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Thought it was worth having a thread for this expanding group operation… I used to work for them before moving to Australia so it’s really good to see the growth ongoing. Recent acquisitions were Lucketts, Worthing Coaches, Clarke’s and Kings Ferry from National Express. Indeed Kings Ferry have...

Flixbus have applied for a UK PSV operators licence, perhaps suggesting they're going to start services within the UK; it certainly will be interesting times, if so. The operating centre given is based at Whippet Coaches in Cambridge, however the office address is a block in Bristol. It looks...

Hi guys Just after a bit of advice, I've found an advance fare which involves an hour drop back at a main station (Birmingham in this case) but I don't seem to be able to book it anywhere as all the journey planners will only offer me the quickest journey. It shows on the split ticketing sites...

As a few of you know I spend a fair bit of my time working out Northern's unit diagrams, and seeing the EMT thread pop up again has sparked my appetite for a thread for Northern. I don't know how many of you work for them but I'm hoping some can help with the queries my working out will bring...

Northern have put their track access application in for the December 2019 timetable. It is now publically available at the following address: https://www.networkrail.co.uk/industry-commercial-partners/information-operating-companies/sale-of-access-rights/ Whilst we won't see the timetable...

So this weekend has seen the resignalling of some of the Tees Valley area to York ROC, with the closure of Urlay Nook & Bowesfield signalboxes, indeed Urlay Nook has been demolished with the crossing receiving lights and new barriers which will be CCTV controlled from York. Buses have replaced...

As 158s become closer to being introduced into operation on the North East Business Unit services, I thought it would be a good time to start a thread for them. The first service should be 11th February on the first Carlisle to Newcastle as per posts on Facebook groups. Now I'm assuming it would...

I see from posts elsewhere on Facebook that ex-Scotrail 158870 is in the process of transferring to Barrow today in order to start crew training on 158s from Barrow prior to their introduction in May. It's worked from Leeds to York and back across to Preston this morning attached to other 158s...

This morning Northern have added in an extra Leeds-Harrogate-Leeds rotation, leaving Leeds at 0623 and returning from Harrogate at 0659. Appears to use the unit that works the 0747 Leeds to Selby which I think is a 3-car 144? Presumably an extra to try and help with early morning capacity into...

Thought we should have a thread to track the refurbishment process of the units staying within, and joining, the Norrhern fleet. 158752+150275 went from Neville Hill to Kilmarnock yesterday as 5Z58 - http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/K97555/2016/04/02/advanced These are expected to be the...

Hi all Just a quick question on rail tickets in Germany. I'm travelling with my mum on a trip to Cologne in November, we're flying into Düsseldorf and then travelling to our hotel near Köln-Messe/Deutz station. I stayed there last year when I was there for 4 days or so, but last time I just...

Have done a quick search and can't find any mention of this? It appears Scotrail want to extend their Dunbar services to Berwick upon Tweed from May 2016. These appear to be roughly 2 hourly during the day, although their application also seems to be wanting to take over the morning XC...

Ok some may think I am crazy but in my spare time I've been trying to put together Northern's unit diagrams for the current timetable (Dec 14-May 15)... Some interesting little quirks when you look into them! No doubt the project will throw up a load of questions that need answering, but one...

PD Ports have announced they are to build a rail terminal at Teesport for Freightliner to use http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/business/news/11346894.Port_operator__39_s__pound_3m_expansion/