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Ironically Wedgwood and barlaston are getting a normal service - the Hanley - Stoke - Stone replacement bus is showing on the departure boards at sot

Was craven arms named after the pub then the town was named craven arms afterwards, or are there similar anomalies

In the 80’s to early 00’s In Leeds there was clockwise and anti clockwise circular routes 8/9, 58/60 and 61/62 , part of route 8 and 61 still exists Similar 601/602 in bradford Again I’m Leeds 80-00’s There was also differing frequencies/combinations of CB1-7 which were very convoluted thrice...

This happened across West Yorkshire 800s into North Yorkshire and beyond 700s Wharfedale 600 Bradford 500 Halifax 400 Pontefract 300 Huddersfield 200 Dewsbury 100 Wakefield 0-99 Leeds (every other area had its 0-99 prefixed and still exists) An interesting one is the Kingfisher Hanley to...

This has happened to myself - when I lived in Wakefield an early morning gner at 5**am after a night out in leeds ended up in Doncaster and Grantham a couple of times After a night out or heavy day out in Manchester living in Stoke on Trent ending up at birmingham , rugby , Tamworth (the...

https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:37034/2022-05-08/detailed Is this the rescue train?

A different thread suggests it’s the same type of platform at Teesside Airport leading to its temp closure

Ah there are indeed lifts there now, however they were installed in 2020 (June I think) after lockdown - we hadn’t been since before then - can somebody advise me how to add a link?

I plan to take my mum to Lichfield. Last time we went we were able to change at Trent Valley. This would not be possible now that she requires a wheelchair for longer journeys. Can we change at birmingham new street?

What about the Ailsa? I grew up in Leeds and Black Prince buses had loads of them, they could get a lot of speed up for late running buses or the x51 route that ran via the m621

How do Transpennine express do it with their night services? Or the sleepers?

Be interested to see what happens in West Yorkshire, WYPTE would indeed have insisted on it! It’s cos of WYPTE , for example , that 155 still exist!

Technically couldn’t you order a taxi from Newhaven marine to Newhaven harbour? And it was actually served just not for passenger use.

Since March 2018 there has been no replacement bus through Norton bridge - it was Norton Bridge, followed by Etruria. The OP states ‘truly closed with no alternative’, you could argue there was an alternative to Norton Bridge, and it was actually served 5 months after its closure by an...

Yes it was Scarborough to Blackpool North, it was originally a Transpennine express service but was usually a WYPTE liveried 158

It probably wouldn’t be worth attempting using a blackpool south ticket at blackpool north , regardless of validity. Knowing north’s particular type of customer experience

I agree , I was just using it to illustrate my point in that Wakefield originally had ample station coverage, and with two stations still does!

Am I allowed Gateshead (Metrocentre) 1627068406 Ah yes but Wakefield Kirkgate was originally much larger and Westgate became the main station as a smaller ‘principal station’ on the mainline (and if you count more than one station can we also count castleford , featherstone, sandal and Agbrigg etc)

Slough to Windsor and Eton Central - connecting line for ecs moves only

Moderator note: split from this thread: I think people should be careful about posting things like this. This reminds me of the opening titles of the Equaliser in the 1980’s. 40 years ago! We need to think why a woman could be travelling alone she could be going to or from work, be the driver...