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Now one at Rugby, at the top of the ramp between platforms 2 and 4.

Hampshire map. The latest is dated June 2023. Yes, the Salisbury Reds ticket office is closed, but there's a rack of timetables at the Salisbury Information Centre in Fish Row.

Salisbury Reds have printed timetables for all routes. They're available from the tourist information centre in the city centre, along with copies of the latest Hampshire County Council New Forest and Andover books, and Hampshire county-wide map.

Sorry, but as someone who walks and cycles it regularly, I can assure you the station is definitely downhill from the town centre (a nice freewheel on the bike!). According to the Ordnance Survey, Rugby station entrance is 91 metres above sea level. The market square right in the town centre is...

Covid restrictions on public transport in Taiwan were finally lifted today, with masks no longer a legal requirement. Signage at MRT stations had completely vanished overnight, although it is still there on most buses. Given that 90-95% of people still routinely wear one in the street (oddly...

First class tickets are also showing as 'not available' more or less across the board on their booking engine, though I did find one or two early morning exceptions. If it is a change, they are keeping very quiet about it!

Yes, Murray Road and Railway Terrace are busy at peak times but the present station has decent bus links (which, being realistic, Houlton is never going to match), and there are car parks both sides of the 'tunnel', neither of which I have seen full post-Covid. North side, there's also the...

As a general point, I think that's questionable. What I suspect will happen is that HS2 will create new demand, but that the cheaper, slower (although depending where your starting point and final destination are, perhaps not that much) services will remain very popular. That has certainly been...

When the station is very busy, one problem the new boards seem to have created is that, because they can be seen from much closer to the top of the ramps than the old ones, the crowd looking at them encroaches significantly on the walkway that was beneath the old boards by the takeaways. Last...

It's on amazon UK here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/bwegt-Kursbuch-Baden-Württemberg-2023-Regionalverbindungen-Nahverkehrsgesellschaft/dp/3943551180/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1J4M2ZZ4NKY14&keywords=bwegt&qid=1672834070&s=books&sprefix=bwegt,stripbooks,214&sr=1-2 It says 'map' but it's not. It's the...

I was in Germany just before Christmas where printed DB timetables were widely available - and new ones on racks in advance of the December changeover date. DB have stopped printing their timetable book, although pdfs of tables are available online. There is still a printed 1000+ page...

Have just travelled on a DB Inter City Express from Basel to Karlsruhe. Mask wearing compliance around 70% (mix of FP2 and 'ordinary'). The on-train announcement said it was compulsory, although when the train manager came through the carriage, he said nothing to anyone not wearing one, and...

X59 was a City of Oxford and Midland Red joint route. Looking at my old timetables, it wasn't there in 1975 but was by 1981, when there were four through workings Mon-Sat and a couple of short ones. There is still a service between Southam and Banbury, albeit a Saturday only shopping bus that...

For once, credit to whoever it was (there were no doubt many hands involved) for releasing the information. Did anyone seriously believe it wouldn't get out before Tuesday anyway, officially or otherwise? Even late on Friday in a period of national mourning when people's thoughts are elsewhere...

I'm presently in Stuttgart. So far, and apart from pretty much everyone (but not quite all) wearing masks on public transport, it's all very much as back in the UK. And mask wearing is very much restricted by most to actually being on the transport. Most people remain maskless on platforms...

Have just got off tonight's 1733 Euston-Manchester at Rugby. The refurbished interiors look great. The colour scheme is rather more soothing than before. I like the extendable tables (I can actually fit my 15 inch laptop on one), and the plug socket location. Even the wifi seemed way better than...

On Saturdays, last Avanti out of Euston (to Birmingham/Wolverhampton) is 2142. Last London Northwestern that goes beyond Northampton is 2131.

Going way back, from some time in the 1920s, York Bros of Cogenhoe (just east of Northampton) named all their buses and coaches after warships (all were HMS...). Apparently it was the idea of Fred York, one of the brothers, although quite why warships (especially given Northampton is almost as...

Agreed completely. The obvious one for 'consolidation' would be the Nuneaton corridor. The recent extension of National Express West Midlands 20 was widely perceived locally to be an attempt to hit Midland Red where it hurt on a busy route. The university corridor on the other hand seems fairly...

National Express West Midlands (NXWM) might not compete much with Midland Red in Leamington (except between Sydenham and the town centre, and along the Kenilworth Road), Nuneaton and Rugby, but they do compete between Coventry and those towns. Between Coventry, Bedworth and Nuneaton via the...