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What does Stagecoach have to do with any of this? I thought TfGM now owned the depot on Daw Bank, having taken it over as part of the franchising scheme.

Not a critique specifically of the quoted post. This sort of thing is said quite often on this forum, and it does make sense. But I'm not sure it's particularly helpful, because IMO the current facilities to do it are really quite poor. Trainline, which is used by a huge number of passengers...

Yes, Sparpreis is restricted, like an advance single Re. efficiency of the service - my experience is that the trains are pleasant, comfortable, quiet and quick. Assuming everything goes to plan it's an extremely civilised way to travel and I usually enjoy an ICE journey when I get the...

The time taken for the display to change is annoying but it's annoying on displays without sign language interpretation as well. Since the page has to be shown for long enough for the interpreter to finish signing, one could say it exacerbates the problem, but it is certainly not itself the...

As an aside I hadn't previously realised the service on that line only started at about 10 on Sundays. Even the Stoke line, much maligned for its huge gaps in the Sunday timetable, has an earlier first train towards Manchester than that. Do you mean faster, rather than more frequent? If trains...

That seems plausible - in which case is it possible this Ebay seller has got the frames from somewhere and had them upholstered with a generic design?

I assume there is some sarcasm here as the video seems to show almost all the cyclists riding on the carriageway and waiting at the traffic lights when required!

At the very least it would have been useful on Sunday if the hourly GW service terminating at Cheltenham could have been extended to Bromsgrove. I have no idea if it's even possible to turn back trains from the south at Bromsgrove though, and it would have required an extra unit and crew to be...

The car park occupies space that would otherwise be taken up by the places those people are walking to/from. Furthermore, motor traffic is a significant danger to pedestrians and cyclists. I won't get into the continued misinformation about what authoritarianism is because I think that has...

Do you have any knowledge of the area that would inform your opinion on whether or not it needs a car park? "I was shocked to hear in the Railway Magazine..." makes it sound like you haven't been there. I fail to understand what is "arrogant and authoritarian" about building a station without a...

Could you please make a constructive argument against the opinions presented rather than attacking they way you assume the writer has come to those opinions? Your messages read as quite confrontational. The opinion presented was that it would be selfish and inconsiderate for someone to own a...

I will be travelling from Ilkley to Bradford next week. Looking on Realtime Trains it looks like these services are a mixture of 331s and 333s. Is there a way of telling before the day of travel which services are likely to be 331s and which are 333s, or is it just pot luck on the day? If...

There still a fairly significant axis (Derby - Birmingham - Cheltenham) on which they are the only option. You can just about avoid the Birmingham-Cheltenham bit by going round via Worcester, but it takes three times as long. From Derby you can get to Stoke - but again, very slowly, and then...

Seems First and/or the motorway service company may agree with you: two round trips are being removed from next month!

However they do now display the bee logo on the front of buses. The bee has been used to replace or supplement the M in lots of places