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I didn’t want to open a new thread, but has anybody been inconvenienced by the new restrictions on school buses? I have to get a bus in Doncaster and I used to be able to get on schoolchildren’s buses. Evidently, you can’t now, but some children still take normal ‘service’ buses and very...
There is an unfortunate paradox. If your route serves a lot of estates it may pick up more passengers, but add to the journey time between the origin and the destination, making that route less desirable as an attraction.
The obvious example is where I live, from Doncaster to Sheffield. Years...
If we can stay in Belgium, Charleroi (which is a bit like Rotherham, but grim) to Couvin. Get off at Mariembourg for a lovely town and a preserved steam railway.
Absolutely spot on. Unfortunately the pub has shut and turned into, I think, some sort of gallery. Your go!
EDIT: Just in case some readers are bemused, ‘Stalyvegas’ is the joke name for Stalybridge because of its exciting nightlife.
Just a note to say it was amazing to have 195s on the Hope Valley route today. I got one from New Mills to Sheffield, and the improvement on 142s and 150s was phenomenal. Arrived early at every station except Sheffield where we got stuck outside the station waiting to access the platform.
When I got my temperature taken after a sweaty walk to work, it was 34.8 degrees. I should have either been placed in a sleeping bag next to someone or put in a warm bath while the ambulance came . I think they threw the thermometer away.