Recent content by LucyP

WBAC offer low prices. You can always do better on a trade-in or selling privately.

There are always going to be faults in service. Faults will happen forever.

"3tph from Newcastle to London then on to SWR? It’s about as easy as you’d ever get long distance travel to be." And you have to change trains twice or 3 times, as the journey with only 1 change takes over 6 hours. It means a change onto the tube at Kings Cross, where the underground station is...

North Yorkshire won't opt for the nonsense franchising scheme.

"Not between Harrogate and Wetherby where competition resulted in the public purse having to fund the former route." Not true. It actually led to lower fares, a more frequent service, and a faster bus route. Transdev reduced eventually reduced the frequency of the 7, and but for competition...

The X98/9 is only busy between the ring road and Leeds city centre. It is a supported route and not a purely commercial route. It will not end with franchising, because it has not been packaged with the core franchise for Leeds that was won by First, because it is not a core route. It will...

The more interesting question is - why are station lifts so slow, compared with other lifts. They move at a snail's pace.

Fenwicks have reduced losses by 40% to only £23.4 million. The department store market is brutal now. I do not understand why anyone bought out WHSmiths and expected to make a success of it. WHS had tried everything and nothing made any difference. There was nothing left for TJG to try.

The simple truth is that it filled the buses with badly behaved children. Vaping, feet on the seats, shouting, mocking other passengers, music on their phones being played loudly. One set had gone straight from the river to the bus, and were soaking the seats from their wet swimming costumes...

The 412 is a lightly used, rural bus route, serving mainly old people in the villages between Wetherby and York. It is fully funded by the Council. Connexions would never run it commercially and have said they would withdraw it several times in the past when the Council ended funding, which so...

TheGrandWazoo is correct in what they say above. The bigger problem is the dark in an unlit village. You need a torch to flash at the driver, to show that you are at the stop and would like them to stop. On the return journey, you have to tell the driver where to stop.

No it doesn't. You remain on the train for the checks when entering Bulgaria. You only have to get off for the Turkish passport control. Turkey is not in the EU and do the EU checks are not required for Turkey. There are also far less passengers present at the same time to be checked than at a...

He is correct about BEV buses sacrificing the niceties of saloon layout. The best example is the Mercedes e-Citaro. The massive cubicle at the back left narrows the aisle so much, blocks the left-side view for the passengers in the right-side seats completely and makes the bus so dark and...

Locomotives that are over 30 years old are bound to fail regularly. What is the point of the sleeper? Just for tourists? Most business people will just fly.

Transdev's 36 cannot complete a day without charging. I saw one plugged in last week at Harrogate bus station. They are also currently installing more chargers at the bus station. They still have the ADL branded bus in service, presumably because of faulty 36 branded buses.