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Bus Vannin X3 service over the mountain road on the Isle of Man. Uniquely the only bus journey in the UK where (on a very clear day) you can see Scotland, Ireland, England and Wales from the top deck! Can also be a hair raising experience given the topography and speed of the bus, although the...

Scotrail recording record numbers since nationalisation: https://www.scotrail.co.uk/about-scotrail/news/scotrail-sets-record-21-million-passenger-journeys-in-single-week “ScotRail has set a record for passenger journeys in a single week with more than 2.1 million made between Sunday, 26 July...

This was the case when the trains were first introduced. Today, the doors open approximately 4 seconds after the train comes to a halt, with an audible warning in between. Can’t see how it can be any faster?

Will the segregated path be single or double track? If single, will that limit the service frequency to something less than the current “summer peak” of every 15 mins?

Opportunity Charging presumably has a dependency on buses not running late? With little or no time to recharge at a terminus or risk gaps in frequency - or having to add buses and therefore higher operating costs…Seems a big dependency in a congested city like Edinburgh.

Scotrail increasing the Glasgow QS - Anniesland via Maryhill service back to every half hour on Saturday’s in the new May timetable. Last trains on Edinburgh- Tweedbank withdrawn to accommodate electrification work, temporarily, although seems like Friday/Saturday departures will still run.

May 2026 timetables now posted on Scotrail, although no headline summary yet. One thing I did notice is that the Saturday 15 min frequency on Glasgow QS to Edinburgh starts one hour later at 10.15 but extends by one hour to 18.15 adding 17.30 and 18.00 departures from both stations, a sensible...

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve noticed three breakdowns on the M80 of First buses (and I’m only on that road at the weekends), plus another one on Tuesday which I didn’t see but has been reported in the media (below). The breakdowns I noted were from the batch of buses sent up recently from...

True. But attacking a smaller, but growing operator, is a way to stop future competition. First clearly see a threat. The irony is First dumped their X1 yet JMB have made it a success and used it to grow their operation and ambition. I hope JMB win this “bus war” against the distinctly...

Perhaps First have an eye on possible future franchising and want to eliminate the possibility of JMB getting a portion of contracts. The fewer the competitors the higher margin First can bid

Good to see such high numbers returning to Central so quickly. https://news.stv.tv/west-central/120000-travellers-return-to-glasgow-central-station-after-major-fire “ScotRail recorded around 120,000 passenger journeys at the station on Wednesday, as people used the trains to return to work...

“WORK on a historic viaduct which will support the electrification of the Borders Railway has been approved – despite acceptance at its “visually obtrusive” impact. Scottish Borders Council has rubber-stamped an application from Network Rail for installation of overhead line equipment at grade...

Be interesting to see the outcome of ScotZEB3 which is worth up to £45m. Linked to this the Scottish parliament dissolves in two days time (Thursday 26th), which is around the same time as the 6 months furlough ends at AD which has protected 400 jobs at Falkirk. Although AIUI that can only be...

Thanks to all who replied to my question including this very detailed reply Does the stop/start function mean (like a car) the diesel engines will only be engaged immediately before departure? The HSTs currently belch out diesel fumes at terminus stations well before departure.

Excuse my ignorance, but I see these 222s sometimes referred to a diesel-electric…. What’s the difference between that and simply diesel?

Are there any definite figures yet for any of the English/Welsh franchises? Passenger volume changes, set up costs, annual running costs, service level improvements etc, or is it too soon? Is there going to be a standard set of metrics to allow comparisons or is that too simplistic? I live in...

Further good news on the assumption it is formally approved. All of these improvements including contactless are relatively very late compared to other cities. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c93j0082pd7o

Confirmation of restricted services terminating at Paisley Gilmour St from tomorrow. What is the restriction on running other services eg East Kilbride and Barrhead to say Crosssmyloof and the stations in between? No suitable turn back or too few passengers...

Perhaps I’ve misunderstood, but I thought the TS strategy is to go back to some of these lines being partly electrified and fill in the gaps and use EMUs once finance allows. Then the BEMUs would be transferred elsewhere in Scotland eg West Highland lines, Dumfries etc. The goal being the...

Is this an attempt by First to keep the competition “small” as a means to diminish their ability to bid for contracts when/if franchising does eventually occur? Recognising franchising would be a few years away.