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Yeah I think aircon comes as standard on the Yutongs as it’s their only heating. It was the afternoon peak so it probably was quite comfortable on its return journey into town, but it was a bit stuffy when it was full and standing on my journey. At least there won’t be any reports or threads of...

I’m currently on 207 on the 39 - aircon seems to be out with all the hopper windows open instead. Having said that, it’s a better temperature than the one I was on last week which aircon seemed to be heating the bus up with the temp display proudly displaying 20 degrees inside and 13 outside...

I’m not sure I understand, surely the operators of buses and taxis would have to have their own safety cases and risk assessments done themselves? And what is this “significant” risk?

The Enviro 200 MMC seems to be their current standard bus order, but I remember hearing at the time that the Red Arrow coaches were part of a ‘deal’ where they also ordered a batch of Enviros at the same time. This, to me anyway, almost implied a bit of a discount on the coaches. Of course that...

In fact I’d certainly hope they aren’t Plaxtons.

With XCs long distance routes, generally stops that are missed just result in a larger dwell time at the stops before/or after. I guess their paths are fixed at certain congested points (Bristol, New St, Leeds, ECML) etc that it’s not easy to reduce journey times. I also gather that XC quite...

This does seem unlikely though as it is much harder to serve Glasgow on through services than it is Edinburgh.

Short answer? Like most things, money. Both in the sense of the upfront costs of a bigger build, building a new depot to cope with them etc, and also that a non-insignificant amount of services likely won’t need 10 car 802s.

It most likely is a 175, not coupled to the set of course

The problem with using them to start extra services is that these would later have to be withdrawn to provide adequate service to OOC.

“All reversations taken. Some unreserved seats in Coach C” could work?

The article says it was parked, so maybe the driver was on a break?

But the Blackpool North train was cancelled and the slower train he got was headed for Glasgow not Blackpool?

Is that really the rule? Couldn’t you argue that the next train after yours to arrive into Preston is the direct, and not the slow via Birmingham?

Trains aren’t plans - they don’t pick up a full load of people in place A to take them all to Place B. They pick people up and drop people off on the way, so that destination population maths is essentially q