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Title: Bus shelters!
Post by: thing1 on 09 June, 2010, 12:15:24 pm
This fine example was spotted by Marc Cunnington on Valley of the Rocks 2010 (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=33039.0) (between Crediton and Honiton), and forwarded on to me to share with the yacf bus shelter appreciation society.

(http://lh4.ggpht.com/_618Yc5hRe_8/TA9zswHxJwI/AAAAAAAABPQ/ANeQyYlaydk/s800/DSCF0027.JPG)
Nanas' comfy bus shelter
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: Bledlow on 09 June, 2010, 12:21:01 pm
Where's the kettle? And bike rack?

Otherwise, audax ready.
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: chris on 09 June, 2010, 12:23:38 pm
They fit them with all the creature comforts that the locals need in the Outer Hebrides too -

(click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: peliroja on 09 June, 2010, 12:34:36 pm
The Betpouey bus shelter (http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=betpouey&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=21.823835,44.780273&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Betpouey,+Hautes-Pyr%C3%A9n%C3%A9es,+Midi-Pyr%C3%A9n%C3%A9es,+France&ll=42.882883,0.038023&spn=0.02632,0.043731&z=15&layer=c&cbll=42.882847,0.037917&panoid=RuQsFiU2AkL2N024uMXV0w&cbp=12,77.93,,0,2.97) on the Tourmalet is a firm favourite in our family. It's not the most aesthetically pleasing, but it's provided a cool haven for many a hot and knackered cyclist plodding back up the Tourmalet to Bareges after a long ride out.  Especially my Dad, for whom it has a shrine-like status. ;)
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: hellymedic on 09 June, 2010, 08:45:48 pm
http://www.unstbusshelter.shetland.co.uk/ (http://www.unstbusshelter.shetland.co.uk/)
That is all.
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: Chris N on 09 June, 2010, 08:49:36 pm
Maentwrog:
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3301/3625970213_eb1d64ce19.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/26008756@N08/3625970213/in/set-72157619660013461)
Site of my very first rando-nap. :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: Salvatore on 09 June, 2010, 09:06:55 pm
A nice bit of trompe l'oeil spotted by my sister near New Abbey

(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4016/4676230330_d616671c76.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/17516529@N00/4676230330/)

(http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff320/jspooner99/th_20100523_2095.jpg) (http://s238.photobucket.com/albums/ff320/jspooner99/?action=view&current=20100523_2095.jpg)
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: Hot Flatus on 09 June, 2010, 09:12:14 pm
That's a nasty trick to play on a tired Audaxer!
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: Polar Bear on 09 June, 2010, 09:24:59 pm
http://www.unstbusshelter.shetland.co.uk/ (http://www.unstbusshelter.shetland.co.uk/)
That is all.

Taken in June 2007.  I'll be reporting back on any changes in a few weeks...

(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4060/4685682695_901712c48d_m.jpg)

(http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1270/4685682699_306f3cfe10_m.jpg)

Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: Salvatore on 09 June, 2010, 09:25:30 pm
Floral adornments at Weston Underwood, Beds.

With intact windows and a comfy-looking bench.

(http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff320/jspooner99/G11655.jpg)
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: Salvatore on 09 June, 2010, 09:33:13 pm
They fit them with all the creature comforts that the locals need in the Outer Hebrides too -

(click to show/hide)

It's the same in Galloway

(click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: border-rider on 09 June, 2010, 10:18:50 pm
Maentwrog:
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3301/3625970213_eb1d64ce19.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/26008756@N08/3625970213/in/set-72157619660013461)
Site of my very first rando-nap. :thumbsup:

Oooh I had a doze in that just a few weeks ago :)

It's a popular one - sometimes it's already been taken, and you have to get there early to get a place  ;D
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: andygates on 09 June, 2010, 10:51:35 pm
With intact windows and a comfy-looking bench.

You have such high standards, you audaxers!

