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The horrendous loss for Kent and Surrey includes a one-off impairment charge of £4,166,000 relating to property and plant, but not PSVs (note 12 to the accounts). So the underlying loss is about £4m not £8m. Income flat, costs up. Note 24 goes on to say there may be another impairment charge in...

Not really a railway buff but for me Westerns, Deltics, class 37s and class 127 DMUs with Rolls Royce engines and two speed gearboxes.

This seems very sensible, much better to interwork the Ilkley to Otley route with the 62 at Ilkley than have a standalone bus some way from base. So the 64 will interwork with the 62s that depart Keighley at 15 and Ilkley at 12 mins past the hour. Will the 67 continue to interwork with the 62s...

Which is a great shame as this is a very scenic route. This was even good in First days as the 93 I think with deckers in a special livery. In contrast further north in Devon the 5A, 5B, 5C, 6, 6A, 155, 319 are regular decker routes with much rural territory.

The 753/754 from Colchester to Sudbury to Bury St Edmunds is also double deckers and runs through some delightfully rural parts of Suffolk. Also the 374 from Bury St Edmunds to Clare has deckers at least on school runs, similarly Bury to Haverhill and I went on a Simons Omnidekka from Bury to...

Definitely still does, two out right now. Last time I got the three days a week 125 from Ringwood to Christchurch that was a decker. And not so long ago I went on a Thursday only bus from Wisbech to Spalding and that was a decker through very empty country and narrow lanes, between school runs...

The X14, X15 and X18 north of Morpeth are pretty remote and are mainly run with deckers. When I got a 101 from St. John’s Chapel to Stanhope a couple of years ago that was a decker, but it was return after a school run. 1625312904 The 6 and 12 from Newport to Niton and Freshwater respectively...

Swansea worth a mention too, there are a number of First deckers there now but around 5 years ago I don’t think there were any, with First Cymru’s few deckers all on schools and college runs.

Lots of possibilities here, I don’t know how you can compare. Many routes in Cornwall and Devon. How about the T3 in mid Wales? Some routes in Lincolnshire. The X93 and 840 to Whitby. Would you allow the 78 in Cumbria, every 30 minutes 7 days a week from Keswick to nowhere?

Indeed Arriva still has around 4 deckers allocated in Milton Keynes on a variety of services. Stagecoach X6 from Northampton is part deckers and the X60 sees a number, particularly in the peak hours. Plus Uno. Can't tell from Bus Times but I thought the 38 was split with the Stirling to Falkirk...

Newark sometimes has deckers on the 37 to Retford. Not much though - shame given the Gash history! Melton Mowbray has regular deckers every half hour on the Arriva 5A to Leicester. Matlock and Loughborough have already been mentioned. I have seen a Stagecoach decker in Ripley but I think it was...

I knew I would get things wrong! I concede on Southampton, I was thinking of First as successor to Southampton City with no deckers. On Hereford of course the X3 now has deckers, the 33 from Gloucester and Ross does and I think some journeys on the 36 from Monmouth do as well. Ignore them!

The 71X in Chelmsford is also mainly double deckers (off the 70) but I agree this low bridge makes the town a bit of a desert. Agree the 70 to Shrewbury sometimes has deckers. I got a decker on the 18 from Much Wenlock to Telford in October 2017 but I don't think Arriva has an allocation there...

I’ve been meaning to post to this thread since I saw it but have been away for a few days. I have not done any bus trips from my home town so I accept I may not qualify at all. What I have done is about 230 trips since 2004 which are all or nearly all on buses, with the occasional train, ferry...

Thanks for your interesting trip report. I think you have slightly “dissed” Kidsgrove! I agree there is very little to see but not nothing- the north portal of the Harecastle Tunnel is close to the town centre and worth visiting for the colour of the water. I was in the First part of the...

Traveline show a third round trip - from Tavistock to Exeter - on the Dartmoor Explorer from 3 July, that is good and I hope it means the service is doing well. http://www.travelinemidlands.co.uk/wmtis/TTB/EFA03__00000f70_TP.pdf Disappointing to see that the Exmoor Coaster is all single deck...

If it’s to be used on Porlock Hill I suggest the brakes need to be in good order!

Or the 230, this was the Harrow route that used RLHs, later became the H1.

Only one open topper has been on the Exmoor run since last weekend with 36082 seemingly off the road, covered by a Solar today.

I went on a trip on Tuesday which included four Centrebus journeys. I started in Rothwell, Northamptonshire, and took Stagecoach MAN 22833 on the 19 to Corby. This was a terrible bus, it seemed underpowered - sounded just like a Dart not a MAN, has it been re-engined with a smaller engine? -...