Recent content by LordCreed

A short walk around the corner to Morrisons, and it's time to catch the 17:01 X7 Arriva service as far as Oxford High Street, arriving at 18:35.

And even harder if you're on your own, travelling with a baby and another young child like I do. Obviously I'd fold the pushchair if a wheelchair needed the bay (and have done on several occasions), but it is difficult especially when the youngest is asleep. Luckily my local operator has a...

One thing I wish is that operators order vehicles with separate wheelchair and pushchair bays. With the exception of rural routes using tiny vehicles, it really shouldn't be one or the other. Luckily many of the bigger companies use vehicles to this specification, but London is probably the...

Anyone know why the 51 has been operated by single deckers since Tuesday? Highly unusual for the entire allocation to be single decks. I've only ever known it during extreme weather!

I'm fairly confident that the PDF should have a 15:15 journey, not a 14:45 journey, as there's no bus that arrives in time for 14:45 (there is a 15:06 arrival - but no sign of that yesterday)

Attempted to catch the 15:15 T1 off Hengistbury Head today, but by 15:40 it still hadn't turned up. Unfortunately as the route doesn't often track on bustimes it wasn't possible to see if it was coming, so caught more back to Bournemouth instead. On another note, it's actually quite difficult...

I've been trying to find some historic timetables for the two southern routes to Cinderford prior to closure in the late 1940's / early 1950's. Cinderford New - Newnham Cinderford New - Lydeny (via Drybrook Road) Does anyone happen to have any information? Anything is helpful, from timings...

The workload is such that it's unlikely a crew diagram is worked on for more than a minute or two, with no chance to go back and check for errors (such checks used to be a thing, but were the first to go when Covid vastly increased the workload, further increased by strikes).

For GWR: 769s are no longer going into service, so the traction can be removed from Reading. Gloucester and Penzance Conductors are no more. They're all now Train Managers. Swindon sign 387 and 80X

I believe today was the first journey of the weekly 781 between Blakeney and Gloucester. Anyone happen to know what is running on it? I presume the Bristol 200MMCs, but that's a fair amount of dead mileage!

Couldn't see a thread for this, and as the cuts are multi-operator, figured a new thread would be best... West of England Combined Authority have signed off the withdrawal of 36 routes because funding can't be agreed between councils. Appalling as these changes will leave vast areas without a...

Whilst Stroud - Gloucester maintains the same frequency, the reduced service to Forest Green will cause problems on match days.

An improvement for Chippenham, but a reduction in services for Bassett, and a significant portion of Bassett that now sees no services.

Interesting the ones purchased in Swindon just say they're not valid on the N94, and make no reference to the other Oxford operators.

The West Gold Dayrider is valid on all Stagecoach West and Stagecoach Oxford routes, so you'll be absolutely fine using it. It's listed on the Oxford day ticket page, and I've had no issues using them: https://www.stagecoachbus.com/regionaltickets/oxfordshire/oxfordshire/dayrider