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Yesterday I was heading home to Todmorden from Manchester Victoria after a social function, unfortunately around the evening peak. Looking at RTT, I had a choice of four short-formed trains: 2I21 1636 Leeds, a 2-car 158 1J22 1657 Leeds, a 2-car 195 2N91 1703 Blackburn, a 2-cqr 150 1E70 1721...

Thanks, the Barkisland option was my gut feeling. Mention of Crosville* on this route reminds me of a story told at the time by a fellow real-ale enthusiast. He had ventured over to Oldham to tick off a few pubs, and intended to catch the last 556 back to Halifax, which left Oldham some time...

The Todmorden and Hebden Bridge minibus networks still have a few, although less than previously: T2 at Longfield and T4 at Woodhouse Grove. 596 at Blackshaw Head and (I assume?) Smithy Lane on short journeys, and the 598 at both Fairfield and Eaves. 901A journeys that terminate at Cragg Vale.

I alluded on another thread recently about the leeway given to buses in Prague by motorists, much of which I would not see as being accepted in the UK, as it goes far beyond letting them out of stops. It is ubiquitous to let buses into the main traffic flow at the end of bus lanes, or locations...

From my experience of working at Bradford Interchange (pre Halifax-Hull days), Hull did seem a fairly frequent destination, and a through service to almost anywhere was perceived as a blessing ;) . More seriously, back then the Blackpool North - York services still stopped at the intermediate...

Yep, a better service up Cragg Vale would definitely be a plus. Regarding Widdop: When the Rural Bus Grant service enhancements were added in 1997(?) an additional minibus was allocated to Hebden Bridge on Sundays, amongst its additional journeys, it ran to as H2 to Blake Dean every two...

I'm pretty certain nothing bigger than a Solo will get round the 595 to Crimsworth, although of course the 596 did once use full-size buses as the 516 to Blackshaw Head. Sure, I'd probably be in favour of looking to restore weekend services to Blake Dean/Widdop or Hardcastle Crags, although...

Fair comment, other than Clough Foot is served by the Rossendale 7, and probably at the same level as it has been in decades. Now I'm totally baffled. As a resident of Todmorden, I've no interest in going to the Yorkshire Dales by bus, thank you. What is needed is the restoration of the 30...

It was called The Silence, it is available free on All4's Walter Presents collection of foreign dramas - it is subtitled from Croatian and some scenes in either Russian or Ukranian. As well as Osijek, it features a few scenes in pre-conflict Kyiv, or mid-conflict in tbe second series. It's...

I'd agree there must be such penalties. Personally, I think the almost total lack of cycle traffic helps too. For 'general' tourists, I think the only such stop likely to be encountered now is the outbound stop at Újezd, for the Petřín funicular. It certainly caused some complaint from older...

I've seen this happen a few times at their hotels in central York over the last year or so, fortunately only when I've been browsing and not seriously needing to book somewhere. I can't now recall it happening for their hotels anywhere else, but maybe I've forgotten an odd instance. I thought...

I believe Stretford Mall has finally closed with the site due for residential redevelopment. I wonder if the remaining Aldi justifies the 256 still running this way, rather than its original route joining Chester Road further north (inward via Derbyshire Lane, outward via Davyhulme Road East and...

The reserved tracks on either side of the roadway is very much what I had in mind, so thanks for the link..

Many thanks for all your replies. My only real experience of the former Austro-Hungarian empire has been in Prague, which doesn't feature gutter running anywhere I can think of, with reserved tracks either central or double tracked on one side of the road. The relatively limited on-street...

I've just been watching a TV drama partly set in Osijek, Croatia. Some scenes have featured the city's trams, which are 1000mm gauge and at the time of filming in 2019 featured modified Tatra T3 vehicles, plus some secondhand Duewag cars from Germany. What struck me most though was the layout...

In terms of having four different adjacent stations, Brighouse? Until Elland reopens, of course.

I'd still think Štěpánská to I. P. Pavlova in Prague's New Town would narrowly beat 51tph.

I can think of several places in Prague that would exceed 40 trams per hour in one direction at peak times (ie when most routes run to an 8 minute headway, or 4 minutes in the case of the 9, 17 and 22, not the current reduced summer offerings). Štěpánská to I. P. Pavlova in the New Town is one...

I'm not sure if your omission of buses from that list was deliberate or not, but I can't recall any of the full-sized buses (as distinct from van-derived minibuses) I ever drove had one. I only ran out of fuel once, about 20 miles short of the finish on the highest mileage bus working we then...

I'm not sure that is all that odd - certainly it was the case at all the stations I used to work on the SE side of Manchester a few years back. Currently Todmorden opens at 0640, having missed the departure of five trains due after 0600.