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Reliability remains hit and miss and short running is still common. They seem to have fixed some vehicle issues mechanically but the interior is shocking on a lot of the fleet. There’s still lots of tinkering with routes and timetables but it’s all a little around the edges Seems to be a long...

It’s not a big deal. Graffiti is commonplace in Europe. Spain and Italy have heavily graffitied fleets Those trains run on time, are cheaper and amazingly are photographed and entirely unaffected by it. Nobody is championing graffiti Suggesting sharing the images is supporting it is utter...

I was in first…probably half term related I suspect

Yes I'd much rather travel with LNER and have that god awful Eleanor mascot paraded up and down the gangway (as has happened on my last 3 journeys) or listen to their incessant announcements. Lumo staff are great - unprofessional suggests safety breaches etc - if its a case of you're just old...

Another failure of public sector management. That signaller would have been managed out of their job in a private sector or arguably a well run public sector organisation, they clearly aren’t competent and if I was a driver on that stretch of line, I’d have zero confidence in that person.

Yes when you look at how EY have handled the public and internal comms so much better than their sister company you wonder why? Then you look at the childish comms during the last strike, the childish marketing and it’s clearly a place where no highly rated comms or marketing person would dream...

Strike action looming What a mess https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2pr46d23jo

Hi All I have an ITX fare as part of a Hotel package from Newcastle to London. I know I can't really claim Delay Repay and the rail fare is nominal, but would I be able to upgrade? Seatfrog have some really good instant upgrade fares (around £25) but I can't find anywhere to work out if my...

They’ve been horrendous this winter so far. At least they’ve stopped using single deckers but there’s cancellations and breakdowns galore especially on the X21. A cleaner has appeared at Gateshead on the odd day but the ex London stock really is filthy, leaking roofs and awful blue lights...

And a classic routemaster running on the 21...bizarre

From the outside, it looks like they’re just clinging on in the vain hope of franchising arriving and saving them. Believe the Angel is due new electric deckers this year, that particular service has gone downhill since it was inexplicably awarded some BSIP funding to restore its pre pandemic...

Probably a different thread but if Leamside extension ever comes off, I would assume they’d look at a second depot south of the river

Not really. There’s a bus replacement. Aside Newcastle at home, demand is low, most shops are uncharacteristically closed for a change. Bus transport on Boxing Day in the region is historically limited anyway with Go North East and Stagecoach taking commercial risks and a great service on...

It’s a real real mess, a positive is it will, hopefully, see the end of Martin Gannon in his role with the council and within transport in the mayors office. The creaking bus network can barely cope with its current passengers, at least it’s the holidays so school bus drivers are available...

If it’s not the cold it’s the infrastructure All these shiny new trains are going to be pointless when it seems even recently renewed infrastructure is continuing to fail. Nexus, as ever, apologises

No Gold card usage either (which seems odd when they've got it on Blaydon-Sunderland)

Short term planning and competency required, from Nexus? Never going to happen.

Newcastle alongside the 21 (which serves Durham) and the N56 (to Sunderland) also has Stagecoach 787 Probably can be classed as a night bus. It's a BSIP service which operates from Newcastle City Centre to the Airport but it only operates from 4 journeys M- F 2am to 4.40am and 3 Journeys on a...

Are they suffering? like P&O, the public moved on and both are seeing growth and in British Gas case record profits. The public quickly move on

I'm genuinely not sure of your point? It worked for you so its not inefficient in anything else it does? What was the cost of the walk up fare? It took at best 2hr 30 (NR suggests its around 20-30 mins slower than car from say Leeds to Windermere) Anyhoo - I shall refrain from going further OT...