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First Bus have made a post on their FaceBook page https://www.facebook.com/FirstBusUK/posts/pfbid05wiH8kejEphwKpzXo1hBQK6TMfjSzawACwbGCyeYjDkjpEc7x2gmV7yUEfeHLyqHl the post says "Off to watch England? Let us take care of the driving so you can focus on the football." how many places, outside...

Last summer, KonnectBus (Hedingham & Chambers) started route 42 Sudbury to Halstead to Braintree in competition with Flagfinders route 60 on the same corridor. Shortly afterward the service registration Konnectbus was acquired by TMS, so we now have the situation that the two services, owned...

https://www.marketing-beat.co.uk/2025/07/07/crosscountry-trains-summer/ This newad has started appearing on TV, what do people think about it?

The Konnectbuses services around Halstead and Sudbury are being revised from 1st Sept. This sees some improvements in services and some cut backs. https://www.konectbuses.co.uk/route-changes-news The reason for the post is that this afternoon I was driving from Bury St Edmunds to Sudbury and...

Taken from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/trivia-shortest-path-to-reverse-a-train-from-a-terminus-platform.284750/page-4 Although neither of my cases exactly match the requirements of the original post regarding the words terminus and platform, I have achieved this twice: In the 1970's...

This post was in the Ongsr branch discussion., but raises a question about rural and/or unusual places on the Underground. What quirky places do you know?

I have just looked at bus travel in Essex over Christmas and, on Christmas Day I would be able to do a return bus journey from my local town of Braintree and visit friends in Harlow. That's just 30 miles each way. This requires using two services via Stansted Airport. Can anyone give a longer...

As the request of the Transport Secretary the Office of Road and Rail has started a consultation on railway Revenue Protection policies, This can be found on the ORR website at the following link...

Placed here to avoid being OT in the original thread. These services could cater for members of the armed services on weekend leave, plus there was, may be is still, a number of people who go home for the weekend. I did this for two periods in the 1970's. The return Sunday services weren't as...

Split off from thread about demise of Arrow Taxis. https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/another-demand-responsive-transport-failure.271434/#post-6869700

When talking to school children (up to the age of 11) about railways there are two questions that come up time and time again: how old is it? what is a train? I must admit that having started to search the internet for an answer to the second question I am even more confused. I thought I had...

THE SMG, which includes the National Railway Museum (NRM) has today announced a number of redundancies and a cut back so that "the organisation’s five museums will operate under reduced opening hours when they reopen following the current lockdown, only opening for five days a week outside of...

This is a very niche question: Most people who collect railway ephemera of the nationalisation era will be aware that nearly all printed items of that time have a code that contains the letters BR and a number. Sometimes this is had a suffix letter or a slash followed by another number...

In the early 1970's I did shift work in the City of London. As the was no handover from the night to day shift we were allowed to leave when work as cleared. Sometimes this found me at Liverpool Street waiting for the 04:00 newspaper train on the Cambridge line. The train I regret not catching...

About 8 times a year I travel from Sudbury (Suffolk) to Norwich and have always managed to get advance tickets at around £5 - £6 each way (that is with a Railcard Discount).Sometime these have been purchased the day before. My next trip is scheduled for Saturday 7th March and there are no...