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    Transdev Blazefield

    The predecessor company, West Yorkshire Road Car Company, had both the current 7 and X98 X99 routes (under different route numbers) until 1990 when the routes were split between Blazefield (7) and Yorkshire Rider (X98 X99). Both routes have had different numbers over the years. At one point the...
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    Trivia: Oldest route number still in use

    Aside from 36 Leeds to Harrogate and Ripon, the Leeds to Bradford route became 72 in the mid 1930s. Leeds routes 1, 2 and 16 seem to have been around a long time (since 1950s?)
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    Transdev Blazefield

    Sadly I don't have any timetables but our family used to catch the 841 to Bridlington or Filey in the summer holidays during the 1990s (probably 1992 to 1997) - due to the school holiday roads being quieter and local passengers letting the service go past it was fairly quick between Keighley...
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    Memories of school bus travel

    Between 1992 and 1999 I caught Keighley and district routes 662 to 668 to school. The transition from Y, A, B and C reg Olympian ECW with smokers upstairs (although not allowed) and the occasional DNW...T reg National through to the early 662 Shuttle era with then brand new T reg Volvo B10s...
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    Cross Country New Franchise

    £1 to collect your ticket? Sounds like typical Arriva again
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    Grand Central Problems

    Sounds like Arriva are struggling here as well as at Northern.
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    Coastliner bus in Ascot / wentworth

    Don't forget Coastliner 36 by lynx of Kings Lynn
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    Trivia: Rail journeys that used to be much quicker

    Keighley to Halifax Skipton to Ilkley Wetherby to leeds and Harrogate Otley to Leeds Cambridge to St Ives Maltin to Pickering and Whitby
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    "West Midlands Trains worse than London Midland"

    I think Abellio will start slowly and improve things over time. For example when they had Northern they replaced the penalty fares scheme with checking staff at stations and two conductors on some trains. In what was a no growth franchise they secured alternative funding for extra carriages to...
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    How bad was your journey today?

    Since Arriva took over Northern I have noticed that the trains on the Airedale line have got worse with delays and cancellations What used to be a 26 minute journey is timetabled at 28 minutes but in the last week has taken over 35 minutes every night since timetable change except on strike day...
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    TRIVIA: Limited-stop bus services

    X98 X99 between Wetherby and Leeds are limited stop between Oakwood and Leeds (inbound drop off only, outbound pick up only). X84 Leeds to Ilkley X6 Leeds to Bradford is a limited stop on a 10 minute frequency which must be one of the most frequent limited stops in the UK?

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