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Agreed, although I wouldn't disapprove of that Headbolt service also coming down the Atherton line. Could be timed quite well for the connection to/from Southport trains at Hindley (same platform), meaning no walking required. If you were to run a shuttle on Headbolt services, either you need...

Trafford Bar wasn't the problem, The Trafford Centre was. Tafford Bar did suprise me a bit at the length, but since I was running a bit early I didn't run. It's only 110 metres so should be do-able in 30 seconds. Yes, except for some reason an Eccles tram did get sent round that curve when no...

Ended up as 07:05:02. 3rd place. Planning to attempt again some time next week. Weekdays should probably go a bit better (they'll be quieter) but it costs more becuase peak time (not during the run, but to get to/from it).

Not going too well so far, missed connection at Trafford (tram got delayed for a ticket check), then an Eccles tram was cancelled, then a MediaCity tram was cancelled, and then a points issue near Harbour City, and missing a connection at Victoria. About an hour behind schedule

Double decker school buses are everywhere in Manchester at school run times. Including going 45mph in a 30, and pretending 20mph restrictions never became a thing.

It's up to the driver, and the driver may well not have known anything was happening. I'm not familiar with Vision's vehicles but most Wright Gemini 2s I'm familiar with only have the driver's camera showing the stairs, not the whole top deck.

There's usually 1 train per day in the early morning. There are a couple more trains per day that seem to be using that line during the closure, only took a brief look so I might be wrong.

It would be impossible to be sitting neatly and then three people all fall out of a window at the same time. They will no doubt have some explaining to do (to their parents, if not the school too)

The various red wooden stations that I think were built ~1980s, Hag Fold and Hall i' th' Wood come to mind, even if Hag Fold has lost it's vibrancy and could do with a new coat of red.

There are two services at exactly the same time One cancelled, one running. Opening journey check for any station on the line now shows 2tph

Not just staffing, I'm noticing a slight decrease in the number of short forms today, likely thanks to less 15x on Buxton services.

And I was replying to this query:

Correct, but if every eligible service on that day is mandatory reservations, you wouldn't be able to get the ticket on conjunction with an itinerary.

Based on some of the webcams publically avaliable at https://www.jamesgphotography.co.uk/peak-district-webcams/ (and other sites), there's quite a bit of snow, but roads are cleared.

Yes, except for in person, since currently no online retailers allow you to just buy a ticket. A ticket office would be able to sell it without issue.

Yes but image recognition got too good, so they keep making increasingly annoying CAPTCHAs (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart). A couple weeks ago I had one that took me embarrassingly long to figure out.

Trainsplit is also retailing it. Maybe more reservations have been made avaliable. Edit: Nevermind, I had the wrong month!

No, I'm working on the rules of the transitruns site, which is generally the same as the tube challenge and similar. The connections are East Disbury - Manchester Airport by train, Trafford - Eccles by bus, and Bury - Rochdale by bus.

It has been said plenty of times in the past, but RTT uses its own interpretations of the delay codes. Code X4 is (as per the Open Rail Data Wiki) for