Recent content by busestrains

If it is a just a private conversation among employees than i see nothing wrong. It is just free speech. I would not call that misconduct. If they were saying it directly to passengers or over the speakers or anything like that then of course that is wrong and unprofessional and they would quite...

This would be a good one for an FOIA request to TFL to find out how many people have been overcharged and how much extra money they have made from this.

That is very odd. There is no such £8.80 fare available in the BR Fares database. The fare for £8.75 is the correct one. I wonder if that is the new price from the 5th of March and the machines have accidentally been updated a few days too early to the new prices.

Does anyone know if New Zealand has a railway forum for their railways? I can not seem to find one but surely they must have one?

The two screens in that photo are out of sync with each other. The old screen says the next three trains are 3 and 8 and 13 minutes. The new screen says the next three trains are 5 and 9 and 14 minutes. I guess the new one is slower at updating.

The 168s would probably be London Marylebone to Kidderminster i think. The 170s might be London Waterloo to Penzance which i believe they worked. I think that it was normally 158s or 159s booked on this service but i think 170s substituted on at least one rare occasion. So this might possibly...

Oh dear. You would think if you were going to spend millions on ordering trains you would at least get the measurements right. I think something very similar happened in France a couple of years ago. They had to rebuild some platforms and space out some tracks in order to use the trains.

Sussex Bus was a bus company that existed in the 1990s running various rural routes in the Sussex area. I forget what they operated exactly but i think i remember a few routes around, Chichester, Midhurst, Petworth, Storrington, etc. They shut down and the name was gone for over a decade. Then...

Russian and Ukrainian are both used in the Ukraine and therefore both versions are correct. There is no right or wrong way of spelling these city names. Kiev and Kyiv are equally as correct and either can be used. Lvov and Lviv are equally as correct and either can be used. Many countries have...

China and Russia are not threats to our country. That is nonsense. I am not sure why everyone seems to think they are threats. Neither of these countries would have any interest in invading the UK. Russia might have an interest in neighbouring countries that were previously part of the USSR and...

I have been to all four of them in the past few years. I went in 2019 before the corona virus started. I have been to Abkhazia and Artsakh and South Ossetia once each in 2019 and been to Transnistria four times over the years. There have been issues in the past but for the most part these places...

Surely if Southeastern took all of those 465s and 466s out of storage then this would allow them to transfer all of the 377/5s to Southern to provide sufficient stock for when the 313s are withdrawn. This would seem like a simple and sensible option. I can see no reason why this could not be...

Although it is a bit controversial as to whether they are independent countries i would add, Abkhazia, Artsakh, South Ossetia, Transnistria, to the list of the most backwards European countries. They have limited recognition but they function as independent countries so i would consider them to...

It has been almost a year now since the war started and still no end in sight. How much money and weapons are we going to keep giving them. Our leaders seem to care more about the Ukraine than about our country that they were elected to serve. The UK and all the other Western countries have...

Indeed i forgot about the 442 which counts for both SWT and SWR as both of them introduced and withdrew them. The 707 entered service with SWT for just one day only. Otherwise the 707 would count too.