(27 Feb 2018, 9:55 pm)Andreos1 wrote I've been out this evening and some of the roads are terrible. Black ice and packed snow even on the dual carriageways. The A1 has been closed at the angel for quite a period tonight, so that roads can be treated.
A road traffic car was blocking the entry slip-road at Picktree as I passed.
Headed a few miles down the road and there's nowt but slush.

It's a little beyond 30 years ago, but it looks like the buses on picture 8 aren't going anywhere fast.

It would have been about 15 years back, but I was needing to get from Fatfield to Chester on a Friday night.
GNE didn't have the contract for the evening bus (can't remember its number, but operated a similar route to the 8 between the Galleries and Chester). Veola had it a few years later, but during this period Stanley had it.
We waited and waited, with no joy. A 777 came by, operating it's last run of the day that terminated at Barley Mow. Anyway, the driver felt sorry for us when we explained our predicament, said he would take us as far as Barley Mow for a connecting bus as the Stanley vehicles weren't coming out to play that night. They were stuck essentially.
Got to Barley Mow, he switched the interior lights off, told us to keep our heads down and took us as far as Pelaw Bank in Chester.

Eternally grateful (at the time anyway - I was in the early throes of a relationship with a future Mrs C), we thanked him and trudged up the street.
Unfortunately, I never saw him again to thank him properly!

I had a similar experience in around the same year in Hartlepool where services were being pulled, in times before Facebook and Twitter could keep you updated. I waited ages for either a bus or taxi to turn up at the Marina - it was a bus driven by a well known driver who picked up anyone at a shelter through the town centre and kindly provided an ‘all routes’ service to drop people roughly where they needed to be in the southern part of the town - faith restored!