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What is the longest service (defined by distance and/or time) where the doors will open on the same side of the train at every single station that it serves? One per TOC. As long as you can find an example on Real Time Trains over the past week, I’ll accept it as a valid answer. A number of...

The scrapping of the Oxford Bus Company X90 (Oxford - London) brings the end to one of the longest running bits of competition in the UK... but it's also one of the routes with pretty comprehensive competition (seven days a week, from five in the morning until after midnight). Whilst defining...

Mod Note: Posts #1 - #22 originally in this thread. What work could they realistically do in the UK though? All of the long distance high speed electrified services will be in the hands of 390/800/801/802s - what services are there out there suited to these thirty year old locos (that were...

Some operators use various different prefixes or suffixes to distinguish minor/major route variations. But some operators prefer to stick to one number for more than one version of a route. For example, Stagecoach run some 555s “slow” from Lancaster up through Carnforth to the Lake District...

Simple version: What’s the smallest difference between two services? Rules are: Compare the full route of one service to the full route of another service We can talk about the difference in number of stops served, the number of unique stops, the difference in stops served compared to the...

There's not a "central" thread for the bits of CT Plus (ex Hackney Community Transport), so I thought I'd start one, see how they are doing elsewhere in the UK. Here in Sheffield they (trading as Powells) are taking on a number of tenders with effect from this coming weekend, including the...

I grew up under BR when everything was either one plain colour (generally blue or green!) or horizontal stripes (in later years). Modern trains are much more colourful, but all of the swoops/ diagonals/ swooshes/ patterns tend to be symmetrical across the length of the train. However the new...

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/sheffield-city-region-integrated-plan.186433/ Some clear non-starters here. Tram-train all the way to Robin Hood Airport? I'm all for the tram-train, I'd happily surrender Rotherham Central to it, but that'd be a nonsense...

This might be a slightly hard to define thread with arguments about what a “route” is (given that a route today may be slightly different to a route ten/twenty/thirty years ago) but bear with me, let’s play nicely… First used to run an orbital service around southern Edibburgh (Wester Hailes -...

Looking at today's trains, I noticed a service I was previously unaware of - a Sunday morning Retford - Meadowhall train - http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/Y65407/2019/07/14/advanced - great idea, getting to the popular shopping centre just after ten on a Sunday morning, makes sense...

Northern recently introduced new trains into passenger service - Arriva were awarded the franchise in 2015. The TPE franchise was also awarded in 2015 and are almost just about to nearly introduce their new trains. These things can take time - tenders, contracts, appeals, designs, trials...

There are certainly three “main” main lines in the UK – the East Coast Main Line, the West Coast Main Line and the Great Western Main Line. But how many “main lines” are there? The Great Eastern Main Line and Midland Main Line would probably be in the “Europa League” positions – at the top...

The longest single journey in the UK is Aberdeen – Penzance. The longest diagram in the UK is the 390 that does something like Manchester – London – Glasgow – London – Liverpool in the same day (I'm sure someone will correct me!). Other trains don’t travel as far but may rack up lots of short...

Now that Go Ahead are expanding into "Lancashire"/ "Yorkshire" (with the purchase of EYMS and some of First Group's Manchester operations), plus Swindon a couple of years ago, to add to their mixture of operations from Tyneside to the south coast, some of which aren't necessarily worthy of a...

Are there many stops served by National Express/Megabus/ Citylink that have no other buses/coaches stopping at them? (excluding stops specifically inside bus/coach stations - for arguments sake, say we ignore any stop that has a "number" or "letter" - e.g. at Sheffield Interchange...

What is the shortest service (based on regular traction) compared to the shortest platform that it is booked to stop at? There are a number of routes where longer trains would be welcomed but they may be restricted by current infrastructure. Which current service could be lengthened the most...

Rather than disrupt the discussion about United Coaches by going off-topic, a comment by @user1234 got me thinking... Sheffield Omnibus (the '90s independent who eventually sold out to Yorkshire Traction) had a simple dark blue/cream livery, which was the colour scheme of Preston Bus, who most...

Sitting on the 09:21 from Sheffield to Glasgow yesterday, taking the scenic route through Tinsley, I was thinking that (due to the diversion through Rotherham Central because of engineering works at Meadowhall) the service switched between electrified and unelectrified lines a few times…...

I don't think we've had this before (?)... what are the cheapest and most expensive single bus/coach tickets it is possible to buy in the UK? To avoid argument, I'm not talking about "free" tickets/services (there must be *some* charge for the fare), I'm not talking about private hire, I'm just...

The news that Lothian Buses are to paint some of their vehicles in the heart/diamond/clubs (etc) livery/branding from about a decade ago got me thinking about how "young" some retro liveries are. For example First repainted Volvo B7RLE 69017 (SF55 UAK) into a version of the "Mainline" livery...