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Would you consider the pre-MMC Enviro E200s, E300s and E400s to be iconic within the bus industry? I would, although personally, I prefer the newer MMC versions as they feel to me more comfortable to travel on.

Let's say for example you allowed yourself more than enough time to get your train if you had an advance purchase ticket, but you got stuck in an elevator in the station and by the time you were rescued, you had missed your booked train, would you have the right to have your ticket endorsed as...

Partly inspired by this discussion I started a while ago, it made me wonder how many dead milage runs have since been converted into to passenger carrying runs. That example in the discussion of a dead run straight from Brigg back to the Hornsby depot in Scunthorpe no longer exists as looking...

Having traveled on some of Hull's new buses and noticed the voice announcement feature for announcing all the stops on a route, ie "Next stop, Asda" and of course, knowing that the buses in London include this feature, it made me wonder how easy a feature it would be to retrofit into buses...

I think it seems a bit of a let down that a line that's obviously newer than all the existing classic lines is restricted to 140mph considering ones such as the WCML can support speeds of upto 140mph. Assuming the Javelins would be compatible with the loading gauges on our classic lines, why...

Having read through this: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/unnecessarily-long-bus-routes-in-the-uk.187153/ I was wondering if anybody here has any examples of bus routes anywhere in countries such as Germany, Netherlands, France etc they think are too long?

Back in 2005 in Scunthorpe, what was still Lincolnshire RoadCar at the time changed all the route numbers within Scunthorpe from three digit numbers to one digit and two digit numbers, the highest being 13. About 2 years after Stagecoach took over, most of the routes ended up with higher up...

When I look at the timetable for the Humber Fastcat 350 route, it doesn't appear to be be tightly timed from reading the times, however, on the way back to Scunthorpe, all it takes is for two or three minutes of a traffic delay on Anlaby Road in Hull to seemingly end up causing a late return...

Don't get me wrong here, I'm not trying to bad mouth the UK, I see good in the vast majority of things in this country, even with public transport such as buses, even if not in my home town (but that's for another discussion). I fully agree and understand why we could use good ideas from...

Has anyone here ever known any of the big bus companies like Stagecoach, Arriva etc do this in their area? After Stagecoach took over Lincolnshire RoadCar, Scunthorpe had quite a sizeable fleet and I don't recall ever seeing any local town routes having any timings marked with Nsch (Not school...

I've read an old discussion on RailForums about the government at the time wanting new 'eco towns' built and reading that discussion made me think that what if the bus deregulation legislation was amended so that if these new eco towns were, bus deregulation would not apply and would have their...

And the Class 800 series trains would of course get the Inter7City livery the refurbished HSTs have got now.

(By jointly operated, I mean two bus operators within the national bus company). Last week, I spoke with a guy who said that up until 1990, he was a bus driver for EYMS and can remember the pre-deregulation days. He often did the jointly run 350 route which similar to how it is jointly run by...

And put Class 800 series rolling stock on this route and run the route at 140 mph wherever the track allows. Plus as well, replace the pacers used on the Sheffield to Scunthorpe stopper service with the new CAF electric trains. Apart from the obvious issue of how much it'll all cost, any...

Every so often on YouTube I've noticed a video where you can't rate it at all. Why would someone not like a video to be rated at all? I think YouTube should have an option to only allow positive ratings, a bit like how with certain forum software where if you allow posts to be rated (I know this...

I mean such as thinking 'if only I had left earlier or later' or 'if only I had been there instead' when something has happened? I've been feeling like this for at least the past year or so, because of an issue I've been having which makes me feel like there's more chance of HS2 getting...

Note as well, this spectaculative idea would include the branch off to Leeds from Doncaster and the branch off at Selby to Hull. I understand the sheer cost and disruption it would cause to do something like this, but since we are talking spectaculatively here, do you think the idea would be...

I remember reading on a different forum to RailForums about the high costs of dining out and the thing of many restaurant companies struggling and someone mentioned that the high prices are to pay for the high overheads of running such establishments. I know that the cost of business rates and...

Since a Scottish bus pass cannot be used in England or vice versa, what's the policy if say for example someone in England uses their bus pass on a bus service starting at a location in England and the service crosses the border into Scotland? Would they be allowed to stay on the bus over the...

I was having a conversation with my uncle a while ago about old buildings and the surprising amount of asbestos that is often discovered within them and he went on to say he thinks we the UK were the biggest users of asbestos, even more so than the US. I've tried searching on Google for the...