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I recently passed a school bus service near where I live (County Durham) displaying route number 5001, and It made me wonder how many bus routes around the country use four digit numbers? Three digits max has always seemed to be the common standard, since manual blind displays always had 3...

Something that has been bugging me about Deltics (and other loco hauled trains on the ECML for that matter). At London Kings Cross the platforms all end at buffers, meaning the locomotive would be 'trapped' by the coaches. My question is how did the trains 'turn around' to come back north? Was...

Are there still plans to launch the Northern Connect services? The page on Northern's website states they will launch in stages up to December 2019? https://www.northernrailway.co.uk/travel/northern-connect

Something that has always intrigued me about coach letters. LNER omit coach letters A, G and J on mk4 sets and omit A and H on HST sets GC 180's are lettered B through F 4 coach voyagers are lettered A, C, D, F and 5 coach A, B, C, D, F Is there any particular reason why TOC's don't just...

I am visiting Manchester on 13th July, arriving and departing from Victoria on TPE. I also plan to visit Piccadilly and Oxford Road. I would welcome any advice from anyone who has experience of trainspotting at these stations, e.g. are there ticket barriers/permission requirements and best...