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BARTON'S STOPS ON BUS-LESS FOSSE WAY
| 题名： | BARTON'S STOPS ON BUS-LESS FOSSE WAY |
| 正文语种： | eng |
| 作者： | Alan Millar |
| 摘要： | Steve Peck was delighted to find these two survivors of the concrete bus stop posts that Barton Transport installed across its extensive route network in the East Midlands. Not only installed, but manufactured postwar in the company's own concrete casting plant rather in the fashion of how the Southern Railway mass-produced concrete lineside sheds and much more for its own use. Barton's were moulded with recessed areas on each side for timetables. This particular pair is on the A46 Fosse Way at Ratcliffe on the Wreake, about 7miles north of Leicester, where the southbound stop has gained a less elegant addition at some point for a Stagecoach Express service that Steve says no longer operates. Indeed, neither stop apparently serves much purpose these days as no buses call in either direction. They were installed for passengers using Barton's service 12 between Nottingham and Leicester. "I am trying to picture a Duple-bodied Leyland Titan PD1 trying to emerge from the bus layby into 70mph traffic these days," he says. I must have passed them and several others like them on the one occasion I sampled that route 50 years ago on a Sunday in July 1973. No PD1 then, but an Alexander-bodied AEC Reliance one way and a Plaxton Panorama-bodied Bedford VAM the other. Is that a larger concrete stop holding the flag behind the Bedford at St Margaret's bus station in Leicester that day? And why were such neatly designed stops allowed to fall out of use? For that, Steve quotes transport photographer and historian Alan Murray-Rust, who says: "Their demise really started when a nationally agreed standard for bus stops was introduced in the 1970s, requiring a plate with a standard bus logo to be displayed to enable parking restrictions at bus stops to be enforceable." |
| 出版年： | 2022 |
| 期刊名称： | Buses |
| 卷： | 74 |
| 期： | 809 |
| 页码： | 28-28 |
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