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Obviously some trains are too long to fully stop at certain stations (or stations are too short to accommodate trains), and selective door opening deals with that But are there any/many direct journeys where it's not possible to use the same set of doors? i.e. you can only board the train at...

Did anyone watch the Death In Paradise Christmas on the BBC and recognise the location of the supposed "Swindon East"? Double track station with single track beyond. Semaphore signals. Green footbridge at one end. What looked like a Large Logo 47 in a bay platform? They'd put a few...

My trivially minor question is when was the first grade separated junction? (i.e. intended to avoid conflicting moments over the flat) Such things wouldn't have been needed in the early days, with so few trains, and possibly a lot harder to engineer, so in my mind I'd guess the early 1900s...

First/ Stagecoach moved to five digit fleet numbers many years ago Arriva/ Transdev/ Go Ahead certainly use four digit numbers on some of their vehicles Obviously there are examples of one number being used by two separate vehicles (e g. 37501 is an 08-plate Gemini used by First in Bradford...

Modern bus routes are often simple, predictable, intended to be something people can rely on without a timetable Thirty years ago, things were different, chaotic, much more variety Often corridors had “express” services at rush hour, something which has become a rarity outside of a few...

The UK bus industry is slowly embracing electric buses. Some of that reluctance is perhaps understandable from operators who invested in “hybrid” vehicles a decade ago only to find that the technology wasn’t reliable enough for the hammering that buses get in daily service and had to spend...

This thread would have been unthinkable a few years ago, when ten minute frequencies were the norm on busy urban routes and we had services like the 22 in Edinburgh running every four minutes But, post-Covid (and with rising staff costs making occasional double deckers more attractive that...

The below comment in the Lothian Buses thread (https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/lothian-group-discussion-lothian-city-lothian-country-bus-and-east-coast-buses.208948/page-283#post-6074260) states that the 23 is Edinburgh’s testing ground for any demonstrator vehicles, since it gives them a...

As the National Express thread seems popular (https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/trivia-places-that-national-express-coaches-no-longer-serve.242062/ ) I thought there might be merit in a Citylink one One difference between the operators is that most “former National Express routes” are gone...

How many instances are there of an operator running a service that doesn’t share any roads with other routes that they provide? Not even crossing paths for a few metres at a crossroads or roundabout For example, the xplore Dundee “Fly” to Edinburgh Airport serves central and western Dundee but...

Rather than derail the existing thread about McGills, I thought that there was enough discussion/ interest in that older era to warrant a separate thread There’s been a lot said about Lothian/ LRT during this period but I don’t think I’ve seen any publication devoted to the “green” buses during...

Are there any decent Flea Markets, or other places that you’d recommend beyond the full price model shops (where you can easily spend a couple of hundred pounds on a locomotive) and eBay (where there are some apparent bargains but then you find yourself paying a fiver for delivery which makes...

mods note - split from the part of this thread that was the most manageable! :) Agreed. Nobody is going to argue against a plan of rolling electrification , I don’t think anyone ought to be proud of the stop/start electrification we’ve had or the fact that “modern” EMUs are scrapped whilst...

There’s a popular thread in the Railway side of the Forum asking about remembering of platforms at train stations, which is a complicated subject (often expensive to amend, but the piecemeal development of stations means there are a few where a platform has to be numbered out of sequence due to...

@Kite159 made an interesting point in the thread about stations with awkward platform numbers, which I thought warranted a proper response (and I’d probably already gone off topic in that thread by discussing Platform 0 at Doncaster which was intended to accommodate the Scunthorpe stoppers...

What examples are there of modern bus routes that have a route number that once made a lot of sense but now stands out as a bit of an oddity? Some networks have a nice and simple numbering system, with no oddities. The Xplore Dundee routes are all between 1-33 (ignoring School services/...

Are there any/many examples of individual journeys operated by the same overall company with the exact same routes and exact same stops... BUT with a different route number? There are a number of routes that have a common section with other routes, there are a number of routes with "part"...

Following on from this thread (https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/weakest-link-on-the-intercity-network.229388/page-4#post-5582993) - are/were there many "InterCity" services that didn't stop at any intermediate cities (i.e. ignoring the original and final stations)? For the purposes of...

These days, if a line is closed we sometimes see services diverted and sometimes we see replacement bus services - a lot of the time the existence of such buses is blamed on "privatisation" I know that they didn't start post privatisation (although they seemed to become more high profile, maybe...

Many places have seen their "outer circles" trimmed back/ cut into multiple services, so that more and more journeys would mean having to go into the city centre and back out again The "Strathclyde" thread started a discussion about the (apparent) need for orbital links, providing a grid-like...