£2 UK BUS CHALLENGE: How far can we get from London by BUS ONLY? Part 4
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- čas přidán 23. 08. 2023
- The government has launched a cap on all UK bus fares at the price of just £2. In this megachallenge, we aim to get as far from London as possible, in just two days!
If you haven't seen parts 1, 2 and 3 yet then they are linked below respectively - I recommend watching these before part 3 to see how on Earth we got here!
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Join me on this trip across tens of bus operators and hundreds of miles as we see just how far we can travel, and how cheaply!
Great series, well you & thank you for posting :)
Well done
Thank you, glad you enjoyed!
Just so you know, the Stagecoach Gold X17 was an Alexander Dennis Enviro 400 MMC, not a Scania version as you thought here 😀
Love this!
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed!
Amazing video! Just watched all 4 parts! Great content overall, i just subscribed
Thank you so much for your support - glad you’ve enjoyed the series!
@@ItsAllAboutTheJourney no problem
Well done. That was quite far and great value for money. I don’t have the stamina to do this myself, so I appreciate those who document their journey 👍
Thank you! It was quite a stressful trip for me too, possibly one of the most difficult I’ve ever done.
I was just watching your journey from vid 1, that was awesome! now you need to do it from london as far south! well done!
Thank you so much! Now that would be a challenge - we might need to visit another country or two…
@@ItsAllAboutTheJourney do you accept the challenge? From london to as near as cornwall as you can in 2 days?
You could have continued to Doncaster , for a bus to Leeds then a fine bus to Scarborough or Whitby
I reckon within a day I could definitely have done. I’d love to try this challenge again!
@@ItsAllAboutTheJourney I'm guessing you had to catch a Megabus back down to London from Meadowhall?
I've just had a look at this and I think you could have got as far as Meadowhall on the first day. There are lots of options leaving London (I looked at buses from around 6AM), that could get you to Luton by around 9AM. You could then change buses at Milton Keynes, Northampton, Leicester, Loughborough, Nottingham, Chesterfield and Sheffield, finally getting to Meadowhall just after 8PM. You seemed to take an unneccessary diversion into Cambridgeshire and Rutland that slowed you down.
The date I travelled coincided with the February school holiday so many hotels were fully booked - the Premier Inn in Peterborough was the only one in my price range with availability in the Midlands. It could definitely have been quicker (and potentially cheaper) taking all the express routes through the Midlands in one day as you mention, but this leaves very little room for error. I’d love to try this again when hotels are slightly cheaper.
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Hello from Trujillo Perú.
I'm very glad you travelled the way you did because my wife and I are going to use your route from London to visit friends in Stratford. Your filming of a bus clock and a driver's watch enabled me to calculate bus times using Google maps travel options. We are not as young as you, so we're breaking down the trip into two days allowing ourselves time to visit some of the beautiful places we saw through your video.
I thoroughly enjoyed this video, they way you explained how you progressed and the choices made.
I am though, surprised you didn’t travel further north. I think you still had nearly fifteen of your 48 hours remaining and so could have travelled on to Barnsley (where the X17 terminates). From Barnsley there are buses to Wakefield where you could change and travel to Leeds and then Harrogate (Transdev’s renowned 36 service, with every other bus continuing to Ripon), or from Wakefield to Bradford via Dewsbury on Arriva Yorkshire’s 268. At Bradford you could have changed at Keighley and gone on to Skipton.
There may even have been time to extend further.
It was absolutely possible to go further north, and I originally had plans to do so. I had already booked a coach back so it would be cutting it fine to go towards Barnsley. Going further north, while possible in the 48 hours, would have meant either staying another night at a hotel, or arriving back home at 1am, neither of which I really wanted to do. It’s a shame to have missed out on Harrogate’s modern red buses - perhaps some day we’ll extend this series further north…
@@ItsAllAboutTheJourneyNow I absolutely understand why you went no further and thanks for the explanation.
Nice video
Thank you very much!
@@ItsAllAboutTheJourney you are welcome
This was great to watch going from London to Sheffield by bus . The £2 government bus fare seems to work out really well I wonder if it's still active as I want to do non London bus journeys again once I get the time
Thank you! I believe the cap rose to £2.50 in April - slightly more expensive but often considerably cheaper than the prices were before.
@@ItsAllAboutTheJourney thats really good I will think about that
That Hulleys MCV is actually on the same chassis E200s use, the Dart 4 - it also has the same Cummins/Allison engine and gearbox combination which is why it sounds exactly like an E200. New to Metroline in 2008 as DM969.
Thanks for the info!
Thanks for the info!
If we were to try to beat ths, do the rules insist on taking an overnight stop or are we allowed to carry on through the night if we can?
Up to you - I wouldn’t fancy travelling through the night though!
@@ItsAllAboutTheJourney I love travelling on London night buses as I am a real people watcher and there is a different perspective through the night from people out socialising to people on late and early shifts. I particularly adore the stillness a very early Sunday morning, it is a beautiful thing. I think if we do it I would start at midnight on Saturday night / Sunday morning as we would be starting from the Kent border / South East London and see how far we get in 24 hours. The night buses are really useful in London as they cover longer routes. An N89 and then an N9 would get us to Heathrow then from there we could get to Reading and work our way west (I presume it doesn't need to be North, jts the distance that counts)
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