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Greenmarket eastbound is quite similar. There is no Bus Stop marking on the road, and it's only since the advent of TfC (Transport for Cornwall) there's even been a flag attached to a lamp standard. There still are no timetables shown or even a timetable case. I have never seen anyone attempting...

OK, I can see what they're trying to do, if it is to be 3 PVR but I see trouble ahead (not much foresight required). For a start, as someone who spends quite a bit of time most days in sight of the Greenmarket bus stops in the period between midday and 5.30 p.m. The Mousehole both sets down and...

Having read his 'interview' in the i newspaper yesterday, I honestly don't think he has anything useful or logical to say about anything. He should be an American politician, of the MAGA type obviously. Everything is black and white to him, as so often with 'converts' be they religious or...

Yes, but 'along the Promenade' now appears to mean from the bottom of Alexandra Road eastwards, over Ross Bridge and along Wharfside to terminate at the Bus Station. With a little bit of thought, a pair of stops could be provided just short of the Wharfside Centre, given one would only need to...

The impending withdrawal of route 3 in Penzance with no obvious sign of replacement is concerning, unless the 16A tweaks are meant to provide partial replacement. The Treneere Estate and Roscadghill Parc areas have some of the greatest degrees of poverty in the country. However, it isn't...

Is their carrying capacity less than that of a Solo?

The latter. Should also obviate the need for an extra platform at Hayes.

If that's the theory, then I think it'll prove impossible for much of the time. I can't see how 4bph can be operated by fewer than four buses, which it was 35 years ago when I moved down here. Since then with traffic increases, 20 mph speed limits, traffic calming measures etc, average bus...

The Beckenham Junction to 'Bromley' (very vague destination) idea came out of the Bakerloo Line extension proposals, the idea being it would takeover the heavy rail Mid Kent line to Hayes, with every other train diverted after New Beckenham via the spur to BJ. I believe my old employers the...

I know time in Penzance can seem strange (the Lloyds Bank clock strikes the hours precisely thirty minutes late every hour, and has done for some time!) but those 17 buses will be looping in an anti-clockwise direction by my estimation. It's a shame that the West Cornwall Hospital buses from the...

It was Metroline at Holloway which had their contract for NRM operation on the 24 replaced by Abellio, with the buses transferred to Battersea, a few years ago as the first such switch. Plus ca change.

My late father-in-law, Prestonian born and bred, worked for Scout Motor Services from the early 1930s until its takeover by Ribble in 1961, and then for that company at Frenchwood until the 1980s. My wife, as his older child, took possession after he died of the watch he received on retirement...

Given Andrew Rossindell has been barred from Parliament since May 2022, which his constituents are well aware of even though he's never 'officially' been named, I think the seat could well change hands. Farage's bunch wouldn't have challenged the seat if the furthest right of all Tory MPs had...

Thanks for the suggestion, but I think it was around the time I was leaving London forever, partly because of my fears over the safety of myself and, more importantly, my wife, she having been 'mugged' by a knifeman not long after getting off a train at Blackheath Station in the evening when I...

What seems to be forgotten here is that Crossrail 2 is planned to run from Clapham Junction northeastwards in the (very!) distant future, regardless of the route taken south and west of CJ. Theoretically, Crossrail 2 (or Elizabeth 2?:!:) is still very much a planned project, so I can't see a...

There is also the London Historical Research Group, affiliated to the Omnibus Society, which covers the period up to 1934: its publications are available to all who still use cheques!

Turnham Green also trialled RM2 on the 91 route for those reasons. One of the small MS class of Metro-Scania on the S2 also demonstrated that it could float on Clapton Pond during the first week of operation and, unfortunately for the manufacturer, someone was on hand to photograph it for...

I'm 75 in April and asking for a Momentum subscription (life membership) as a present.;) As for Lee Anderson, if Johnny Speight was not dead, I'd have thought him to be a creation of the Till Death Us Do Part author. Alf Garnett might not on superficial examination appear to bear too much...

Good for Sturgeon! Get out while people are still wondering why, rather than wait until long after your position has become unsustainable and everyone bursts into the Leonard Cohen ''Hallelujah'' classic. I don't support Scottish independence by the way. I'd say there are three elements to her...

Yes, I'd already concluded that the Steyn show wasn't seen in any way as a replacement for the great man's show, and must have run concurrently with it, possibly to an entirely different audience. The BBC hierarchy might just have been seeking to balance Alastair Cook's old-school Liberalist...