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Ah, as someone who lives in Oxford but has family in the west of Wiltshire, I know all four pretty well. I'd recommend trying to do the X5 to Salisbury too (whilst the journey is a little bland and the service is pretty poor, it's still fine). With regards to the D1, I've never been on it, but...

The B3 from Keighley down to Hebden Bridge is a great run over the moors. There seems to be a northern bias in a lot of these suggestions, so I'll try to come up with some southern suggestions. The 49 in Wiltshire is a great run and includes the Avebury stone circle, the pleasant market town of...

I have a few, but the Glue Pot in the railway village in Swindon is a real favourite, and is within stumbling range of both the bus and railway stations.

I believe there was some initial controversy because that route didn't accept most standard tickets, though this may have been changed in response.

My instinct would be to class the "Greater London transport network" as areas where an Oyster card is valid. That would exclude the High Speed line east of Stratford International, but include commuter lines running just outside the London boundary. I wouldn't include the contactless only lines...

I assume you're referring to the Stagecoach X5. A single is £9, a day return is £13.70, a period return is £14.40. These figures are cheaper for students (£6.85/£10/£11), and for £15 you can buy a day ticket covering local services in Oxford and many other buses (including to Northampton). The...

The Oxford Tube is also still fairly strong - I've never been on one with less than ten passengers, and this includes the overnight services. I think its superior frequency was what gave it the upper hand, especially for return travellers and those with season tickets.

Mind, I've always felt a bit nervous about asking for one on the bus from Oxford, since it seems ludicrous that a Wiltshire ticket can be bought nowhere near the county border (though it is an absolutely cracking deal - I just wish it included Bournemouth too).

I was having a think about the various unusual destinations that the railway offers tickets for, and which one is the most used. I'm talking the likes of Minehead by bus, Abingdon via Didcot bus, as well as the more ubiquitous Boundary Zones. If I had to guess, the most common non-station origin...

Sunderland only sees one train an hour in each direction (barring Grand Central). The Metro does mitigate this somewhat, but not entirely. Weston-super-Mare has a fairly poor off-peak services - two trains an hour towards Bristol, one going south west, and some hours an intercity train too...

There hasn't been much recent investment, but Stagecoach in Oxfordshire have pretty young stock, both compared to other Stagecoach operations and all bus companies in general. But to be fair - they've invested very heavily in recent memory, so the key interurban routes are Gold, and the quality...

To be fair (at least with the 724), you're starting to blur the lines between a coach and a regular bus. I'd say the 724 has more in common with trunk routes like the 685 in Northumberland, the X4 in Northamptonshire, or the X5 between Oxford and Cambridge (which is sort of a coach-bus hybrid...

Depends on your definition of intercity, but Railair from Reading to Heathrow seems to be well used and expanding. Possibly the coaches between Glasgow and Edinburgh too.

There is a clear niche for the Oxford Tube, since it provides a cheaper alternative to the train, with better stopping patterns (within Oxford and London as well as the intermediate stop at Hillingdon being useful for NW London and even Watford), and through ticketing to most destinations in...

It's a shame - the X90 was slightly cheaper than the Oxford Tube. I think the Tube has a better shot at survival long-term though, the X90 was on its last legs and the service was just too infrequent. I remember once spending an hour waiting at the bus stop in Hillingdon, seven Oxford Tubes...

I don't know in general, but when I was at sixth form, I used to have a Network One ticket (Tyne and Wear). If I wanted to go to (for example) Durham, I'd ask for a ticket from the boundary to Durham. Drivers didn't like doing it, since they had to set their machines forward to the relevant fare...

That's a similar approach to buses - used by the 36 in Leeds and Harrogate, as well as Trentbarton (in the very near future). They have ways of contacting to resolve those fares. However, these have a day ticket fare which is fairly reasonable. My worry is someone taps in at (say) Exeter St...

Washington does lie on a railway line, just not an extant one. In fact, its station closed the same year as the New Town was designated! There are occasional calls to reopen the line, sometimes including conversion to Metro. If it still existed, its location means it might be called "Washington...

Actually, it seems that route isn't valid! Presumably it was in the past, which is why CrossCountry set the fares, but Crosscountry appear to set the fares for a route they dont even serve! I had assumed it was, because that would at least make this system somewhat logical, but nope.

It seems to partly be because different companies set the fare from Worcester to Gloucester versus the Golden Valley stations (and Swindon which is 60p more than Gloucester despite being far further south). Worcester to Gloucester is set by CrossCountry - until Worcs Parkway opens this seems...