Recent content by Leeds1970

large parts of rural north wales just has BWS painted on the road and nothing else so unless you knew that was the welsh for bus you wouldnt have a clue :D

couple of questions with the sale of freightliner which part of the business has Midland road passed too im assuming heavy haul rail, and what if any are the future plans for 59003 and 66527 as they have been at the depot a significant time. 59003 has a pile of storage boxes and other bits in...

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In Leeds case, there is only 1 coach stand, 3 drop off only stands, the next 20 or so stands are mostly used by 4 buses per hour. Then stands 24/25 are disused, I presume due to the amount of reversing needed due to the close proximity to the traffic lights. And in any case would need rebuilding...

this is correct it was the only enclosed shelter on boar lane so was used by the homeless, it got to the point that P+R passengers could no longer use it, so rather than replace with an open sided shelter it was cheaper to remove the panels on the road side of the shelter. 1771358472 the bus...

flixbus scheduling at Leeds is appalling it is regular throughout the day to have coaches circling through the layovers waiting for stand 1 to become available or using a prohibited stop outside on new york street forcing local buses off their stand, the timetabling at Leeds is for example to...

3 rakes of wagons in there at teatime today (30/05/25) one from a work site at Cottingley - came in mid afternoon

there is no tender for 100s of second hand vehicles nor will there be - west yorks are following the Manchester model where buses will be bought directly from the current operators. valuations on fleets will start shortly.

:lol: 1741981687 Helsby, Frodsham and Runcorn East are also transport for wales

Leeds city council have opened a consultation on the future of the Leeds guided busway on York/Selby roads (by consultation they mean box ticking exercise decision already made) it is to be replaced in both directions with 'Red road' bus lanes.

with the exception of flasks probably most dangerous goods loads are all now lost to road haulage the punchline being road is inherently more dangerous than rail

when i used to go to Scotland a lot in the late 1980s, Inverness guards would make an announcement about isles etc being clear of bags and on more than one occasion saw guards go along the train and remove suitcases/bags etc from train on to the platform to get the massage across

i worked(power station) flask trains for BR and the consist was loco, barrier wagon, flask(s) wagon(s), barrier wagon, brakevan. staff = driver & Guard +sometimes also a drivers assistant/secondman depending on which location you were going to. as soon as EWS took over the brakevans were...

Plus, when the concrete slab was built it was for buses weighing around 10 tons and had maybe 200 vehicles a day spread out across the entire site. Now buses are around 13 tons and about 500 a day using only a third of the original site.

the BBC interviewees are full of crap there's loads of staff on site and at Jacobs well offering help. The departure times haven't been adjusted either