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Not necessarily. There may have been a plan for a route 5 which was never implemented, or maybe someone in the organisation was superstitious about the number 5, so chose to skip it when numbering routes. There is no regulatory requirement to number bus routes consecutively, as far as I'm...

M-prefix (94-95) Toyota Carina spotted doing a supermarket run in Eastbourne. Looked good enough for the minicab circuit still.

An idea whose time has come. Crack on with it, and ignore the inevitable special pleading from groups who believe they should be exempt.

Because there’s still a small level of demand for paper tickets bought with cash, and withdrawing them could exclude those whose (very unusual) circumstances make card products impossible or onerous to use.

W suffix (1980-81) Volvo 244 spotted pottering around town today, with an elderly male driver who may well have owned it since new. My family had two of these and they were very robust, but even so, I’ve not seen one on the road for five years or so.

Epsom and Ashtead etc are much nearer to London garages than Crawley. So, whilst the drivers will be paid a higher hourly rate, there’s less cost (fuel and staff time) in dead running to and from the operating garage.

1974 feature on the Dingwall - Kyle line, from the BBC archive.

Having just checked - early next week there are First Class Advances available between Sheffield and Derby, on numerous EMR services, for £10.60. But many/most first class leisure travellers will have a railcard, reducing the fare to £7.05. For seven quid, if you're offered a coffee and a...

A consequence of fast buses not being advertised - if indeed they will run on the 7th - is that at certain times each hour it's suggested intending passengers travel via Clapham Junction, at a higher fare - albeit only £2.10 difference on an undiscounted single. (Though I wouldn't buy the higher...

Putting Gatwick to Guildford into the National Rail journey planner for Sunday 7th reveals only the 1hr 40min buses, which are indeed ‘stopping’ buses via the A25 - my mistake. No faster buses are shown.

The direct buses from Gatwick to Guildford are scheduled to take 1hr 40min, which sounds unambitious. Is there a tour of the North Downs included?

Ebay is particularly odd. I buy a photographic slide for £4 and give the seller perfect feedback, which eBay can read and analyse if they wish. Then, a week later, an email arrives asking if I'll answer some questions about my purchase. I mean, what more could possibly be said, and how much time...

Everywhere wanting feedback on how transactions went - the latest being a £1.49 purchase in Card Factory, and coffee & toast in Morrisons cafe. Honestly guys - do away with this cost line, and let returning (or non-returning) customers tell you all you need to know about the quality of your...

There were some Seaford - west Coastway services many years ago - the Connex era or before, I think. As you say, lots of hassle and performance risk, so both sides of the Coastway are better off being isolated from the other. I doubt there is platform availability at Brighton to facilitate these...

I’ve seen this catch-out unfamiliar travellers who decide they have enough time to grab a coffee from The Runaway ‘because the train’s late’.

Someone in my neck of the woods has a Hillman Avenger which is out and about regularly. Friends of my elderly neighbour have a modern car, but it needed a garage visit, so they turned-up to drive her to a hospital outpatient appointment (25 miles away!) in their Vauxhall HA Viva. None of them...

The Brighton-Lewes shuttles, which used p.5, were a casualty of Covid which haven’t returned, outside of football extra workings. I wonder whether some trains are routed through p.5 to retain driver experience of the signalling arrangements to/from this platform, and also to keep the points...

I guess, like classic cars, the key nostalgia market is ‘stuff I travelled on as a kid’, which for young adults will involve low floor vehicles. To have gone to school on an RT or similar, you will be 60+, and to have driven one in service, 70+. This is moving into the age range where people...

I bought a Meal Deal in Morrisons today and, as usual, got a regular Costa coffee from the machine as the drink element. Normally you scan the screen on the machine to add a 'bean' to your Costa loyalty App, but today no such code appeared on screen - at least, I don't think I missed it! I'm...

Yes, and Ford hedged their bets on being unsuccessful in this legal battle by retaining the Consul model name on some lower specification versions of the Granada Mk.1. But they won, and shortly afterwards the Consul name was dropped, with the entirety of the range becoming known as the Granada.