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One ding on the block bell will mean 'Ay up' in Yorkshire

On problem is if they use the old route it will not serve Barnoldswick. Its the only sizeable place between Skipton and Colne. Barnoldswick was on a dead end branch.

I guess everyone knows that Easter falls at a different time each year. So we hear talk of late and early easters, and how it mat affect retail. Does Easter moving around affect rail. Does an early Easter affect ticket sales less than a late one when the weather may be better Can Easter get in...

The whole series is on UKTV play to stream for free. No TV licence needed.

Thats stupid. The smart motorway cameras are average speed ones I thought.

Statutory speed limits.. How fast can you go in your vehicle when you pass a derestrictiin sign? In a van Car towing trailer Dual carriageways and single. How about a 4 lane road with just double white lines down the middle?

Done like that for reasons of standardisation.

but they are all so interworked.

There must be a size of TOC thats too large to manage. I think a Northern/TPE mega TOC would fall into that category. Tho splitting off the North East into a small TOC may be worth considering if a Northern/TPE TOC was being considered.

Best advice I got on the course was to be in an appropriate gear. Too high a gear and the car will try to run away with you. I suppose in an automatic you dont drive all the time in D but use the 2 and 1 positions but I never asked cos I dont have an automatic. Its been a good bit of advice...

They havent filmed a long running TV show in Nelson....

This just came up on a non rail blog Link to movie about Sharpness rail bridge

I suspect not multiple. But you could connect the air brake hoses.

Think it was a bit of 'staying with what you know' from the southern region. But surely there is a risk that someone uncouples, but does not disconnect the jumpers, and the front is ripped of a unit.

HB has reinvented itself. Canalside eating etc. And a load of new age stuff. Last time I went, loads eating outside in the sun (It was June last year)

Thats assuming they are in alphabetical order. Not all bus blinds were, to reduce winding. And the blinds were changed when buses changed depots so often were quite short, just the destinations served by that depot. Borrowed buses resorted to sticky labels.

One man operation Drivers did not want to be away from the money.

When I have been on a bus through Addingham they have been fairly busy; Optare Solo busy, not double decker busy. But you see many Keighley bus co double deckers in Ilkley.

I thought that but the OP disallowed that scenario in post #1 PerhAps we need another thread of roads that have a lot of buses but different numbers. Roads like the A660 out of Leeds through Headingley. I think there are 7 routes between Merrion Centre and West Park off the top of my head.

Dont know much you bus guys follow the railway forums but the railway has a problem getting the grid connections. Yes I know the electrical connections to charge buses is less than rail electrification but may still be an issue.