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And if I recall correctly, the same David Brown of Aston Martin fame

The last Astromega was to King Ferry 3 years ago according to Bus Lists on the Web (BLOTW), so it now does make me wonder if we are seeing the death knell for high capacity double deck coaches here. These companies may well make them, but if a UK company says "give us 2 of those coaches of...

80 DD Panoramas have been built in 5 years, I know that COVID may have affected that, but lets be honest, if they can't seem to be bothered to adapt for a market then it's on them. That answers a new question though what double deck offerings are available apart from them for long distance...

I had a 9-3 vector diesel, had astronomical miles for a 55 plate when I picked it up at 3 years old and was still going at 300k, was rapid for a 1.9 diesel unless it had been tuned beforehand (was the TiD not the TTID, only issues I had was the cd player and satnav playing up. Even now I still...

To be fair, a lot of the colleges since the last strike have now adapted to online learning but the older ones have been right royally screwed especially in places with no metro coverage

I know that but to be honest, the last thing I wanted to do was complain.

Did that many a time overnight when I moved to Kent, so I could go "home" and see family in the holidays. I remember sitting downstairs behind the drivers partition of a Trathens Van Hool decker in the late 90's on one occasion and as the announcement was made after leaving Victoria that there...

I like the best of both worlds, on the new Hyundai and Kia premium (well their version of premium) the camera below the old fashioned mirror will turn into a blind spot camera, displaying the results on whichever side of the instrument panel you have indicated. I have found their cameras all...

I remember when Horsburgh used to buy old Lothian stock and just change the front panels. Does West Lothian Council still do the taxibus service? I used to work for a couple of the taxi companies that used to run them, notably allthefours. It has been that long since I have been up there I would...

Yet Gateshead college amongst other places are oblivious to how some of their students are going to get in especially from Washington where there is next to nothing but a lift is if you know someone with a car. There should be an uproar, we saw what happened last time, we have another week of...

I have wondered about the whole NETS system, I grew up with Kings Ferry on my doorstep, is it an arms length agreement that they are part of the group or have NX bought every one of these operators and if so is the closing down of depot's etc meaning that they will eventually all end up as one...

I remember someone telling me that they did triangles, so for example an Edinburgh to London then London to Birmingham and then Birmingham to Edinburgh or something of that sort

I suppose gone are the days when the NX coaches used to stop especially the over night ones like the 590/591/592 for the drivers to have food and the passengers to smoke, I remember the first time I did the Megabus equivalent, the driver just stopped on a slip road to change drivers, no chance...

My first experience of the system was 14 years ago and even then it seemed tired and outdated, what it needs is the whole system shut down for a period of time and refurbished, but then we have seen the chaos when they shut down the South shields line last year for Metro flow works

Why does that not surprise me?, last Wednesday I was waiting for the middle child at Jarrow, walked down onto the platform to find a half hour service as there was "availability issues" at 5:15pm got hold of said child to find that their train kept cutting out and having to be restarted and that...

In ours, they had the cafe, which takes up a lot of room but is hardly ever full, they do a trade at lunch when all the staff from the local primary schools have lunch, but that is it. 2 years ago they used to have a large space on the way out where they put their promotions (stupid place to...

Our Morrisons in Jarrow is undergoing a refurb just now, the car park has been redone and rearranged (although it shares it with the shopping centre), the interior is in the process of having all but 4 or 5 tills shut down with self serve in its place, the coffee bar has been shut with the...

And the Class 47 47299 known as Ariadne

Probably, but the landlord is the same throughout the shopping centre and has raised prices, there isn't much left there to be honest so not holding much hope that poundland will be there long

Jarrow is listed as closing and getting a Poundland in it's place, funny considering that Poundland shut it's doors there a year or 2 ago and nothing went in it's place