Recent content by 90sWereBetter

I'm sure this question has been asked dozens of times, but how did Wisconsin Central get permission from the competition authorities to buy all three of the BR railfreight franchises, plus Parcels and the remaining bit of Railfreight Distribution? Given how active the Monopolies and Mergers...

I assume the Felixstowe and Sudbury branches would have to remain with 3 cars at the absolute max.

I assume some of us here have had weird transport-related dreams from time to time (if not I should probably be sectioned!), so I thought I would start a thread for them. I had a particularly weird one last night, somehow a cross between the London Underground and Robot Wars. I was in London...

Having enjoyed several incredibly busy Greater Anglia trains between Cambridge and Norwich recently, it got me thinking about the future of this service. It's always been busy and I remember it being nightmarish in the days when it was operated by 170s (even worse when 156s or 153s ended up on...

Didn't feel unsafe at all, it was 8am in the morning and I had a tight connection to make at Stratford.

I know, but I wanted to have a pop at the big groups, even if it was on spurious grounds. If we can't do that then we've lost our way as a forum. :( Back to the topic in hand, was there any significant competition between Chester and Crosville/PMT/First?

Let me have this one please :lol: I know Arriva registered an entire set of competing services in early 2007, which felt a bit like Darlington 1994 all over. I'm not sure how that was resolved but it certainly was the beginning of the end for ChesterBus.

Does anyone have any memories or insight into the final days of this municipal, because their demise seems to be among the more sadder cases in UK transport history. A once-thriving municipal reduced to running superannuated buses and eventually being bullied out of existence by Arriva and First...

This morning I was at Blackwall DLR station with two heavy bags, so I thought about using the lift to get onto the Bank/Tower Gateway platform. However, when I went over to the lift, I spotted a tent and at least one homeless person asleep within it, so decided to leave it. It did get me...

I thought that might be the case, and I imagine there will likely never be a need for them to be cleared now the fleet is being concentrated at Northern. I don't suppose any have been dragged by locos through Greater London, maybe to Eastleigh or to depots like Hornsey or Ilford for any work...

I was wondering, has there been any instance of a Class 323 working a passenger service into Greater London? I know these units have likely never gone anywhere near the capital due to them being a Regional Railways fleet and not Network SouthEast prior to privatisation, but in the 30 years they...

I assume it'll be news to many, especially those at Go-Ahead, that ComfortDelGro own Metrobus. :lol:

I appear to be in the minority here as I'm 100% in favour of getting Thamesmead onto the tube and rail map by any means necessary. Thamesmead's had good bus links for 60 years in the form of the 177, 229 and 472 and it's done nothing for the neighbourhood As someone on a railway forum, I look...

Routes 227 and 358 in Bromley are restricted to single deckers due to the low bridge at Shortlands. The 227 probably doesn't merit deckers anyway due to it being so short, but the 358 is getting those frankly ridiculous ieTrams...presumably at some point before the heat death of the universe :lol:

Aye, that was the original 395, which lasted until spring 2006. It was barely used iirc and I partially think it was withdrawn because the Sprinters would have been swamped when the East London Line upgrade began the following year. The smallest vehicles on TfL service nowadays must be the...