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Yes, 3106 with Sprint branding, and 3111 in standard Kinch livery.

Early 1970s Ribble: X21 Preston-Carlisle and X21 Carlisle-Preston draw up in the laybys on the A6 at Shap Summit. Each driver stows Setright machine etc in its box, put their change machines under one arm, and walk across the road to exchange buses. Great fun in a snowstorm, not that rare at...

Indeed Skylink Derby is a normal bus service between Derby and Loughborough, stopping everywhere, and limited stop Loughborough to Leicester. Same bus (Enviro 200MMC), often the same driver (barring occasional crew changes since the route is operated from Loughborough depot), same licence both...

Last year I was on a Cross Country train that was boarded at Cheltenham by Gloucestershire Police officers who removed an evangelist who was certainly annoying passengers. I think the real reason for their presence was to detain a man who had threatened the refreshment trolley operator.

I see your point, but in calling the food and drink "complimentary" while including it in advertising EMR are just copying what airlines have done for several decades. In that time I would have expected that cases would have reached courts that actually have power to set precedents. Small claims...

It isn't at all unusual for the garage field in Bustimes to have different ways of saying the same place, depending on the vehicle (or I suppose, the ticket machine). In this particular case, Broadmarsh is simply another description for Nottingham depot which also appears as Nottingham and BM...

Surely we haven't forgotten Birmingham New Street, all 12 through platforms.

I can certainly remember stations on the ex-GC lines such as Leicester Central having the alternate edging flagstones with white lines, as late as the 1960s, whereas stations of MR/LNWR origin in the same area had continuous white lines.

I don't think the two remaining 7 car meridians would make much difference! The others were reduced in length to 5 car, with the 2 coaches released from each 7 car unit used to make 4 car units up to 5 car. So you'd need to re-form a lot of units to recreate 7 car sets, and for all we know...

I live in Loughborough and have done for many years. Kinchbus run a well-advertised and registered service named (well it is a Wellglade company) Sprint that runs all year round between the far west end of the University campus at Holywell Park and the railway station via the town centre. Travel...

Of course Burnley Manchester Road has only become the principal station in Burnley quite recently in railway terms. For most of the 20th century, the main station was Burnley Central. Manchester Road is on the Copy Pit line, and scheduled passenger service on that route declined to the stage...

There are also variations between the four mainline railway companies, some had a single sliding door for each compartment on the corridor side, some had a two-part sliding door (one part slid to the left, the other to the right). If this has any significance to the story, let us know which...

Though there are "cats on seats" still - think of Felix and Bolt at Huddersfield, George at Stourbridge Junction and many more, including non-railway cats who've just popped in for a sit down.

Well, SWR carry out their own maintenance at Ryde St Johns Road depot, where the staff have years of experience with ex-LU stock, and TfW contracted out maintenance of their units to Stadler from the beginning, Stadler use Birkenhead depot for this. VivaRail never had maintenance contracts for...

No it hasn't been reunited yet. Indeed there is an appeal under way for funding the installation of the next phase of reunification. What has just been completed is the renewal of the bridge that carries the GCR (N) over the A60 road, which will allow the GCR(N)'s connection to the Midland Main...

You're quite right that painting a 9F into lined black would be inaccurate. That's why the GCR has repainted theirs into unlined black and the post saying otherwise is either inaccurate or a typo.

Certainly by the time I entered the bus industry in 1971 this requirement had either been done away with or was generally ignored. Taking the very large ex-BET companies as an example, neither Ribble nor Midland Red had Duplicate, Extra or Relief on the blinds at all, Ribble had no stickers...

I can remember back in 1972, when I was an NBC Management Trainee, the one coach a day Blackpool-Glasgow express service had 104 duplicates on the returning Saturday of Glasgow Fair fortnight. At this period the number of duplicates permitted could be restricted on the licence issued by the...

Same basic problem at Preston and Derby. At Derby Platform 7 isn't protected against movements from the depot, at Preston there are no traps protecting other platform roads from unauthorised movements out of 7

I'd agree with this, and add that in the immediate post-privatisation period the Leeds service extensions were also described as an ORCATS raid on the Leeds-London and Leeds-Sheffield pots of fare revenue, the vast majority of travellers on these journeys found the all-day services of other...