Is that as a trial?Trent Barton run the Red Arrow between Derby and Nottingham every 10 minuets stopping only at the QMC at Nottingham on the way. The coach only take about 10 minuets longer than most trains and from September will be 24/7 6 days a week.
I don't know as there is nothing on the Trent Barton website about the September changes at the moment. I got the new times from http://derbysbus.info/times/tt_A_Z.htm which the September times have been up for about 2 weeks now.Is that as a trial?
Aye, that was the one I was looking for
Serves me right being lazy and googling it, rather than going to SES website
Presumably it is as simple as insufficient profit could be made from them? I guess that in Scotland the distances between major urban areas is further, so congestion does not have such a debilitating effect on journey times. By the way, megabus is not 'advance booking only' - tickets can be purchased up to the time of travel, just not from the driver.How come virtually all coach routes in England and Wales (except a few) have been either withdrawn or downgraded to service bus operation?
By the way, megabus is not 'advance booking only' - tickets can be purchased up to the time of travel, just not from the driver.
Only from selected locations. From Leeds, coaches usually disappear from the website several hours before departure (regardless of how full they appeared to be before that time).
I think you are slighting megabus! It seems that up to departure time sales are enabled at all megabus locations - I believe it is only megabusplus, megatrain and through tickets to/from certain third party services have a longer (usually 24hr ) advance restriction.
At selected locations such as London Victoria Coach Station and Manchester Shudehill Interchange, you may be able to purchase tickets from a Self Service Ticket Machine or buy a walk-up fare on the day of travel from a member of megabus.com staff. Seats are subject to availability.
Quite how you can definitively tell from the megabus website 'how full they appeared to be before that time' is only your guess????
Of course, you may have some evidence to the contrary......
I travelled from Manchester Shudehill to Birmingham yesterday afternoon ( joining a coach en-route from Newcastle to Cardiff) and one member of supervisory staff double-checked with a colleague boarding us how many seats remained, as someone had turned up wanting to travel immediately while another passenger already booked wanted to bring a companion. As I was just climbing aboard I did not see how payment was made or a booking confirmation given, though the aforementioned self-service machine would have been available even though the small Megabus office was in darkness.I used to travel with megabus regularly.
I'm not sure what "up to departure time sales are enabled at all megabus locations" means.
Their website says:
Although I can't be sure, I think booking closes on many services when they leave their first stop. Some of the services I got started in Scotland.
I don't claim to be able to tell definitively - that's why I said "appeared to be" - but I caught the same services regularly and regularly saw they were unavailable to book several hours before departure. Coming from London they were usually available until just before departure.
Megabusplus/megatrain are often available less than 24 hours in advance - currently there are journeys tomorrow morning available - I have bought these same day, but not last minute.
I used to travel with megabus regularly.
I'm not sure what "up to departure time sales are enabled at all megabus locations" means.
Their website says:
Although I can't be sure, I think booking closes on many services when they leave their first stop. Some of the services I got started in Scotland.
I don't claim to be able to tell definitively - that's why I said "appeared to be" - but I caught the same services regularly and regularly saw they were unavailable to book several hours before departure. Coming from London they were usually available until just before departure.
Megabusplus/megatrain are often available less than 24 hours in advance - currently there are journeys tomorrow morning available - I have bought these same day, but not last minute.
Only from selected locations. From Leeds, coaches usually disappear from the website several hours before departure (regardless of how full they appeared to be before that time).