Great Western Coffee Shop

That's a new one on me. I thought it might be a reference to: https://youtu.be/wOSseI1hao8

As for the livery, yes it's nice but I'm slightly worried by the concept of bus nostalgia.  :o

It's rather bizarre, but I guess everyone needs a hobby! 😉

Presactly. Any of us who may on occasion have been seen out, perhaps wearing a warm waterproof coat, maybe with a thermos, possibly on a railway station platform and perhaps tending towards one end of it or the other, may feel that it scarce behoves us to cast mastershalums about other peoples' hobbies...  8)

Edit: typo

As for the livery, yes it's nice but I'm slightly worried by the concept of bus nostalgia.  :o

Council cuts 'threat' to rural bus services

Many rural bus services in England and Wales face being wiped out by council budget cuts, campaigners have warned.

Research by the Campaign for Better Transport says subsidies to routes have been reduced by ^78m since 2010, with another ^27m under threat this year.

It likens the situation to the cuts to about a third of the rail network made on the back of a report by Dr Beeching in the 1960s.

Councils say "difficult decisions" are being made amid government cuts.

The Campaign for Better Transport says reductions in local authority funding had already resulted in thousands of bus services being reduced or cancelled in recent years.

According to its research, people in Lincolnshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Somerset, Dorset, West Berkshire, Wiltshire, Oxfordshire, Hertfordshire, North Yorkshire and Lancashire will be among the worst affected.

I will say this for Badgerline, they were a good innovative bus company. They then became First following a merger with Grampian Regional Transport and that's when things went down hill. First's main focus understandably turned to running rail companies where there was more money.