please empty your brain below
At the risk of appearing a tad pedantic could you remind us all which dinosaur it was that sported ears? (external ears that is. I assume they had internal ones much like the reptiles/ birds of today)

Milo | 28.01.18 - 7:30 a.m. | #

Perrinesque is a wonderful word, and all the better for being used here without explanation.

Waterhouse | 28.01.18 - 8:15 a.m. | #

I didn't get where I am today without knowing what Perrinesque means. Superb word which enabled me to sum up the types of roads and houses without further explanation. Super.

MO | 28.01.18 - 8:18 a.m. | #

Great

Tony Webster | 28.01.18 - 8:54 a.m. | #

... I have the misfortune to be joined by an Australian man...

Yep, it's an obscure bus route, but it's also an obscure London bus route, so you don't just get one of them 'run of the mill' irritating passengers, you get one from Australia.

Still Anon | 28.01.18 - 9:13 a.m. | #

Eleven minutes late: stolen bus stop at Ewell.

timbo again | 28.01.18 - 9:23 a.m. | #

I used to live just down from Premium Credit House. Everyday i walked past it on the way to the station and thanked the heavens i didn't work there.

Geofftech | 28.01.18 - 9:35 a.m. | #

Super!

B | 28.01.18 - 9:39 a.m. | #

Milo, you may (or may not) assume wrongly. We don't know is the short answer. However, modern reptiles don't have them, nor do birds so they probably didn't.

Next thing you'll be saying that purple dinosaurs didn't exist either ;)

Agent X | 28.01.18 - 10:28 a.m. | #

...at last! a bus post.

OnTheBus | 28.01.18 - 10:36 a.m. | #

Pity you still can't swipe your Oyster to take the train back in! Despite Epsom Downs and Tattenham Corner both being farther out of town and in Zone 6.

Chz | 28.01.18 - 11:42 a.m. | #

A good addition to the random bus trips pile, and evocatively written.

I thought the dinosaur ears phrase quite endearing in itself, and I can picture the toddler well. But slipping, as encouraged, into pedant mode, I am led to wonder just what it is about the ears, or the hat, or the toddler, which invokes the idea of a dinosaur. I suppose they can only be so described if the hat also has other features (eyes? wings? a dorsal crest?) which look dinosaural.

Malcolm | 28.01.18 - 12:40 p.m. | #

@Chz
The local MP is on record as saying that he thinks it behind the times that paper tickets are still the rule at Epsom. Maybe he should talk to the Transport Secretary about it,,........

CJ | 28.01.18 - 1:29 p.m. | #

From 1 September 2018 this route will be operated by Quality Line (London United) from Epsom Garage.

Dave B | 28.01.18 - 1:30 p.m. | #

Following up to what Dave said, the full size vehicles will be withdrawn and replaced with normal size ones, I assume.

Dylan G | 28.01.18 - 3:09 p.m. | #

Yes, another opportunity for me to put out a plea for Epsom to be brought with Zone 6. Although I did read something a few months ago that this may happen but I put it down to wishful thinking.

And, the 93 does not stop in North Cheam (around the corner), but trundles over a quarter mile down a side road annoyingly avoiding Cheam proper. Another problem that has now been partly solved with the hopper fare.

And, The Star in Ewell wasn't boarded up until a year ago as all the windows were getting smashed, however, your research is excellent in noting that it has been closed for six years. I would love to know why such a prime site has been left derelict for so long.

Ken | 28.01.18 - 6:54 p.m. | #

Oooh, weird. I put up a very brief and, because rushed and not on the pc that remembers my details, anonymous post (no. 4) and I have become one Tony Webster!

Does dg assign random identities to anonymous comments, or was mine supplanted within minutes by an identical, but attributable, one? I'm genuinely curious.

dg writes: I added that particular identity to your anonymous comment. It isn't random. :)

Sarah | Homepage | 29.01.18 - 10:29 a.m. | #

@Ken

Epsom won't be Oysterised whilst the local MP is also Transport Secretary. He is on record as not wanting the mayor's influence to extend beyond the Greater London boundary, even though it seems many of his constituents are keen for it to do so.

timbo again | Homepage | 29.01.18 - 10:34 a.m. | #

@Sarah Tony Webster is the character in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin who uses the catchphrase (if a single word can be considered a phrase) "Great!".

IanD | 29.01.18 - 10:39 a.m. | #

Ian D, I think Sarah realised that when she posted the comment. DG seems to have been adding value and it did make me laugh when I saw it. Could be said though to be a bit of a cock up on the comments tagging front.

Jimmy | 29.01.18 - 12:12 p.m. | #

I'm afraid I'm not a catchphrase person

tom | 29.01.18 - 12:21 p.m. | #

No you're right, I'd completely forgotten they had names. It's all coming back to me now... Thanks dg, I feel honoured!

Sarah | Homepage | 30.01.18 - 11:25 a.m. | #

If you'd stayed on for the first part of the return trip you would have gone further up the hill then left into Woodcote Side, past my Dad's house. Then a rather pleasant hop down Woodcote Green Road past the duckpond and the actual building where I was born in Epsom Hospital. No blue plaque yet.

Ian B | 30.01.18 - 12:41 p.m. | #

Prompted by your really interesting write-up, we travelled the route today. The driver hit the kerb at exactly the same point, so possibly it is to do with the extra length of the bus.

We returned on the 166 to West Croydon - a real wandering bus, up hill and down dale.

Liz | 10.02.18 - 3:13 p.m. | #

The 166 between Banstead & Epsom General has been given a 5 year stay of execution.TFL & SCC have come to an arrangement.

Epsom is served by six TFL routes.TFL fully fund the 293,406,418,& 470.The 166 & 467 are joint tenders with Surrey County Council.TFL fully fund the 166 between West Croydon & Banstead,even though the 166 enters Surrey at Chipstead Valley.

The 467 really is an odd route.It is TFL's shortest double deck route.One Quality Line double decker provides an hourly daytime service over the 22 minute journey between Hook & Epsom town centre, total length 3.5 miles.

KEVIN LUCIONI | 20.03.18 - 6:31 p.m. | #











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