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There are certainly a few people who want to keep the aspiration alive as it will earn them consultancy fees or an occasional mention in the media.

That reminds me that the NaPTAN database to which you refer, timetables and on-bus announcements don't always agree on what a stop is called.

Thanks. That sounds a lot for a couple of screens, some loudspeakers, an amplifier, cables, a device with less computing power than a cheap smartphone plus labour to install, but not much compared with the annual running cost of a bus.

TfW are currently saying Possibly there isn't the capacity to run the full service at reduced speed but the sun's out and should dry the rails off soon?

Yes, that's the sort of service where the driver probably knows where his passengers get off, and which ones might need a gentle prompt. If it's a relief driver the other passengers will. On the odd occasion I've used them I've felt like almost like a (welcome) stranger in a group of friends...

According to https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/annual-bus-statistics-year-ending-march-2023/annual-bus-statistics-year-ending-march-2023 If my arithmetic is correct that's about a tenth of a penny per passenger journey. Surely that's not make a marginal service unviable?

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Is this just in England or throughout the UK? Newport Transport (based in south Wales, but their operations extend over the border) have some 02/52 plate Tridents that aren't equipped. Their more modern vehicles are, of course, but drivers don't always set them up correctly.

Computer generated from GWR today

Thanks for taking the time to attend. Hopefully you'll be able to go next Friday and give us a first hand report?

I thought it was on a single track with no Up and Down sides? ;)

The above from TfW today. Have forum users come across any others they'd like to share?

Not for the passenger directly, but it will increase dwell times. That's probably more of an issue on busy urban routes like Brighton & Hove than quiet rural ones.

I've enjoyed riding on first generation DMUs on heritage lines, also the the 769s (former 319 EMUs) in normal service in the Rhymney Valley. Steam? Not particularly - I have no memories of it on BR, having spent my childhood in post-electrification Kent.

They're looking to the future when 2nd generation BR DMUs will be as nostalgic to their volunteers and punters as locos and MK1 coaches are to us.

Stagecoach have an 86X but no 86. Cardiff Bus do have an 86 but it's a completely different route, except that they both serve the University Hospital of Wales.

Newport Transport have a 9A and 9C but no 9 and 31A and a 31C but no 31. In this case, the routes are circular and letters stand for anticlockwise and clockwise Edit: for the sake of completeness, there are also the 8A/C, 16A/C and 26A/C, which are also circular routes.

But perhaps counterproductive with passengers on other routes who should have had shiny new trains by now but are still travelling in 40 year old sardine cans?

In American English a lemon is a product, especially a car, that is defective. A rather unfortunate name to choose for a bus company but they seem to live up to it.

I wonder whether they enjoy the excellent mobile signal from EE or put up with a poor or non-existent one from another network on principle?