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  1. F Great Eastern

    East Anglia Bus Scene

    I'm actually not one of these people who think big groups are bad and independents are good, but I make a special case in East Anglia, nothing Go Ahead have done over the years, and the acquisitions that they have made has had much good news for passengers. It's not just in Suffolk, the same...
  2. F Great Eastern

    East Anglia Bus Scene

    Well they're going to need a load of money from somewhere to deal with the fleet, I don't know how deep their pockets are but an operation that has been run down for as long as this one has, will need some deep, deep pockets to turn it around because all of those Omnidekkas need replacing and...
  3. F Great Eastern

    East Anglia Bus Scene

    That's generally the way things are though in those independent and/or family companies, they pride themselves on making sure trips run and if they are ever short of a driver, then a family member or a fitter or whoever is hanging around the depot will get called in and operate the services...
  4. F Great Eastern

    East Anglia Bus Scene

    The former Go East Anglia is actually a shambles in so many ways. The timekeeping on some of their routes out of Sudbury is poor, the general attitude of some of the staff is not great and the buses are very grubby inside and out and not in great condition. It's an operation that really needs a...
  5. F Great Eastern

    Poznan to Berlin - Direct Trains, but you're not allowed to take them.

    Is there any definitive information about 22nd to 25th yet? About the section between Frankfurt Oder and Berlin or should I take other route?
  6. F Great Eastern

    East Anglia Bus Scene

    Goes with the territory in Suffolk anyway, often vey scruffy vehicles inside and out.
  7. F Great Eastern

    Poznan to Berlin - Direct Trains, but you're not allowed to take them.

    Sure, but it's still very basic, there are next to no advanced options and the whole thing is still nowhere near as good as it should be considering they got EU money both for the old version and the new one. It appears to be HaCon underneath it so the system is good, just usual PKP poor...
  8. F Great Eastern

    Greater Anglia website - various pages delinked since DfT took control

    Performance Figures https://www.greateranglia.co.uk/performance-figures Customer Engagement (looks like hasn't been updated since DfT took over) https://www.greateranglia.co.uk/about-us/customer-engagement-events Rovers https://www.greateranglia.co.uk/tickets-fares/discounts/rangers-rovers...
  9. F Great Eastern

    Poznan to Berlin - Direct Trains, but you're not allowed to take them.

    Thanks Trying to find a connection between everything is really more difficult than it should be. The PKP booking engine is absolutely shocking. They have redone it so many times over the past 10 years and it still fails in any kind of user friendliness in the interface and still doesn't seem...
  10. F Great Eastern

    Greater Anglia website - various pages delinked since DfT took control

    Ever since the franchise has fallen into public hands, the Greater Anglia site seems to be having a trim in terms of links to certain pages and having them removed from the navigation bar so they become hidden. Everything under the About Us section appears to be removed, including the sections...
  11. F Great Eastern

    Poznan to Berlin - Direct Trains, but you're not allowed to take them.

    I checked my tickets on bahn.de and it actually lists from Poznan to Berlin Hbf as this itinerary now Berlin to Poznan Erkner to Berlin Hbf S3 47 minutes 12 minute connection Erkner to Frankfurt (Oder) RE1 31 minutes 7 minute transfer Frankfurt (Oder) to Poznan Glowny EC249 1hr 43 mins Poznan...
  12. F Great Eastern

    Poznan to Berlin - Direct Trains, but you're not allowed to take them.

    Sadly I have Super Sparpreis Europa both ways from Poznan to Berlin Hbf and return a few days apart, which I really regret now. What are my best options that don't cost an arm and a leg?
  13. F Great Eastern

    Poznan to Berlin - Direct Trains, but you're not allowed to take them.

    Easier to take the train route for me, as where I'm heading to first happens to be a stop on the way to Berlin Hbf on the same S Bahn line the train route takes.
  14. F Great Eastern

    Poznan to Berlin - Direct Trains, but you're not allowed to take them.

    Bahn.de around 20-24th February. I tried Warsaw on PKP Everything it gives me is either a bus substitution from Frankfurt (Oder) or a change to a Regio at Frankfurt and then onto the S Bahn at Erkner. Strangely the same train that it's asking me to do that on, happen to show as running through...
  15. F Great Eastern

    Poznan to Berlin - Direct Trains, but you're not allowed to take them.

    Can someone explain why it is no longer possible to get a direct service at all in February? It seems all of the Eurocity trains from Berlin to Warsaw are now boarding only until Warsaw, so essentially anyone can get on at any stop at those stations, but can only get off at Warsaw and a similar...
  16. F Great Eastern

    First Bus Ireland (Aircoach/Matthews) Discussion

    It actually makes sense when you think about it, the addition of 1 or 2 after the year is a relatively recent addition, it wasn't broken up into two halves originally, it was just the two digits of the year.
  17. F Great Eastern

    First Bus Ireland (Aircoach/Matthews) Discussion

    The format is as follows WWX-YY-ZZ WW is the last two digits of the year of registration X is either 1 for Jan-Jun or 2 for Jul-Dec. YY is the county that the vehicle was registered in ZZ is the sequence number than can run up to six digits. So for example 242-D-21350 is a vehicle that was...
  18. F Great Eastern

    First Bus Ireland (Aircoach/Matthews) Discussion

    Some very strange commercial decision making over that time, no more so than the Galway route. On the Dublin to Galway 706 route there were three commercial operators , two running non stop (CityLink and GoBus) and two running a stopping service (Expressway and CityLink) on the way. The...
  19. F Great Eastern

    First Bus Ireland (Aircoach/Matthews) Discussion

    Yes, the articulated ones are 13001 to 13008 on 251 plates. Rigid ones in Dublin are 69801-69806 on 242 plates. Considering the rigids sat around around for about 12 months or more parked at at a depot and not moving for most of that, to the point the batteries were flat and it was hard to...
  20. F Great Eastern

    First Bus Ireland (Aircoach/Matthews) Discussion

    That could well make sense, as originally there was 14 articulated and 6 rigid versions due for Dublin Airport Car Park shuttles at the airport, but to date only 8 articulated and 6 rigid versions have been delivered and those in Ireland were wondering why deliveries seem to have stopped? The...

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