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Thats not strictly true the regulations covering coach drivers are there to drive a coach and horses thru so to speak and many private hire companies do just that particularly on Saturdays where providing he takes the required rest breaks a driver can almost cram 2 days driving time into a 24...

Thanks for the answer and yes the connection time should have been nearly half an hour and they all had thru tickets so that isnt a problem and as for the working times thing how can 20 minutes make a difference or if a train has been delayed and theyve run out of hours do they just stop and...

Last night the scheduled 20.33 departure from Bristol was running 38 minutes late by the time it departed and was 46 minutes late when it arrived at Birmingham. There were i know a number of passengers on board who were planning on catching the last service back to Manchester which was due to...

Whether the 22m hole actually exists or is just an excuse to justify actions like removing the pensioners money is of course open to argument. But if it does you don't need to be the brain of Britain to work out ways or recovering it. Lets start with the money they pay Serco for housing the...

Arent there already plans to bring the ex mail platforms on the Western side of the station back into use in relation to HS2 [I believe] but as that surely wouldn't involve the North Facing bay platform that could be the answer. [ I understand they're currently deciding whether to just do a...

The West Coast charters that ran on the Lakes line accepted normal tickets

It does seem to work a lot more smoothly than it used to and the staff arent as ignorant as they used to be but there doesn't seem to be as many of them as there were previously.

Aye, but can you see the new price for the single ticket being half of the current cheap day return ticket price because I can't. What I can see is the new price being the CDR price minus the 10p they usually add on meaning that under the new system, your return journey will cost you twice...

Does anybody know why there are no sleeper services for a week at the start of May ?

Yes but it would have been a lot easier to get a RR bus in Sheffield to take the passengers doing the last leg on to Doncaster as First Bus is the main operator in South Yorkshire meaning they're effectively the same company. But it seems rather than do that they'd rather inconvenience dozens...

So the train was fit enough to travel back to Manchester but not fit to continue on to Sheffield ?

Seems it only made it as far as Hazel Grove and then gave out. What happened to the passengers who were travelling to Doncaster ?

Where can you see the details of the extra services ? there doesn't appear to be any overnight services that i can see in the Avanti timetables which is surely one of the companies that should be running these to allow people to arrive in the capital very early.

I don't agree. yes if it was Sunak and he kept dishing out the dosh he would be safe till it stopped but if Truss wins and sticks by what she's said she's going to/not going to she.ll be gone by Christmas. If Labour really wants them out they.ll give their support to a utility bill strike where...

Explain for me then why just calling out the Staff in the ROC.s in an all-out strike and the rest of the union paying them to stay out wouldn't have the same or bigger effect than the current action ? I think that in any number of ways that would bring things to a head a lot quicker than the...