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I’m in Canada just now and it’s virtually impossible to find places that accept cash. I was at an attraction in Quebec who were cash only and had to get their own ATM installed, which seemed a very bizarre thing to do! I wonder if such absurdity would happen if the UK went down the same route!

Not hugely blaming Aberdeenshire for this but it’s not unusual to have five different timetables active for a service with the information at the stops, the live departure boards at interchanges, the information on Traveline, the Stagecoach App and the Stagecoach website all showing different...

Do you know where I could view the Buchan timetable? As I say, the one they link to appears to have a few errors.

A fair point, I suppose that and the addition of the trip to Total etc adds a significant amount of time. I’m not sure what they can do to deal with the traffic without engineering work, which is outside the scope of this thread.

It really doesn’t make any sense. Historically the Westhill off peaks were every 15 minutes until that time when they went to every 10 minutes for a period. I’m all for the 15 minute off peak frequency but the poor peak services are just odd. There should be some peak services that don’t wind...

What’s the reasoning behind the reduction in peak time services to every 20 minutes? Are the loadings that light or are there operational reasons. Seems odd to cut. I see the evenings have been cut to hourly but I believe the loadings are light.

I’ve flown with them before and had no issues. Their Humberside route from Aberdeen has reasonable loading so clearly folk are. Time will tell how this goes for them.

I did see they had picked it up, I do suspect they are looking at Newcastle or have already done so and ruled it out.

I do wonder if Eastern may take up this route as with them having an Aberdeen base it shouldn’t pose any crewing or basing issues. I suspect this would come around should they opt to also pick up the Newcastle flights, which they have previously flown.

That‘s really the only reason I go into a ‘spoons!

Slightly away from the current conversation…I was casting my mind back to some old services, mostly from the early 2000s. One that sprung to mind was the old 415, supported by Aberdeenshire Council, which ran evening services between Aberdeen and Alford via Westhill and Dunecht. There is a...

A bit concerning regarding the potential lack of harvest. We have very little resilience in our food supply, especially with the loss of prime agricultural land for various reasons. Fingers crossed it is just a warning and not reality!

Nothing like it being simple :lol: Great, thank you for the advice :)

This is probably a daft question but I’m not quite sure of the correct way to do this and the FAQs on the site aren’t clear (unless I’m missing it). I have recently added a named companion to my Veteran’s Railcard and wondered on the correct way to purchase tickets for it. if I was to, say...

It’s a through platform and could be accessed from the north, albeit the connection was severed a long time ago. It could easily be reconnected if needed.

Platform 8 is the other side of the island where 7 is, the track there has been used to stable LNER sets in the past. Oh, I didn’t know the containers had stopped!

I‘m not sure what freight really comes up this way now, off the top of my head there’s the containers to Craiginches, clay slurry from Waterloo Quay and the odd cement. I don’t think there’s anything else but they are all quite short consists.

Not a problem, explains why I haven’t been able to find them. Thanks for letting me know :)

It certainly would make sense for reasons like that. Out of interest, does anyone have any links to the documents for the signal, platform etc enhancements mentioned in the posts above?

That’s interesting to know, thank you for that!