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I wonder whether Dudley bus station, and maybe the Metro extension, will open on November 29th? According to the Dudley News, a road outside the bus station is due to close until November 29th for roadworks...

I saw one in Preston Hospital last Saturday.

I thought they were due for refurbishment before entering service. I'm not sure there will have been long enough to refurbish it yet. Cross Bucks? That suggests they will run the Milton Keynes - Aylesbury services.

Strictly speaking, Southampton still has both national operators. First still serve Southampton for routes to Fareham/Portsmouth, but have closed their city network with Go-Ahead Bluestar expanding to provide a replacement service. First are applying the opposite strategy in Colchester to that...

It is interesting to see contrasting developments concerning First and former municipals. Grampian (Aberdeen) seems likely to remain with First for many years to come. Leicester too, potentially. Chester was sold in its entirety to Stagecoach. Northampton was gradually run down and finally...

It wouldn't surprise me if TOCs want us to use their websites so that we don't look at the Railforums website for example for split ticketing savings.

Assuming Squarepeg have done nothing wrong, they are likely to have been all the more aggrieved to miss out. That said, because I don't know which routes are under these small lots, I don't know how much or how little of these have been awarded to them after all.

OK thanks, I shall ride one for the vehicle, but not the whole route. I doubt I shall ride it over route T1 given that the route seems identical over that section.

What I wonder is whether the only differences are it using coaches and having fewer stops - or whether it uses different roads from the TrawsCymru bus routes?

It is noticeably a Saturday, not a Sunday as often happens outside London. Also, it is the day of the Eurovision Song Contest 8-)

Thank you for your explanation. I rode that service a couple of weeks ago, and wondered why it departed from platform 11 instead of (IIRC) platform 7.

We'd be bananas not to :lol:

While that sounds a bit jobsworthy, I think they insist we try to scan the ticket first so that, if the scan is successful, the Railway knows we have started to use that ticket.

Most buses at Hoeford are now Kites, including for Eclipse routes E1 & E2. Unlike previous batches of routes for Eclipse routes which had a distinctive moquette, this batch has the same moquette as for other Kites with First.

There were a few posts the other week casting doubt as to whether Premier Inn would allow passers-by/visitors to have breakfast, or just people who had actually stayed the night. Last Sunday the one at Uxbridge allowed me to have breakfast, even though the website said it was arranged by PI...