@MattK1979

Personal account of a public transport professional working with fantastic people to make transport better.

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Barnsley - a very underrated town. I’ve worked in far worse places!
Joel Hills
@ITVJoel23 Jul 2024
Barnsley. What a town. I visited for the first yesterday to film a report for tonight’s News at Ten. The centre is full of life, the people we met were warm and welcoming and those moors! In the gaps between the buildings you catch glimpses of stunning countryside. #blownaway
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Look closely and there is the Blue route from Blue John Cavern waiting to depart back to Chatsworth #BusesInLandscape
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Out walking in the beautiful Peaks yesterday and observed this beauty in green and yellow rounding the corner and delighting visitors with spectacular views of the Hope Valley 😍
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This looks an excellent idea. Hopefully ‘beer and buses’ can catch on up north too!
Sheffield CAMRA@shfCAMRA9 Jul 2024
Upcoming CAMRA members social 20 July - Peak District Sightseer open top bus ride and pub tour. More details on our diary page >> sheffield.camra.org.uk/diary…
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My favourite coastal open top bus route, although Exmoor Coaster comes a very close second 👍
BusAndTrainUser@BusAndTrainUser29 Jun 2024
Britains most precarious open-top ride and bus stop.
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Glad to hear you enjoyed it, we have two wonderful routes through the Peaks 😁
Pat Stringer@pstringer29 Jun 2024
A wonderful trip on the Peak Sightseer earlier this week, a great initiative from colleagues @StagecoachYrks @MattK1979 and a fabulous team of drivers
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Amazing what you find lurking round the back of bus depots, pretty sure it’s not on our fleet card 🧐
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It’s one of my favourite @creatingdesire creations too although I may be a little bit biased. The Bakewell pudding also looks a tad desirous 😁
Phil Tonks@PhilTonks219 Jun 2024
I think the Peak Sightseer livery may be one of my favourite @creatingdesire creations. It's a real eye-catcher! And by the way, when hopping off in Bakewell, you have to scoff a Bakewell tart. It's the law.
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Glad to hear you enjoyed the trip Phil, it’s rather spectacular isn’t it 😁
Phil Tonks@PhilTonks218 Jun 2024
Riding the spectacular and improved Peak Sightseer! Highly recommended!
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Ay up me duck! Here’s our Shayne enjoying the latest issue of @classicbus in some appropriate surroundings. He happens to be this issues page 3 star too… @283URB
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A great day out Peak Sightseeing today - highly recommended and fantastic to bump into @283URB too! @MattK1979 and his team doing a grand job.
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Glad to hear you’re enjoying the trip Anthony 👍
Anthony Carver-Smith@acsnottingham1 Jun 2024
Exploring the #PeakDistrict on Open Toppers for the day! Highly recommend a day out on Peak Sightseer - great service with a brilliant team of drivers from @StagecoachYrks
Peak Sightseer bus at Chatsworth

ALT Peak Sightseer bus at Chatsworth

View coming down Winnets Pass

ALT View coming down Winnets Pass

Peak Sightseer bus side view

ALT Peak Sightseer bus side view

Derbyshire countryside

ALT Derbyshire countryside

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I’ve found a contender for Europe’s most scenic bus ride - the winding road to Sa Calobra via numerous hairpin bends including the Three Marias. Only possible on excursion coaches which can only go north in the morning and south in the afternoon as the road is so narrow 😬
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A quite breathtaking trip through the Serra de Tramuntana mountain range thanks to the skilful driving by the coach driver. Given it’s only accessible by excursion coach it doesn’t qualify as a ‘bus route’ but perhaps someone needs to register an open top bus route up there 🤔
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There's yet more beautiful scenery between Castleton and Chatsworth.
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Winnat's Pass, upstairs on an open top bus. What a spectacular treat this is.
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Why not @CountBinface on @bbcquestiontime tomorrow? Unlike Farage, he at least went to the trouble of standing for election, he’s a good performer, not remotely offensive and has been addressing some interesting issues lately. So who’d you like to see?
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Britain’s best inland open-top bus ride - not sure accolades get better than that! ❤️❤️❤️ busandtrainuser.com/2024/05/…

Britain’s best inland open-top bus ride

Tuesday 21st May 2024 Matt Kitchin and his Stagecoach Yorkshire team launched the Peak Sightseer open-top bus route in conjunction with Derbyshire County Council last summer. As explained when I bl…

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