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What is the worst bus map (at the moment, historically)? It's all subjective, of course, but I'd consider things like: Too many colours Not enough colours, so it's confusing which "red" line is which Too many lines Too schematic, so no relation to reality Insufficient information to work out...

The recent announcement that Falcon (the Plymouth - Bristol Airport service started by Stagecoach a couple of years ago) is part of the services that will transfer to ComfortDelGro caught me by surprise - both in terms of it being part of the sale (I'd seen no rumours before hand that it was...

How would you like to organise West Coastway services, given the flat junctions/ competing demands between a variety of places/ fixed number of paths into London etc? For all of the discussions about minor rural lines (and reconnecting tiny villages etc), we don't discuss busy routes like the...

What was the shortest (by distance or time) loco hauled electric service? I remember ScotRail running 90s on the Edinburgh - North Berwick route for a short period - there was a Doncaster - Leeds working to get GNER trains back from Edinburgh to Neville Hill - but were there any shorter...

Which bus operators have already got poppies on their vehicles, which bus operators are going to have special "poppy" livery vehicles, which bus operators don't have any poppies on their vehicles? I ask because I noticed that Stagecoach's Supertrams have poppies on them (25 October 2021), but I...

On the Manchester Recovery Taskforce thread (https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/manchester-recovery-taskforce-timetable-consultation.213089/) @Ianno87 has made the point that the Wimbledon Loop is the London equivalent of the "vocal" Southport - Manchester campaigners (for those unaware of the...

At the moment I guess the longest service in the UK is South Shields to St James on the Tyne'n'Wear Metro (running, as it does, via Whitley Bay) - if you discount the Metro as being "heavy rail" then the longest is maybe Rochdale - East DIdsbury on Metrolink? But how do these compare to...

In the thread about bad purchases (https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/worst-purchase-takeover-acquisition.222409/), there's been mention of operators that were taken over and effectively closed with no trace "shortly after" - e.g. Stagecoach in Somerset or this... Definitions are a little...

Since deregulation there have been a number of takeovers as First/ Stagecoach/ Go-Ahead/ Arriva etc grew - some of which were straight from the Government sell-off, some of which were independent companies, some of which were mergers, but the companies grew and grew. But what were the worst...

From this month's "let's re-open the Okehampton - Tavistock" thread: Okehampton - Tavistock is a line that closed in 1968; I'd argue that a line that closed over fifty years ago is no longer an "existing alignment", and therefore should be treated as a "new" one (IMHO Okehampton - Tavistock...

In a lot of debates, there's someone on "your" side who's so terrible that you wish there wasn't - they present such a bad impression of what "your" side are like that you wish they weren't For example, whilst I'd be in favour of a number of "pro-animal" things, I find PETA ("People For The...

We're having another debate about de-regulation/ privatisation of buses in Great Britain on the Forum. It's made me realise - I don't know how Northern Irish buses have fared over a similar period (to use as a benchmark) I've been over a couple of times in the past and am aware of some of the...

We've had threads "burying" Labour and the LibDems, but when will the Conservative demise be? Which of the icebergs over the horizon will be the one to sink PM Johnson? They've just lost two by-elections in a row where they were favourites to win - the huge attention paid to Hartlepool meant we...

These days it's not uncommon for an order for new trains to be announced as something like "one hundred new Class XYZs with an option for a further twenty five" - given the problems with 185s/ Voyagers etc (which the railway ordered insufficient of, but the production line closed and it would...

From the GNE thread (https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/gonorth-east.205340/page-9), where we were talking about the 2 from Sunderland to Washington: ...which begs the question, which route/corridor has had the most different brands (since deregulation)? Branding must be applied externally...

What routes/ links were lost due to the introduction of the Edinburgh trams, Tyne & Wear Metro, Manchester Metrolink, Sheffield Supertram, Nottingham Express Transit, Midland Metro and Croydon Tramlink? In the case of Sheffield Supertram... Middlewood - City - there used to be a five minute...

Obviously there are some bi-mode diagrams that are entirely under the wires (in the way that there used to be HST diagrams that were entirely under the wires, as GNER/ NXEC etc took on additional stock to increase frequencies, but there were no additional Mk4s available) But what routes are...

When did peak fares finish on buses in various UK cities? I remember them being common pre-deregulation in some urban areas - but I guess they were all phased out separately over time. Was it always by increasing the "daytime" fare up to the "peak" level, or did any operators actually reduce...

This might be a bit of a niche thread, but bear with me... Lots of suburbs have a service into the nearest town/city centre (too many to list!). Some have a service beyond the town centre to a larger town (e.g. the majority of Glenrothes - Kirkcaldy services were/are a service from suburban...

What examples are there of services/ links that were withdrawn when a company was split up (or a garage sold << please note that I'm not talking about a garage being closed down by an existing operator, but actually sold as a going concern to another operator)? e.g. I was thinking about the...