Recent content by MedwayValiant

On the 145 at least, the supposed £2.00 and £3.00 fares are in fact both £2.80, as I discovered today. It's £2.80 to travel from one end of the route to the other, and it's £2.80 to travel one stop (someone did it). Whether it's the same for all Medway routes or even all Arriva roures in Kent...

Apologies for the selective quoting, I've just quoted the three paragraphs that I wanted to comment on. It doesn't help that social media customer service for Kent and Medway is actually done from Luton. The people who do it have clearly never been to Kent, and seem not even to have a map to...

The "owner" of the Discovery ticket is actually the South Downs National Park Authority, even though its validity has always extended well beyond the South Downs National Park. All of the National Park lies in Hampshire and Sussex, but Kent and Surrey have always been covered by the ticket...

Stephensons service 15X between Bury St Edmunds and Haverhill serves HMP Highpoint, which is actually two prisons across the road from one another. These prisons stand on the site of RAF Stradishall, which closed in 1970. I used to have an Eastern Counties timetable from the late 60s which...

Sullivans 398 between Watford and Potters Bar serves South Mimms Services.

The station called Colchester is 1 mile north of the city centre, and is known locally as "North Station". That name is used by railway staff and it appears on the front of buses, but I don't think it's ever had any official status.

Stagecoach 1 in Aberdare isn't very long. It takes 4 minutes to go up the hill to Abernant. The timetable gives it 6 minutes to come back down, although in reality it takes scarcely 3.

No you can't. Too many trees and rhododendrons in the way. Whether you can hear the trains depends on the wind. There are at least two grounds in the Kent League from which you can see trains, though. Bexley CC's ground is very close to Bexley station. Unfortunately, the station entrance...

Most of the ones I remember have been mentioned already, but Luton (Bute Street) was another in the cavernous category. That place was scarey! It doesn't any more, but am I right in thinking that Turnpike Lane Bus Station in Wood Green used to have a full lid?

Chigwell does have two infrequent services which are not TfL. They are Central Connect 18 (Loughton to North Weald every two hours) and Epping Forest Community Transport SB09 (from Stapleford Abbotts to Epping on Mondays and Debden on Wednesdays). Neither of these runs down the main street...

Is Buckhurst Hill the only settlement - whether it should be classed as a town or a village is debatable - outside Greater London whose bus service is entirely TfL?

Perhaps Gillingham could have them back! Those vehicles were new two-ish years ago, and Gillingham made a fair bit of song and dance about finally having some shiny new buses for the 145 and 164 routes in the Medway Towns. (Two routes which have some tight turns and some narrow roads, and...

Nairn bus station isn't even as fancy as Wooler. It's one stance in a car park outside a kebab shop, but it does provide the layover space that may not be available anywhere else in the town. Maidstone bus station is a curious beast. It's a rather dingy tunnel underneath a shopping centre -...

According to that video, a single will be £2.50 and a day ticket will be £4.30. That actually could speed up boarding, since anyone who wanted what would hitherto have been a return will now need a day ticlet. No longer will the passenger need to try and describe the precise location of a stop...

Arriva 700 (Chatham - Rochester - Strood - Bluewater) probably "ought" to run on Boxing Day, partly for people determined to go shopping but also partly as a major urban area's link to the rest of the world on that day. (I was not the only person who used it to go and watch football !) It...