Most amount of buses caught in one day

[nitromatt1]

Yesterday I caught

4626 9
4818 9
R838MFR HC2
R838MFR HC2
4823 9
1638 244E
1614 243
828 222
828 222
1631 246
2157 142
4810 9
4827 141
4806 9
4805 9
4194 241
1638 244
1657 244
4804 141E
2154 140

So a total of 20 buses, which is a record for a school day

(including 6 times down the Expressway)

[nitromatt1]

Managed to beat my record with 29 rides today (albeit not all buses!), this comprised of:

- 8 x Mercedes O405N (1518, 1548, 1610, 1627, 1648, 1649, 1656, 1678)
- 7 x ADL Trident-Enviro400 (4804 x 4, 4806, 4817, 4818)
- 2 x Volvo B7TL ALX400 (4416, 4417)
- 1 x Volvo B7TL Gemini (4687)
- 1 x Volvo B7RLE (2155)
- 1 x ADL E40D-Enviro400 (4888)
- 1 x Volvo Olympian (16619)
- 1 x Transbus Trident (18102)
- 1 x Dennis Trident (17054)
- 1 x ADL Dart (35174)
- 1 x ADL Enviro200 (36938)
- 1 x Optare Solo (47028)
- 350 124
- 390 126
- 172 333

[CL]

I don't really count them - I guess the most I've made was a pathetic 6, compared to everyone else... But I hope, when NX accepts the SwiftCard notion in 2014/2015, I'll be able to beat that record by a milestone!  ;D

[Christopher]

My highest is 31

[tc]

Furthest you can get from Birmingham in one day:

900A National Express West Midlands - Enviro 400
0400 Birmingham - Coventry 0507

585 Travel DeCourcey - MCV Evolution/Optare Versa
0640 Coventry - Rugby (Clifton Rd) 0749

96 Stagecoach - Enviro 200
0827 Rugby (Clifton Rd) - Northampton 0941

X4 Stagecoach - Enviro 400
0945 Northampton - Central Milton Keynes 1035

X31 Centrebus - Optare Solo
1047 Central Milton Keynes - Dunstable (Winston Churchill) 1138

Busway C Grant Palmer - Scania Omnicity
1143 Dunstable (Winston Churchill) - Luton Station Interchange 1155

321 Arriva The Shires - Mercedes Citaro
1159 Luton Station Interchange - St Albans 1250

84 Metroline (ComfortDelGro) - Enviro 200
1255 St Albans (St Peter's St) - New Barnet Stn 1354

184 Arriva London - Enviro 200
1354 New Barnet Station - Turnpike Lane Stn 1446

141 Arriva London - Volvo B7TL Eclipse Gemini
1449 Turnpike Lane Stn - Albion Road 1515

21 Go-Ahead London - Volvo B9Tl Eclipse Gemini 2
1517 Newington Green - New Cross Gate Stn 1619

53 Stagecoach East London - Scania Omnicity Double Deck/Enviro 400
1621 New Cross Gate Station - Woolwich Arsenal Stn 1707

96 Stagecoach East London - Scania Omnicity Double Deck
1709 Woolwich Arsenal Stn - Bluewater Bus Stn 1831

701 Arriva Southern Counties - Volvo ALX400
1840 Bluewater Bus Stn - Chatham Waterfront Bus Stn 1913

101 Arriva Southern Counties - Enviro 400
1935 Chatham Waterfront Bus Stn - Maidstone 1958

12 Arriva Southern Counties - ?
2125 Maidstone - Tenterden 2207

2 Stagecoach East Kent - ?
2300 Tenterden - Ashford International Rail Stn 2329

(London Journeys using longest peak journey time and virtually no waiting time - which balances out)

Might give this a try one day!  ;)

[JoNi]

Love the 4 minute connection in Northampton, have you been taking hints from that chap travelling round Britain in Buses magazine, who had a 8 minute connection  in Exeter in his latest adventure only to not take into account the Devon County Show.

Recently travelled from Rochester to Brighton and back to London by bus.

08:30
141 Rochester to Chatham - Arriva ALX 400
155 Chatham to Maidstone - Arriva Cadet Dart
7 Maidstone to Tonbridge - Arriva ALX 400
402 Tonbridge to Tunbridge Wells Arriva ex London Gemini
29  Tunbridge Wells to Brighton - Brighton & Hove Scania D/D

leave Brighton 14:50
271 Brighton to Crawley - Metrobus Scania D/D
100 Crawley to Redhill - Metrobus Omnicity S/D
405 Redhill to Croydon - Metrobus Scania
250 Croydon to Brixton - Arriva ALX 400
3  Brixton - Trafalgar Square - Abellio Enviro
Passed Big Ben at 18:50

all for £7 Explorer (not bad for over a 100 miles) and then used my Oyster from Redhill on TfL services