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So is the competitive anti-First 41 continuing? There is no mention of it changing on this TfC web page. The other competitive services, 32 and 86 are noted as being altered to replace First services. I did predict the OTS 33 being renumbered - it is to be the 36B - a service I remember as one...

These changes look very negative, but I guess Go Cornwall don’t have to propose any more than they want to and believe they have the resources for. Someone can always come and compete if they want to - but I doubt that they will. Or Cornwall insist on improvements - equally unlikely. A few...

Doesn’t Hinckley run the trunk 158 from Nuneaton to Leicester?

Many thanks for another interesting report from an area which still has much of interest. I think Southport is a very pleasant town and it is worth taking time to head over to the beach some way from the town centre. Good Victoria architecture in the town too. I haven't been to Crosby Village...

Some interesting changes here but not easy to fathom all the direction. On the one hand a couple of changes in Maidenhead make reference to ‘our friends at Thames Valley Buses’. Then on the 36 at High Wycombe there is an oblique reference to a competing route, the Thames Valley 20. As a result...

I too am very envious, although it sounds a long slog up the bus routes 7/X7. I did the train as part of a great trip which to my astonishment was as long ago as 2016. I went Windermere > Ulverston > Barrow >train> Whitehaven > Workington > Maryport > Cockermouth > Keswick > Seatoller > Keswick...

Interesting report from your old stomping ground in the North East. I also love Barnard Castle, I think it is a delightful place. Forget the eyesight and all the politics and judge it on its merits, a very pleasant small town. I travelled the 79 not that long ago and it also had a good load but...

What a shambles! How not to organise a bus network.... so they are going to roll out this model for the whole of Wales? The 72 now appears to run by Tanat Valley but that sounds a mess. Publicity is still a mess. I hadn't followed the X44 saga but have maintained an interest in the Owens 87...

The only places where I can see an argument for running a really skeleton Christmas Day service is places where sticks and carrots have been used to persuade people to ditch their cars permanently for public transport. One such would be Oxford - a far more sensible place to be running a few...

Indeed, but the buses don't interwork at Windsor. So the Windsor-Maidenhead-local section will be stand alone operationally.

It seems to have gone under the radar but the X76 has been cut back to operate as far as Oswestry only, ditching the section in England to Gobowen and St Martins. The rest of the timetable is unchanged leading to apparent long layovers in Oswestry. Tanat Valley's own published timetable shows...

I really can't see the point of this. Who is going to use them? There will be virtually no shops open, I shouldn't think anything happening at the hospital in Wycombe, a few people might visit friends or family the other side of town as its there but who is going to want to go to Chesham or...

Thanks for your comments. I didn't realise the Milkwall outstation had no facilities, probably not surprising everything was so dirty given the weather. The Scanias seem pretty bullet proof and may be the best things to keep going with for as long as that continues. It seems to me that mid-life...

I am incandescent at this allegation!

Thank you! As it happens, the stars aligned for a day out last Tuesday so I took advantage of this and as the sky started to lighten I was crossing the original Severn Bridge on my way to Coleford in Gloucestershire. I was finally able to set out on a long-planned revisit to the Forest of Dean...

Much though I criticise First I don’t think these changes are actually bad. Yes the 6 to Maidenhead is going but there’s already the 704 in place to replace it at a higher and mores regular frequency. The 7/7X looks positive and the 6/12 is going from silly frequencies to a better and more...

Thank you for this report. I am depressed because I have not been able to get out recently due to work and family commitments! Your trip report and pictures from a sunny day have helped. I almost was able to go out yesterday - sunny but it was jolly cold - but couldn't quite make it. You...

With reference to the argument about the 359 a few posts up, there is a new timetable on the Dumfries & Galloway website as starting from next Monday. It shows the 15.40 from Newton Stewart going through to Girvan and back on Monday to Saturday. I don't know whether this is in response to the...

It’s an extra £2.53, perhaps not a coincidence! I think the 253 changes are sensible. The route is too long and lacks resilience to any delays. When I took the 253 from Dunbar to Berwick in 2022 it was about half an hour late, no particular reason. Also the new timetable is much better for...