(was that first one in Down St Mary?)
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: jogler on 10 June, 2010, 08:24:20 am
Maentwrog:
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3301/3625970213_eb1d64ce19.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/26008756@N08/3625970213/in/set-72157619660013461)
Site of my very first rando-nap. :thumbsup:

Oooh I had a doze in that just a few weeks ago :)

It's a popular one - sometimes it's already been taken, and you have to get there early to get a place  ;D


I too have been there.Such tenuous connections to proper audaxers makes me feel that one day I may be worthy 8)
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: thing1 on 10 June, 2010, 12:16:34 pm

(was that first one in Down St Mary?)

Don't think so - well he would have been quite off route (http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Down+St+Mary,+Crediton,+United+Kingdom&msa=0&msid=100556735860169236176.000447250393406d46cf0&ll=50.82112,-3.77655&spn=0.365462,0.279808&z=12) if it were.
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: jogler on 10 June, 2010, 12:21:59 pm
There's a very convenient one at St. Anne's Chapel shortly after the top of the climb from the Tamar at Gunnislake.
Imagine the one Salvatore posted but without the windows.
Sorry,no pics. 'cause I didn't have the enrgy to use a camera ::-)
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: jogler on 10 June, 2010, 12:27:50 pm
There is a typical wooden-shed without front wall bus shelter at Sudbury(Derbyshire) almost enclosed by the hedge & vines.I use it to measure time/distance on one of my routes as well as a nibble/sip stop.
On a good day it's 50 mins. away(19.8km).More than an hour = a bad day.
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: Salvatore on 15 June, 2010, 12:22:14 pm
It was a toss-up between this thread and the  "guess the place" thread.

(http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff320/jspooner99/20100419_1491.jpg)

No bus timetable, just a bit of poetry on the GWR bench.

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2742/4536849527_22a6eea614.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnspooner/4536849527/)
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: Zipperhead on 16 June, 2010, 04:24:29 pm
(http://lh5.ggpht.com/_3a8mQ6kkehU/TAizv2kldrI/AAAAAAAAJGM/tbMRNJfnRis/s640/DSC_0626.JPG)
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: clarion on 16 June, 2010, 04:27:11 pm
There's a tramp in that one! ;)
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: αdαmsκι on 16 June, 2010, 04:32:19 pm
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4070/4577672293_c3b43f22bc_t.jpg) (http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4070/4577672293_c3b43f22bc_b.jpg)

Toby and I hiding from the rain in a bus shelter in Cwrtnewydd on the Brevet Cymru. There was an even better one in Drefach (http://maps.google.co.uk/?q=new+quay+wales&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=New+Quay,+Dyfed,+United+Kingdom&ll=52.092586,-4.188323&spn=0,0.024633&z=16&layer=c&cbll=52.090918,-4.188323&panoid=FumSuF098_D3_IOyd6_0_g&cbp=13,32.04,,0,5).
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: Zipperhead on 16 June, 2010, 04:40:40 pm
There's a tramp in that one! ;)

To misquote Samual Johnson, "When a man is tired of life, he makes a wisecrack about a flame haired amazon"
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: Greenbank on 16 June, 2010, 04:46:03 pm
Luxury!

Last Sunday morning it was a 10 minute sleep on a bed made from the bread crates at the back of this BP garage: here in Ponterwyd (http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=llangurig&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=17.86435,39.506836&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Llangurig,+Llanidloes,+Powys,+United+Kingdom&ll=52.410191,-3.841937&spn=0.001129,0.002411&t=h&z=19&layer=c&cbll=52.410263,-3.842269&panoid=rFCXZw3tAHoW13yB1vmrNQ&cbp=12,316.85,,0,8)

On LEL geraldc and I had a nice stop on the way to Alston here (http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=alston&sll=52.410263,-3.842269&sspn=0.001129,0.002411&g=Llangurig,+Llanidloes,+Powys,+United+Kingdom&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Alston,+Cumbria,+United+Kingdom&ll=54.921519,-2.547112&spn=0.033838,0.077162&z=14&layer=c&cbll=54.921564,-2.54728&panoid=Wrhomnlj_NG6KE4caLVRug&cbp=12,183.11,,0,7.51) as the sun was starting to come up.
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: clarion on 16 June, 2010, 04:49:24 pm
There's a tramp in that one! ;)

To misquote Samual Johnson, "When a man is tired of life, he makes a wisecrack about a flame haired amazon"

