Recent content by Staffordian

Looking at options from Liverpool to London today, there are 4 FlixBus journeys taking between 5h50m and 6h20m. NX has 3 journeys on 540, between 6h20m and 6h25m and 4 on 541 (also via Birmingham) either 7h10m or 7h15m. Until last weekend there were 5 journeys on 550 generally between 6h10m and...

It is non-stop between the cities, and as it is at a new time its quite possible no-one has booked it. However, as at 1715 today, the live times show the 1430 with destination Leeds, but when you click on the details it shows timings through to Hull and I am able to book tickets for it on the...

There seems to be something a bit odd about the new timetable for NX 131 introduced on Monday. There are now two journeys from Birmingham to Hull at 1430 and 1730, but only the 1145 from Hull to Birmingham, which works back to Hull as the 1730. (Precise timings vary by day of the week). However...

Agreed. I have always found the same for Traveline Midlands and Traveline South East - generally updated timetables appeared on them well before they did on the operator sites. Edit 28/09/2020. An example of this is Hulleys 171 (Bakewell - Hartington - Leek), which commences on October 26th...

I'm not sure of the exact dates, but Traveline South East was the first site developed by MENTZ, and after it was implemented for TSE, at various times Traveline South West, Traveline West Midlands and Traveline East Midlands adopted the same format, with a great deal of co-operation between the...

Thanks - now looks fine !

Thanks - as ever this is incredibly useful for understanding how things are changing. However, I’m not sure about the ‘Compressed changes’ option, which appears to give the same result as the Default (at least it does for STA, EUS and SKI, which were the first ones I looked at). Perhaps there...

The problem is that Public Transport is virtually the only location where social distancing is virtually impossible which is still open. All others - pubs, restaurants, places of worship, schools, universities, theatres, gyms, sports stadia etc. are just closed. As a result we are faced with a...

Good point. I always buy tickets in advance for travel from Stafford to London, but usually they are not actually ‘Advance tickets’ - which would take some explaining to the ‘man in the street’ !

The actual report is correct re reservations, it’s the headline mentioning ‘advance tickets‘ which is the problem. (In my view a common issue in all news media because the headlines aren’t written by the same people as the articles so are not specialist in the subject). Unfortunately, the...

Are you sure ? Looking at RTT for 18/05/2020, they appear to have shifted the existing xx17 Oxford Road stopper to xx20 but with four fewer stops and re-instated(?) the xx54/xx55 Oxford Road stopper serving the same number of (but different) stops. The only through Airport service remains the...

Out of interest, what it the best place to find the source of the detailed TfL statistics on how busy early morning trains are ? Although I haven't been able to track these down, I have found an interesting November 2019 article TfL published some tables about Tube Capacity and they are amazing...

I would imagine they are very busy, as they leave Piccadilly at xx30 and take 61 mins to Leeds (with 6 stops) just ahead of the xx34 to Newcastle, which takes 66 mins to Leeds (with 4 stops including Oxford Road and Victoria). Whether they are carrying many passengers to Selby, Brough and Hull...

Based on what you say about Wakefield, it seems that being close to the M1 hasn't done much for its prosperity either !

I would expect that David Brown (like other Northern staff) would have been given the choice of TUPE'ing over to DOHL or staying with Arriva. As Arriva have no obvious vacancies for an MD type role with Cross-Country, Chiltern, London Overground or Grand Central but DOHL potentially have...