Trip to Uttoxeter 27-10-2010

Bus	From	To	Service	Operator
2038	Uttoxeter BS	Three Tuns	4	Arriva Midlands
2038	Three Tuns	Uttoxeter BS	4	Arriva Midlands
2319	Uttoxeter BS	Sudbury, Portway Head	1A	Arriva Midlands
2243	Sudbury, Portway Head	Uttoxeter BS	1A	Arriva Midlands
65002	Uttoxeter BS	Werrington PO	32A	First Potteries

First thing to do was to have a late dinner, as he had only had two rounds of toast for a late breakfast. So we went to the Cafe across the road from the one stop shop. We managed to get a window seat and Matthew watched buses go by as he ate his dinner...

We tried to persuade Matthew to catch a to, but we just missed one coming out of the cafe. When we got to the stop, Matthew dragged us past and into. He considered catching the, but this pulled off before we could get to it. Right behind it was Arriva 2200 on the service, an interesting double doored Dennis Dart SLF and a long time target ride of Matthews. As I didn't know the route precisely. we arranged that mum would ride on the bus and I would meet them. We quickly tried to tell each other where we would meet but we misunderstood the answers to each others questions and this lead to a bizarre misunderstanding


Arriva Midlands 2038 on the #4 Town service today just before we ventured out of town... (Matt)


Arriva Midlands 2038 on the #4 Town service today (Mark)


Paragon Travel R572 ABA on service 402 to Burton (Mark)


Paragon Travel M197 UAN on service 428 to Lichfield (Matt)


2319 in Uttoxeter bus station about to work service #1A to Burton (Matt)


Arriva Midlands 2243 in Uttoxeter bus station shortly after arrival from Burton (Mark)


65002 in Uttoxeter bus station (Mark)


65002 arrives in Werrington after an hour journey from Uttoxeter via Alton Towers (Mark)

Back to the car for sausage rolls and then home... (mark)

Trip to Uttoxeter 30-07-2009

Bus	From	To	Service	Operator
2029	Uttoxeter BS	Sudbury, Portway Head	1	Arriva Midlands
2324	Sudbury, Portway Head	Uttoxeter BS	1A	Arriva Midlands
2049	Uttoxeter BS	The Heath, New Road (adj)	4	Arriva Midlands
2324	The Heath, New Road (adj)	Uttoxeter BS	4	Arriva Midlands
2043	Uttoxeter BS	Sudbury, Portway Head	1	Arriva Midlands
2390	Sudbury, Portway Head	Uttoxeter BS	1A	Arriva Midlands
65026	Uttoxeter BS	Werrington PO	32A	First Potteries

Originally, I'd taken the 29th of july off work, in order to take Matthew to Uttoxetter to travel on the 184 from Uttoxetter to Weston Coyney. Unfortunately it absolutely chucked it down all. At this point in time on Thursday I only worked until 12:30 so it was decided to take Matthew out on the 30th instead. Research consisted of downloading the Uttoxetter town map from the Staffordshire gov website and printing out a few timetables. Back home for around 12:45, we must have spent some time getting ready because we arrive in Uttoxetter around 14:00. One of the first buses we saw was Arriva Midlands 2049 on the #4 Outer Circle service...



2049 in Uttoxetter bus station on the #4 Outer Circle service (Matt)


Inside 2029 as we boarded on the Burton bus (Matt)


2029 departs Portway Head towards Burton (Matt)

In on coach Sudbury Burton 1A


2324 in Uttoxeter bus station (matt)

We then saw Arriva 2045 arrive to work a. Having looked at the timetable and seem a 30 minutes frequency, I asked the driver out long it took to travel out and back on this bus to which he replied "half an hour". So to keep Matthew occupied whilst waiting for the 409, we decided to do this bus to and Back.


2049 in Uttoxeter bus station again on the #4 Outer Circle service (Matt)



2049 disapears into the distance from the Tesco Express



2043 in Uttoxeter bus station (matt)

He also photographed a few other buses the best of which was sitting in the late afternoon sunshine. rolled up and we promptly boarded this bus for a brisk run up to Leek. At we had around 30 Minutes to kill, Matthew sat good as gold and ate sausage sandwiches!


2390 approches the Portway Head stop en route to Uttoxeter (Matt)

So Matthew had a short ride on 65026 back to Werrington. After this there was just time for him to buy £22.50's worth of photographs before returning to the car...