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My local Stagecoach services in my adopted home town of Torquay only routinely fall apart during the school Summer holidays, for obvious reasons. Otherwise services run mainly to time and there are only really problems when there is an incident on the roads, or when Torquay seafront is closed...

A class 150 from Newton Abbot to Torquay at 18.14 yesterday (Monday 30th December), as the final leg of a day-trip to Plymouth that also involved another pair of 150s, a GWR class 802 and a XC Voyager. I've always used the Stagecoach Gold bus before but I wanted to see how the train fared now...

>>> if it means going to a station where I can complete my journey by Oyster? <<< Look at prices to Slough, you can use the 81 bus from there as it is a TfL bus service. The bus station is directly opposite the rail station.

Whilst the inadequacies of the www.stagecoachbus.com website are legion, one thing you can do is manually over-ride the location. If you type in "Aldershot" or "Camberley" it would take you through to the Stagecoach South section.

I wonder if there is a gap in the market for a turn-up-and-go Cambridge - Stratford service, rather along the lines of Stagecoach's M2 service between Canterbury and North Greenwich?

In general I have found GWR rail replacement services to be well-run. There will now be six consecutive posts with examples of when this was not so.

Reading Buses finishes early on Christmas Eve, on most routes last buses are around 20.00 but routes 5, 6, 17, 21 and 26 have a limited service until around 23.00 - coincidentally these are the five routes that usually have 24-hour service. No services Christmas Day. On Boxing Day, services...

In Devon, Stagecoach and Plymouth CityBus pack up early on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve with last buses generally around 20.00. No service on Christmas Day and New Year's Day. Stagecoach operates limited services between 09.00 and 18.00 on Boxing Day on a few selected routes: 1 Plymouth -...

Chiltern Railways being an honourable exception here, operating their Boxing Day Oxford Parkway-London Marylebone service. I expect they would operate to/from Oxford itself if GWR were not responsible for running the station. Merseyrail also have a limited Boxing Day service, as does Scotrail...

The only operator outside London that bought RTs new was St Helens - they bought 40 in two batches in 1950/1951. Their General Manager at the time was R Edgeley-Cox who had been an engineer with London Transport, and he realised that the RTs were just slightly lower than provincial highbridge...

In my brief stint as a BR ticket clerk I did once encounter a passenger with a ticket "Flowery Field to Streatham BR". It was a handwritten paper ticket as it was pre-APTIS.

Indeed 23rd January 1966 was quite a big day for Harrow's buses - as well as the swap-round of the 114 and 158, and the rerouting of the 140 via Porlock Avenue, it was also the day that the 209 was extended to Northwick Park Station at peak times, replacing the short-lived 230A (Harrow...

That is indeed the reason, for the 11 and 26 to have a common stop as they follow the same route as far as Aldwych. The 11 will still show Liverpool Street as a destination, it will take over the 344's stand in Worship Street and the last/first passenger stops will be at Primrose Street, which...

The entry for 23rd January 1966 shows the 140 as operating via Porlock Avenue, so it appears to have been in force at least from that date, if not earlier. I also looked up the 114 and 158. The 114 was rerouted via Porlock Avenue from 23rd January 1957 until 23rd January 1966, when the 114 and...

Do you know why the trains haven't run? If it was a known and pre-planned cancellation you could ask to be rerouted via London or Norwich, or simply catch an earlier train to Ipswich. I don't know what happens re: accommodation. Of course if you had turned up for the train and found it...

It does seem unfortunate that unlicensed express coach services are not subject to the same consumer regulation as trains. I would make a formal complaint to National Express, if you have not already done so. Also refer the matter to Bus Users UK - although they are not a regulatory body and...

Strictly speaking, the 353/357 Orpington to Croydon, and the 355 Forestdale route, were not Metrobus innovations having been run by a succession of different operators and in different forms over the years. Metrobus did however bring stability to the operation and eventually reached agreement...

There was a time when people from the London area would fly from Manchester as flights to certain destinations were considerably cheaper than flying from a London airport. I don't know if that is still the case.

A few short-cuts in the South West - unless you have already decided this is what you want to do and worked out timings. Bodmin to Plymouth - Plymouth CityBus/Go Cornwall Bus route 11 (someone else has already pointed this one out) Plymouth to Exeter - Stagecoach X38 Tiverton to Taunton -...

Until recently I lived very close to Bethnal Green (formerly Greater Anglia and latterly London Overground). Buying a through ticket from there to a destination which involved crossing London by Underground, was usually cheaper than using the Underground from Bethnal Green to a London terminus...