Buses on Boxing Day?
 

Anyone know if the buses will be running from Ossy to Clayton on boxing day?
Or even the Hyndburn circular that goes up Dill hall lane then along Queens Rd.
Need to get to Stanley/Crown for a good drink before the game, no driving :D

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Afraid not KSH, no buses running at all that day. My mum who lives in Clayton is planning on walking to the game

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Cheers, taxi then for me, determined not to drive :D

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the hyndburn circular doesnt go up dill hall anyway :)

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No buses, no trains! Any chance you could get the taxi driver to go via Stockport? :mad:

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Does it not? oh well, don't know what it was called that I have caught before but that did :D

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lol i think it used to be called the dill hall circular when i was a kid:)

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When you was a kid buses in Accy ran on Christmas Day and Boxing Day, those were the good years before Mrs Thatcher's Deregulation of Public Transport bill came into force, when the buses were run to provide a service to the public as opposed to now, if there is no profit there is no bus.

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christ i aint that old mate,buses have never run on xmas day as long as ive been alive :)

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And why should they?
The drivers are intitled to have a christmas break with there family like everyone els

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I remember my dad (a bus driver) working boxing day, not sure about Xmas day though.
Mick - I think they should run some kind of service but not a full one, it is a public service and Xmas is a time when people want to use it, should the police fire and ambulance services be having the day off too? my mrs has to work Xmas day in a nursing home, should she have the day off - we wish

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My wife works in a nursing home too and this is the first Christmas she has had off in 15 years .
she has been called in just as we sat down to the dinner a few years ago.
yes some services have to have cover i will agree.

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Sorry, I didn't mean to offend you in my last post but I looked on your profile and in 1986 when the buses stopped running on Christmas you were ten years old, and up to 1986 busses used to run in Accrington on virtually Sunday service, at that time I used to be a bus driver in Accy and I used to work Christmas and New Years Day (we used to get paid double time).

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lol its ok you didnt offend me,i dont remember buses ever running at that time of the year...does anyone remember who the first woman bus driver was in lancashire??

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Rawtenstall and Accrington buses used to run every day, all be it a Sunday service.I think they still did a Sunday service even after they became Rossendale transport.

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Re above post it was Haslingden and Rawtenstall transport which became Rossendale transport, not Rawtenstall and Accrington, but they all ran over the Christmas/Newyear holidays.