Great Western Coffee Shop

I'm posting this on "lighter side" but perhaps there may be a serious application?

(http://www.wellho.net/pix/hermo003.jpg)

On the square front end of 142, 143 and 150/1 perhaps ...

I don't understand the logic of this. You have a large rubber fender to protect against low speed collision damage and then affix a steel bike rack to that. Can't do much for any vehicle, structure or human the bus may bump into.

We'll never see such a silly contraption on the front of a train. First you partially block the yellow warning panel. Next, it's unlikely to fit around the head/tail lights. Safely securing it to a train that can run at up to 75mph would be nigh on impossible. And finally, it'd take an age to load/unload the secured cycles, adding to dwell times and, having to be done side on from a platform, posing many safety problems.

Bicycles are best carried inside a train.

I imagine the dwell and safety issues apply to the bike racks on buses too. According to this (http://www.localgov.co.uk/index.cfm?method=news.detail&id=39481) all the TrawsCambria buses had bike racks on them (at the back). I don't think they do anymore, maybe your comments explain why. You can just about get a bike in the wheelchair space on the bus, seen it done once I think.

Is the loading guage big enough to get bikes on the roof? And how would you get them up there?

The WX Bus services in Bath (Wessex Water) have bike racks fitted to the back. I'll try and grab a picture later today :)