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    Suspension of Eastenders etc

    "This will make you slash your wrists"
  2. 5

    Horton in Ribblesdale station to get footbridge, with lifts.

    A4A spurious jargon for Access for All, presumably. ;)
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    Ribblehead Viaduct

    And Usan south of Montrose on Aberdeen mainline.
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    "Connectional" bus routes that aren't really (and rail examples)

    Ormskirk and Kirby are curiosities with gap in rails so entirely opposite coming from Liverpool Merseyrail. Two examples in Scotland are 253 Borders Buses Edinburgh-Berwick with Grantshouse a cluster of houses just off A1! And the Stagecoach Western X77 at Fenwick coming on and off M77 motorway...
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    West Lothian buses

    Stagecoach in Fife service 66 tender Glenrothes to Burnside is just bizarre. Milnarhort and Kinross offer a host of connections and amenities but of course is P&K council.
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    Bus Quality

    Streetlite Wright emergency door handle rattle aaargh!!!
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    Trivia: Stations with no scheduled services passing through non-stop

    Used to operate via Falkirk High in London bound direction only, but with EGIP electrification completed it now operates via Bathgate serving additionally Glasgow Qst LowLevel.
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    Slowest city bus routes

    Glasgow Queen Street to Central service 398 must be a contender hardly worth the hassle. Anyway McGills 901/906 might be considered something of an alternative.
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    Edinburgh-Settle-Manchester advice please

    My recommendation: 0652 Edinburgh-Carlisle 0806 0927 Carlisle-Settle 1105 with Advance fare £11.50 (or) 0853 Edinburgh-Carlisle 1007 1049 Carlisle-Settle 1233 with Advance fare £12.50 on Saturday 14/12/19 (then) 0956 Bentham-Lancaster 1027 with Day Single fare £7.20 1047 Lancaster-MancOxRd...
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    Class 314 Withdrawals

    Just announced here at Glasgow Central that 16:42 to Paisley Canal is cancelled. Coincidentally a humble 314 is sitting at the planned platform 15 idle.. Seems to be 314205 still.
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    National Express coach terminating short of original destination - tough

    Mega bus did this to me for no apparent reason. Some days before my booked travel on specific London to Newcastle service, they emailed and simply automatically refunded ticket price, and I had extreme difficulty getting them to just pit me on the next available service! The price of which had...
  12. 5

    Lothian Buses and ECB Discussion

    It seems that no longer is a long walk to West Approach Rd Lothian Road for EX2 required. Route revised to serve StAndrewsSquare.
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    West Lothian buses

    First and Lothian both ran 44 to Balerno remember.
  14. 5

    First Greater Glasgow

    The old 62 was turquoise 15 years ago in line with Overground branding.
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    Can you travel from Lands End to John O Groats entirely on bus vehicles (not coach vehicles)?

    Indeed. Summer Saturday 29/6/19 at noon a northbound T4 that I used had to terminate at Storey Arms summit. Full load with free weekends extra pax and driver drove with little concern to difficult circumstances.
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    Can you travel from Lands End to John O Groats entirely on bus vehicles (not coach vehicles)?

    Stagecoach only variation with 42mile gap Wrexham-Newtown. There is service 5 Chester-Wrexham. Going south to Bristol for the Falcon and Saltash connecting bus leaving 80miles to Lands End. Use T4 Newtown-Brecon, X43 Brecon-Abergavenny, X20 Abergavenny-Newport, SEV Newport-Bristol.
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    Trivia: Bus routes that run in the morning peak only

    Stagecoach in Perth service 70 three early morning journeys and they start at the depot. Also McGills XP23 Erskine or Inchinnan to Glasgow frequent morning fast commuter services, not sure in what way the latter is especially different to X23 as some of those journeys too omit Braehead.
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    Biggest Platform Gap in the country?

    Dunkeld and Birnam has a big vertical drop, such that step boxes are provided that line up with doors!
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    Trivia: Stations that have other lines passing through or near them without platforms.

    On the ECML I can think of DUNBAR and DARLINGTON with platforms only on one side of the main running lines. Perhaps DONCASTER can be mentioned similar to Crewe because of Decoy avoiding lines AFIK. I think Chillingham Road T&W Metro is immediately next to ECML at Heaton TRSMD does this count?
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    [TRIVIA] Longest Dead Runs

    Evening SPT subsidised service 84B Kirkintillooch-Twechar-Kilsyth-Banton finishes at Banton and must return to McColls Dumbarton depot some 30miles by road perhaps on the twisty Strathblane roads! This service typically runs empty Kilsyth-Banton so in effect is a further three miles! Been like...

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