Yebbut, he thought London was a good place to be. ;D

Tho he was born in Lichfield, so you can kinda see his point ;)
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: PH on 16 June, 2010, 07:12:48 pm
The one in Dent takes some beating if you want to get out of the weather, though a bit like a glasshouse when it's warm.
(http://www.derbyctc.org.uk/pictures/PCW/day3dentbusshelter.jpg)
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: Philip Whiteman on 01 September, 2010, 01:32:38 pm
None of these shelters are a touch on the infamous Shetland bus shelter on North Unst.  It even has a dedicated website:

Unst Bus Shelter (http://www.unstbusshelter.shetland.co.uk/)

(http://www.unstbusshelter.shetland.co.uk/assets/images/IMG_0373.JPG)
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: JStone on 01 September, 2010, 01:41:34 pm
This French one (Cairon, Normandy) has no comfy chairs, but it does have a mural showing just how to use it

(http://lh5.ggpht.com/_9Ae_dGIUcWs/THa5lZ7psHI/AAAAAAAAAws/Ur0G3cuuhCo/s720/IMG_2814.jpg)
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: chris on 01 September, 2010, 02:39:50 pm
This French one (Cairon, Normandy) has no comfy chairs, but it does have a mural showing just how to use it

(http://lh5.ggpht.com/_9Ae_dGIUcWs/THa5lZ7psHI/AAAAAAAAAws/Ur0G3cuuhCo/s720/IMG_2814.jpg)

I so want to go and whitewash that out, and then paint a sleeping Audaxer and bike on the wall.
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: Pingu on 01 September, 2010, 02:50:15 pm
There are some nice thatched ones in Germany:

(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4078/4913287603_916b0ea82f.jpg)
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: scott on 01 September, 2010, 06:32:23 pm

Coming from a town where many of the bus stops are metal posts in the grass next to driveways, I really like seeing these. I've been planning on talking to somebody at the architecture school here about having the students build bus shelters as projects.
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: TimO on 01 September, 2010, 06:38:46 pm
http://www.unstbusshelter.shetland.co.uk/ (http://www.unstbusshelter.shetland.co.uk/)
That is all.

Quote
... the now world famous hamsters. These hardy rodents stuck it out in the Bus Shelter the whole summer and won the hearts of many a passing tourist. They were fed the odd curry and instead of a bland water bottle, they were spoilt with a bottle of genuine Unst beer, Auld Rock. This may have partially explained their almost total lack of movement throughout the summer.

LOL. (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/smilies/rotflmao.gif)
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: Salvatore on 05 June, 2011, 01:48:53 pm
Combined bus shelter and campanile at Filgrave, not a million miles from Newport Pagnell.

(http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h323/nocensure/IMG_3579.jpg)

Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: fuzzy on 13 June, 2011, 03:38:42 pm
Some of these bus shelters lead me to suggets that a prime kit requirement for Audaxers should be a couple of lengths of para cord and a hammock.
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: fuaran on 30 June, 2011, 11:48:34 pm
No sheep.
(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6013/5888747605_e08543974a_z.jpg)
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: teethgrinder on 01 July, 2011, 01:02:52 am
Combined bus shelter and campanile at Filgrave, not a million miles from Newport Pagnell.

(http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h323/nocensure/IMG_3579.jpg)



Not far from the other one you posted at Grafton Underwood either. Such a shame that these two fine examples are only about 10 miles from my home.
Do you have any photos of those ones north of Lincoln? You know the ones on the top of the ridge. Back in the day, around the mid 1990s, they used to even have hanging baskets outside, but they seem to be left to ruin now. The gutterring is coming off of one of them.
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: arabella on 01 July, 2011, 11:05:24 am
I sat in one (http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ll=53.274119,-0.549617&spn=0,0.029569&z=15&layer=c&cbll=53.273931,-0.56584&panoid=U3oEMYNBInHS6esAE2haUA&cbp=12,54.22,,0,0) only last weekend - near the North and South Carlton turn offs.  The N. Carlton one is a bit overgrown.

