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Recent content by duncombec

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    Closed heritage railway stations.

    I'll not sure this is officially 'closed'. The railway's website says the district council are currently refurbishing the access, but in general the site is open on specific days or for pre-booked groups. Also, Blake Hall was never operated as a station by the Epping Ongar - Wikipedia says the...
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    Kent Thameside Fastrack (Go-Ahead London)

    They have been on use for a few weeks now, generally being soft-launched to run them in. It's not uncommon for them to be swapped at the depot. I don't believe the Gravesend chargers are in use yet, aside from testing.
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    I made a complaint about not able to buy a ticket online, and got an unhelpful reply which simply repeated the fact.

    Ah, ok, fair point. I assume those are the links listed here: https://www.thameslinkrailway.com/tickets/bus I notice none of those are operated by Arriva or Uno, nor are they line-to-line tickets, just extensions.
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    I made a complaint about not able to buy a ticket online, and got an unhelpful reply which simply repeated the fact.

    This seems to me that rather than them not being bothered to read the question, or just repeating back the fact, what has actually happened is something along the lines of: You: You need to add the schedule data so I can buy this ticket online [as I think I ought to be able to]. Thameslink...
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    I made a complaint about not able to buy a ticket online, and got an unhelpful reply which simply repeated the fact.

    Perhaps there is a reason why they cannot be sold online (e.g. acceptance on bus ticket machines), and the likely small takeup of such an offer means there is little benefit (but much cost) to making it happen? As they are explicitly not available for bus journeys alone, perhaps ensuring you buy...
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    New Stagecoach bus livery

    All of the other graphics use the new logo, with the correctly spelled word "We've" - only the "Service Update" graphic seems to have gone awry in this fashion (twice). Rather like the BBC's live feed headline yesterday announcing in big letters that the King was in some place called "Ottowa"...
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    Furthest distance that you could travel on one bus ticket.

    Not quite... Farleigh and Seaford & District no longer operate any regular public services and haven't for at least a year (indeed, Farleigh's operations are now private use only). The Big Lemon also now have no suitable operations in the Discovery area, all their regular services being based in...
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    Hulley's of Baslow

    Andrews has been tracking on bustimes since Wednesday 7th. Ashbourne CT still don't in terms of 110 and 111, although curiously they have long done so for their A53 service (only).
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    Hulley's of Baslow

    The initial "Statement of Affairs" from the liquidator was posted to Companies House on 1 May. (Apologies, but the direct link is several lines of auto-generated code, but can be downloaded from the "Filing History" page here...
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    Brighton & Hove / Metrobus Discussion

    Oops! That's what I get for trying to look at the picture on a train, and missing the big red circle... The two full-size images from the web page being screenshotted are here, and suggest that they may indeed be B&H vehicles...
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    Brighton & Hove / Metrobus Discussion

    I think that's the Merseytravel livery.
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    Longest trip without repeating operator

    TfL 358 Crystal Palace - Orpington > Go-Coach 3 Orpington - Sevenoaks > Arriva 402 Sevenoaks - Tunbridge Wells > B&H 29 Tunbridge Wells - Brighton > Stagecoach 700 Brighton - Worthing (and onto Durrington). After that, it depends if you count the 700 as a through service ending up in...
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    Hulley's of Baslow

    The inquiry for Alf Crofts as Transport Manager is listed in this week's South East & Metropolitan N&P for 10 June at 13:30 in Warrington, so this appears to be accurate. Confirmation will no doubt follow in this week's North West N&P.
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    East Kent Railway

    The train departure times are on the website under "Opening Times".
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    The perpetual pain of convincing bus drivers of the validity of your ticket.

    Compass Travel actively promote the Discovery ticket themselves, so I'd hope you don't have issues. I had no issue using an Arriva-issued ticket extensively on Metrobus services yesterday as soon as they saw the Discovery logo (no barcode)

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