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Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/tfw-class-398-stadler-citylink-tram-trains.229459/ How much of those 30+ year old trains, apart from the numbers painted or stuck on the side,is original? Not that much I bet. The operating system will be supported as long as the...

Somebody asked about Newport-Crosskeys services in the South Wales Metro thread but their and my posts were deleted by mods as they were deemed off topic. I thought I'd start this thread in case anybody is interested in discussing services over this mile or two of line. The aspiration is to run...

Readers of this thread might be interested in Roger French's account of his visit to south-west Wales. He also caught the T1C to Cardiff. Among other things he comments on publicity, connections and ridership...

In September the default speed limit in built up areas of Wales will be reduced from 30mph to 20mph. Some roads, generally those without any properties fronting them, will stay at 30. One would imagine that this will adversely affect bus services, extending journey times and either requiring...

The Catholic children of Coleford attending St Peter's RC High School in Gloucester have a 1hr 47m bus ride each way. (Long enough to do/copy all their homework, no doubt!). I'm sure it can't be the longest though.

Mod note: thread split from Stagecoach West discussion Newport Transport will be doing the 761 and 24 as their C4 and 72 https://www.newportbus.co.uk/new-services-forest-dean

I noticed the following on Journeycheck I wonder what they'll turn out for this?

For example, there is no licensed snooker club at Potters Bar station.

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/can-services-skip-stations-that-are-drop-off-only-if-no-one-has-a-ticket-to-them.236428/ As I suggested in another thread, how about bus-style Stop buttons and announcements saying "The next station is Tinytown. Please press the...

We've done 'worst car you've ever owned' so how about 'best car'? Mine would be the Ford Focus I traded the problematic Renault mentioned in the other thread in for. Three years old, previously owned by an old guy who probably used it once a week to go shopping. Cost me £4000 plus the Megane...

Quote is from another thread but I think it deserves one of its own. Discuss.

Today's TfW cancellations are shown in Journeycheck as due to "shortage of train crew". Nothing remarkable in that you might think, given that it's a Sunday in the school holidays and not so many will decide to work. Sundays are outside the standard working week. The interesting thing is that...

https://news.tfw.wales/news/newport-fflecsi-pilot-completed TfW ended it's other urban Fflecsi DRT service in north Cardiff in April and it too reverted to a timetabled one. Are there any urban DRT schemes which have been deemed successful enough to receive ongoing funding or even operate...

I've just had one for automatic milking machinery. I have no interest in dairy farming, live in an urban area and have not browsed any sites even vaguely connected with that industry or product. Any tenuous connection with railways ended when the last milk trains ran (in the 1960s?).

North Somerset Council say https://www.n-somerset.gov.uk/news/north-somerset-bus-services-transform-105m-improvement-plan Having recently seen cutbacks the 'significant increase in the current bus network' will no doubt be welcome. I wonder if the likes of @Citistar will get a slice of the...

I've travelled on the TfW operated Ebbw Vale branch twice this week, buying my tickets via the Trainsplit website. My first journey was Ebbw Vale Town to Pye Corner and I was offered an e-ticket by default. My second journey was Risca & Pontymister to Newport and I was offered only ToD...

The following discussion started in the TrawsCymru thread but is off-topic there so I've started this one. The maps mentioned are useful, thanks, and I'd be interested to hear of any others. What I'm imagining is a map generated from Bus Open Data which would be updated automatically as...

We're familiar with services being artificially split mid-journey to comply with drivers' hours regulations. Destinations are typically shown as 'Town A for Town B', the number doesn't change and timetables often say 'connection guaranteed, no need to change buses'. Recently I was on the...

Journeycheck is currently showing the following for Cheltenham Spa (my bold) I'd always assumed that the railway used its own data network but the above implies that Cheltenham, at least, uses the public Internet. Can anyone working in S&T or IT tell us more about how it's done, both for...