsey.
One of those bus routes and small village rail stations I've wanted to use for a while. Perfect excuse today passing through the area en route to Taunton
One of those bus routes and small village rail stations I've wanted to use for a while. Perfect excuse today passing through the area en route to Taunton
It's that time of year
March 1, 2025 at 1:47 PM
It's that time of year
And home.
800 miles, and still like 5 short miles left to complete Wales (damnit...)
800 miles, and still like 5 short miles left to complete Wales (damnit...)
February 17, 2025 at 6:56 PM
And home.
800 miles, and still like 5 short miles left to complete Wales (damnit...)
800 miles, and still like 5 short miles left to complete Wales (damnit...)
Off towards home, via Brum for a bit of post birthday family time
February 17, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Off towards home, via Brum for a bit of post birthday family time
Back into Aberystwyth proper to enjoy the cliff railway and a bit of beach before the T1 back to Carmarthen for the night
February 16, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Back into Aberystwyth proper to enjoy the cliff railway and a bit of beach before the T1 back to Carmarthen for the night
A train from Pwllheli crosses the Dovey as it arrives into the junction with half of a Birmingham service
February 16, 2025 at 7:56 PM
A train from Pwllheli crosses the Dovey as it arrives into the junction with half of a Birmingham service
Made a "pilgrimage" to Dovey Junction to watch all the trains leave and spend an hour in the remote(ish) nothingness
February 16, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Made a "pilgrimage" to Dovey Junction to watch all the trains leave and spend an hour in the remote(ish) nothingness
Waited till midday for a drink. I must be getting old.
Time for a train
Time for a train
February 16, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Waited till midday for a drink. I must be getting old.
Time for a train
Time for a train
It's my birthday and I can stupid if I want to...
It's a bus.
Not a train.
But it accepts train tickets.
Because that's what properly integrated public transport looks like.
It's a bus.
Not a train.
But it accepts train tickets.
Because that's what properly integrated public transport looks like.
February 16, 2025 at 9:06 AM
It's my birthday and I can stupid if I want to...
It's a bus.
Not a train.
But it accepts train tickets.
Because that's what properly integrated public transport looks like.
It's a bus.
Not a train.
But it accepts train tickets.
Because that's what properly integrated public transport looks like.
At low tide, you can reach St Catherine's island, and you can walk underneath the island!
February 15, 2025 at 2:57 PM
At low tide, you can reach St Catherine's island, and you can walk underneath the island!
More beach, just at low tide this time
February 15, 2025 at 2:57 PM
More beach, just at low tide this time
With the Traws Cymru buses to Cardigan disrupted at the moment (I picked a crap weekend for this corner of the world...), I abandoned Fishguard to head back to Whitland and the Tenby line in daylight
February 15, 2025 at 2:57 PM
With the Traws Cymru buses to Cardigan disrupted at the moment (I picked a crap weekend for this corner of the world...), I abandoned Fishguard to head back to Whitland and the Tenby line in daylight
Onto my targets for the day. Two small stretches of the Pembrokeshire branches I haven't travelled yet:
The end of the line at Pembroke Dock, and a bus up to Haverfordwest to clear the small section up to the junction at Clarbeston Road
The end of the line at Pembroke Dock, and a bus up to Haverfordwest to clear the small section up to the junction at Clarbeston Road
February 15, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Onto my targets for the day. Two small stretches of the Pembrokeshire branches I haven't travelled yet:
The end of the line at Pembroke Dock, and a bus up to Haverfordwest to clear the small section up to the junction at Clarbeston Road
The end of the line at Pembroke Dock, and a bus up to Haverfordwest to clear the small section up to the junction at Clarbeston Road
First train to Tenby and a walk around the head at first light
February 15, 2025 at 9:08 AM
First train to Tenby and a walk around the head at first light
Current end of the line for the Aberdare branch, looking up towards Hirwaun where it will potentially extend to.
February 14, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Current end of the line for the Aberdare branch, looking up towards Hirwaun where it will potentially extend to.
Quick jaunt down to Cardiff Bay to see the progress of the redeveloped branch while my other plans get thrown in the air by yet more rail chaos...
February 14, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Quick jaunt down to Cardiff Bay to see the progress of the redeveloped branch while my other plans get thrown in the air by yet more rail chaos...
Obviously as soon as I got the suggested bus to Lydney, they started allowing the TfW services as far as Gloucester. And obviously the train after the one I was meant to be on overtook me en route.
So. Breakfast and 2 hours behind schedule, but at least I'm on track now
So. Breakfast and 2 hours behind schedule, but at least I'm on track now
February 14, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Obviously as soon as I got the suggested bus to Lydney, they started allowing the TfW services as far as Gloucester. And obviously the train after the one I was meant to be on overtook me en route.
So. Breakfast and 2 hours behind schedule, but at least I'm on track now
So. Breakfast and 2 hours behind schedule, but at least I'm on track now
On a positive note among the train chaos this morning...
Stayed at Gloucester's New Inn for the night, on a complete whim with a remarkably cheap rate, and it turned out to be a GORGEOUS grade 1 listed 15th century courtyard inn
Stayed at Gloucester's New Inn for the night, on a complete whim with a remarkably cheap rate, and it turned out to be a GORGEOUS grade 1 listed 15th century courtyard inn
February 14, 2025 at 8:30 AM
On a positive note among the train chaos this morning...
Stayed at Gloucester's New Inn for the night, on a complete whim with a remarkably cheap rate, and it turned out to be a GORGEOUS grade 1 listed 15th century courtyard inn
Stayed at Gloucester's New Inn for the night, on a complete whim with a remarkably cheap rate, and it turned out to be a GORGEOUS grade 1 listed 15th century courtyard inn