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Big Lemon is a strong contender. Some of the stuff they put on rail replacement in the Sussex area is in awful condition. Their buses can appear quite poor condition internally and externally. Half their fleet is just left in the previous operators liveries. A lot of their buses seem to have...

I am trying to create a list of all the 24/7 bus services that operate outside of the London area. London has a massive amount but they are very rare elsewhere although they have been increasing recently. I am interested in any route or corridor that has a full 24/7 bus service. This means...

The old SWT Class 458/0 trains used to do something similar and announce "the doors buttons are now activated" at every station.

That only plays on approach to the Thameslink Core stations which are the only ones where you do not need to press a button. I have wondered why it is neccessary as the Elizabeth Line Core and London Underground also open doors automatically but do not play an announcement. It is probably some...

Thank you for the information. That is certainly a far better exchange rate than what Bus Eireann have. I wonder whether Bus Eireann will switch to the Translink model (of having dual currency ticket machines and an official exchange rate) on their cross border routes once they finally get new...

I also remember Southern running extra long 456 formations on ECS workings between SN withdrawing them and SWT receiving them. I recall that they were stored in yards around Hove or Preston Park and they ran coupled together along the BML to get there. I remember there was definitely some 4x456...

I have just been looking at the border crossings between Germany and Poland and they seem to have at least six other cross border local bus routes: • Bus route 706 operates from Ueckermunde (Germany) to Szczecin (Poland) and is operated by the German based Verkehrsgesellschaft Vorpommern...

British Stadler Flirt stock (745/755) is by far the biggest dissappointment for me. I love the Mainland European Stadler Flirt stock (as you can tell by my username) and find them very pleasant to travel on. But the ones in the UK are utter rubbish. They have such a horrible cramped interior...

Does anyone know if there is an official policy that has been made regarding requests for passport stamps once EES is fully in operation? I presume the stamps will still be kept (in case of emergencies like EES being down) so surely you will still be able to request one? I will ask next time i...

Three units as a 12 car formation is extremely common. You still see these used every day. We have had formations of 317+317+317 / 319+319+319 / 321+321+321 / 322+322+322 / 350+350+350 / 357+357+357 / 360+360+360 / 365+365+365 / 375+375+375 / 377+377+377 / 379+379+379 / 387+387+387 / 450+450+450...

There is a photo online that i have seen of these 12 coach 156+156+156+156+156+156 formations that happened: Certainly a very rare formation. I wonder if these are the only occassions that six DMUs have run coupled to each other. It has happened with EMUs and i know of one occassion of 6x375s...

You still get 377/3+377/3+377/3+377/3 formations sometimes but they are no longer booked. Recently i seen them twice on Brighton to London services. I also saw this formation not too long ago on Brighton to West Coastway services. When the football is on at Falmer stadium (which requires longer...

The border between Denmark and Germany has a couple of cross border local bus routes between the Padborg (DK) and Flensburg (DE) areas: • Danish based Sydtrafik runs one cross border local bus route (110). They additionally operate one other route that goes right up to the border post but does...

I am surprised that the drivers in Gibraltar would expect tourists to pay in euros. They have an airport so lots of people visit Gibraltar directly from the UK or other non eurozone countries. Last time i was in Gibraltar i paid solely in GBP on buses. Most other people i observed were paying in...

It is very odd. One of the most complex and least logical fare structures i have seen. Both the 691 and 692 are operated by a Czech based company so you would think that they would be happy to accept CZK for journeys in other countries. Surely that is their preffered currency. It makes no sense...

Has anyone been through Beaulieu Road or Holton Heath or Millbrook or Redbridge recently and seen whether the PERTIS machines remain? I know it was mentioned that Longcross is gone so i presume that these others have been removed too?

You might be thinking of Leeds and Manchester Piccadilly which were both 2002 installations. Anne was definitely already used prior to 2002 at three other stations. The years i have identified are from a mixture of my memory from hearing Anne back then and from speaking to railway staff who...

Excellent find there. That is a very rare one to find a local bus route serving three countries. It looks like there are two routes. They have both the 691 and 692 serving all three countries. • Route 691 - 3 Countries and 5 Borders: Swieradow Zdroj (PL) - Nove Mesto Pod Smrkem (CZ) - Frydlant...

Anne was an employee of BRBS (British Rail Business Systems) but she was not rolled out on the announcements until late 1999 with Luton Airport Parkway being the first station to get her. So yes it was during Sema ownership that her voice was first rolled out and you could say that she was...

Atos is one of those meaningless names created by a marketing agency. Think of it like Avanti or C2C or Lumo or companies like that. Atos was originally founded as a merger of Axime and Sligos in the late 1990s and then joined by the purchase of Origin a few years later. It is thought that the...