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Recent content by The Albion

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    Trivia: Where can you still buy a single for less than £2?

    National Express West Midlands issue a ' Short Hop ' fare. Generally for distances up to 1 mile, priced £1.50. Only to be paid by cash,exact change only, into the fare hopper.
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    Companies That You Expect to Disappear Soon

    There is an Officer's Club in Preston ( seen it last week) and believe there is one in Rochdale.
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    Speculative : future of the British bus industry

    Nothing dire regarding the closure of Discount Travel Solutions.
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    Annoying television adverts...

    Who or what is Dolmio ?
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    Best value unsubsidised day (bus) tickets

    National Express WM day ticket, whatever it is called. £4 for all the way between Stourbridge/ Codsall and Leamington Spa. Not even any a.m. peak hour restriction any more !
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    Smoking on Trains

    Never seen any ante vape notices on Avanti West Coast, or Virgin before them. That includes their managed stations and rolling stock.
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    What products can you remember that have disappeared?

    Phillips mobile phones. Bosch mobile phones. Sagem mobile phones. Ericsson mobile phones. Panasonic mobile phones. Blackberry mobile phones. HTC mobile phones.
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    Trivia: Station names that do not reflect where they are

    If any sense was to be applied it would be renamed 'Oldbury and West Bromwich'.
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    Trivia: Largest town/city without a major bus depot

    Solihull. Town 123,000. Borough 215,000.
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    Comedic "things you would ban": minor things that irritate you

    Agree. And any sentence,written or spoken, substituting 'got' with 'gotten '.
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    Comedic "things you would ban": minor things that irritate you

    Men wearing Alice Bands. Yes you Jack Grealish.
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    Comedic "things you would ban": minor things that irritate you

    Children in supermarkets ( full stop ) on Saturday mornings.
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    Comedic "things you would ban": minor things that irritate you

    Trent Barton bus timetables in 12 hour formats. Ok, I understand that the company operates in a backward part of England, but just modernise.

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