Recent content by Yunchy

I live in Trieste and go regularly to Venice. Some buses have contactless readers but not all. In theory, you are supposed to be able to tap on board and go - but to be sure, I'd download the app and buy the ticket through the app. The best way to get to Trieste is by bus. The rail route is...

I used to do this journey regularly and tested multiple routes. I can assure you that the best route is to change from C2C at Limehouse, take the DLR to Bank and then (thanks to the remodelling at Bank), you have a very short change to the Northern line straight to Kings Cross. The thing about...

Hope this is the right place to post this. I'm participating in a webinar later with people from Better Buses for West Yorkshire and Volt Leeds about transport in the Leeds City Region. Now that the new Mayor has been elected, the aim of the discussion is to work out how best to put pressure on...

That's only heavy rail though, although some will also have Tube. There are 270 Tube stations but some will be NR and some are outside London, mostly on the Metropolitan line. 45 DLR stations - again, some Tube and NR. That's 645 stations but with duplicates and those outside London, I'd...

York's a big winner - it must be the furthest north destination to have a regular under 2hr service to London? Most places along the flat areas of the east are winners in being served by the ECML - small towns such as Retford and Grantham having regular direct services to major cities. Leeds is...

The 0819 is a fast service, arriving at 08:40. It's a 23 minute wait outbound and a 26 minute wait coming back. The connections are at 08:34 and 09:03.

Who cares if it breaks the connection at Virginia Water? That connection is only useful for anyone going Reading way (not many), or roughly to about Richmond. Anywhere from Putney to Waterloo, it's nearly always quicker to change at Weybridge (even if you miss the connection and have to wait)...

I rarely post on this forum, but I am a daily commuter from Clapham Junction to Addlestone and I had to come on here to find out if there is a reason why this line is so, so terrible. The timetabling is shocking; as if they have actually gone out of their way to make it as hard to use as...

Unfortunately you're quite wrong on a few points there. It would be very hard to justify Piccadilly is a more important station than Leeds on really all the criteria you give. It is highly debatable whether Manchester is a more important city than Leeds; if it is, its certainly only a little...

Oops - looks like you forgot Leeds! I think it would come down to either Leeds, Birmingham New Street, Waterloo or Clapham Junction for these reasons: Leeds - the busiest station in the north of England and the central hub of the rail network in the north. Also the centre of a busy commuter...