The Beauty of National Express
Twas a dark Sunday evening making the journey from Milton Keynes to Huddersfield on the good old 564 National Express. A regular journey it appeared until we reached the Wakefield Bus Station. Having changed bus driver at the Barnsley Interchange nobody on the bus had any idea what they were about to let themselves in for.

We pulled in at Wakefield, and a few people want to get off the bus. However, they were not prepared to leave without their suitcases, trapped in the luggage under the bus. The driver spent 15 minutes pressing every combination of buttons in front of him in a vain attempt to open the luggage compartment doors. It was no use, he hadn't been taught how to open doors in bus driver training. So on the phone he gets, and again no luck, he eventually finds another bus driver at the station and persuades them to show him which button to press.

Eventually, after another wait as he learns how to close the door to the bus again, we finally set off.
'Where are we going?' said the bus driver. A smattering of responses echo through the bus, eventually settling on Dewsbury. So the bus driver starts driving through Wakefield, past a sign for Dewsbury and Huddersfield, and towards a motorway somewhere.

A middle-aged gentleman travels to the front of the bus and perches behind the bus driver,
'Do you know where you are going?'
'Uh...'
'Why are we heading in this direction? There were plenty of signs for Dewsbury back there.'
'Guess, I'll turn it around again.'

For the rest of the trip to Dewsbury this man directs the bus driver where to go, but unfortunately gets off the bus, leaving our driver clueless once again on how to get to Huddersfield. Fortunately someone else took the initiative and told him where to go.

I have not stepped on a National Express coach I've never known a train driver to get lost.
(Freeman999, Sat 27 Jun 2009, 12:40, 1 reply)

I had to guide an NE driver to Bath
...from London once. I got off there, leaving him wondering how to get to the next stop in Bristol..I suspect he's still stuck in Bath's one way system, with a bunch of aged and dead passngers
(Mousy Tongue ...Generally bemused by life..., Sat 27 Jun 2009, 19:11, closed)