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Well, this interested me, and wasn't a massive surprise: https://www.mylondon.news/news/transport/new-london-bus-company-established-29002732 If it happens, I wonder where operations would be based for initial services and what services might go to it. Feels like an operator of last resort with...

Agree totally, as a sidenote and as a Londoner also (who moved to GM in 2005) what I do find odd here is that most of the bus stops still lack timetables of any description, it's alien to me to just see a pole in the ground with a bus stop flag on it without at least some clue as to the level of...

Plus for people who work at MCUK and live in Wigan (such as my wife) this service is invaluable, providing a non stop fast service to Eccles, or at least it used to be invaluable until they messed around with the Metrolink timetables in September resulting in no daytime service to MCUK from...

But with these Tories while every penny saved might well go to other transport projects, every pound saved will likely be spaffed up the wall on their donor chums, themselves, consultants, PR firms and so on.

Glad it's not only me then! If it helps anyone else, the CORPUS data is a superset available from Network Rail seems to largely do the job if filtered: https://www.networkrail.co.uk/who-we-are/transparency-and-ethics/transparency/open-data-feeds/ Have to wonder why they've made this so...

BTW the format of that data is appalling, whoever did that just doesn't understand what CSV is meant to be used for, why oh why does it have the data arranged in 4 2-column pairs for A-F, G-M, N-R and S-Y? Someone clearly knows nothing about importing and consuming data, why not just put it in a...

Thanks, the csv is dated as last updated on 7th Dec 2020, does anyone know if any new stations have opened (or stations closed) since that time? I wonder if they are ever going to make this CSV actually available on the site again?

Does anyone know where the CRS code data can be downloaded from on the new site? The Darwin API SOAP endpoint documentation (https://lite.realtime.nationalrail.co.uk/OpenLDBWS/) says that it's available as a download from https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations_destinations/48541.aspx but this...

It was Windows XP not Vista, so even older as XP dates back to 2001, Vista was 2006.

Hi all Firstly sorry if this has come up elsewhere but I searched and couldn't find an answer. I've just realised the Wigan - Leeds service (which has been from Wigan North Western of late, previously from Wallgate) has this week ended. Does anyone know why? The temporary/reduced timetable...

I was thinking exactly the same thing! Wonder how the OP would have coped with a Pacer?!

Indeed, I have a lay-friend who daily commutes from Wigan to Manchester. She excitedly messaged me the other week a photo of her sitting on a refurbed 158 instead of the usual Pacer she grew to hate, "look, new train finally! yay!" was her feeling. I gently had to tell her that the train was 30...

That's a good question. I hope they continue them and finish the job. From their slightly hyperbolic press release, I'm left wondering something: https://media.northernrailway.co.uk/news/northern-franchise-enters-new-future What are these additional electric trains?

Don't even need to go that far, just try going from Wigan to Bolton, 142s or 150s or the occasional 156 (but I understand even that luxury has now moved elsewhere). Going from Wigan to Manchester is little better, you have a chance of getting one of the infrequent lake district 195s or 158s as...

Not sure but the similarly upgraded 321s were about 25 years old at the point they were done, were they not? If they did the same work on the 323s next year (for arguments sake) they would be 28 years old. Not massively different age wise and aren't the 769s for GWR getting air cooling (which...

If this has been posted elsewhere or is not approrpriate I'm sorry, this just amused me. There's rail replacement buses in operation until the 21st Nov on services from Wigan to Southport. National Rail have kindly produced a map to show the routes. It seems as though whoever did this map...

I remember them from regularly using Silverlink services to North Woolwich around 2005. I see they've had a pretty decent refurb since then, carpets too now? Compared with the pacers up north that we're still putting up with for a few months longer and the dirty, smelly old 150s that will...

Not so good then? I was only going by videos and media postings I saw, so passengers are not happy with them? Ok will check it out! I was going to mention the 442s but erm, well passengers did like them for the brief time they were back in service but, er, right, let's not dwell on that eh?

Aren't ScotRail doing exactly that with 40 year old HSTs just now? Seems to be working out ok for them and the passengers love them, the point is a properly done refurb when the underneaths are still ok and reliable is perfectly acceptable from a passenger point, the refurbished HSTs in Scotland...

Obviously the doors are painted whatever colour they are to provide contrast to the body colour adjacent to it and for almost all Northern stock with doors-at-thirds, the blue ends before the first set of passenger doors (cl. 150, 195, 319, 323, 331). So the real question is why are there some...