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Not sure about everywhere, but Ft William and Mallaig are normally able to take the full train.

I haven't gone through everything, but there was a £93m onerous contract provision booked in 2017 which was fully utilised in 2018 although an additional provision for £40m was raised, so that would be another £53m off your VTEC performance for the year. There is also the tax position to...

There are, I think, 23 "Azumas” and were, I think, 23 "bird" A4 Pacific's. Sorted

Just to point out that goodwill (or a bargain purchase in the case where the identifiable and recognisable acquired assets exceed the purchase price) is measured from the purchasers perspective, so if First sold to National Express for £90m National Express may not acquire £40m of goodwill as...

FirstBus as a CGU (Cash Generating Unit) have £78m goodwill per the 2018 financials, I presume that is almost all UK ops.

Obviously, but it highlights the absurdity of your argument, it is the point of a reductive argument.

On a double decker the able bodied have around 70-80 places the wheelchair users 1 or 2. The wheelchair user isn't asking the able bodied user to get out of the able bodied space but rather out of the wheelchair space. If there was another wheelchair user they would need to wait. Providing the...

Think it depends on the data feed. Google often tells me a given Lothian bus is delayed, and that tends match Lothian's own tracker.

Bank holiday services are nonsense other than Christmas and new year. Even easter has more and more people working.

Not to turn a discussion about buses into one on accounting, but in both cases (current and non-current) looking at the liabilty position without considering what assets balance it is pretty pointless. But I very much agree FSE and lothians accounts and company structure are so different that...

I think you may have confused the dividends Lothian pay out to the council with the "funding" lothian receive from the council. Per the 2017 financials total dividends paid by lothian to its shareholders (ultimately the 4 councils) were £6.8m (2016: £6.6m). Total related party (the 4 councils...

Scotrail issue a photo and non photo smartcard. Think you need a photo one for season tickets. Also, if you install their app and have ncf on the phone you can see what is loaded and expired on your card if you put the 2 next to each other.

Thanks for the help.

I'm needing to buy a Dalmeny - Edinburgh gateway ticket next week for work anyway. I presume this would work for a Saturday/Sunday expedition with a companion?

My job let's me read a lot of companies asset registers (not exclusively buses). If they can tell what is where and its current status they will almost never redo it. Tends to be a once a decade or 2 big clean up that sees things renumbered and ordered. Edit- you do sometimes see a single...

I presume LCB is costing them a fortune, but we will only be able to get a proper idea how much when the 2019 accounts are published. The 2018 accounts will be next to useless for that purpose (4 months of operations other than the 43). Since they publish full subsidiary accounts it isn't...

As mentioned by others above, infrastructure investments from any council will support the incumbent operator/operators (that is the nature of incumbency), and one would hope that the council and likely operators are in some degree of dialogue before around any major works, tax payers and...

I think depending where you live in South Queensferry can also make a massive difference as to which operator you would prefer. Something I have also noticed is concession users who take a morning peak in with me on the 43 but take whichever evening peak comes first to get home.

Pretty sure its publicly owned, but arms length and only publicly funded in the same way as other comercial operators.

43 is my regular route, I think most commuter get off on station road and walk 5 minutes rather than loop round south queensferry. In the last year since I have started using it has got progressively busier and the timing isn't bad most days.