Oxford to London X90, Oxford Tube - it's the MAGIC BUS THREAD!

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This is the thread where we discuss the greatest bus route ever!

well it is, isn't it?

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 7 June 2004 16:00 (twenty-two years ago)

ok, strictly 2 routes. Megabus is an aberration and doesn't count.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 7 June 2004 16:01 (twenty-two years ago)

big bus, the magic bus!

i heart the magic bus, spent many an unconcious hour on it, it's what makes oxford zone 7.

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 7 June 2004 19:04 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.oxford-chiltern-bus-page.co.uk/upload271102/sco50-Tube-MagdalenBridge.jpg

neither a bus nor a tube, yet immensely classic (could do with more legroom up top tho) - kinda miss it

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 7 June 2004 19:07 (twenty-two years ago)

OMG! It's HR Pufnstuf on wheels....

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Monday, 7 June 2004 19:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh no, the Red Bus. I had two of the worst experiences of my life being thrown off the Red Bus. How many people can say they've been thrown off the Red Bus twice?

― Possibly Kate Again (kate), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 05:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I used to have much love for the red bus, but have now defected to the blue bus, coz blue bus cheaper (Night Owls only £7) and also it goes to Baker Street, which is a v. convenient tube stop for loads of places I want to go. I think it might be marginally quicker too, seeing as the red bus trawls through Shepherds Bush and Notting Hill (and is therefore good for RoTa).

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 06:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Kate, HOW ON EARTH did you manage to get thrown off the Red Bus AT ALL?

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 06:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Blue bus is quite a bit quicker to Marble Arch, taking advantage of the Westway properly as it does. BUT no toilets, which has proved highly vexing on more than one occasion.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 06:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I've been on the Oxford tube twice: once there and once back. I was conscious for one of those journeys.

Any transport that takes me past the Hoover Building is a good thing.

― robster (robster), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 06:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah but Rick, they're now replacing the old blue buses with newer ones with toilets and a decent amount of legroom (not that the latter bothers me too much heh). And they're not really blue either; well, possibly greeny-blue.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 07:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Hear me now: after 3pm it's *£5* (for Young Persons) on the Red Bus. Stops in Notting Hill=obv classic.

Kate's been chucked off twice; I have on three occasions gone to London and got right back on the bus agane. Last time I got no further than Shepherd's Bush roundabout thingummy.

― Sir Stewart Wallace (Enrique), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 07:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I am no longer a young person :(

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 07:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I will never play The Dane...

― Sir Stewart Wallace (Enrique), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 07:23 (twenty-two years ago)

more bus madness - getting chucked off, getting straight back on the bus. I am beginning to feel distinctly conventional. Around Acton there is a red hotel which looks like it's made of Lego and right next door is a storage company with a LIGHTHOUSE! Madness!

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 07:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I haveta say, I've started going by train lately. with the YPRC it's abt £12 inc tube travel, so not bad really.

― Sir Stewart Wallace (Enrique), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 07:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I was on the Oxford Tube virtually on a daily basis between 1987-2001. Would that I still were...except I probably would have gotten exhausted of the commute by now and just settled for working/living in Oxford full time. We would have been happy with that :-(

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 8 June 2004 10:01 (twenty-two years ago)

TS: Buses vs Trains. I would start a thread, but I'm scared of Nick giving me jip for start8ing an already existing thread (which is years old and buried in an unsearchable archive)

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 10:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I think I did one, or something similar.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 10:19 (twenty-two years ago)

yes I did, here. I no longer rate the train so highly.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 10:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I have loved this bus.

It is my kind of thing.

― the bellefox, Tuesday, 8 June 2004 10:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Always the red bus. Upstairs at the front going along the motorway is terrific.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 10:30 (twenty-two years ago)

the elevated section of westway is one of the best bits of the route. Especially the point when you pass over Westbourne Park Bus Garage and can look down on the red rectangles of Routemaster beneath you.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 10:30 (twenty-two years ago)

WHY DO YOU DO THE SAME THING EVERY DAY?

classic grafitti on the oxford tube route.

also: shark in house at headington.

― pete b. (pete b.), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 10:33 (twenty-two years ago)

i missed my Hillingdon stop only once (falling asleep and waking up just coming in to Oxford - now that's the sign of a good night out in Zone 1). someone told me once you could bribe the driver and he would stop at the Polish war memorial. i never tried this out but it would've helped me a lot.

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 10:40 (twenty-two years ago)

falling asleep and waking up just coming in to Oxford

Bet you thought you'd died and gone to heaven, didn't you?

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 10:53 (twenty-two years ago)

more like "uuuuhhh...WTF? TREES!"

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 10:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Dud if Oxford->London and between 11 and 12 (drunk obnoxious shouty Christchurch asshats), but otherwise way classic. The Westway! The timbered McDonalds! The universal law of nature that one ALWAYS wakes up at Hillingdon! (Stevem excepted, apparently). It is great.

― Gregory Henry (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 10:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Master Brewer FAP ASAP!!!!

(Hmm, thinks for Trig Brother 4).

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 11:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Psycho boyfriends and extreme drunkenness were involved in both getting chucked off incidents.

I am never dating anyone from Oxford, ever again. The entire place has a geographically undesirable blot across it, and no, sorry, not even if Thom Yorke got down on his knees and begged and pleaded.

― Possibly Kate Again (kate), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 11:21 (twenty-two years ago)

ewww, how whiney would that be?

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 11:22 (twenty-two years ago)

It would be beautious music! Not whining at all!

And, no, not you, Mark Gardener, you're fat and bald now anyway, so that counts doubly as well as being from Oxford.

― Possibly Kate Again (kate), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 11:24 (twenty-two years ago)

The universal law of nature that one ALWAYS wakes up at Hillingdon!

I did this! Is there a bump there or something?

― robster (robster), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 11:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Driver shouts at you, but you're asleep at the time so you think you've woken up as if by magic.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 12:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I know some ppl who had sex on the Oxford Tube, blissfully unaware that the driver had CCTV.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 12:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha did he crash while watching?

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 12:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Is the BRB not one of the ten least arousing locales evah?

― Sir Stewart Wallace (Enrique), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 12:14 (twenty-two years ago)

er, i've had sex on the oxford tube, and i didn't know the driver had CCTV, until now. well well well.

― pete b. (pete b.), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 12:19 (twenty-two years ago)

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