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The local company round here has recently acquired an ex Stagecoach Scotland (I presume) ALX200 Dart, which they've repainted, but it still has the Stagecoach interior trim. That's not the first ex Stagecoach one they've bought either. I do hope that this doesn't prompt Stagecoach to rethink its...

Oh dear, we're going to have to come up with an advert for the Daily Mail now for balance.

How long will it take by Slashing everything in sight and trying to squeeze as much out of everyone in taxes to conceivably make the slightest dent in £900,000,000,000? And what is the actual ambition, if & when they should ever succeed in paying off that £900,000,000,000? Isn't it just so that...

It doesn't seem to be a regular bus company, but it was one of the fruit pickers (i.e. Eastern European immigrants paid a pittance) specials. Sounds to me as if there might be some loopholes in the licensing regulations there that someone might want to look at.

It's much more convenient to see how many trains there are, how often they run, how many stops they make, whether a later one would be quicker, & so on with an old fashioned printed Timetable than clicking through pages and pages on Journey Planners.

100 km /h is 62 mph, so the issue of whether or not it's safer or not over 60 is largely academic, I'd say.

Mind you, given some of the comments, I do wonder whether how many of them really know what they're talking about. Prize example: ?

I suppose they're going to be re-issued some time fairly soon? They'd need to be, after Damory took D.C.C. for a ride.

I'd like to know what they measured it on.

So the fact that the vast majority of bus mileage takes place at under 60 mph means that actually the stastistics are misleading? Isn't arguing that For speeds of above 60 mph coaches aren't safer actually misleading, seeing that accidents above that speed are very very rare indeed?

While we're on, has anyone yet, or does anyone wish to, actually defend the Government policy of endlessly putting up prices & taxes, particularly on Fuel, as a "tough decision but one that has to be made" or any of the other statesmanlike phrases that Politicians like to use? Does anyone...

Perhaps not necessarily Funny as such, but I overheard some Passengers today remarking on how charming and friendly SWT Guards seem to be lately, and I must say that most of those that i have encountered have presented a pretty good public face of the company, which is another thing perhaps that...

Oh, i've never seen that before. Looks as if it might be interesting.

Well, Freightliner and DRS have taken a number of their 66s out of their fleets and they've been taken on by other operators (or sent to Poland). Some locos are on to their third operator by now; Freightliner, DRS, Colas, Advenza and so on. I wouldn't be surprised if the DBS ones foudn their way...

Why was the lorry going fast enough to obviously hit it with some force, if the bus had been stopped for some time, and on the nearside, furthermore? Didn't other following traffic manage to get past it? Or was the lorry the first vehicle behind it? did the bus stop so suddenly that the lorry...

British Railways certainly knew what they were doing on the mechanical side, without a doubt; the Sprinters (and the 70s and 80s generation EMUs) must surely be the most reliable stock (certain Siemens products excepted, perhaps) ever built for UK railways. And certainly nothing built since...

Which is what most MPs are already, I very much regret. That's what happens when you have ambtious MPs anxious to move up the ladder, they don't want to make waves or rock the boat when they're a mere junior MP, so they follow orders obediently and hope that by being a good Party apparatchik and...

it looks like the ventilation grille on the side of the cab of a DBS 66, or "Shed" as they are popularly known.

Given the number of buses & coaches on the road every day vis-a-vis trains, it would surely be statistically more likely that there'd be a very occasional accident. "The coach involved in the crash carried a logo of the company Stagecoach, but a spokesman for the firm said it had been sold...

Actually, yes, it did backfire a bit, didn't it. This was Tony's big Prestige project; he Brought the Olympics to Britian, and he hoped, obviously, to be able to bask in the glory. ... Sadly, it didn't really work as a vote winner, did it. And now David "Cameron" is basking in all the glory...