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The (presumably LCDR) water tower at Faversham is listed and was converted to a residence around 40 years ago. By coincidence, it is for sale at the moment - there are photos, including from the tank, on the agent's website...

No, as stated up thread, Chiltern has stepped into the breach. There's a 1339 Oxford to Birmingham Moor Street about to depart.

Southampton to Woolston - 10 minutes by bus, 10 minutes by train.

The 34 will run between Margate and Westwood Cross. The 44 will start at Westwood Cross and run via Newington, Ramsgate and Sandwich to Canterbury.

I don't know if it was sustained, but I have a picture of it arriving at Dover taken in October 1978.

I'd suggest that reading TheGrandWazoo's responses is instructive. WMCA is about to find out that running buses can be a very expensive activity. (To reiterate, operations in Greater Manchester cost around 2.25 times than the previous system, plus some very extensive capital spending).

What is this 'pointless overhead'?

That's approximately 160 miles, of which barely a third would be on dual carriageway. Google Maps suggests it would take nearly 4.5 hours by car, so it would not meet drivers' hours regulations for a single driver. In addition, you can't travel as a foot passenger on Eurotunnel, and only some of...

The majority of the buses on loan are 5 years old or newer.

But you can get them amended before travel. That may be cheaper (oh, too late now - just seen post #24) than buying an extra ticket for a journey that it isn't being made.

465908 is having a trip to the seaside today, as the rear unit on 1E91 Cannon Street-Ramsgate. Real Time Trains shows it returning as the lead unit on 1B97 1746 Ramsgate to Cannon Street.

Not required if more than half the route is non-local i.e. stops are at least 15 miles apart. Very few NX routes are registered, so will mostly be exempt.

It's not applicable to long distance routes, defined in the legislation as any where more than half the route is not registered (i.e. the stops are at least 15 miles apart) for which the phrase "non-local route" is used.

In the interests of accuracy, it is Oxfordshire County Council that is the highway and local transport authority, and which has implemented these schemes. Though if it is anything like East West Rail, the infrastructure might be in place, but Chiltern's staff will be refusing to operate driver...

However, in Surrey the new councils take over on 1 April 2027, whereas Kent and Sussex are not due to change for another year. The Government has not (yet) passed an order to create a Surrey Combined Authority, and with just 8 months to go before the new arrangements, it looks somewhat unlikely...

Neither Kent nor Surrey currently have a combined authority in sight. However, more problematically for Stagecoach, the new Sussex and Brighton Strategic Authority (its preferred title) has announced that it has a received a Department for Transport grant for a pre-franchising assessment...

What evidence do you have for that please? 1785357784 All of the models for franchising adopted so far result in significantly higher costs for the public sector. It is highly unlikely that there is sufficient funding to introduce this in most shire areas. Anyway, Kent County is on its way...

Lancashire Combined County Authority is the Local Transport Authority for the entire area, having taken over the powers from the county, Blackpool and Blackburn with Darwen Councils in April 2025. However, much was then delegated back to the councils. If it follows the pattern at other new...

The at stop ticket machines were run by Cambridgeshire County Council, not the operators.

And the conditions of the scheme require that: Services that run only on schooldays are largely excluded too.