please empty your brain below
Concorde Roundabout, with an E, no matter what Wikipedia claims.

Henry | 05.11.14 - 7:10 a.m. | #

"Joining the busy dual carriageway we cross the Grand Union Canal and the West Coast Mainline in very quick succession."

Great West Mainline, shurely? Or did the bus take a cheeky diversion through Hemel Hempstead?

Nico | 05.11.14 - 7:35 a.m. | #

I don't think BP, M&S and IBM are acronyms either; an acronym can be pronounced as if it's a word (like NIMBY). I think they're just abbreviations.

Sarah | Homepage | 05.11.14 - 8:24 a.m. | #

The pedants are out in force today!

Thanks for an interesting post DG. I'm pretty sure the central area at heathrow changes every time I go there, something which is presumably set to continue as T1 is demolished and the new T2 extended.

Robert Johnson | Homepage | 05.11.14 - 9:05 a.m. | #

I remember Stockley Park from a London Loop/Grand Union Canal walk. It's such an odd place. Beautiful and weird at the same time.

Karen | Homepage | 05.11.14 - 9:13 a.m. | #

An interesting little jaunt. Shame there are no B buses waiting there to take you onto your next leg!

CornishCockney | 05.11.14 - 9:15 a.m. | #

First and now only motorway bus lane I believe - the bus lane on the M4 main line having been removed, and the stretch of A329(M) which got a bus lane was de-motorwayed to become the A3290.

The airport spur used to carry an open-platform bus service in normal fare stage service - between 1972 and 1990 certain journeys of the 140 went that way on Sundays : operated by RTs and RMs until 1983

timbo | 05.11.14 - 10:17 a.m. | #

The Green Man opposite RAF Uxbridge was a regular watering hole for the lecturers at Brunel University. I think it closed late eighties, so for the chippy to be celebrating 46 years clearly doesn't relate to these particular premises.

Mike | 05.11.14 - 10:27 a.m. | #

@Nico and DG
Think DG meant the Great Western Main Line.

shirokazan | 05.11.14 - 12:22 p.m. | #

@Sarah: I have a counter-factual.

TLA is Three Letter Acronym, but it's pronounced Tee-elle-hay.

An abbreviation is a shorted form of a word, Ms. Like the Dr. who lives in St. James St.

Briantist | Homepage | 05.11.14 - 12:23 p.m. | #

Strictly speaking, a series of letters that abbreviate a phrase but is unpronounceable is an initialism, I believe, but it's never used and wouldn't be generally understood. So calling it an abbreviation or an acronym is a matter of choice and I think the trend is going towards the latter, though it wouldn't have been considered correct until fairly recently.

A really interesting post, DG, thank you. I'm never likely to take that bus, but that didn't lessen my enjoyment in reading about it.

Z | Homepage | 05.11.14 - 1:35 p.m. | #

I rode the full A10 slightly over a year ago (and went the other way, which was a different experience with the bus emptying as we went along), and at that time, there was a second bus taking the M4 - the U3 which was on diversion.

Looking forward to the B - I hope it's something interesting.

the orange one | 05.11.14 - 2:08 p.m. | #

Trying to make an initialism out of the bus route letters listed above - the best I've managed so far is WHACK PR: DG BUS NEXT - which sort of summarises today's post and last Wednesday's - and even that omits the two-letter routes RVEL

timbo | 05.11.14 - 2:52 p.m. | #

Interesting post DG, enjoyed the narrative there. All the times I've been on the A10 and with the interest I have in trivia of the bus network, I didn't realise this route served a motorway until now!

The Urbanite | 06.11.14 - 12:37 a.m. | #











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