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Would the Trafford Park to Crumpsall service use the Second City Crossing, as from experience last year I'm not sure the original route through Market Street and Shudehill can take many more trams. On a similar tangent, are there any plans or ideas to four track Trafford Bar to St. Peters...

In addition, the weird Ensign DMS rebuilds from the early 1980s somehow ended up getting A-reg and B-reg plates, meaning technically Fleetlines got further than VRs on the numberplate system (despite the chassis being from the early 1970s!). https://www.flickr.com/photos/southlancs/10927688365...

If (and it's a big IF) the New North Line ever gets reconnected to the network at Old Oak Common, the Greenford line could see a new lease of life. There were rumours Chiltern wanted to use OOC when it opens.

Assuming the current B5s on the 36 are owned, I wonder if these will cascade over to the Aireline and Dalesway, with those B9s going to clear out superannuated B7s with Keighley and Burnley. Guess I should make sure I get one more trip booked for the old Plaxton Presidents at Keighley!

From memory, Bristol City and Oxford were the only subsidiaries to take dual-door centre staircase VRs, which had a much more well-proportioned upper deck interior compared to the standard lowheight. A bit of shame there was never a Y-reg or A-reg Bristol VR given that the Atlantean and...

How long has the ieTram fiasco been going on, it seems like it's been years since the new contract for the 358 was awarded? I wonder whether Go-Ahead and TFL have wondered if it may have been easier just to specify standard E200EVs instead if they wanted to get electric vehicles into Orpington.

From experience with the 298, it is very tightly timetabled with only a couple of minutes of layover time at both Potters Bar and Arnos Grove. Any problems with the M25 or the North Circular at either end and it destroys service reliability. One of my favourite routes though for the variety of...

iirc there were also some Routemasters in storage at the depot which also bore the brunt of the floodwaters. The upshot was that Stagecoach Cumbria's last Bristol VR got a reprieve which lasted several months as emergency cover for the fleet.

Whatever happened to Westfield garage, was it a victim of the First/Lothian bus war in 2001?

Portsmouth and Fareham are one of the few First subsidiaries outside of the big three of Bristol, Glasgow and Leeds to see regular investment in new vehicles, I'd be very surprised if they were considered vulnerable!

Forgive me if this has already been asked, for allocation purposes are the 720s divided into WAML and GEML pools, where certain units will only do West Anglia routes, ditto Great Eastern routes, or is the fleet considered one homogenous whole where any unit could turn up anywhere?

I wonder if Stagecoach London will take the first all-ADL E400EVs, given they need a large batch of electric deckers for the 86 at Romford which they've retained on retender, and also for the D7 from (presumably) West Ham which is being taken over from Go Ahead this winter.

Interesting to note Stagecoach Manchester are introducing a brand new batch of E400MMCs at present - wonder if they feel confident retaining their old GM Buses territory!

I attended the Pulp concert at Finsbury Park on Saturday night, and due to the organisers kettling 45,000 people out of one exit of the park it took nearly 45 minutes to get onto the Victoria line platforms. Although partially a rookie move on my part for not taking the smart path and walking to...

Up until mid 2016 Ipswich Buses had a seriously varied fleet, and on certain services such as the 7/15 circulars around Stoke Park/Chantry and the 5/11 circulars to Ipswich Hospital, pretty much anything in the fleet could turn up Monday to Saturdays. Dennis Trident/ALX400 Dennis...

Does anyone know anything about this company, as incredibly they are using Bristol VRs on Glastonbury shuttle services this year! They appear to be farm worker vehicles rather than preserved VRs given their condition. Looking on the Rob Sly website, they still have 16 VRs in their fleet, which...

Ideally there should be passive provision for an extension through Belvedere and or/Erith, I believe there's some huge developments planned for Erith in the next few years. Anything to improve rail travel in this part of London should be considered and welcomed.

I can tell you with some certainty there's no reason to replace the Streetlites at GY - they're the newest vehicles at the depot and perfect for routes 2 and 6 which don't really merit double deck operation. First have had a serious clearout of the old stock over the last year or so, all the...

Has anyone considered the nuclear option - which is to bulldoze all the houses and build a bypass straight to the harbour? <D

Arriva London's Brixton depot will be losing nearly 40 buses worth of work at the start of 2024, with both the 133 and 333 being awarded elsewhere. These tender losses may mean we see the first large-scale withdrawals of hybrid buses in London. A large chunk of Brixton's allocation is 60/11...