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Tees-side Airport to Allens West!

The Tees Flex service has been running a while now - there seems to be a few who use it, to be fair.

I travelled myself on XC the other day, and I didn't see one member of staff between Darlington and Edinburgh - and all of the ticket gates were open. This doesn't surprise me in the slightest given the new ways of working with Coronavirus etc.

If i'm honest, the 'general public' are looking for quick journeys to their destinations, not necessarily an iconic train. It all depends, if they're business travellers, they would rather be in central London or a business area as quickly as possible - they won't really care about what train is...

No idea - maybe the ideology is that Yarm isn't served as well (TPE being the only stoppers there)and Eaglescliffe already has good connections to Darlington every 30 mins. TPE stopping there would be ideal, and no doubt would take away from the Darlington service with connections to York &...

Most would get off at Thornaby, which is only just slightly further away than Stockton station itself - a 10 minute walk. Or, people could get the Grand Central and change at Eaglescliffe for Thornaby rather than Darlington - there are plenty of buses from there too. I'd expect maybe Whitby to...

I was unfortunately caught up in this as it happened. 11:06 from Edinburgh to Penzance arrived approx 10:55 - all good. Then at 11:06 turned to 'Delayed' - however, the onboard team could not have been more helpful and kept us updated fully. We were moving from about 11:40 which isn't too bad...

For those of you who are playing this line down - have you actually travelled on it? A 2 car 156 is full and standing on most services throughout the day on this line - especially in summer. Arriva operate a half hourly bus service from Middlesbrough direct to Whitby - therefore, there is a...

Durham - Newcastle is a relatively small journey, if the gates are open at both ends I can see how it would be easy to fare evade. I've travelled four times this week between Berwick & Darlington, and each time I've had my ticket checked twice - so maybe they're more interested about who's...

Has been fairly slow all day, my brother and I went to book tickets earlier and it was basically crawling pace and a few time outs!

That looks great! Very 800 like!

It's definately a step forward to reward loyalty. Although the East Coast is now operated by LNER, not Virgin!

There's a case study on the Train Chartering website, most likely worth a read: https://trainchartering.com/case-studies/title-section/casestudies_tracks_waves.html

Only one I really know of is the Travelodge in Hartlepool - Marina, Seafront and Railway Station views.

Worst comes to worst, post a section of the panel (IE the font you want) on to www.dafont.com - they're usually good at coming up with similar fonts/finding the exact.