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https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/plan-for-drivers/the-plan-for-drivers https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/plan-for-drivers/the-plan-for-drivers Anyone read this? A worrying development. We risk going backwards on bus priority, encouraging active travel, reducing carbon...

A couple of topics under this general heading. 1. Do buses in your area sometimes have to reverse when in service, either to turn round at a terminus when empty or in the middle of the route with passengers on board? I’ve come across both practices since moving to Devon and previously in West...

I and two other guys had an unusual experience today while photographing the Devon General Running Day at Newton Abbot. The first bus to pass our vantage point was a Stagecoach bus on service which the two others photographed, at which point a woman pedestrian crossed the road and said to us “if...

There are two new books on this subject, which should make interesting reading "How Westminster Works … and Why It Doesn't" by Ian Dunt, author, political journalist and broadcaster. "Code of Conduct: Why We Need to Fix Parliament" - and How to Do It by Chris Bryant MP, due out soon A...

Moderator note: split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/train-cancelled-ticket-office-advised-to-board-service-of-another-operator-rejected-by-guard.252127/#post-6334205 Indeed. All the revenue is going to the Govt. anyway. A task for GBR, if and when it happens, is to ditch...

Today I skimmed through Roger Ford's "Informed Sources Preview", which was a bit hard going. What caught my eye was the statement that "interest payment on Network Rail’s debt....represents roughly a quarter of current fares revenue." How much of this is due to high levels of investment in...

Anyone know what’s happening to 1V50 today? HST with 43357 and 43285. It left Edinburgh on time and was on time passing Widdrington, but lost 19 minutes between there and Butterwell Jn. Departure from Newcastle was 32 late and from York 60 late. The train has omitted the Leeds and Wakefield...

It's being reported on TV and in the papers that The Daily Telegraph is to be put up for sale after Lloyds Banking Group took control of the parent firm over unpaid loans and placed it in the hands of receivers. It was interesting to listen to former Telegraph journalist Sonia Purnell on BBC2...

The likely demise of the Day Travelcard in London, reported elsewhere on this forum, has prompted me to enquire how many other cities offer a similar ticket. In the recent past I've used Greater Manchester Wayfarer - allows travel for a day anywhere in GM and parts of Cheshire, Derbyshire...

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/new-newcastle-middlesbrough-express.244402 Having the Leamside line open would improve the chances of a Newcastle - M'boro service via Stillington getting a path but this would compete with other possible uses - a new main line to...

I read that much of the diesel required by the railway is delivered by road. Is this mainly because the quantity required at a depot is too small to make an economic trainload and/or the facilities don't exist to increase storage capacity? Is there any rail delivery to depots now?

We know that SWR has withdrawn its on-train catering and there are rumours that GWR might follow suit. Is catering likely to be a casualty of Treasury-inspired cuts? And could an independent provider such as a rail user group step in as on the Settle Carlisle line?

Someone writing on Facebook yesterday. I remember a time when, in bad weather, you were asked to consider switching from car or bus to train. Now it's usually the other way round. Discuss, as they say. (There may have been other issues like trees on the line, but trees can also block roads.)

This is the article about the 271 route. https://www.mylondon.news/news/north-london-news/londoners-tears-say-final-goodbyes-26188825?int_source=nba It must be hard for those of us outside London to comprehend that a bus route can stay more or less the same and keep the same number for over...

Trains don't seem to be running eastbound between STJ and Pilning at present - anyone know what the problem is? (Information from RTT).

I wonder if this could be an attractive travel option again, in the age of the electric vehicle. Charging points on the train straight off the overhead wires - via a rectifier of course - your car arrives at its destination fully charged and ready to go! Trains to and from the West Country...

Moderator note: split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/brigg-line-quick-questions.240061/ Maybe EMR should take on the Brigg line (plus Sheffield - Lincoln) as it's an outlier for Northern. But that wouldn't change the economics of running a passenger service that much. I thought there...

I'm a CAMRA member but don't seem to be able to find out from them which pubs give a discount to card holders, maybe because their information may be out of date. Today I went into a pub in Exeter which I use occasionally and asked for the discount as I knew I'd been offered it before but the...

Another variation on a often-discussed theme. If we include request stops on a line with an hourly service, then several on the Barnstaple and Looe branches are used by fewer than 100 passengers a week. Excluding request stops, the answer seems to be St. Andrews Road, with 110 passengers a week...

I've been asked what's the busiest unstaffed station on the national rail network. Network Rail station categories F1 and F2 are supposed to mean unstaffed but there are exceptions, e.g. Filton Abbey Wood, which I believe has a ticket office. Many staffed stations are unstaffed in the evenings...