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A lot of changes are shown on Stagecoach's website, with timetables. It looks like the 63 and 64 will routinely interwork, ie every journey, in Gloucester. Does this mean both will be predominantly deckers? Last time I went the 63 was totally and the 64 not very much. The 65 looks like a good...

If they run on the 561 and 562 then they will also, with the current interworking, run on the 546, this is a 4 vehicle cycle. The 546 is not so rural except for the end of the route. And the 577 interworks with the 530, a two vehicle cycle. What about the 574? That runs with the 526 with three...

Also the 900 from Truro to Padstow. College days only unfortunately but 9.33 from Truro, about four hours in Padstow, back for 4 pm. Good one! 27 and 91 extended from Truro to the college. Three buses a day (college days) to St Mawes, allowing round trips, although this duplicates TfC.

Intrigued in the 013 with the reference to some X1 journeys via Hartington, presumably between Ashbourne and Leek. Also the X70 rerouting via Youlgrave and the A515 between Bakewell and Buxton. I can feel another trip coming up….

This is intriguing and some interesting choices of numbers. Some, eg 220, 270, 470, 500, 660, 850, 890, 950 bear direct correlation to existing routes, the 27 is FK, the others TfC, and largley follow them, at least in part, although some (eg 890) extend some way beyond. Then the 271-274 are...

Middlesbrough is bigger, town 140,000, borough 387,000 I think. It slightly trumps Rotherham and Solihull. Bury population 80,000, district 190,000.

Wow! Lots to choose from these days... Rotherham Are there any depots in Salford? Bury must count Accrington Middlesbrough (Arriva in Stockton & Redcar, Stagecoach in Stockton) Watford I thought Canterbury did have at least an outstation Arguably Chester, both Arriva and Stagecoach some way out...

Well that's spin on the X1! Renumber it with an X, simplify it and make every journey go via the slowest route, taking about 10 minutes more on most journeys! Not actually much change. Daytime buses have about 35 minutes in Wakefield, some will be for breaks but drivers don't need a break every...

Good to see some things are running on beyond the summer. I guess there is winter and winter and there may be a better service on the 'seasonal' routes in September and March than in the depths of say November. To the extent it is not commercially sensitive please can you expand on these and the...

I was in Pembrokeshire last autumn and I saw a couple of T11s in St Davids, they were in TC livery. Before the 411 and 413 were connected the 411 Haverfordwest to St Davids was basically hourly, now the T11 is only two hourly, which is a poor main connection for a town, sorry city, of...

The T10 looks great for someone like me who wants to come and explore the scenery, probably just the once (I have done Corwen to Betws y Coed but not Capel Curig to Bangor), but can it possibly gather any significant custom? Would be great to hope so but I just don’t see where it will come from.

Incidentally, from perusing the X93/X94 timetable I see they are showing additional journeys between Whitby and Robin Hoods Bay roughly hourly in the morning and afternoon. This compares to running 3 buses an hour to Scarborough as they did previously. This has been the case for the last two...

Indeed - 35 years! But I can't see why that should come in here! More oddities - having looked somewhat randomly at the 5/5A in Leicester the timetable shows a journey at 06.34 from Thurnby Lodge to Leicester which has nothing in common whatsoever with any other journey on the 5 or 5A -...

I have been on the Arriva website today and guess what - the ghastly useless timetables have gone! I haven't looked everywhere but where I have we now have proper usable timetables with parallel routes combined such as "4-4A-4B-4H-4R-4X-X4-Bangor-to-Holyhead-from-11-Apr-2021". These are in the...

Unrelated to Team Pennine but there appear to have been three boards on the 662 run by double deckers today. I have never heard of a decker on this route (the "Shuttle") and I realise the buses may be available due to it being school holidays - is this a one-off or a new thing? Still one decker...

London Country green and yellow pre-NBC. Rhymney Valley yellow and brown. Most of the PTE liveries were good Doncaster red and purple pre-SYPTE colours Traditional City of Oxford colours Several more I will think of no doubt Anything but NBC green and red! Ignore most of this - didn’t read the...

The 853 was run by an independent operator for years from the Cheltenham end and Stagecoach simply took it over from there, nothing to do with Witney. This proposal is clever as the running time from Carterton to Burford and then on to Cheltenham is just an hour so they can run a two hourly...

Stagecoach double deckers are not guaranteed, I think the requirement revolves around schools and it may be less likely in school holidays. Neither board was a decker today for example and both the branded E400s were off the road today. The second board (07.05 etc) looks a better bet for a...

I also have a trip to report on Arriva. Now this might come as a surprise but I am about to write something largely positive about Arriva North East…. I wasn’t particularly well disposed to them after my last trip as they never even had the courtesy to reply when I left something on a bus in...

These are accounts for 2019 - the 'good times' pre-Covid. Grant money would only have come in from 2020.