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There was a track defect on the Down Chat Moss line that resulted in delays and cancellations for several hours.

Yes, there was a British Transport Film shown on Talking Pictures TV not long ago which was a film on how to drive a first generation DMU. Lots of instruction on waiting for the revs to be at the right level before engaging the next gear to avoid damaging the gearbox.

Northern did provide replacement minibuses for some of the cancelled final services of the day on New Year's Eve. However they didn't provide any coordinators, so buses came and went away empty while the intending passengers were standing there because no one told them where the buses were going.

Wouldn't believe anything Trainline tells you. Recently had quite a few people insisting it's a replacement bus to their destination because "it says so on Trainline" even though you've told them multiple times what platform their train is on. Eventually they miss their train because they...

And now 5P77 has reached Eccles. Next weekend will be the same as this one with one Northern Manchester Airport - Blackpool North via Wigan North Western train per hour and one TPE Manchester Airport to Preston via Piccadilly replacement bus per hour. But pot luck as to how many of the...

Some of them have become Saltburn - Eccles as they were yesterday.

Not content with buying up once reputable local newspaper titles and dumbing them down to localised versions of the Daily Mirror, their latest thing is to create "SomeplaceLive" websites for the areas they don't have their own title and compete with the existing newspaper. They flood Facebook...

Recently I've tended to increasingly use Fasteroute when I'm working. The way it makes it graphically quick to identify which services are operated by each TOC is helpful. I've noticed an increasing number of station staff use it and also recommend to customers that they ditch Trainline and use...

Diamond Streetdeck 40833 has been deroofed this morning under Patricroft canal bridge.

People have had this argument elsewhere. Despite some parts of the business having been rebranded, it is still Abellio on the company house records and the operators license registration.

Reportedly the GTR rail replacement contract is moving from Go Ahead to Abellio in April despite Go Ahead being the major shareholder in the TOC. But conversely the West Midlands Trains rail replacement contract is moving from Abellio to Stagecoach despite Abellio being the major shareholder in...

Unless things have changed recently, you can't buy Saveaway tickets from a TVM outside of Merseyside. If you are in the Manchester area and fancy a day out on the Wirral, a day return to Newton-le-Willows plus a one day Saveaway works out several pounds cheaper than a day return to your...

They never got her to do "a short notice change to the timetable" so now you get announcements at stations a train "has been cancelled due to..." then nothing, which makes the whole thing just sound amateurish!

The age limit is 15 years for the 'traditional' TfGM tendered services (i.e. not Bee Network). It's the same for TfGM school contracts, however if a bus reaches its 15th birthday in the middle of the academic year it can continue to be used on school services by the same operator until the start...

We discovered an anomaly at Manchester Airport where people looking to travel to certain hotels are advised by Google maps to catch the Z1 bus. That is actually the employee only service for Amazon warehouse staff!

Smoking is still permitted on the platforms at non-underground Merseyrail stations as far as I'm aware.

If previous 'nationalisations' are anything to go by, the provider will stay the same until the contract is due for renewal. Then it will go to whoever does the best bid... which may still be the same provider. Hence Arriva still do the rail replacement (badly) for Northern, Stagecoach have...

They ran the 277 Trafford General Hospital - Gorse Hill which was a TfGM tendered service. I have a timetable for it dated 27/02/05 and as I recall it was run with plain white Plaxton Pointer Darts with Belle Vue fleetnames. What will be interesting to see is what vehicles they will use on the...

The TfGM website has been at noon on Friday 28th April with the following notice:-

The 391/392 had always been under the same licence. The company was called 'Go Goodwins (Coaches) Limited' then after a couple of months of being named 'Mayne of Manchester' became 'Little Gem Bus Company' in October 2022. As of last weekend it had a licence for 40 vehicles from an operating...