I also saw a nice on in Camblesforth (http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ll=53.725389,-1.022061&spn=0,0.007392&z=17&layer=c&cbll=53.725492,-1.02208&panoid=iyLnNmNuXNbWnYwiGtFupA&cbp=12,223.25,,0,1.88), but already occupied by a hiker.

Meanwhile I present you with this one  (http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ll=52.125901,1.347885&spn=0,0.473099&z=11&layer=c&cbll=52.125563,1.347795&panoid=iD0dgghNuMJ3j9BhO1Osbg&cbp=12,214.47,,0,-0.88) near château arabella

I like this one but not sure if there is  (http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ll=50.764056,-2.708473&spn=0,0.014784&t=k&z=16&layer=c&cbll=50.764144,-2.708614&panoid=73fOttdxelR-Sa7dgV2e5Q&cbp=12,131.1,,0,-12.31) a bench
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: vindec on 01 July, 2011, 10:28:11 pm
Go Fowey!

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/03_02/BusShelterSWNS_800x556.jpg


Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: SandyV on 31 December, 2011, 12:04:07 am
If you happen to be riding through Goombungee in Australia, there is a very pleasant and beautifully maintained shelter with tables and benches and water tap in the reserve in the middle of the very wide main street.  The general store also makes the best toasted sandwiches.

(http://i787.photobucket.com/albums/yy155/sandyvigar/Christmas%202011/DSC_0172.jpg)

There are always fresh flowers in the public toilet in the park opposite too!

(http://i787.photobucket.com/albums/yy155/sandyvigar/DSC_0159.jpg)

Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: PH on 15 September, 2012, 11:52:04 pm
I was reminded of this thread while riding through the Yorkshire Dales where there seems to be a best kept bus shelter competition going on, many with good floral displays, this probably the winner;
(http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f277/ph10/Flowershelter.jpg)

Just across the border in Cumbria, no such frivolity, though good for getting out of the weather for a brew and extra marks for the gate;
(http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f277/ph10/Gateshelter.jpg)
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: Pingu on 17 September, 2013, 06:25:18 pm
Lancon, Hautes Pyrenées:

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7322/9663970439_1a8b580620_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/9663970439/)
IMG_1986 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/9663970439/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: Salvatore on 18 September, 2013, 08:23:08 am
A swedish bus shelter with a front door.

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7374/9277452874_d5b3a629e7.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnspooner/9277452874/)

At the side of the main road (A130 - it's got tarmac and everything) between Вяртсиля and Со́ртавала.

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7305/9274949103_d11936b185.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnspooner/9274949103/)
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: Wowbagger on 18 September, 2013, 07:10:31 pm
I thought the A130 connected Canvey Island to Cambridge.
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: Salvatore on 23 September, 2013, 04:18:47 pm
I thought the A130 connected Canvey Island to Cambridge.

Didn't you get the memo from the central committee concerning the renaming of East Anglia when the revolution comes?
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 03 February, 2014, 11:05:58 am
Somewhere in Russia
(http://i.wp.pl/a/f/jpeg/32696/dpltVNm.jpeg)
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: Deano on 27 August, 2014, 11:35:45 pm
Dubai:

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7031/6715277855_fa5e306d2d_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/bepy9F)

Features air conditioning! Shame about the benches, mind.

(I noticed someone had added this to their favourites on flickr - check out their other favourites (https://www.flickr.com/photos/24859949@N08/favorites/), it's quite a mix of fashion, fine art, Hollywood and bus shelters)
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: Salvatore on 28 August, 2014, 08:44:16 pm
Somewhere in Poland

(http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h323/nocensure/Mobile%20Uploads/2014-07/IMG_1760_zpsqgv9lfd1.jpg) (http://s1104.photobucket.com/user/nocensure/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2014-07/IMG_1760_zpsqgv9lfd1.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: Salvatore on 29 August, 2014, 06:58:28 am
Latvia, not far from the Estonian border

(http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h323/nocensure/Mobile%20Uploads/2014-07/IMG_1583_zpstjietrfj.jpg) (http://s1104.photobucket.com/user/nocensure/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2014-07/IMG_1583_zpstjietrfj.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: The French Tandem on 29 August, 2014, 01:07:03 pm
Hungarian bus shelter. Typical of the southwestern region,  near the Austrian border.


