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Are there any Optare Alero buses still in service? Or is my presumption correct that they are all gone? This bus was so short lived. I remember there was a brief period when a lot of operators had them and they were fairly common and then they just dissappeared. They seemed to last for about...

I have just found some with fleet numbers 4501 4502 4503 4504 4505 4506 4507 4508 4509 4510 all used by Arriva Midlands and Arriva North East and Arriva North West for three separate vehicles. Also further to my previous post fleet numbers 4401 4402 4403 4504 4405 4506 are all used by Compass...

The other thing that annoys me is that since the fare cap it has created an utter mess of return tickets being more expensive than single tickets on some operators. So people who would previously buy one return ticket now have to buy two single tickets if they want to save money. Most bus...

Compass Bus are a small independent bus and they use four digit fleet numbers and i am sure i remember they have duplications with another operator somewhere. I can not remember off the top of my head but i definitely remember seeing a couple other buses with same fleet numbers. Edit. Just...

That is one thing i have always wondered. There are actually two separate villages called St Ann Without and St John Without on the opposite side of the hill to each other. The civil parishes border each other but it takes thirty minutes to drive between them as you have a hill separating them...

That is Ivona Amy playing. She is one of the most common TTS voices on buses across the UK these days. I am sure many will also recognise her from GA and LNWR and WMR stations where she voices the station announcements. Another video here where for example at 01:44 you can hear her for the...

Play Airlines based out of Iceland have just gone bust now and ceased operating: https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/play-airlines-collapse-flights-refunds-compensation-b2835774.html So this is now the fifth Icelandic based budget airline to go bust and shut down. They...

The new B23 Stock trains appear to have the same exact automated announcements as the older B90 / B92 / B2K / B07 / B09 stocks have: They have just installed the same sound files. It is the same lady (an employee of a company called Parlourwood that was contracted to provide them) that has...

One of the B23 stock trains has entered passenger service this morning. https://twitter.com/ianvisits/status/1972908211650072646 Not sure exactly what services it is on. Just seen that one tweet showing it. But it looks like it is currently on the route Woolwich Arsenal route as i...

Compass Bus have been running route 7 in Worthing on behalf of Stagecoach for over fifteen years now. I believe it was 2008 when it began. It is a really strange arrangement. The drivers are employed by Compass Bus and the vehicles are owned by Compass Bus but yet they are painted in Stagecoach...

I seem to remember that they used to have an actual 3 in the Canterbury area. I have found older photos from over ten years ago showing a 3 in Canterbury town centre. I wonder when that got withdrawn.

Oh i forgot about that one. That is a very good point. One of those rare one day a year bus routes. I actually made a thread about the route ages ago: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/bus-routes-that-only-run-on-one-day-a-year.279114/ So i suppose there is indeed a 13 if you allow a one...

1st Bus Stop have the 418R (but no 418 route). Amberley & Slindon Community Bus have the 1A and 1B and 1C and 1D and 1E (but no 1 route). Arriva Kent have the 77X (but no 77 route). Big Lemon have the 2V (but no 2 route). Brookline Coaches have the 4A (but no 4 route). Bus Vannin have the...

Very surprising to hear that Autocar have switched over to Transmach now. They only just switched from Wayfarer TGX200 to Wayfarer 6 at the end of last year. Why would you switch to brand new ticket machines and then switch again after just one year. Seems like such a waste of money. The new...

I believe that the Elizabeth Line was designed for a possible increase to 30tph (every 2 minutes) in the future. So i do not see why it would not be possible. There is a bit of freight on the GWML but i am sure they could find a workaround for them to use the fast lines or operate at night...

An easier option is to just select the station you want from the homepage here: https://tiger.worldline.global/home https://tiger.worldline.global/toc/NIR This lists all of the Translink Northern Ireland Railways stations in alphabetical order here.

Northern Ireland and the Republic Of Ireland both act like we are still in the 70s and 80s with their ridiculous over the top security policies of refusing to release working timetables and sectional appendices and open data. They both refuse to release so much that is publicly available here on...

You are correct. I just found out now that apparently it was a Big Lemon (Seaford & District) bus that caught on fire. R70 PTS (YN08 DEU) was the bus. It was a Scania Omnicity double decker. It must have been heading back empty to the Hailsham depot after doing rail replacement work in the...

A bus caught fire this morning in the tiny village of St Ann Without on the A27 road from Brighton to Lewes road: https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/25501108.bus-catches-fire-a27-brighton-road-lewes/ This is one of the worst i have seen. There is almost nothing left of the bus. It is just a...

I just checked the timetable and it seems like Botley and Hedge End is actually only once a week now. So it certainly still runs but not as frequent. I am certain that i remember the Botley and Hedge End calls being a daily service before. That must have changed at some point in the last few...