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This was my initial thought

Well, they tend to wait to be threatened with legal action before giving you a refund. Which leads me to believe they have cashflow issues. And they seem to just run any old train they can regardless of what they've sold. So there's that.

Might this query not be better dealt with in https://www.railforums.co.uk/forums/disputes-prosecutions.152/

I didn't even realise the bus I caught was new - I just noticed the new seats and thought "Ooh, that's nice" and assumed the bus had been refurbished It gave all the appearance of someone in a distant office making decisions that made sense - vaguely - financially, but were bonkers otherwise...

Having lived in Stevenage for the last 20-odd years and seen the slow descent of the service provided by Arriva, I'll reserve judgement on the effectiveness of the new buses, not least because, as I recall, they still don't have enough drivers to provide the timetabled service - a service that...

Slightly different scale. And I believe they nearly went bump very early on for precisely this reason

I've not used Trainline for a while, but there have been a couple of websites I recently used where Booking.com was automatically launched with the destination quoted. Is Trainline one of these ?

Wouldn't it behove them to make sure their existing routes are functioning properly ? I strongly suspect they are starting new routes to keep money flowing in, rather than improve and maintain their existing services

I very much doubt it. If there's one thing I've learnt in my 60-odd years is that most managers under no circumstances will take the blame for systems failures.

One of the numerous other reasons I loathe Trainline is the fact that they seem to have full spectrum domination - like 118 118 did for Directory Enquiries. Everybody I know uses them due to brand recognition, not quality of service. I weaned one work colleague off them, and he is now...

I've yet to encounter a bus partnership that's actually delivered. The CPCA Mayor does indeed want to spend money on "other things" - roads, mainly.

Stagecoach corporately spent way too much time, legal fees and effort trying to stop the Greater Manchester franchising system. And the Peterborough & Cambridgeshire Mayor is now trying to wriggle out of the commitments of the previous Regional Mayor and cripple the system before it even begins.

Not at the moment, though I can see some Brexiteers desperate for us to do the same. The same people who want a "British only" queue at immigration 1786883735 There's a "logic" behind this, because the car hire firms often place a huge "shadow"/reserved charge (often running to 4 figures) over...

To say that it's "every bus stop live in England", when it is not, that's not harsh criticism, that's the truth. Bustimes and Google manage it for my locale, he does not. If he claims partial coverage, fine

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