Recent content by johntea

One worker has retired...Bolt the Huddersfield station cat! :( (Makes sense though as it wouldn't be fair to keep him around what is essentially a massive construction site)

Could this perhaps be to do with the (extremely long lasting) battle between Transpenine conductor RMT union members and electronic scanning, some seem to have taken this as 'don't bother checking tickets full stop'! (On the flip side the revenue protection staff do seem rather keen to board)...

Got me thinking do many people 'fare dodge' on National Express and the like? Book a £1.20 ticket, stay on until Leeds or wherever Some drivers may have a mental note in their head linking passengers to their tickets but they're probably not thinking too much about it, I suppose another issue...

You've just reminded me of the ITV show Don't try this at home from 1998! Hand feeding sharks...you can probably try that at home Riding a bucking bronco in a shopping centre whilst trying to eat an ice cream...EXTREME DANGER!

They even got a mention on Have I Got News For You recently! Always fun in this nice weather when Peter dares to wear his Man from Del Monte / Mr Whippy / Colonel Sanders white suit!

In West Yorkshire we had M Travel who it eventually emerged weren't doing a very good job with their maintenance Many of their routes were then acquired by Stanley Gath Travel but it turns out the daughter of the M Travel directors had basically just bought that company so they could continue...

I think at this point the name is just more of a brand than actually meaning literally 'Express' A route such as York - Manchester via Wakefield may not be 'express' as a York - Manchester via Leeds (although I don't think there is that much in it actually if you're doing end to end) but for...

Any ideas how this will affect the York - Manchester via Wakefield route? Will they still be able to pass through the station without a passenger stop or will they be diverted (or worst case scenario will they just have a load of rail replacement bus services for 2 years!)

I've always found it far easier just to walk to somewhere on Briggate or similar if I want a taxi rather than mess about with the absolute chaos that is the back of Leeds station

He still does! I did read as part of the restructure they're going to axe fresh foods apart from perhaps milk and the like which makes sense as they're pretty much wasted stock as soon as the expiry date comes round unlike the seasonal tat which they can just send back to a warehouse and dust...

I actually had a profitable experience the other day, the driver was so engrossed in his phone (this was at a bus station don't worry!) that he couldn't be bothered to go to the effort of exchanging my cash for a tcket so just waved me on board free of charge :D They also seem to have replaced...

I was on a service yesterday...arrived at Mirfield early then departed 3 minutes earlier than planned Made me curious if that was the 'fault' of the guard, the driver or a combination of both? https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:C26186/2025-06-11/detailed

This just sounds like a classic case of someone who offends in the hope they get sent to prison

I once saw Christa Ackroyd from BBC Look North stood outside Leeds Train Station filming some sort of report Her face made it clear she was absolutely delighted to be stood there in the freezing cold :D

It’s definitely a new bus station (the local MP confirmed that) but they apparently haven’t decided yet if it’s going to stay where it is or move somewhere else One issue that money won’t really resolve is the amount of undesirables that loiter in and around the bus station though!