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'Standard Czech' is indeed the formal version that would be expected on such a website, but I'm not sure that any 'Common Czech' variant would have used different prepositions to the ones being translated by Microsoft Edge as 'whence' and 'whither.' The course I've been doing included some...

The low numbers of Northern Counties/ Bristol RE does seem slightly surprising; maybe because I remember both these batches from the time, I might assume they were more widespread than the reality. Slightly greater in number were the 20 Bristol LH6Ls with Northern Counties B39D bodies of...

Could anyone confirm if the Bradford Interchange one is still there? I've found a September 2021 Google Streetview image of the area near the Supervisors' office that doesn't show it where I expected to see it.

Indeed, and the prepositions on the Czech language version of the journey planner, 'odkud' and 'kam', are specific to verbs of motion, with various other prepositions used for 'from' and 'to' in other contexts. 'Kam odkud?' and 'Kam jdete?' would be respectively 'Where have you come from?' and...

Might be a borderline case then, but here goes... Of the many hundreds (thousands?) of Leyland Atlanteans bodies by East Lancs, only 24 were built to Manchester City Transport's 'Mancunian' design, or alternatively, of the 500+ 'Mancunians' built only 24 were bodied by East Lancs rather than...

Correct. The Wikipedia article I mentioned in #10 suggests both the two new routes have only 50% of route mileage wired, but subsequent ones are planned to be somewhat higher. I'm not sure if the wired bus parking area mentioned by @Belperpete in #12 is the existing layover spot behind Terminal...

That could have been the case with the original trolleybuses that ceased operation in the early 1970s, but the two routes recently introduced are not central. Of the planned conversions listed in #10, only the 53 (replacing the current 176 bus) will run in what might be considered the central...

That reminds me of a short story I read in the Manchester Evening News as a teenager. I don't know whether it was entirely fictional or based on actual events - it sounds vaguely plausible but I have my doubts. It revolved around a Great Central (or perhaps LNER?) driver and fireman who became...

What a brilliant website - thanks for the link! Another surprisingly low number is the Manchester - Flixton 15, which inherited its number from the Little Gem P14 and P15 between Stretford Arndale and Flixton that were introduced to combat Bee Line Buzz 20 and 21 Stockport - Flixton services...

Having passed my PCVIII on a manual in 1989 (Leyland Titan PD2), I never drove a full-size manual bus again, which I have no regrets about! Re Voith and ZF, the latter were great combined with a Cummins engine, and were normally very smooth. Unfortunately, Todmorden garage was allocated a...

Many thanks - I'd assumed that was likely. Tail wagging dog, it would appear!

Before reconstruction in the early 1990s, Manchester Victoria's station pilot used to stand on one of the through lines between platforms 11 and 12 (platform 11 being the current platform 3). In my teenage spotting years it was generally a Class 25, and I can recall seeing it assist an eastbound...

I can't see the 255 Manchester - Partington in the above? I assume it would be with the Hyde Road batch?

Although I recall Southern Vectis also had a few, another small batch from the Devon General / Western National stable - the 'Mousehole-spec' Marshall B33F Bristol LHS6L. They had two batches of six, 88-93 (VOD 88-93K) were nominally red Devon General vehicles and 1250-5 (VOD 120-5 K) were green...

That's interesting - I gathered at the time that the practice largely disappeared at Stockport with deregulation, to allow for quicker schedule changes as competition demanded. Some town routes got converted to minibus operation as well, particularly in response to Bee Line Buzz competion. I'm...

Although it would probably not have been obvious to the travelling public, in pre-deregulation days Greater Manchester Transport's Stockport garage had a practice of random interworking between all the routes that terminated in the town's bus station. It gave a great deal of flexibility in...

I hope a fresh coat of leaf green paint and (possibly?) the removal of a couple of seats won't disqualify Western National's ten Bristol LH6L / Marshall coaches (1316-25, BDV 316/8 L and NTT 317,319-25 M), subsequently downgraded to service use? I was not aware of any similar combination with...

Not seen these mentioned above (apologies if I've missed it). Western National had just twelve of these 1967 Bedford VAM5/ ECW B41F combinations, 700-711 (KDV130F-KDV141F). I think Eastern Counties and West Yorkshire Road Car had four each, so a relatively small build by ECW standards, although...

Yes, there was a week when I was working at Hebden Bridge that we got calls from TPE during a Huddersfield blockade - October half-term, 2012 or 2013, I think. Some of the regulars were very impressed to get into Leeds so quickly! But, you can't please everyone: there was one redoubtable...

There is a Wikipedia article listing the forthcoming trolleybus conversions in Prague, if anybody wishes to Google it. As the current bus network is mostly a mix of short but busy feeder routes and often quite long orbital routes, I suspected it would be mostly the former that would be...