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Are any Bee Network routes currently run from more than one depot, or even by more than one operator?

It had lost ten minutes by Bolton, there must have been some other problem. It should, of course, have switched from diesel to electric at Bolton, rather than the other way round. If a 769 won't switch, can it not continue in diesel mode? Is that what it ultimately did? It seems to have taken a...

North's weren't breakers for the sake of it - I'm not saying they never scrapped a vehicle, but for the most part anything they didn't want or couldn't sell they passed on to the established breakers. Indeed, Barnsley was handy for Sheffield. To add, you probably wouldn't manage to establish a...

Shotton is classed as a single station - the low level platforms are 1 and 2, the high level 3 and 4. But I agree it would be quite a hike between low level and high by rail - presumably via Chester and Wrexham (General).

Twice in relatively recent times I've made a mistake which could have caused me to come unstuck - but it didn't. On one occasion I realised my mistake not long into my journey, on the other I didn't actually travel, but could have easily done. You don't need to be a crook to be forgetful...

You can't, therefore I think it's appropriate, to a point at least, to give people the benefit of the doubt. I don't call inflating an underpayment from £15 to £1591 as giving benefit of doubt. What should the penalty be for a second offence - death by hanging?

I've already as good as ruled that one out, owing to the phraseology used in SWR's communication.

Many a time I've done a whole days travelling and not had my ticket checked, either on the train or at a gate line.

SWR said the £120 payment had been declined, but they didn't say by whom. It could only realistically said that a payment had been 'declined' by a bank if we were talking of a Direct Debit, which, clearly, we're not. Reading into SWR's communication, I would say that the £120 payment had been...

It's perfectly acceptable to have a railcard expire, pay normal fares for six months (or not travel at all), then start again with a new railcard. That's where my £15 comes from. £15 is six months' worth of railcard. 1750497763 So you do agree that ticket checks don't take place as often as...

So how come the OP must not have been asked for his, in the six months or so he is alleged to have travelled fraudulently? 1750496344 There is a huge difference between someone overlooking renewing a railcard and not having had one in the first place.

Split from: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/nearly-%C2%A32000-fine-over-an-expired-railcard.288014/ I'm increasingly coming to see this matter of Penalty Fares, etc, as not so much a defence against fraudulent travel, but rather as, for the TOCs, a Nice Little Earner. As has been pointed...

Whiston, Rainhill and St Helens Junction are also served by the 1831 Liverpool Lime Street to Wigan North Western, and Rainhill and St Helens Junction by the 0924 Wigan North Western to Liverpool Lime Street and 1542 Liverpool Lime Street to Wigan North Western. Patricroft is served by the...

I thought it might be worthwhile mentioning that there wasn't an '01' age identifier, since it would have covered the same period as had already been covered by the prefix 'Y'. The first age identifier was '51', followed by 02, 52, etc.

After 1901 hrs M-S and all day Sun, trains leaving Manchester Airport for Wilmslow terminate there, that's the only difference. Connections to/from Crewe are available (but you may have to wait almost an hour).

That's easily the best option, especially if you don't know central Manchester all that well.

So you reckon that, if it's not possible to maintain a full service on a particular route, it's better to abandon it altogether? 1731064038 How do you convey to passengers the information that their bus isn't coming? On Wednesday, services were apparently abandoned partway through the day...

Three hours is still well within a legal stint for a driver. I've been stuck in traffic snarl-ups for longer than three hours at a time.

The 'off duty' guard had been the guard on the train which arrived after the station had been locked. As had been scheduled, she alighted with the passengers at the station and the driver continued to the depot DOO. On that occasion the problem was not late running. On that particular night of...

I'm given to understand that for a train to be held to connect with a late-running RRB would be unusual.