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If Hulley's are guilty so are TM Travel, another user of cast off vehicles from fleets around the country. And probably a lot of other operators working on shoe string budgets.

I was in Nottingham on Friday arriving at the east end of a long platform 1b - or was it 1c? I tried the notorious bridge and can see the almost insurmountable problem, certainly without expenditure on significant alterations or replacement of the bridge and platforms around it. I had a valid...

The Manchester Wayfarer's rail validity extends to Grindleford, only 2 miles away from the Sheffield boundary, 2/3 of the way through Totley Tunnel! On buses it can get you as far as Crich and Ashbourne. South Yorkshire don't go beyond the county boundary, not even that 2 miles underground to...

Firstly to say what a pleasure it was to discover these statistics by accident last month when looking for something else on the Railway Data website. I was diverted for far too long from what I'd been intending to research. My initial delight is now tempered with considerable alarm if they...

Barrow crossings are no longer allowed. In this specific case it's not hard to see why, trains passing at 50mph off a curve with restricted visibility.

3 potential issues that can arise when a lift ceases to operate - as considered at Dore & Totley. 1. User stuck in the lift. 2. User arrives at station in train, train leaves them on the platform, user finds lift not working and can't use stairs to get to other side. 3. User arrives at station...

My economics master at school worked evenings as a projectionist at his local cinema when studying. Some films went to two reels loaded on 2 projectors. The art was to have both running so the two were at exactly the same place in the film when the first was covered and the second uncovered so...

As a member of other heritage railway groups, although not as an active volunteer, I feel gutted for the SVR. That is one massive challenge on all levels from assessing the full enormity of the damage, getting estimates for rebuilding the section and completely reorganising operations over the...

It happens at nearly every station, the part of the train stopping nearest to the entry point to the platform always becomes fuller than the rest of the train. As the journey progresses that may even out a little but over my decades of rail travel I've tended ro head for the front of any train...

The Chinese market into the Peak District is boosted by their social media highlighting other attractions like the Derwent reservoirs and the Edges. They come from the Sheffield side too and they aren't all students. Not always well equipped but that doesn't faze them. They tend to use Google...

Possibly not the final update but I've been going through the mountain of paper and computer files I've amassed since the first public consultations in 2013, 2015 and the public inquiry in 2016. Supposedly over £150m spent, but how much over I don't expect Network Rail or the government really...

Exactly. "I went for the bus to get to a hospital appointment in Sheffield. I went at the usual time but it didn't come. It seems they've recently changed the timetable but there was nothing at the stop to tell me. My husband dropped everything and came to give me a lift by car. I won't be...

We seem to be going round in circles. All I know is that intending users of routes operated by Hulley's are getting totally confused as to what timetable is supposed to be operating today, whether a particular bus is running, and if it is will it be on time. So confused they can't plan their...

London telephone numbers starting with 3 letters, e.g. WHI 1212 for Scotland Yard, still valid in the 1960s. Thus telephones with dials where WHI would be 944.

A reminder that Sheffield's rejection of Meadowhall was a very big factor in the demise of the eastern leg. It immediately added complexity, delay and more cost. Rejection? Destruction of the business case! As a Sheffield resident with roots in Newcastle I was amazed to see that journey would...

I've been on open top buses operating out of Penzance and on Stagecoach's route from Chatsworth up the Winnats Pass to Mam Tor. From a drivers point of view they're both challenging. Stagecoach put on an hourly service in 2024 using 3 buses, the subject for a different thread. In 2023 Hulleys...

I've a friend in Garstang and assumed I could visit him by public transport - until I found the station was closed long ago. What a trial. I'd get there in half the time, any time of the day, by car.

Now at £73,065 from 93 investors after a surge at 12.53 today.

A very sore point, 25 years waiting for more capacity, 3 years of disruptive construction, £150m spent and the most imperceptible improvements to service reliabilty. Ironically, 5 or so years ago the stopping service used Pacers that skip stopped many of the stations and ran at irregular...

Indeed. Not a good day to be holding TPE's Stakeholder Conference in Liverpool! My TPE 7.14 was cancelled and then the EMR 7.36 (which disappeared from the CIS screen at Dore). Many now going for an online option because they can't make it by train.