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21 vs N21 on Go North East - the latter extends to many Durham University colleges, but that only adds a handful of stops. I don't know to what extent you count loops, but routes like the 53/54, 93/94, and so on run on virtually the same streets, but completely different stops. The various 2...

Whilst most of them are very small, some of them (Ripon and Withernsea especially) are the main centre for a fairly large rural area. So whilst Ripon only has 20,000 people, the number of people who look to Ripon for services, and would drive to a station in the town, is significantly higher.

There does appear to be a destination of H665, which allows travel to any Metro station as an add-on (from most stations at least), but you can't buy this at Metro stations, and it isn't available online either. Some Metro stations appear to have better through ticketing, such as East Boldon...

I'd distinguish between the two - there is full through ticketing from Merseyrail, but the arrangements for the Metro are much more murky (I think LNER offers through tickets from some destinations, and any rail ticket valid from Sunderland to Newcastle is also valid on the Metro due to...

If I'm being cynical, the new zonal system will probably mean this never happens. If you could make a journey from Bury to Rochdale or Manchester Airport without going through Zones 1/2, it would reduce revenue on that route

Great Yarmouth to Lowestoft will have been done a few times, but would be very rare. Similarly, any pair out of Saltburn, Whitby, and Scarborough. There'll also be a few from new stations - whilst it's probably a journey that someone will do eventually, something like Tweedbank to Kenilworth or...

Ardley is in a similar boat. I remember once trying to get there, but the nearest bus service is in Middleton Stoney, which is a three mile hike away. I say hike because you have the choice of badly signposted footpaths (including a gate over the Chiltern Mainline and going right behind a...

The thing is, a lot of these issues could be somewhat mitigated if there was proper through ticketing with high quality bus services and marketing. There are many towns which will probably never justify reopening a rail line for whatever reason, for example Abingdon. But if you had TVMs at the...

Certainly if there was a station there bus routes would change, and I could see Thames Travel extending the current X32 fro Wantage down (the X2 goes to Wallingford and has decent local use from experience). But the 67 is a real basket case - since it's ran by Thames Travel in the heart of...

A bit late but I'm very familiar with the plan - it came up as an issue in a council by-election there last year. I suspect it will happen eventually due to the rapid population growth (especially in Grove). However the new station would have patching issues and is inconvenient for Wantage in...

Obviously it neglects off-peak use, but according to the Census travel to work by bus is much higher in Manchester than London (13% versus 9%ish). Newcastle, Liverpool, and Brighton all also beat London. Whilst there may have been decline since 2011 in the other cities, by no means is London...

A lot depends on your definitions of a town/village, as well as what you class as a service. A good one might be Stanford-in-the-Vale, which only has links to Wantage and Faringdon (most of the other villages on that route are tiny).

If I have split advances for a longer journey, would my reservations cost several pounds? In my experience (travelling booked well in advance from Oxford to the North East, as well as some turn up and go around Oxford, Birmingham, and Southampton), whilst the situation isn't great, it isn't...

I guess it would be logistically tough what with the bridges, but increasing the X80 service to half hourly would be a good call, since it seemed to be well used when I took it (though mainly for connections rather than journeys specifically Bluewater to Lakeside). There's definitely some...

Most of the main bus routes near where I live are high frequency. Whilst there is a timetable, I think the priority is having 6/8 buses an hour rather than necessarily being exactly to time.

And of course now there is "X-Lines", which I suspect will gradually take over the branding on most of the express routes. The only area with a lot of distinct brands is Gateshead town, but even then they might plan consolidate brands here as well.

Doesn't it extend even further, up to Grassington? I can't work out exactly when it does so, but that would make the route even longer.

I suppose the big benefit of it is it makes long distance connections quite a lot easier. I was able to travel from Oxford to Nottingham and back in a day (with several hours in Nottingham) for about £23 (15 for bus + 8 for train), but that was only possible because of the X5 and X7 - even just...

I don't exactly understand why - I've taken it twice from MK and both times everyone has got off at Northampton (except for me on one of those journeys, seemingly to the surprise of the driver). The only time I've seen any through traffic was travelling south from Leicester on the last trip of...

I am very impressed by Bordesley (obviously the figure is heavily distorted by the fact it gets one train a week). Is that mainly from Birmingham City fans or residents of Bordesley itself? I'd be interested to see (and might to make myself) a version of the disproportionate table using the...