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Er.. sorry if I'm missing the spirit of a speculative ideas thread, but is this a serious proposal? It wouldn't be done for £82m, and why is it necessary? Morecambe-Lancaster-University is just a normal bus route, not particularly busy compared to some in the major cities. In the event the Eden...

Rumour is it's reducing to hourly. They're giving up basically. Two years ago it went to Blackburn as well, was 15 minutes faster from Accrington, there was the 484 between Accrington and Ramsbottom . People said at the time the Ramsbottom diversion was a mistake. #Amazing. The only thing...

Presumably either one route will have short journeys to Colne or maybe the Witch Way might go back to all stops. These changes might improve reliability, but that's achieved simply through removing the through journeys. Cutting the Padiham route, which is packed at peak times at least, wasn't...

I know they have to try to put a positive spin on things, but it really does grate when the news is bad. They aren't using the word amazing this time, but the latest news in Burnley is that due to the fantastic success of the Mainline service, they're reducing the frequency and removing journeys...

Bolton are I think still in administration right now. There is a prospective buyer, though what I've heard about them doesn't exactly fill me with confidence. They are going to play this weekend, but will be relying on youth players unless they get things sorted and sign some players soon.

How much of the decline in car ownership can be explained by a) London making up an ever growing % of the population b) the ageing population (no need for multiple cars after retirement, declining fitness to drive) and c) more students?

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What though are the chances of attracting new passengers to these tendered routes with infrequent, often very slow journeys with short operating days and little or no weekend service? The purpose of these buses is generally to take pensioners to the shops, doctor etc - the existing passengers...

Were they expecting all the OHLE problems? All the warnings I saw were about buckled rails, Southeastern seemed most vocal about expected difficulties and travel warnings but in the end it was the overhead electrified part of the network that fell down spectacularly.

It's cancelled from Edinburgh (expected around 0130), but buses have apparently been arranged to Aberdeen. There must be something wrong at Kings Cross as well now. Late arrivals have apparently been delayed waiting for platforms, one LNER terminated at Finsbury Park nearly three hours ago -...

I assume all the Rochdale or Bury buses will have the same branding, like in Keighley, rather than having different buses for routes requiring only a single bus. I think all Rosso's commercial routes have their own branding now, so any issues of the wrong branded bus turning up already exist now...

It would appear from Twitter that one of the LNER trains near Peterborough was evacuated onto the line and then possibly loaded back onto the same train to continue the journey.

The 1533 is now 205 late after a lengthy stop at Grantham. The 1600 to Aberdeen has left Peterborough and is 200 minutes late. The 0952 Aberdeen - Kings Cross is moving again, passed Huntingdon 257 late (that's a long journey whatever the temperature!) A 1608 STP Kings Cross - Peterborough...

Trains have started leaving Kings Cross in the last hour, but everything still seems to be stopped at Peterborough. The first one out, the 1800 to Edinburgh (left at 1849) appears to have stopped at Biggleswade, with a train already stopped at St Neots ahead, and another before Peterborough. I...

Anyone know what the situation is at Peterborough? Everything around Peterborough looks to be stopped, but the HST reported earlier to be stopped at Stevenage is now moving - is there a way for it to reach the Spalding line?

No we don't have a particularly wide spread of temperatures. Recorded temperatures in London range from -13 to 38, contrast to New York's range of -26 to 41, Chicago -32 to 43, for a European example, Warsaw -24 to 37. Most of Western Europe is at least similar to us.

I know this forum is always going to support more spending on railways, but with the current obscene cost of electrification would it really be good governance to prioritise it ahead of the NHS, schools, police etc?

The bit I think is strange is that there will probably soon be no First Manchester, so First West Yorkshire will be left operating a short distance route within a town in a different county, far from the depot, and in which they have no other network*. *The one thing in their favour here is...

It's a drop in the ocean in the context of the whole project, and compared to the Scottish market, to compete in which they need to cut as many stops as possible.

Presumably this means First will retain the service after selling Oldham, rather than ending up with three operators between Rochdale and Littleborough. It's still a bit weird though running a route the other side of the Pennines from Yorkshire. If ticket acceptance with their former Manchester...