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    Senior Bus Passes

    Just trying to settle an argument with a mate :lol: . Is there a chip embedded in the standard plastic bus pass - (presumably yes, because you have to tap in) If so, is any form of record kept anywhere (in the cloud) of journeys by your card number so you can be "tracked"? Thanks in advance!
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    Wiltshire Connect (Demand Responsive Transport)

    This scheme was extended to the south-west of the county today: https://www.connectingwiltshire.co.uk/south-west-wiltshire-mere-warminster/ The service which is a combination of DRT and regular services does extend into Dorset and I spotted a green minibus on service 57A entering Gillingham...
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    Class 155s at Gillingham (Dorset)

    Two pictures have emerged on our local FB page of class 155 2-car sprinters 155313 and 155317 in Gillingham (Dorset) station, dating from (?) late 1980's / early 1990's. It's not clear if they were in service or not. Can anyone recall if class 155s were seriously trialled in some way for the...
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    Identifying a 1969 bus ticket

    An old school colleague has been pruning his archives and has discovered a bus ticket which may help resolve a long-standing argument we’ve been having concerning a Youth Hostelling holiday we undertook 50 years ago! The ticket is a TIM type bus ticket from an unnamed company’s bus route 198...
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    Kinmel Camp Railway in the 1950's

    Reading the "Slate from North Wales" thread, I remember holidaying as a child at Kinmel Bay back in the late 1950's and seeing from Foryd Bridge, near Rhyl, the single track of this old industrial line running inland. I believe in those days it connected a quarry (St George's Quarry?) with the...
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    Changing @ Milton Keynes Central

    I'm looking at a day return trip Birmingham > Leighton Buzzard next Saturday. My Centro ENC travel Pass rail-addon gets me to Coventry for free, and with a Senior Railcard, Coventry > Leighton Buzzard is £15.50 for an Off Peak Day Return, which I'm fine with. My query is this: On my return...
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    DRS movement through Stafford 28/05/11

    Just a long shot ... :D .... does anyone know the locos involved in what I think was a light movement of DRS locos, possibly 3 or 4 of them, northbound through Stafford at 14:15, today (Saturday)? I saw them receeding into the distance from an overbridge, I think there was a 66 in front and...
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    A query on priorities ...

    Traveling on the (circa) 11:45 Chiltern semi-fast from Leamington to Solihull today, and leaving either on time or a minute late, we approached Hatton Bank at a less than sparkling pace, but steadily climbed it, overtaking a Freightliner container train in the loop, which I assumed was the...
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    West Midlands Daytripper - the plot thickens ....

    We've recently discussed this in a previous thread and it was pointed out that evening peak restrictions apply to the £5.20 Off Peak Daytripper as well as the 09:30 start, as indicated on the Network West Midlands website...

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