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I imagine it's slightly awkward after spending years promoting the bus over the train, now he's having to promote the train over the bus on his own turf!

Cheers, I missed that bit of news! I won't derail the thread anymore :)

When did they become part of First?

It always quite fascinates me when small towns have a pretty extensive free bus service. I always wonder how it's justified, when there are plenty of bigger towns across the UK that go without.

Ahh gotcha. I've always used the baked bean can term, never heard of razor blades.. I was thinking it was some sort of nickname they'd picked up during their existence! :lol:

What's the razor blade 7900E?

The cost of this alone makes my eyes water!

On the subject of Flyer, was there any further development or talk of the service running 24 hours? I recall it was briefly mentioned in a couple of press reports when Transdev took over the service but due to Covid and the various restrictions at the time it seemed to have been forgotten about.

Funnily enough despite the Witch Way brand being around for more than 20 years the majority of locals still refer to it as 'the X43'

That was a change made by Alex Hornby, using the logic that 'route number' goes to 'destination'. But then you could also say you can get to 'destination' on 'route number'. Change for the sake of change, and in this case not really for the better.

I've been out of the loop for a while it seems, I always thought the summer timetables were a lot more substantial

Am I missing something, or is that just one additional journey to and from Scarborough?

Many of them were re-engined when quite new too along with the 36 fleet, as previously stated they are/were quite underpowered for the routes they were operating on. Some said the engines were replaced with uprated units, others said they were 'truck engines', I don't think anyone other than...

If you didn't know any different I can see many tourists being caught out by that, especially if they'd just come off a long haul flight and were tired!

Interesting, and I did wonder if that would be the case. When the cap was £2 I used the bus regularly to nip into town. Even if I needed a connecting service I could get to my destination and back home again for £8. It was reasonable and was worth the slight inconvenience of waiting for the...