| Tidal public transport Posted by grahame at 21:30, 30th June 2025 |     |
From The Metro
If you’re taking a trip on the 477 bus, you’ll need to plan your journey carefully, because the timetable changes every day.
The 477 bus serves the famous Holy Island, also known as Lindisfarne, off the coast of Northumberland.
It’s one of the UK’s 43 ‘sometimes’ islands that are only accessible at low tide. As such, the timetable is dependent on when the causeway to the island isn’t submerged by water during high tide.
The 477 bus serves the famous Holy Island, also known as Lindisfarne, off the coast of Northumberland.
It’s one of the UK’s 43 ‘sometimes’ islands that are only accessible at low tide. As such, the timetable is dependent on when the causeway to the island isn’t submerged by water during high tide.
The bus-on-the-tide may be unique to this route, but plane-on-the-tide to Castlebay also comes to mind, as do some ferry routes which are tidal.
| Re: Tidal public transport Posted by ChrisB at 10:48, 1st July 2025 | |
Here's the timetable....
| Re: Tidal public transport Posted by grahame at 10:59, 1st July 2025 | |
Here's the timetable...
Thanks - set out very clearly considering. It differs from the original article which says
For example, if you want to travel to Holy Island on Wednesday July 2, you’d hop on the bus at the Causeway End stop, on the mainland, at 12:54am
Which struck me as amazing time for it to have to run ... it is, according the the .pdf which I believe, 12:54pm!
| Re: Tidal public transport Posted by bobm at 11:23, 1st July 2025 | |
Here's the timetable....
Appears to be the timetable from 2016.
Current one is here - https://passenger-line-assets.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/bordersbuses/PERY/477-timetable-20250401-d126c169.pdf
| Re: Tidal public transport Posted by ChrisB at 15:18, 1st July 2025 | |
Thanks Bob - attached the wrong file!
