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ABE also on the 032 this morning as well!

Seemingly the number of Airport Bus Express vehicles on NX work has increased from 2 to 5 in the last few days. BV22 WTX BV72 XZA BV72 XZB Have all made their debuts on either the 717 or 777 in the last few days. It appears the journeys ABE are operating on the 777 were the ones that were...

I know the bus is faster, but apparently the train line is quite beautiful. What kind of rolling stock can I expect on this route? Also I read international tickets can only be bought from the station ahead of travel, is there any risk my chosen journey might be sold out if I just rock up and...

Airport Bus Express now starting to operate some trips on the 777 for National Express as well as the 717 now with their basic spec'd Mercs.

I'm not surprised as those of us who have been around the railway for long enough knew this is how it would happen, yet some people are so blinded by their ideological love of the railways being nationalised that they are totally unable to see the wood from the trees. The only way this was...

No, instead they're adding to the chaos and then claiming the chaos that they were they were the orchestrators of such as the IETs and the 700 interiors is nothing to do with them. Things have very much gone backwards, all I've seen is the good things get broken and the bad things not get any...

I know, but that is what the government should be saying, but the fact that they aren't is because they're more interested in being seen to do the thing that they think is the most popular, rather than doing what is right and that sums Great British Railways up, style over substance, rhetoric...

I really am not happy with how things have gone since the changes over to GBR Anglia. Transparency of information is far lower (they went on a mass deleting spree of information on their website including the whole section on transparency), customer engagement events have been cut back...

Be interesting to see what happens with this contract and how things are, because it's clear that the DfT want to try and reduce use of Rail Replacement vehicles during disruption to cut costs based on what has happened in operators that have been nationalised. No doubt the excuse will be the...

The 700X is not a new route. Originally there was departures on the 700 every 15 minutes two years ago, then that got cut to every half hour and the ill fated 701 was born, which was then cut back to the city centre only and became the 700X. In reality the 700X is just a shortened version of the...

Finally after almost a year since they have arrived, the ex Glasgow Enviro 400s have entered service in Dublin for Aircoach. 33101/3/4/5/6/7 entered service over the past couple of days. 33102 has yet to turn a wheel in service and 33104 broke down at lunchtime on it's first day in service...

Not sure why passengers in some of those places would go to East Midlands Airport when there are bigger airports closer by with far more flights and good connections. As has been said, NatEx are losing a lot of money right now so highly unlikely to be new routes, much more likely to be many...

Happens more often than you'd think. There was once one operator who was a new entrant on a corridor that wanted to take on a very well resourced and established operator who was making lots of money on a route. The new entrant said that they would go £1 cheaper than whatever price the...

You'd think for an inaugural run they'd make sure the train was more presentable!

I wonder if we will see Airport Bus Express pick up any more routes as a subcontractor? Certainly a downgrade on the Ipswich to Stansted route since they took over. It's often the case that at least one of their two allocated vehicles are off service so instead you end up with a vehicle without...

Blackbox are buying displays from Infotec now but continuing to run their own software.

They have the West Suffolk College contract as well apparently.

Also the terms of how and when the smaller operators get paid doesn't help.

The problem is that it won't be for buses in more rural areas because that would require common sense to be applied. Unfortunately the DfT do not recognise that the economics of a rural bus service are very different from the economics of a bus service in urban areas. They think rural operators...

They re replacing a number of the original Blackbox screens with newer screens across major stations, over the network bit by bit. A number of stations have now had their main screens on the concourse/booking halls changed from multiple smaller screens to one large format LED and when that has...