Recent content by xydancer

Have PM'd you with timetables for 1976, 1980, 1982 and 1992.

That earlier link is indeed 'dead'. but the film can be found here: Can Nationalisation fix Britain's Trains

It is a bit grubby but, according the More website, refurbishment has started - both on the bus station itself and the immediate area outside. An article on their News pages reads: We are working alongside BCP Council, using money from the Government's Bus Service Improvement Plan, to help...

Taipei Bus Station (actually the city's long-distance coach station), opened in 2009, has arrivals/departures from three levels, what we would call the 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors. It runs very smoothly. The ground floor and basement are a shopping mall. Ticket counters are also on the ground floor.

There must be hundreds. Unless there are bus services I don't know of, in West Northamptonshire alone there are 23 by my reckoning: Thenford, Marston St Lawrence, Radstone, Helmdon, Thorpe Mandeville, Sulgrave, Weston and Weedon, Wappenham, Abthorpe, Moreton Pinkney, Woodend, Blakesley...

I'm on 1S37, the 0530 Euston-Glasgow Avanti, and we passed the area at normal speed. Now approaching Carlisle right on time.

I had my first ride on the 730/2s this week, when a pair formed the 1946 Crewe service out of Euston on the two evenings I caught it. First thoughts are that the ambience is great. True, the seats are hard compared to the 350s, but they're far from the worst I've sat in. I found the legroom fine...

West Northamptonshire have very recently published a set of excellent pdf timetable books, spider maps for main centres and an interactive council-wide map. As far as I know, none are available in paper form, however. All available from https://www.westnorthants.gov.uk/travel/bus-timetables

When I used the Northern Line from Euston around 1.30pm, headway was 7-8 minutes on both branches. It was quiet down there and very quiet in Euston ticket hall, the latter probably helped by the Avanti on-train announcements that it was closed. A unexpected bonus for me on the way to Heathrow...

I agree. It is much clearer than the transverse boards. Now all we need is for them to be taken away! And yes, the WH Smith Bookshop is presently being dismantled. It should help flow to the toilets and platforms 1-3, unless they find another use for the space as they did the old Boots. Much...

I think you've got it in one. The water used to get held up on the flood plain north of the town and released slowly. I drive past Brampton Crossing regularly and yes, the northern arm of the River Nene there has been straightened as part of the new by-pass and the inevitable housing...

Northampton station is actually at Westbridge. The station adjacent to South Bridge was the old Bridge Street station closed many decades ago. Having been in town today, I can vouch that the flooding around the River and north of the station is pretty impressive, although it's far from the first...

It's a paper copy - I think the last they issued. But don't hold me to that!

According to an old timetable book I have, in autumn 2017: Yeomans to Newton Farm (74/74A) was every 12 minutes Mondays-Saturday, every 30 mins Sundays. X78/78 was every 30 mins, but with an extra journey many daytime hours on 454 between Hereford and Rotherwas. 420 to Bromyard was six buses...

This week's Camden New Journal reports on a presentation last Monday (February 12th) at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in Bloomsbury that proposes putting a 'forest park' on top of Euston station, with - if I read it correctly - a linear park running from it, all the way to...