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If no produce is sold by weight, then there is no need to have scales whatsoever. That is a saving on purchase, maintenance, and staff time on checking that they are within tolerance (as required by trading standards).

Another pondering - will we see a gradual decline, or will there be some sudden 'landslide' where things start going 'wrong'? Or, will the problems be averted? As to catering, customer service etc - I'm sure I remember, probably 20+ years ago, a column in one of the railway magazines where the...

I think much of the frustration with the 60-65 scheme is that it gives free travel to people who are most likely working, quite often in senior roles due to length of service and earning a reasonable sum, whilst paying off a small mortgage from a previous era (or indeed no mortgage at all). It...

Yes, I think that was possibly the case. I will say actually, it was a lovely trip last year when I visited. The timetable was sufficient to enable a trip-and-a-half to be done easily (Sheringham-Holt-Weybourne, over the bridge then Weybourne-Holt-Sheringham), two different trains, and two...

Reflecting upon this particular bit, employers blaming wages/staffing on the NI/NMW rates. A couple of years ago they blamed it on the oil price/Ukraine then before that covid before that brexit before that austerity before that the credit crunch ad infinitum There will always be some 'big...

There are a lot of cross-city services and this is where dual doors come into their own, speeding up the process at the many stops where a lot of passengers board and alight. It's just a little confusing if half of the fleet has, and half of the fleet hasn't! On another note, what is the...

I wonder what tourism figures are like for the general industry? Was there not a slight peak during 'covid' (let's say, the summers of 2021/22) as people were less inclined to book a holiday overseas; perhaps followed by a dip as people went away to 'make up' for being unable to do so? A few...

Disappointing given that there was a huge inquiry about this in 2014 after the disaster that was caused when they failed to finish works on time, and then tried to terminate everything at Finsbury Park, and then used overcrowding as the excuse - on an extremely busy day when funnelling people...

The 11s were still 50:50 to Hyvots and Fairmilehead in 2007; I think it was 2011 that they were all sent through to Hyvots (with a vocal complaint from people in Fairmilehead that they'd have to make do with 5 buses per hour instead of 8, or else walk all the way to the crossroads).

Re Burdiehouse, it would be an unusual place to even use as a part-route curtailment; if possible, taking passengers to Straiton would be preferable (more useful/more facilities) or if getting back to the depot quickly is a priority, terminate one stop back at Kaimes Crossroads. I presume that...

A wooden(?) board with supplementary information, which Lothian use (or used?) in various ways. Buses had either a holder on the front panel on the outside of the bus, between the headlights, or in the front windscreen. ...highlighting tourist locations at peak periods...

The interworkings of the 33/7 and 11/31 I understood went back a very long time. There were also other interworkings which were quite surreal - for example in c.2007, the Sunday 24 ran from the New RIE to Waverley only. However, on arrival at the bottom of Lothian Road the bus would be...

I recall the changes to the 1; prior to this, there was interworking with the 22s and 34s at Ocean Terminal (in the evenings and on Sundays, a bus would arrive as a 1 and go out as a 34, and a lot of buses got to/from Ocean Terminal by becoming a part route 22 to Balgreen). This was when the 22s...

1, 2, 12 and 32 have previously been double decker, but moved to single decker at some point along the way (the 1 when it was curtailed to Easter Road from Ocean Terminal during the first attempt at the tram mess). 1753646794 When visiting Edinburgh recently I noticed that no buses had...

It's interesting to see the mileage as it was in the 90s - it obviously expanded quite significantly as LRT moved into Midlothian and East Lothian extending traditional 'city' services. I wonder what the proportion would be like today? West Lothian had no LRT services at one point (save for the...

Better station staffing / not leaving gatelines open for hours on end would help. There has been a considerable reduction in revenue inspections in recent years. Until about 10 years ago, I would probably get checked 3-4 times per year on an LUL train. I can't remember the last time I got checked!

This is precisely the way to do it. Is there not some level of 'conflict de escalation' or similar training given to guards? Y'know - there's a group of passengers who have paid for first class tickets, had their journey disrupted, have had to shift to another service, are probably fed up and...

Someone I worked with had an annual christmas dinner with people he had commuted with on NSE/WAGN etc from the mid-nineties up until 2015 or so. Not sure whether anything similar would happen now, though.

I travel through a few LUL stations where the gates are routinely left open, either because the sole staff member is doing his patrol of the station, is in the bog, or simply that someone's gone sick and thus the station is abandoned for the day. It happens fairly often, but of course only on...

20 years is a very long time! I don't post much (/anything) anymore, but I still regularly read the forum. As with others, it's interesting how our lives have changed in the intervening period (I was 16 when I joined!). I can remember around 2008 us wondering whether google ads might cover part...