(http://i1288.photobucket.com/albums/b482/ratle/Bus_shelter_zps2b22e19a.jpg)
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 02 September, 2014, 11:29:25 am
Combined bus shelter and campanile at Filgrave, not a million miles from Newport Pagnell.

(http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h323/nocensure/IMG_3579.jpg)
Not quite up to Professor Branestawm standard, though.
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: Salvatore on 09 September, 2014, 07:39:00 pm
Not strictly speaking a bus shelter, but I think it belongs here.

The Tourist Information Office at Katemjärvi, Finland:

(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3903/15191140902_d82218458e_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/p9oyWs)
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: Kim on 31 May, 2016, 08:16:01 pm
I present without comment this tweet by nikki OTP:

https://twitter.com/nikkipugh/status/737721611974017024/photo/1
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 31 May, 2016, 08:36:55 pm
A bus shelter, noticeboard and post box all in one. Is this the Rule of Thirds taken to its ultimate form?
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: Kim on 31 May, 2016, 09:47:27 pm
Or just a failure to make up for the lack of a Bin For Jane?
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: αdαmsκι on 21 June, 2016, 01:25:30 am
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CkpUtc1UgAAi6Hf.jpg)

Pippa on the Sea to Sky Highway, BC, Canada.
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 21 June, 2016, 10:21:16 am
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/620/20607668424_675883be0c_c.jpg)

Audax hotel in Telkwa BC from last year.  I suspect fakery, as:
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: Pickled Onion on 10 July, 2016, 01:59:09 pm
(http://www.handsonit.co.uk/2016/DSCF1483.jpg)

Czech Republic
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: Pickled Onion on 10 July, 2016, 02:01:12 pm
(http://www.handsonit.co.uk/2016/DSCF1457.jpg)

Slovakia
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: Pickled Onion on 10 July, 2016, 02:02:16 pm
(http://www.handsonit.co.uk/2016/DSCF1295.jpg)

Romania
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: Pickled Onion on 10 July, 2016, 02:06:11 pm
(http://www.handsonit.co.uk/2016/DSCF1287.jpg)

(http://www.handsonit.co.uk/2016/DSCF1267.jpg)

Ukraine

Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 11 July, 2016, 02:16:20 pm
Interesting granny annexe on the Romanian example. I can't decide if its inspiration is Grecian or Stonehenge!
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: Pickled Onion on 12 July, 2016, 12:33:31 pm
It crossed my mind that the one in Кульчиевцьі could probably shelter the entire field of the Bryan Chapman ride.

For anyone who enjoyed those, I can recommend:

(click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: Andrij on 22 July, 2016, 10:39:24 am
Spotted online: Coolest Bus Stops from around the world (http://thatviralfeed.net/u5033p3098/coolest-bus-stops-from-around-the-world/46911)
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: Salvatore on 22 August, 2016, 10:21:30 am
The inhabitants of a village in the Lofotens don't want to lose the roof of their bus shelter (again). And sheep can keep out.
(https://c7.staticflickr.com/9/8017/28863884470_394e5a4c33_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/KYAXfw)No half measures (https://flic.kr/p/KYAXfw) by John Spooner (https://www.flickr.com/photos/johnspooner/), on Flickr

.. whereas this bus shelter in Schleswig-Holstein is rather more welcoming. Complete with bike rack, bin, and bus timetable.

(https://c2.staticflickr.com/9/8156/29151379385_f33e4f4af3_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Lq1rtp)Bahrenfleth Bus Shelter (https://flic.kr/p/Lq1rtp) by John Spooner (https://www.flickr.com/photos/johnspooner/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: billplumtree on 22 August, 2016, 12:36:43 pm
Meanwhile, from the gritty urban realism school,

(https://c6.staticflickr.com/1/520/18150320773_0efa70a683_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/tDT924)
Redcar, 1990 (https://flic.kr/p/tDT924)
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 02 September, 2016, 09:41:15 pm
(https://c7.staticflickr.com/9/8264/28785681974_333222c177_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/KRG9nC)
Coln Rogers non-bus stop

