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This was quite common on many companies & in some cases lasted until deregulation. Whilst on the subject of drivers swapping over, in the early eighties East Midland Motor services introduced a service X58 from Chesterfield to Macclesfield via Buxton & The Cat & Fiddle which, on Saturdays (and...

Crewe hasn't been operator owned since Crosville was privatised, it was sold off, along with most of Crosville's other property, by their new owners ATL. Since that time it has been owned by several development companies, all of whom failed to deliver grandiose plans for a new shopping centre &...

The same problem would seem to apply to all of the stations north of Wolverhampton that are served only by LNR, in fact Stone is slightly better than some in punctuality terms but is slightly worse in reliability. Some stats' for northbound journeys for the last six weeks, taken from Recent...

One rather undesirable action that now seems to be occurring as a result of this fiasco is the 'non-stopping' of late running services. On a Monday recently (29 July ?) the late running 0631 Liverpool to Rugeley TV ran non-stop from Crewe to Birmingham New Street in order to regain time. From...

Wow, you mean Stafford has an Airport ! Seriously, I did mean Stansted Airport, I think the Birmingham-Leicester-Stansted service, now operated by Cross Country, was tagged onto the back of the Liverpool to Birmingham service creating a through link. Although all of this is a bit 'off-topic' I...

If I remember correctly didn't the Liverpool - Birmingham service used to go through to Stansted Airport at one point, operated by class 156s' & 170s' ? It must have been early in the Central franchise or, perhaps, even pre Central but that would account for the 2 car DMUs'.

Well to me it would seem to be very relevant from a customer's perspective. As we have seen in this thread people have different understandings of what the word DUE infers so if, in the OP's pictured example, it said under Expected 'Due' I would assume that the train had arrived on time & the...

That is certainly my understanding of the terms too, and hence the term 'overdue' for something that hasn't arrive by it's planned time.

I'm sure that that view depends on where you live; LNR provide the only service to many local stations such as Penkridge, Winsford, Hartford & Acton Bridge and it is the major provider on Birmingham-Crewe-Liverpool corridor. I'm sure that users of those stations would argue that their needs are...

So do I, it happened to me. I had to stand in the standard class vestibule along with about 10 others. At the next station several of us moved into the corridor connection with the adjacent 1st class coach in order to allow passengers to alight, before we could move back into Standard there was...

I've seen several 8 car trains on Birmingham - Liverpool this week, possibly because the service has been reduced to hourly (terminating at Runcorn due to engineering work as well). The southbound service is the 'normal' local stopping service whilst the northbound is in the normal 'fast'...

Not a TOC (or even a current sector) but one that surprised me was the Network SouthEast Red/Blue/Grey colour flash logo on the red digital clock above the door the of Signal Workshop offices in Gresty Road Crewe. It was there long after the demise of NSE (& up until a few years ago IIRC) but I...

When I visited a messroom used by arriva buses staff in the north west there was a notice on display from their HR dept stating quite clearly that staff passes are NOT valid on Northern rail services.

Class 323s' were the usual units if I remember correctly. Stations served were Man' Airport; Wilmslow or Alderley Edge, Sandbach; a couple of the Trent Valley Stations; Rugby (?) & Euston. Services also stopped at Crewe for a crew change and, on some journeys, this was an advertised stop for...

Just to add to this, when passing through Crewe last week, I picked up a local paper and it had a report on the opening of a new link road from the A500 to Gresty Road which has been named 'Jack Mills Way'. It goes on to say that another new section, opening next year, from the A500 to the A5020...

Exceptional circumstances require exceptional measures unfortunately and, as usual the only loser is the innocent customer. When a flow of regular customers switches from the bus operators own tickets to PlusBus in a matter of weeks it arouses suspicions, when one of them, questioned by a...

I do know what the terms & conditions say; they also say that a PlusBus ticket is only valid if purchased with a valid rail ticket and, locally, that is clearly not the case as our investigations proved. Quite how you prove that such a ticket is NOT valid is where the difficulty lies however...

It shouldn't be done but it seems to be fairly common. I work for a bus company & we became aware that many of our 'customers' who presented PlusBus tickets were unable to present an accompanying valid rail ticket when challenged. A few covert purchases from local stations proved that many would...