TMS Reunion

townendtimmy · **Posted:** Fri Dec 01, 2006 7:28 am

i thought this may be of interest to you Trimdon (yakker branch) a reunion is planned tonight to launch a book about the history of the TMS buses http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/featur ... etable.php

im hoping to get a lend of a copy, as me mams helping to organise it all. let me know if you wanna copy trim i'll do me best

Mick Tait's Head Bandage · **Posted:** Fri Dec 01, 2006 10:45 am

Ah, the TMS.....used to take me and my pals to High Tunstall school every morning for eleven pence!!
I always remember the driver, NOBODY dared f**k with him, bit of a head the ball...looked a bit like Otto, off of The Simpsons! clap clap

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Fri Dec 01, 2006 1:33 pm

Once upon a time I was sans automobile and had to take the TMS to Sedgefield every day for about a year.

The driver was always the same woman, and quite tasty too I might add.

During the winter one day there were severe snowstorms, with roads cut off left right and centre. Returning home that day I was the only passenger on the bus once it had passed Elwick en route for Hartlepool and it was snowing a full-blooded blizzard.

And I knew Devil's Elbow was going to be a buggger to negotiate in such weather. There was a fighting chance the bus would get stuck..........

Spender · **Posted:** Fri Dec 01, 2006 1:45 pm

Painting a huge mural of a white cat in a snowstorm.

'Don't do it' cried Dickie as the enchanted driveress made to leave the warmth and security of the TMS Charabanc to guide Rolf through the whiskers bit.

'I may be some time' she replied in a dreamlike state.

parmopooly · **Posted:** Fri Dec 01, 2006 3:40 pm

If it's any consolation, the pharmaceutical business area of Avecia which I work for is called T.M.S (Toll Manufacturing and Services).
A bit different from buses, but the name lives on!!!

parmopooly · **Posted:** Fri Dec 01, 2006 3:43 pm

did they have any new additions to the menu? :shock:

TalbotAvenger · **Posted:** Fri Dec 01, 2006 6:19 pm

Cornelius Atweasle wrote:

chip fireball wrote:

i remember when the 11p.m. tms got hijacked at shotton after turning out time at the fleming hotel.

the driver was hoyed off and i seem to recall loggy hammond and billy foster took the wheel. the female conductress was injured in the fight for the bus. hammond drove around peterlee dropping his friends and some lasses off before abandoning the vehicle. prosecutions followed.

Good true story, Chip. But it doesn't follow on.

My Shotton story goes back to 1980/81. There was a queue at a chip shop one Friday night. A fight started, and in the melee, one chap dropped his pants and shat in his hands. He then threw the turd in the fryer.

This upset everyone else in the queue, and there was one huge battle. Police had to call in reinforcements from Durham City and Cleveland to calm the situation.

Prosecutions followed, and the chippy was open for business the next night.

Those long winter nights must of flown by.....

townendtimmy · **Posted:** Fri Dec 01, 2006 6:38 pm

one thing for sure the TMS always tried to get to its destination in blizzards, ice hail or whatever. i know a few guys who drive arriva and the story goes if the driver phones in sick the bus doesnt go on the road

parmopooly · **Posted:** Fri Dec 01, 2006 8:48 pm

you have the right to remain silent.............

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