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For the purposes of this question, the following count as an Intercity service: Intercity (British Rail) Avanti/Virgin West Coast LNER/VTEC/East Coast/NXEC/GNER GWR/FGW (HST & IET routes only) EMR/EMT/Midland Mainline (Meridian & Aurora routes only) Greater Anglia (London - Norwich route only)...

Stations are built to satisfy passenger demand, but occasionally there are times when the pendulum swings the other way and passenger footfall exceeds capacity. In these cases, such stations cannot cope and therefore have to be closed to the public at that time. This is a common occurrence...

Since the Sandbanks chain ferry has been suspended for essential maintenance, Morebus route 50 which runs from Bournemouth to Swanage has had to be significantly amended. This time round, the route has been split into two with dedicated numbers: The X50 running non-stop between Bournemouth...

How many station pairs are there on the National network which have a direct service between them but generally minimal demand? AFAIK Exact data on ticket sales for station parings is confidential under the LENNON database, but roughly based on passenger observations, which station pairings with...

It’s that time of year again where we start to think about what to get for Christmas, and one of those shared presents is nothing more than the iconic chocolate selection tins. Before we get into a debate about whether Celebrations is better than Quality Street, I should mention that Bounties...

One of the biggest factors preventing people from travelling by train is the fact that they have to change trains mid-journey. Changing trains is understandably an inconvenience for people with reduced mobility, kids, or luggage due to the extra time and effort it takes to walk all the way from...

I’ve been wondering if such a system exists to categorise stations and award them lettered grades based on their characteristics. Searching the forums out of curiosity, I’ve discovered that there does seem to be a system putting each station into a category from A to F, although most examples...

Even as somebody who would desire for every single village in the UK to be connected by a regular, secure bus service, I recognise that this is just not financially possible and the situation is highly unlikely to improve with dwindling passenger numbers and staff shortages. DRT is an option...

With most recorded TV programming now available on catch-up on-demand services, one must wonder when the time will come that broadcast TV becomes completely obsolete. In a way it already is, since many television sets are now internet enabled and one can watch most programming on the main...

Could you do a better job than Liz Truss or Boris Johnson? What policies would you implement to see the United Kingdom through the tough times ahead? What would be your long term strategy once the current crisis is behind us? Please feel free to write your full manifesto here, including...

Just wanted to ask on here if any of you have any knowledge or experience of public transport within Konstanz, Germany? I’m planning on visiting in early December to see a relative and would be interested to find out more about the local bus and rail networks in terms of routes, ticketing and...

I’m not talking as such about trams complementing the local bus network, which certainly should be happening in all major towns and cities, but going one step further and asking the following question: Should we be building tram networks to replace local buses altogether? Nowadays, most...

Cambridge is a unique city in Britain, in that it has a population about the same as that of your average medium-sized county town, yet has an economic output much more on the scale of somewhere like Manchester. It is without doubt that the world-renowned university and hospitals have made the...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-63132831 This very much reminds me of that famous xkcd sketch on competing standards. While a universal charging cable for EU member nations is intended to reduce waste in the long term, it does leave some unanswered questions: Will manufacturers that...

One of the biggest challenges in planning and operating a high-frequency route is preventing buses bunching, or in other words getting too close to one another. It’s a common occurrence, most often caused by one of the buses running late, which means it picks up more passengers than intended as...

While the closure of Doncaster Sheffield airport is sad news for the local economy, it is a good decision for the environment in the long run. We need to reduce the number of duplicate flights from nearby airports to reduce CO2, and the proximity of Doncaster/Sheffield to Leeds/Bradford is such...

Last week I had the pleasure to visit the Isle of Wight bus museum in Ryde. Most fascinating was the display of old maps, showing how the Southern Vectis network looked in the years before Go-Ahead took over the company. Today’s network is heavily focused on a hub and spoke system centered...

With the passing of Queen Elizabeth II and her death protocol now in operation, it is inevitable that there will be some changes to everyday schedules between now and the day of the funeral. I thought I’d start a thread to discuss any changes to everyday life during this period, such as changes...

Typically, a variation of a particular bus route will have a suffix added, or take a neighbouring number. One place where this is the exception however is on the Isle of Wight, where there are three such routes but both variations share the same number. They are the 1 (Newport - Cowes via Round...

With energy prices and consumption a very topical issue at the moment, it is clear that we are going to need a lot more generating capacity on our own soil to replace fossil fuel power stations and avoid having to rely on imports. New nuclear power stations are under construction at Hinkley...