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I've visited over the years the sites of Dunford Bridge, Hazlehead, platforms 3 and 4 at Penistone, Hawes, Southwater, Folkestone Harbour, Cleckheaton Central, Calne, Black Dog Halt, Halifax North Bridge, Ripponden, Rishworth, Robin Hoods Bay, Otley, Wetherby, Barnstaple Town...

You didn't want to see the old one, which was more of a welded long shelter style of West Yorkshire but painted grey with rotting chipboard signs. Whilst not brilliant, at least Skipton does have something that resembles a bus station much more than the county town of Northallerton has with is...

I still think that Arriva Rail North (trading as Northern Railways) should have ordered a lot more class 195's (both in two, three and even four car variants given the platform constraints) in order to replace the more knackered stuff. Many years ago I remarked on here that the class 150's...

This is where Blackpool Transport could look at colleges within a 30 mile radius and get the next generation trained up in a guarrenteed job. The South Yorkshire Supertram also employs conductors, I'd rather have a visible staff presence in the passenger area than having no staff at all.

Are you thinking of the long withdrawn 61A that was ran by Yorkshire Traction and Stagecoach East Midlands until around 2007 when Stagecoach Yorkshire and Speedwell Travel took over the route until March 2008? It ran from Huddersfield to Holmfirth as a 310 before changing number to 61A between...

Sadly some people want the top of the range stuff to show off to the ladies. I don't see the point myself, as you should only spend cash on what is really nessasary e.g. food, cheap clothing (not the named stuff) and walk where possible otherwise use the cheapest mode of transport available even...

I'm sure I heard Phil announcing the next service at Axminster and at Honiton last Friday. Just need Northern to bring both of them onboard.

Despite Pennine Motor Services not running for the past 12 years, what's happened to their outstation at Settle / Giggleswick? (The main depot at Broughton Road, Skipton is now a carpet shop) As surely Kirkby Lonsdale Buses could have bought an outstation from them to simply store a couple of...

Watching a recent video by Walks On The Wild Side, one thing that does stand out and that is the state of Blackpool North. It just needs the station being completely leveling and rebuiding in an open air, doorless, modern design that would complement the surroundings.

The first point, some people can hide that they're heavily intoxicated. You could have four people doing an ale trail, between them they've each downed around three pints of ale after doing six pubs (half a pint at each pub). All four are quiet, considerate and are not upsetting anyone but are...

Pewsey use to have a Red Star pannel on its entrance totem, sadly this has since been replaced. Meanwhile the totem post at Chippenham appears to have once held an illuminated version of the BR double arrow and probably was swapped out for a non electrified version. As for Network South East...

Could it be down to capacity constraints on the East Coast Mainline? By dividing and attaching at Doncaster they are effectively gaining an extra path by simply bolting on a new service to an already existing one.

Why doesn't Transport for Greater Manchester simply bring the taxi services in house as per the buses and Metrolink? It'd seem perfect sense.

This would be a great addtioned to the current set of tickets, but as with anything that is "publically" owned it'll never make it off the drawing board. --- There were reasons why I want to see the whole combined authority idea scrapped, as I knew cross boundary would be one of the many...

You can also count Wakefield Westgate, Chippenham, Swindon, York and I think Newark Northgate too 1773980621 Was this on the Gooder Lane bridge or Huddersfield Road bridge?, as the latter got replaced in 1999 in preperation for Brighouse being rebuilt. Although the cast iron railings along...

These vape shops make towns and cities look run down and seedy - one only has to have a look n Halifax and there must be at least ten selling the same tat, why? Then you've got the epilepsy inducing strobing signs that are cranked up to the max on brightness. Then there's the issue of people...

The last time I used CrossCountry one guard (and I had them at least four times on previous journeys) was addiment that my ticket wasn't vaild. He seemed to blow a fuse when I pointed out his extremely poor customer service skills and would be better off working where I was at the time then he'd...

There's a couple of Tesco stores that I know of that have the screens - Halifax town centre and Roffey (Horsham), the Halifax one is fairly recent as it never use to have the safety screen where as Roffey is coupled with an Esso which is more understandable. Back to open plan ticket offices...

From the plans it appears that the current platform 1 at Marsden is getting the axe. Platform 2 is swapping sides (instead of facing north, it'll face south) and platform 3 appears to be retained, the latter makes sense as it currently isn't used unless you count the dwindling numbers of (the...

When I was in Taunton in October 2025, I managed to obtain a copy from the tourist information centre of the First West of England service 374/375/376 timetable albeit in a proper stripped down format of simply the timetable and route map. Even the former Buses Of Somerset network of timetables...