Recent content by izvor

Agree with all the above except - please! - pub cat not dog. Or parrot, preferably Norwegian Blue. I've been in too many pubs where the landlord's dog(s) slobber all over you, or sniff your crotch, or bark at everyone that comes through the door, or run around uncontrolled, or just plain...

Maybe the Treasury could go to Middlesbrough? Been in the news a lot lately so I'm sure it must be nice. They could savour the fruits of their lavish investments over the years, and I'm sure Mayor Houchen and his cronies would love to have them right on his doorstep.

Many thanks for this analysis which is very helpful. I can see the demographic changes that you allude to, and the rise of Westwood Cross. To the former I'd add the ongoing influx of retired DFLs (down from London) who buy nice bungalows to retire to, drive everywhere, and don't touch buses at...

Yes that's a fair point and I must admit my local knowledge is limited to occasional visits, when I mostly use the Loop, so I'm really an armchair commentator. But I have watched the steady decline in the bus network over the past decade and more, and especially in the past 7 years, and I find...

Thanks. So Newington and Dane Valley see their frequency halved to hourly, pretty appalling for large housing estates. And if the Loop remains unchanged, Newington will have double the frequency evenings and Sundays than Weekday daytimes! Timetables awaited...

Well they updated their Thanet map for the 2024 reductions, though bizarrely it shows the date as 2019. https://tiscon-maps-stagecoachbus.s3.amazonaws.com/ZoneMaps/South East/Thanet Network Map 280822MS copy.pdf Thanks. Might as well run it to Garlinge then, it's not far up the road from...

The 11 has already gone to Regent Coaches so maybe it can be linked in with the 9 somehow? It's good news, though maybe Stagecoach were just "testing the water". They still say the 34 will be curtailed at Westwood, but not from which direction! Not sure if this has been picked up by the...

Thanks for posting this. In about 1968 me and a school friend decided we'd walk up the old line and through the tunnel, not realising it was this "private haul road". (ISTR that we'd just broken into the derelict station building at Fowey and found a load of old paperwork scattered around.)...

Exactly! And even the peak service is reduced to 2 diagrams, just with reduced layovers. At Tonbridge the trains serve P1 without impacting other services. It is only at Redhill where the main line tracks have to be crossed to access the bay platform. Of course if it was actually a failure...

Line was effectively closed from 1700 to 2100 yesterday. CIS gave the cause as signal failure, while NRE suggested power supply failure. Certainly the signals visible from Penshurst platforms were out. According to RTT, the 1700 RDH-TON was stuck at Godstone for 163 minutes. My question is...

Crumpet Strip would be worse...

There was a tram replacement rail service in Prague a few years back, along a goods-only line. The Ryde Pier one looks interesting, thanks!

I understand through the grapevine that a couple of the single-deck hydros have been returned to Metrobus, with new batteries. Usual caveats apply!

That sounds rather condescending to me. This thread, and most of the comments, is about quality of information, not frequency. I can arrange my life around 20bph or 2 buses (or trains) per day but for headways greater than around 10 minutes I want to know times, preferably from a timetable...

Er no, it's just at the end of the Station Drive!