This would be totally unremarkable if it were actually on a road. In fact it's on a footpath somewhat out of sight of the road, but I suspect the path used to be a road.
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 02 September, 2016, 09:44:34 pm
(https://c8.staticflickr.com/9/8311/29330300271_5d75e8c413_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/LFPsqg)
Farmington bus stop

This one is a few miles further north. What the photo doesn't show very well is that it is octagonal. Just for good measure, the village green features an octagonal band-stand-type thing and an octagonal bench around a tree.
(https://c7.staticflickr.com/9/8371/29375427366_90041fd689_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/LKNK8C)
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: Pingu on 06 September, 2016, 06:39:12 pm
Isola 2000.

(https://c7.staticflickr.com/9/8167/28808081390_2599831092_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/KTEWWs)
IMG_7228_01 (https://flic.kr/p/KTEWWs) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: Andrij on 26 November, 2017, 06:52:35 pm
Meet the Guy with the World’s Largest Collection of Soviet Bus Stop Photos (https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/9bzkpz/chris-herwig-has-the-worlds-largest-collection-of-soviet-bus-stop-photos)
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: Pickled Onion on 26 November, 2017, 08:13:39 pm
And if you're wondering, he did publish the book (linked in an earlier post). And a very fine book it is too.
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: Pickled Onion on 21 February, 2020, 06:54:57 pm
We've not had any Bus shelters for a while, so here's one in Armenia:

(http://jakepalmer.me.uk/images/photos/2019/W1.jpeg)
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 21 February, 2020, 07:09:27 pm
That one's so attractive even the rocks have migrated to its shade.
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: Andrij on 13 May, 2020, 10:34:19 am
In Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine.

(https://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/97560871_3135477913170151_7656715284652228608_o.jpg?_nc_cat=103&_nc_sid=110474&_nc_ohc=-wah3NlVHg0AX86-59O&_nc_ht=scontent-lht6-1.xx&oh=74d213ad927c9d6d386d43cb2d489872&oe=5EE1CE39)
(https://scontent-lhr8-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/97373805_3135477933170149_1181243614173331456_o.jpg?_nc_cat=111&_nc_sid=110474&_nc_ohc=yBVVgbd9Jw4AX_LU7Fs&_nc_ht=scontent-lhr8-1.xx&oh=de26a3e10f986b04fe4b2cb355975e02&oe=5EE1F15D)(https://scontent-lhr8-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/96362832_3135478006503475_3992399429956009984_o.jpg?_nc_cat=107&_nc_sid=110474&_nc_ohc=3YI6NmNUwEYAX9OKYgk&_nc_ht=scontent-lhr8-1.xx&oh=d80d73329c47deff7226796bcebfe991&oe=5EE1DC26)
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 13 May, 2020, 10:36:29 am
Absolute top bus shelter!

Are the crosses because you have to pray that a bus will turn up?  ;)
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 29 May, 2020, 07:14:57 pm
Like a great big thickie thick-o made from 100% 24-carat Thick I neglected to post these photos of the Unst bus shelter last year:

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48161043617_695e1d34c6_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2gnPWmZ)
Tammy Norrie on guard duty (https://flic.kr/p/2gnPWmZ) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48161093797_6d66eec6e6_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2gnQcha)
Not a rabbit (https://flic.kr/p/2gnQcha) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48161047981_3f3ec6b95c_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2gnPXEe)
Have mercy/Been waitin' for the bus all day (https://flic.kr/p/2gnPXEe) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48161035456_21e81c5554_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2gnPTWh)
Not actually in Bristol (https://flic.kr/p/2gnPTWh) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48161132867_84eb3e5f15_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2gnQoTM)
The phone wasn't connected either (https://flic.kr/p/2gnQoTM) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: Pickled Onion on 26 September, 2020, 05:05:47 pm
In Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine.

