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    National Express Coaches Discussion

    Going in and out of Hanley takes quite a while. If you can offer more attractive journey times from Manchester or Liverpool and fill the coach, why bother with Hanley?
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    On board ticket sales and operating speed

    One thing that may discourage people from using TOTO as opposed to just buying the ticket from the driver is related to the phenomenon of people not having their means of payment ready when they board - they don't want their bank card in their hand as they get off because they then need to put...
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    Do bus schedulers take account of road, etc., capacity?

    I would have thought starting short is fine, it's terminating short that they don't like.
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    Megabus Discussion

    English depots have not been involved in the M11 for quite a while (pre-Covid)
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    Plusbus Reactions

    I love this description by the way
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    Trivia: Routes shared between depots/operators causing issues.

    My guess is that Outbound is considered the direction leaving their home base by both operators, but downstream data systems always combine Outbound into one direction, and Inbound the other - not unreasonably! One of the OpCos needs to reclassify their directions.
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    Megabus Discussion

    It's the main London - Leeds service, and is basically anything not continuing beyond Newcastle to Scotland. The stopping pattern could be as limited as Sheffield only, with most trips doing Leicester and Sheffield.
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    Route that goes round loop twice - is this unique?

    That bus gate was appallingly unreliable, and a nightmare to reverse away from if you got there in a bus and found it broken. The local children enjoyed "riding" it when it went back up, and the mechanisms couldn't cope.
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    National Express Coaches Discussion

    The 315 ended up feeling like a bit of a slog by Plymouth, let alone arriving in Helston!
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    National Express Coaches Discussion

    It may well be more efficient to pair up a long trip with a shorter one
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    Megabus Discussion

    Try emailing customer services and explain your situation. They may give you a voucher if not a "proper" refund as a gesture of goodwill. Delays do happen.
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    Hulley's of Baslow

    A word of warning, when I last caught the 110 it left 3 minutes early!
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    Stagecoach acquisitions since 2000

    Cavendish I think
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    Trips by Bus and Coach: Your reports

    Thanks to both @TheGrandWazoo and @RELL6L as always for their comprehensive trip reports. I'm envious of all of it, but in particular the community bus trip. I love those weekly services where you feel like you're intruding a little in the closed shop.
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    Stagecoach acquisitions since 2000

    Not sure if Robson's of Thornaby was in the date range you requested, or 1999.
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