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The Saturday timetable makes more sense in terms of spacing and the improved morning peak service is welcome but the Scotrail fares are daft as well IMO which they need to fix. Maybe they could axe the Mon-Fri off peak SR services but still keep the late evening and Saturday ones. They do...

Don't people already get bans that long (5-10 years) in most cases or even lifetime bans? But I suppose we mainly hear/see about the worst cases so Im not sure what level of disruption we're talking about.

They need to retime the 32 to connect with trains at Curriehill station for buses coming from Balerno at least in the Glasgow direction, even if remains every hour. I assume there should be reasonable usage on the Gyle to Cramond section although I only went on it once last year between the Gyle...

Reform topped the poll narrowly in a local by election in Scotland for the first time yesterday with 34% of 1st preferences in Stranraer and the Rhins but the Tories narrowly held the seat on transfers. Prior to yesterday, Reform hadn't got more than 26% anywhere in Scotland. This is an area...

You could ban O&D to Edinburgh/Glasgow to London I think, at least to Heathrow&City but still allow connections. I don't know if there is the capacity on LNER/Avanti for all those business passengers switching across though but that could help yields for them maybe? I think Heathrow absolutely...

'Parrotshot' in Edinburgh on the The Jewel. Goblin Ha in Gifford is a weird one. I think it's actually named after the castle at Yester and that's its nickname.

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The 5 was extended from Morningside to Oxgangs on the 14th April 2002. I have a clear recollection of the bus war period around then. I would be interested to know when the 51 ended. I assume around 2000?

I assume Zarah Sultana will stand in in a Birmingham seat, probably Birmingham Ladywood. Hodge Hill and Yardley are also possible but Liam Byrne and Jess Phillips have a bit more latitude to distance themselves from their gvt on Gaza. Coventry South does contain the city centre, the former...

I assume most of the stations on the Shotts Line with only an hourly service don't have ticket machines. When I used the train from Slateford and Wester Hailes towards Glasgow, I had to buy tickets from the guard.

Perhaps. I have some sympathy with Sultana even though I am still a Labour member insofar as that she has been vindicated on Mandelson and Gaza and the worst people on the right of the Labour Party basically had the knives out for her since December 2019. Perhaps she should have ridden it out to...

I don't really see the point of Your Party per se as it seems they are only united on the issue of Gaza and its already possible for independents to get elected just on that issue as 2024 has shown. I don't see them damaging the Greens at all in England in areas where they are strong like...

Lufthansa kept their 747s because they can do the maintainence in house unlike other airlines and they have been severely let down by Boeing with the 77X and 787 delays. I don't know how long they plan to keep the 747-8s in particular though. They have got in a mess with the Allegris rollout on...

Frankfurt has been constrained by lack of terminal space for a long time so I imagine this will be partly resolved at least for the Lufthansa/Star Alliance carriers when Terminal 3 opens. Haven't actually been on so many remote stands recently but it was a bus ride to the E190 at CDG to EDI a...

I think they've done a pretty good job with the rebuild whatever one thinks of the money spent on it. I think the village is a lot more bleak than the actual station. I did choose an awful dreich day to visit it in Autumn 2020 though when the return train was cancelled due to high winds etc and...

I find Wester Hailes somewhat bleak, both the platforms and the access to it even if it's not necessarily the bleakest. In terms of closed/mothballed stations ones like IBM, British Steel Redcar, Teesside Airport etc obviously come to mind.

A retired neighbour in Edinburgh apparently bought a flat in Galashiels hoping to let it out thinking there would be lots of property demand in Galashiels but there hasn't really been gentrification/housebuilding in Galashiels just an improvement in public transport for the people of Galashiels...

I don't really understand why certain people in Britain fervently support Israel/while the Israel lobby is so strong in Britain as Israel doesn't even seem like a proper 'Western' country as it was close to Russia before the Ukraine war. It's completely bizarre and I don't understand it...

It's interesting how the political system has completely flipped on its head and the Lib Dems seem now to have the most stable support base at the Westminster level while Labour and especially the Conservatives melt down in the face of the Reform surge. Makes sense as although they are a lot...

You get this on the Highland Mainline mainly for accessibility reasons I think. I've also seen this in France where I've just been at Albi on the line from Toulouse to Rodez.