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Buxton is a small group of shelters at the top of a hill and a bit of a trek from most of the town. The only real advantage is that all services in the town call at them so it’s relatively easy to change buses. Luton has the fairly new ‘interchange’ at the railway station which is just a few...

Stafford is rather complicated. There is a small bus station at Gaol Square but due to the layout of various one way roads in the town centre it is not accessible by every service. In some cases it can be a fair trek to one of half-a-dozen other points in the town where other buses go from...

It’s probably someone who works in marketing who thinks it sounds good: “Too-Too-Too-Tooting”. A lot of people interested in buses forget that the vast majority of the population know absolutely nothing about them at all.

I don’t think anyone has mentioned Altrincham Interchange. Buses on one side, trams and trains on the other. Covered building with a travel shop and toilets. Always been clean and presentable whenever I’ve been there. The Station at Manchester Airport is similar on a much larger scale - better...

Crewe town was built around the former railway works which was a much larger employer than the station. The works were to the north west of the station, hence the location of the town centre. There has been a long-standing difficulty with buses serving the railway station due to almost everyone...

The glass is fixed now - from what I’m led to believe it was quite a complicated job which is why it took so long. The issue of buses crossing paths is controlled by traffic lights which are very effective, although they do cause delays to buses sometimes. Hanley is a very unusual bus station...

And this is why the bus industry as a whole is dying as fares have to rise in order to get a half-decent reimbursement rate for concessionary pass use. (Sorry if this is getting a bit off-topic...) Anyone who feels they should be ‘entitled’ to use a commercially provided service for free just...

Is there any point in a commercial operator running anything to break even? Realistically a bus operating a school with something in the middle Monday to Friday should return at least £70k per year to be worth doing, but even at that price you would need some better paying buses working longer...

D&G 73 reverses at Cronkinson Oak in Nantwich and 108 at Breech Close in Waterhouses. Point to note: if a bus needs to reverse on a public highway it must be shown in the official route description registered with the Traffic Commissioner.

This is in Biddulph, Staffordshire. Interestingly the sign got replaced during recent roadworks despite buses not serving the road for years.

First Potteries 3: Cheshire East, Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent. D&G Bus 16: Derbyshire, Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent. High Peak Skyline 199: Derbyshire, Cheshire East, Stockport, City of Manchester.

The format that the maps and timetables in seems illogical unless you have knowledge of the quirks of modern bus scheduling systems. The entire website looks to me to be driven by a data format called TransXChange, which is a national standard that allows the export of timetable and route data...

I’m definitely not implying anything and I don’t know the answer to that as I was not involved in that process. I’m not sure why you are getting so agitated about it on an enthusiast forum. The more sensible approach would be to submit an FOI request to Cheshire East rather than the usual ‘I...

Quite simple really. It went to tender, didn’t get awarded, got run by Flexilink buses instead for a while, then got awarded based on the original tender outcome.

I can tell you none of that is true...

With D&G you could do Uttoxeter (841) - Stafford (14) - Hanley (9) - Biddulph (94) - Congleton (38) - Macclesfield (88) - Altrincham (288) - East Didsbury in one day for £5.50.

The problem for many bus operators in England is that 9.30am is now the ‘rush hour’ when all of the concessionary pass holders descend on the bus because they ‘have to’ go shopping at that time, or they have booked an early doctors appointment because they ‘can’t’ go any later. What is needed...

There’s nothing illegal about a bus reversing on a public road, especially where common sense prevails when in a tight spot, but if a reversing manoeuvre is part of a bus route then it is a legal requirement to specify this within the registration.

You can add Crewe Bus Station to the list - around the same age as Leek but bigger and significantly more run down. It’s allegedly going to be demolished in the next year or so.

I also like Fatherless Barn in the West Midlands (213/214 from Cradley Heath) and Whirly Barn in Cheshire (19 from Macclesfield, although buses all now run through to Prestbury).