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    New Waverley Escalators Flawed

    appologies if posted elsewhere but.... http://www.heraldscotland.com/mobile/news/home-news/waverley-escalators-flawed.16934907?_=b369160250386ad51d4c46ddf6bca9f06265e4cf
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    Megabus. Unusual workings

    theyve come a long way since 2004 and theres been many changes and not entirely for the better - I quite miss the Olimpians on a short run or at least one with stops not in the middle of nowhere! :) what Im wondering is now its all coaches has anyone ever had any odd or interesting substitutions...
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    Services you hate working

    we all have services that we hate using for all kinds of reasons from being overloaded dayly to being worked by our least favourit traction, to being reliably late but wondering from a crewes prospective what ones you dread being rostered for and why? Primarilly rail, hense this forum, but any...
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    Best/worst station toilets

    ok so having recently used a truly revolting facility at Warington BQ I thought it was high time for opperaters of similarly gastly establishments to be, ehem, flushed out :) and those who are making an effort praised. Primarilly talking rail stations but bus stations, airports and maybe the...
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    A chance to pull a bus for charitty - the latest fundraising innovation!

    from Lothian Buses website http://lothianbuses.com/news/2-general-news/936-can-you-pull-a-12-tonne-bus-.html
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    What number is this bus?

    hi. This may be a huge flop or a major success, appologies if its the former. :) through a series of clues which may include, but are not limmited to: towns, stops or particular locations served, vehicle type regularly used service opperater/opperaters interesting or otherwise relivant...
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    Carlisle (CAR) to Blackpool (any)

    hi. Cheepest option tiket wise for a return trip going out on a Fri and returning Sun/Mon with disabled railcard. Need full flexibilitty due to plans when there therefore advances etc not an option. Sorry its simple but NRE cant seam to make up its mind as its given me several answers and in...
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    Scottish Northern Isles ferry contracts

    hi. Just wondering what peoples thoughts are on how these should go? They wil be renewed by the Scottish Gov later this year with Pentland Ferth (Stromness - Scrabster( being awarded seperately from the Aberdeen, Kirkwall, Lerwick. Only view I have is that Kirkwall should be better served...
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    Traveline - a rant!

    mods feel free to move or remove as appropriate! Is it just me, or has traveline been worse than normal at providing alteration information these holidays? I know councils and opperaters must inform them first but there website and callcentres have often been inconsistant and on more than 1...
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    Bash of the year 2011

    just wondering what everyones fave bash of the last 12 months is?
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    Stagecoach groups plans for crossforth hovercraft grounded

    http://www.stagecoach.com/media/news-releases/2011/2011-12-09.aspx disgusting! A real chance to sort out the traffic jam that is currently the A90 and will in a few years be a new (as yet unnumbered) route to/from the kingdom and the people in charge have thrown it away! I live 5 mins...
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    Most inappropriate bus

    following on fromMark_re's thread of train services opperated by inappropriate stock types a cupple of months back, I thought I'd start a similar one to get oppinions on bus routes opperated by inappropriate vehicles iether due to the route, passenger numbers or even the kinds of people using it.
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    Scotrail to run 7 coach DMU Service from December

    http://www.rail.co/2011/11/18/more-carriages-on-aberdeen-inverness-trains/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Railco+%28rail.co%29 can we take it from this that they will continue to use loco hauled sets on peak Fife runs freeing units from other work as I doubt...
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    Accommodation suggestions and reviews

    firstly if this is in the wrong place mods feel free to move. Wondering where people have gone to crash whilst making longer trips from there home patch and if there good, average or so bad youd rather have slept on the station! Particular points of interest being if there at or very...
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    7 Day ALR - Disabled Railcard - March/April next year

    myself and a mate giving some serius considderation to this next year and wondered what a standard class one would cost with railcard discount? Also for sleaper travel are berth reservations at normal price and whats policy on long distance seat reservations? Also, does the disabled...
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    Strictly for the pacer enthusiasts! Lines youd love to bash on a pacer

    sure everyone has a particular run they'd love to do on one. For me, the Far North line!
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    Edinburgh Waverley to Bradford (any) - cheepest route, no advances, disabled railcard

    can anybody help with this? Lowest walkup fare, splits and multiple changes no problem open return, after 9am but flexible.
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    Megabus services with wifi?

    thought it would be useful to many to try and put together some kind of rough huidf as to which megabus runs have wifi as its not specified on there site. Although never huaranteed, which runs have people found it available on? My contribution is the 900 Edinburgh Glasgow, taking megabus...
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    Blindtravelers Lake District Bash

    Day 1 - 26th September 2011Ok so here goes, my first trip report and dependant on its success it may be my last. this little jolly isnt quite short notice, but compared to some things it hasn't been so long in the planning stages. It all came about when my new partner Vikki who is also...
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    Heathrow 1, 2,3 to Hereford - can I avoid Paddington?

    looking for best route on a weekday afternoon, prefferably without going into and out of PAD. busses are cool if its needed

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