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Service frequencies on the few second generation UK tramways are not enhanced at former "rush hours" either.

Post-covid, "rush hours" for workers are much less noticeable - it is school traffic at 8-9 am and 3-4 pm that now seems to cause the most congestion. The large numbers of rush hour extras (typically with an "x" suffix locally) and rush hour only routes that used to run 40+ years ago have...

Outside London and a few busy corridors in some large cities, double-deck buses are unnecessary for the level of traffic demand. They aren't needed in most of South Manchester and the North Cheshire suburban areas other than the Oxford Road/Wilmslow Road/Palatine Road corridor as far south as...

These trains should be used to reduce diesel running under the wires. If one of the two single lines to Morecambe was electrified, they could run Morecambe to Lancaster every 30 minutes, with 1 tph extended to Manchester Airport in lieu of the Barrow-Manchester Airport service, which would then...

The problem with a tramway along Wilmslow Road is because of the high pedestrian traffic in Rusholme ("the Khyber pass" or "curry mile"), particularly on Friday/Saturday evenings when bus routes are already diverted away from it, and the narrowness of the road through Withington village, with no...

Swansea railway station to Mumbles (Oystermouth), passing close to the University and Singleton Hospital? , Fylde Borough, as an extension of Blackpool Tramway from Starr Gate/Squires Gate to Lytham by taking over the existing railway line? Preston to Longridge? North Leeds circular: City...

@Peter Mugridge and @Gathursty I find this quiz and (and the "guess the station" quiz, providing the photo is not excessively cropped) an interesting challenge and would regret its disappearance, so would prefer the thread not to be shut down for now. My suggestions are that it is publicised...

@Trainman40083 As you appear to quite knowledgeable about Trent Barton's services, why does this company not prune its timetables, particularly on higher frequency routes, to try to ensure that advertised services actually run, given its shortages of staff/vehicles?

Wellington (Salop)?

Unless such a service is diverted to penetrate the city centre properly, it would be a white elephant.

I made a similar journey in the reverse direction in the early 90s and changed at Chester for Hale on the ex-CLC line. Fortunately I didn't need to travel on the Pacer all the way to Manchester. It was definitely worse than a similar journey I made in 1986 from Llandudno to Manchester via...

There will now be an alternative way of travelling from Manchester and East Lancashire to Settle and Horton, courtesy of a new bus service (route 11) running 2-hourly Mon-Sat from Clitheroe Station (with rail connections). The new rail services are also publicised on the Dalesbus website...

It doesn't need HS2 to justify LNWR running the Manchester-Birmingham segment as an inter-regional emu service. It would reduce diesel "running under the wires" and free up Voyagers for use elsewhere by XC on non-electrified lines.

The Wilmslow Road services 42/42A/42B/42C/142/147 are run by Hyde Road depot. Only services 43/143 that run along Palatine Road, joining Wilmslow Road at Withington, are run from Sharston depot. Queens Road depot is very close to the current route of service 41 so it is not illogical for it to...

I know this is a speculative thread, but some of the suggestions on this thread for redeploying the class 350s that are supposedly "surplus to requirements" are frankly implausible. There appears to be an excess of mid-life emus that are not yet worn out and a shortage of dmus. Therefore the...

The trams now used on the MSJ&A line don't have toilets.

Back in the day, most suburban emus were completely non-corridor compartmentalised (e.g. the class 505 used on the MSJ&A line) or at best gangwayed non-corridor (some of those used on the South London lines, when I was a student in London in the 1970s), so there were no toilets at all. The...

I visited Lytham Hall a couple of months ago (to see the snowdrops) and then made a bus journey to Blackpool town centre and back (route 11 in, route 68 back). I was quite impressed with both services and their frequency, although the journey took quite a long time (over 30 minutes). Both...

This is why I would argue for the Manchester Piccadilly to Birmingham segment to be removed from XC and run by 8-coach emus under another TOC. There are a significant number of spare emu trains currently deemed surplus to requirements, not the least the class 350 units. IMO, there should be no...

The issue is identifying the least worst option for XC with its shortage of capacity by focussing on its key SW-NE route through Birmingham. I am fully aware that Leeds is not a rural backwater - I was born there, although brought up in Manchester. However, the rail services Leeds now has...