Articles and Features
Original articles and features by Stuart Vallantine
This is the articles and features section, which covers a host of articles I have written, most of which since 2000. These include transport policies and verbal ways of building Utopia. Please bookmark this page, as fresh content may be added from time to time.
All articles within this page are listed by category and chronological order for ease of use:
- Autism Spectrum Disorders;
- Special Interests;
- 'The Travelling Poet' Writ Large: my 30 year affair with buses and trains;
- Visual and Verbal Arts.
Autism Spectrum Disorders
- SV on Television: how television played a part in my language development.
Special Interests
- A Fare Deal for You: from workmen's fares to Wayfarer tickets and System One Travelcards;
- From Tram to Stagecoach [Manchester]: the history of the 346 bus route, from SHMD tram to Stagecoach Manchester;
- The History of the 343: from SHMD to Speedwell Bus, the story of a historic bus route from Hyde to Oldham via Mossley;
- How to Watch Non League Football: an absolute beginners' guide to watching non league football;
- The Convenience Bus: a discussion paper on how to enhance and reinvigorate short distance circular and radial bus routes;
- 400: Trans-Lancs Express: an appreciation and obituary of Greater Manchester's late lamented express route from Manchester Airport to Bolton, via Stockport, Oldham and Bury.
'The Travelling Poet' Writ Large: my 30 year affair with buses and trains
- The World's Our Bus Stop (1996): how boredom drove a trainee to roam Greater Manchester on a 16 - 19 pass - and realise how good a bus route the 400 was;
- The World's Our Bus Stop (2005): Stuart Vallantine circumnavigates Greater Manchester by bus. This article has the results of these findings.
Visual and Verbal Arts
- 'Far From Average': a 'Behind The Music' type article on the poem 'Celebrating Differences';
- The 1715 from Redditch: The story behind '45 Minutes to Longbridge', a poem based on a rail replacement bus journey from Hell.
