Recent content by Lostin Transit

Hello, I’m sure this has been asked countless times so apologies for that but I can’t be bothered to scroll down countless pages,so I want to do a south pennine day ranger but can I buy it online via an app or do I need to buy it from the ticket office? Also can I buy it from Derby even...

Matlock bus station has always been one of the gloomiest most depressing places to catch a bus I can think of and I’ve been to Corby and Northampton. By Staffordshire I guess you mean Leek which is at least outdoors which helps dispel the herbal aromas. Anyway this is a bus trip thread not...

A big thank you to everyone who posted a reply,as I suspected the basis is just go,keep it flexible and don’t worry too much about what other think. I‘ll probably start off small and travel around France and possibly Italy or Switzerland but when that will be who knows?. Oh the irony,all the...

Unless your fortunate to have a partner or friend who enjoys long distance rail travel and wandering around foreign cities and towns while carrying your own backpack (and if you do have consider yourself very lucky),if you want to travel you either go solo or don’t go,I’m sure we’ve all read...

I was being a tad ironic but I know it was a cold draughty Stalinist lump of concrete but it's where my interest and enthusiasm for all things bus related was kindled and until I was old enough to head out to more exotic climes i.e Leicester and Peterborough mainly then it was all we had. As...

I didn't know that national express had taken it on and that it has only just finished,I suppose many third generation corbyites don't feel such an affinity with the old country,I do remember Barton falling out with whoever ran Buchanannan st coach station in Glasgow and there coaches...

Barton withdrew their 117 Nottm - Peterborough service in 1988 when they closed their Stamford garage,they retained their 2 service Nottm -Melton -Oakham until they closed their Melton operations around 2005 approx.Centrebus took over their services and reinstated the Nottm - Peterborough...

Didn't Nottinghamshire county council look into running trains on the Ollerton branch when they re-opened the Robin Hood line but dismissed it on the basis of cost?. The line in Warsop is on the edge of the town as it is in Edwinstowe,by the time passengers have walked/drove to the station and...

Hear hear,well said blind traveller,I have read this thread with a mixture of mild amusement to a weary sense of deja vue,from the posters who seem miffed that they also did the project but didn't think to YouTube it or did it before the internet existed to those who resent the fact that it's...

I think they mean the old power station line at Castle Donington which was closed and lifted around 1996 when the power station was closed but then rebuilt in 2013 for a distribution siding which still awaits its first train!!

Long Eaton has a station rd where the old station used to be but the present Long Eaton station is a couple of miles away and used to be Sawley Junction station which I think is a much better name.

It's a very affluent area with high car ownership,Barton Transport pulled out of Stamford in the mid eighties and Melton mid nineties??and good on centrebus for giving it a go but it just isn't a big public transport market. Didn't Melton to Nottm use to be hourly (number 2) with a all the...

I was typing 60:00 instead of just 60,all done now and thanks to everyone who replied.

Thanks for the swift response,trouble is the online form keeps telling me to only "use numbers for minutes",needless to say I thought I was,is it a glitch or am I being slightly dense? Perhaps it's a test to see if you really really want to claim compensation,never mind I shall try later :mad:

Hi all, On Friday 14 April I was travelling from Derby to Manchester,caught the 10.25 to Sheffield arrived on time all going well but then the 11.11 from Sheffield to Manchester turned up 24 minutes late,totally rammed because the 11.40 to Liverpool was late but it's ok I've traveled enough by...