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Yes - there was such a route, but it was hardly a useful "alternative". However, further discussion would be "off topic".

There already is one, every 15 minutes during the day Mon-Sat, taking 43 minutes.

That would be a white elephant and an utter waste of money. There is virtually no plausible case for re-opening the line from Okehampton to Tavistock.

That is the best interim solution, as it is with other operators (including EMR/Northern/TPE/TfW) with major staff shortages, or problematic rolling stock (all the current loco-hauled passenger trains, HSTs of all varieties, dmu classes 175/180, electric to battery/diesel emu conversions such as...

It causes confusion when there is more than 1 route in a local authority area, or run by the same local bus company, with exactly the same number. because it is no longer a unique identifier. Stagecoach appear particularly fond of doing this. One possible solution that I put forward in an...

There is no specific reference to light rail or tramways in Labour's recent policy platform on transport, which is all rather vague. https://labourlist.org/2023/05/labour-manifesto-2024-election-what-policies-npf-party/ The last Labour Secretary of State who made major decisions about light...

Renumbering would only be needed in certain areas such as Wigan, which was never part of SELNEC, and where low-numbered route numbers duplicated in other areas of Greater Manchester currently exist. In Altrincham/Sale, the SELNEC route numbering system concept has survived largely intact, apart...

One option to make numbers unique would be to add a "town-specific" prefix letter for local town routes, so for example all the existing low-numbered service numbers in the Wigan area would have a W prefix, W1 etc. This is already done in Bury and Rochdale, with some routes having B and R...

Quite right too. TfGM's daft idea for orbital tram-train routes is fanciful. There really isn't the demand to warrant such massive expenditure. The existing Stockport-Altrincham train service is a mere accident of the desire to continue to provide some sort of through passenger train service...

Cardiff Bus have announced major service reductions from 3rd September 2023, with reductions in service frequencies, particularly on Saturday daytimes (e.g. route 30 Cardiff-Newport becomes approximately hourly) and evenings, and withdrawal of some routes, particularly inter-suburban ones. The...

While route 11 does run from Stockport to Altrincham, it takes a very convoluted route and takes 84 minutes for the journey (weekdays, mid-day) compared to 51 minutes on direct route 370 at the same time of the day. Route 11 is primarily for local journeys, including to serve key traffic...

Public transport demand for travel from Altrincham to Stockport and intermediate points in between is limited - all journeys on bus routes 370/371 that link Stockport and Altrincham are "provided with the financial support of Transport for Greater Manchester". The only significant demand for...

It is also significantly worse than the service (in terms of both frequency and speed) from the peak hour service offered by CLC in 1910 from Northwich, Knutsford and Hale to Manchester Central. The through service to Manchester from the Mid Cheshire line needs to be retained. Adding too many...

The proposed Tavistock re-opening has a number of complicating/negative features which make it potentially less attractive in terms of value for money: There is no railway line in situ north of Bere Alston, merely a disused unmaintained trackbed. Any proposed service is complicated by the need...

The bus sevice from Cheadle to Manchester has deteriorated in recent years, particularly since the withdrawal of the faster direct service 130 (formerly North West Road Car Company route 29) via Kingsway and Anson Road, leaving just service 42B/42C which runs half-hourly (hourly Sundays, no late...

The LNWR ran regular services from Stockport (Edgeley) to Broadheath, at least up to Devcember 1916. The CLC ran services from Stockport (Tiviot Dale) to Altrincham, at least until the 1930s, latterly using Sentinel steam railcars.

There were stations at Baguley and Northenden run by the CLC, with the one at Northenden also served by the LNWR. There was also a station at Cheadle east of Northenden Junction on the line to Stockport Edgeley, served by LNWR and closed to passengers on 1 January 1917; this is a separate...

Forgetting to tap out is a different situation from "forgetting" to tap in and irrelevant to this thread - it is not fare evasion and just leads to a maximum or penalty fare being charged.

For the historical record, the original 22 route ran from Levenshulme (Lloyd Road) to Eccles via Chorlton-cum-Hardy and Urmston, and was operated by the North West Road Car company jointly with Manchester Corporation Transport.

It would also have provided a through link from Leighton Hospital to Crewe railway station, which the previous route 6/6E did and which I used in the last week of Arriva's operation of this service.