(https://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/97560871_3135477913170151_7656715284652228608_o.jpg?_nc_cat=103&_nc_sid=110474&_nc_ohc=-wah3NlVHg0AX86-59O&_nc_ht=scontent-lht6-1.xx&oh=74d213ad927c9d6d386d43cb2d489872&oe=5EE1CE39)
(https://scontent-lhr8-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/97373805_3135477933170149_1181243614173331456_o.jpg?_nc_cat=111&_nc_sid=110474&_nc_ohc=yBVVgbd9Jw4AX_LU7Fs&_nc_ht=scontent-lhr8-1.xx&oh=de26a3e10f986b04fe4b2cb355975e02&oe=5EE1F15D)(https://scontent-lhr8-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/96362832_3135478006503475_3992399429956009984_o.jpg?_nc_cat=107&_nc_sid=110474&_nc_ohc=3YI6NmNUwEYAX9OKYgk&_nc_ht=scontent-lhr8-1.xx&oh=d80d73329c47deff7226796bcebfe991&oe=5EE1DC26)

Disappointed that the picture isn't showing any more, I missed that one
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: Pickled Onion on 26 September, 2020, 05:09:07 pm
Here's one by the architect Tsereteli (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irakli_Tsereteli)
(http://jakepalmer.me.uk/images/photos/2019/Abkhazia.jpeg)


And a sadly neglected one in Georgia
(http://jakepalmer.me.uk/images/photos/2019/Georgia.jpeg)
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: Pickled Onion on 02 October, 2021, 02:41:06 pm
(http://handsonit.co.uk/photos/2021/Liberec.jpeg)

This is in Liberec, Czechia. The head on top belonged to Konrad Henlein. It's a functioning bus stop - as evidenced by the timetable on the wall.
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 02 October, 2021, 03:23:55 pm
Presented as John the Baptist? And without his glasses:
Quote
On 10 May 1945, while in American captivity in the barracks of Pilsen, he committed suicide[89] by cutting his veins with his broken glasses.
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: Pickled Onion on 04 October, 2021, 07:31:52 am
I'll try and find it - from what I remember it wasn't a very exciting one.
Title: Re: Bus shelters!
Post by: GdS on 25 October, 2023, 05:26:52 pm
They also act as Audax Cafes

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/ADCreHf1WJXikQTd4LyCLrUj4PjH3UOqB_9Ff7zKMCYJz3iuAcNWyvwXRfgUs-jJcoE4xTxExCtcQtBZrdFO1lY41WUwXwlFX3GEGSNlaNHEIFFr_RX1vw1XA7PAlsdzmmHfRyrZAJIKPNiHan2hvnjdn2x0WkIm87RIoX7XaNe157NQFPa5jBJ5nu79Uvh8LAwFpcJl0_iUWPU551FRs8pZn6NlQ3so4zUueE24ZbXG8MvlbNVIi0CF6pryc98Q5kaCqWks-ov7TXELaB1wSqEaQm9qk8TuV9HW1XE5cHhEmeTxIjtv_iV8O9YWo58OYjOKqXx43r5xrIpxU706ajv4pmSCnVejhY6v9VYIFFT4DOg7mdlko_kNZVcaqgKw22fv5JPScIHBcIEn4ZasDoc6kBKxwm6XKnQ9Ds9v_QZWzABgXSV4YcK4Idd25DgK20W6f88WWXDzat062tRg-WW_hSoEWj_wTY6tblG5hkEim59Qomd353vXa1MtBZ7OX5_brssjf4DvUAKtkEUlSmmvbU1i-SnASJSjgQQ61g9wiYoAqd8Q8NR0cflKVcGjShG5FfUzKHyKJ5R67sGClqFnGNfICmXVWUI4HH_Qbo0Y5PL_bVxfHA6fncyTcAjyNxZjR2hcPWAWMlV7Eabmbl0LhcE9re4Sms40RAOEoSYJPMSPnGyQC-Gq-J9G0PrJkXXOt2rXqNvZSv5bk3sx1JkahTD08blXfKB50-usWZdpHBfLs9vQyKuJma0g8mxLUZY7qy55RCsXWFAsdsvSeMXKl-A6umIguBtIMOLgZOOdYWWCBe8POp2DpZHHom3p36O_lgLk4LXiEAuWEF42hRc_QcfVt7c-OzEhle_oGjzFgpfxG6-HxIDqJasPapI-ZBDU8Yj0gFkp3_z8swtvus4xzYVOmg=w1213-h910-s-no?authuser=0)