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The whole way along they should have been using 10 car 720s on the Stansted Express with 2+2 seating (not 2x5 cars with 3+2 and narrow aisles) and had a bunch of 20x 745s to do what they now appear to be going on if what you say is correct and then freeing the 755s up for just local services...

The company was nearing bankruptcy, that part is true, and it did have to be bailed out. Getting rid of the commercial connections was a condition of being given state aid. The other thing is that PR were originally part of PKP, but were later spun off. However before they were spun off, PKP...

Nothing surprises me and some of these tactics are very familiar and have things in common with the way that RegioEkpress was strangled in the past when Przewozy Regionalne (now PolRegio) offered an onboard product that was miles ahead of what PKP was offering at the time. Obviously that...

National Express standards are not what they were since the Spanish management took more of an interest. Just read the last few pages.

Airport Bus Express took over the 717 from Galloway today and are operating a pair of Mercedes Tourismos on it rather than the Levante's that Galloway were. Not seen any photos to see if they are in NatEx livery or not.

It's currently with Galloway, but who knows what happens with that next.

In a surprise move, the 717 is being outsourced to Airport Bus Express. I thought they were just a brand that contracts out like NX though?

The 51 and 52 are indeed not tendered, but the point still stands about a company that is looking to expand and SCC are only willing to fund that via BSIP, despite the fact said company has serious issues with other routes which are already being subsidised by SCC. There needs to be criteria...

Yet they keep winning tenders SCC tenders (I'm not talking about BSIP money here) by beating other people on cost. However the wages at their operation are not exactly great, so isn't there an argument that they are tendering too low which means they can't offer high enough pay to get enough...

Konnectbuses have been awarded another round of funding for the following routes, among others that have not publicly been released: 51: Hadleigh - Bildeston - Stowmarket 52: Hadleigh - Aldham https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/25924430.daily-bus-route-open-hadleigh-stowmarket/ The irony is that the...

Gotta say it made me laugh on the various people reading about First making vehicles around 10-12 years old on the Park and ride route and that TMS would never run something that old. Have they not come to Essex or Suffolk. a vehicle 10-12 years old would be the newest in the fleet here!

A company running a demonstrator that has been offered around by ADL to pretty much every operator of note in the East Anglia and beyond is an indicator of absolutely nothing. Nothing but absolute PR spin. When we start seeing actual newer vehicles they have paid for with their own hard money...

Beestons updates Vehicles in MUN 55N - 2026 Volvo MCV Evotor Coach MUN 57N - 2026 Volvo MCV Evoseti Double Decker WX65 WYL - 2015 Mercedes Benz Sprinter Onyx Conversion Vehicles out 229 LRB - 2021 Plaxton Panther 3 Coach YN61 AXC - 2011 Plaxton Profile Coach Another coach is due in the next...

Not been much better on the rural lines out of Cambridge either. An ipswich train is an hour late for some reason. Very little information as to why? Left Cambridge 16 late and has progressively lost more and more time .unit fault? The train departing an hour later has caught it up almost?

So the DfT operated GA have not updated these statistics and now are no longer publishing train delays on JourneyCheck under the other train alterations heading. This is anything but transparency. Can I have my old private award winning operator back please?

I know what I saw up to Poznan and DB is more in line with what happened. Can't comment on accuracy after that as was not on the train. Sadly the apology from staff when it did come after an hour of silence seemed very hollow and to be only worded in a way to stop people thinking they could be...

Well this was a fun trip I have to say with anything that involved PKP being a low point. For the outbound trip we went via Kostrzyn and the train between Poznan and Rzepin had broken air conditioning and was like a sauna, with a broken passenger information system (both interior and exterior...

Why the shortage then on a Sunday of all days. They could have put it down to engineering works if it was because of a blockade but attributed It down to a rolling stock issue. Has reliability got worse or has there been a a lot of freak incidents? There's so many spare units that they really...

Considering the amount of slack if the fleet there's no way this should happen. Has maintenance been let go?

I can assure you that First isn't anything special in Suffolk, despite the bar from the rest of the operators not being especially high. From the moment the new brand identity coming in, all repaints seemed to have ceased apart from a token couple that happened when the brand first came in...