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That's true. It's only really viable for people with season tickets or a day ticket from other things. I'd like to see cheaper single and returns but I guess it's main ridership aren't going to buy them. Interestingly though they've split the 79 in two - it stops at West Bromwich - so the bus...

If I can't get off a train because the doors are blocked, and yes it's happened but cleared before my station, I will complain, and have every right to. To take that as an unwarranted attack on guards (because the railway is never wrong) is very unfair. If nobody complains (note: "complain"...

Interesting how people's opinions differ, I go on it just for the ride..

It looks like the fleet minus a few buses which are staying with D&G will be operated under the Arriva brand.

Arriva have taken a big step into the West Midlands market buying out local company Midland. http://arrivabus.co.uk/arriva-aquire-midland.aspx This is a fleet of 61 buses, operating these routes: http://www.midlandbus.net/tt_westmidlands.htm Fleet list at wmbusphotos...

God that report was painful to watch. Anyone watching it who didn't already know about it would think pacers were being replaced by the HSE.

I'd imagine it's mostly Virgin Galactic style spaceships (love using that word in a sentence) rather than rockets, more like a plane taking off, with no more risk than a conventional airport.

At least they fixed some of her cockups, such as Rudgly instead of Rugeley.

Tettenhall Station on the Wombourne Branch line remains fully intact as a ranger outpost. Wolverhampton Low Level building is becoming a banqueting hall, with many original features retained. Leicester Central Station is some kind of scrap yard with cars parked in the arches, the building intact.

Damn, they got there before me. The problem I had when I was going to do it was finding out how and where to connect it to electricity and plumbing, etc. I didn't know anything about it and couldn't find anything. I was going to wrap it in brick-like cladding and construct a gable roof out of...

Images cache, but repeated text doesn't. :wink: I know it's only minimal in the scale of things but it's something to think about.

Some of the bigger routes have a £2.50 return fare (might be more now). It used to be universal (just not advertised), but now they advertise it as a special fare on certain services so I think it was withdrawn from others.

Apologies, have removed my sig. I'm used to other forums with much less restrictions (not using that as an excuse of course!). As for why the restrictions: - The same signature over and over on the same page increases page load unnecessarily. No new content is added when two posts on the same...

The answer is to boycott it. If nobody buys it they'll have to get rid of first class. There must be people buying first class tickets, otherwise it would make no sense to keep it there, and if they're willing to pay extra for basically nothing, it's frankly their problem and their fault (not...

I swear I'm charged a different amount every time I travel on an Arriva bus here (always the same stops). National Express West Midlands, however, are a fixed £1.90 single, £3.80 day, fare. (You can pay £1.70 for a short hop, but I believe those are being phased out and replaced with £1.00 if...

While I'm skeptical about whether alternatives would work, I do think that with the right marketing people would be as likely to fund it as they would HS2. A catchy name, clear information highlighting all the changes and why they'd help, etc. But that would need viable alternatives that would...

Maybe given how large this thread is (some ~1400 posts) we could have a sub-forum of Infrastructure for HS2 discussion. It would split the fantasy from the legitimate proposals, the quick Q&A from the in-depth discussions, and the actual proposal from alternative possibilities. But that's more...

You're quite right, I managed to find it on Wikipedia (was searching Brierley Hill, not Round Oak..) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round_Oak_rail_accident Described as "a vast train of 42 four-wheelers".

I don't know if it was the longest, but I seem to remember it as being so - a passenger service way back in the 1850s, heading south on an excursion from Wolverhampton station. It was so long that on a stretch near Brierley Hill the train split in two - the rear half of the train rolled down a...

This service does have real demands though, and even without HS2 there'd be the need for new stock. There is a big difference between a line to reduce capacity issues on the day to day network (amongst other things of course), and an international sleeper service.