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From my previous role dealing with car insurance complaints it was standard practice to give the customer our name and business address (in the days before email). This gives the customer confidence that any follow up concerns could be addressed by someone who knew the history, with the back up...

Northern Rail services on the Airedale and Wharfedale lines severely disrupted yesterday evening and this morning due to overhead wire issues and tonight due to a broken down train. This follows another broken down train on 17 July am.

My rent has gone up 15% each year for the past 3 years. It is a studio flat so there isn't a way to downgrade to a smaller property. My salary since 2020 has dropped by around 20% due to a job loss in 2021 but I am just over the threshold for any form of benefits. So to avoid going further...

Some areas will be better, some will be worse. To answer this it can be worth looking at places like Brighton, Nottingham, Reading, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester, Leeds / other area of choice to see how things compare now to pre 1986. Note that in this list 3 are served by arm's length municipals.

In the mid 2000s there were 2 770 journeys per hour (no Connexions). Then Connexions joined and then for or a while there were 3 Transdev journeys per hour between Harrogate and Wetherby. This then reduced to two and since Nov 2022 it is down to one Transdev 7 (+ 2 Connexions X70). My experience...

It was on the 66 yesterday (Bank Holiday 1 May) Does this seem a bit steep (given that the off peak K Day increased in Sept 2022 to match the peak price)? Or is it just a reflection of inflation,, increased fuel and other costs? Looking at it a bit more it looks like it covers a larger area...

There was a few years overlap between the 91s / 43s and 322s in the late 2010s between Skipton and Leeds. The 800/1s were entering service at around the same time as the 331s were replacing the 322s so (not sure but at best maybe) a few weeks overlap in late 2019 / early 2020.

It would be interesting to see how it breaks down by location (eg London / regionally), job type and sector. Also the median increase as that would reduce skewing to some extent. 1682686959 Then there is also the actual disposable side. If your rent has gone up 15% in each of the last two years...

There are several VRs in preservation that attend running days. Keighley and District pretty much moved their VRs on to other operators by 1990 so even though I probably travelled on some, I was too young to remember. This is not my site but a number are in preservation...

I wish I'd have tried the 553/554/555 services that Huntingdon and District ran when under Blazefield ownership - I saw them regularly between 1999 and 2002. Looking back I could have used them from Cambridge to Huntingdon, then trains to Peterborough then Leeds instead of train via Ely.

Harrogate have 3613 and 3614 from 2012 and 2005 respectively which can appear on any route including the X98/9 and 36. Not sure whether 59 Saturday only is still a B7. In Keighley the 2001 Y*HRN batch appear frequently on the locals in particular the K7 and K9 and occasionally on the 62 / 66...

I've commuted daily on the Airedale line between 1992 and 1999 to / from Bradford, between 2003 and 2020 to / from Leeds and again from late 2022 to / from Leeds (with 2 return journeys per week in 2021 and 2022) so saw the tail end of BR and several franchises. In the early 1990s the service...

Since 2 April I've had 4 cancelled trains (Airedale line into / out of Leeds) with 2 on a Sunday evening, 1 on a Sunday lunchtime, and 1 on a Thursday morning. I have also seen cancelled journeys on 2 other days when I managed to get an earlier train and there seems to be a pattern appearing as...

Looking at the 5A it is basically hourly with a journey time of just under 30 minutes. The 5 is every 30 minutes. Whether or not these two interwork, there is still a 30-minute gap for one bus at Long Stanton every hour for most of the day. On a separate note, Citi 2 Milton - Addenbrookes...

I wonder if the 0800 from Longstanton goes anti-clockwise, albeit one a day. I remember the 553/554/555 services being developed by Blazefield 20+ years ago and their successors on the Busway look to be pretty much all that is left from the Huntingdon & District / Cavalier era with other...

This site provides some info: https://bustimes.org/localities/durham-durham Scroll down to the end to find the list of services. Gateshead Central Taxis for 204(A)

Connexions ran it on several days in 2016 when First Leeds drivers were on strike. The first bus was at 8am from Leeds and last bus from Wetherby at around 5pm with a combined hourly service in between. I can't remember if it ran as X98 or X99 as I only used it between Leeds and Scarcroft but...

A 4 vehicle PVR running for nearly 18 hours a day probably needs at least 8 drivers a day when taking breaks and driving hours etc into account. Although Transdev now have a monopoly on the routes between Wetherby and Leeds, who else could have taken on the X98/X99? Could First Leeds have been...

When I was working at Scarcroft between 2014 and 2018, the X98/X99 (Wetherby to Leeds) would often have all its buses cancelled between 6 and 8 pm on a regular basis so I used to walk or semi-run the 3 miles down the busy but dark A58 to look for an alternative from Shadwell (7S), Monkswood (49)...

Going down memory lane to around 2001, I remember a Mercedes 911D on the Cambridge to Burwell / Newmarket route, whereas now it is double deck so I do wonder if a smaller vehicle or a lower frequency could work rather than full withdrawal. Populations according to the ONS...