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    Derbyshire Wayfarer validity

    Get on a bus on Sunday, buy, and get off. Go to one of these on Saturday and buy in advance tourist information centres in Bakewell, Buxton, Castleton, Chesterfield, Derby, Edale and Swadlincote the bus travel office at Derby Bus Station New Mills Heritage Centre Redfern's Cottage Museum...
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    York station Lowther Terrace (Holgate) exit

    Lowther Terrace, Lowther Street is a mile away. NR York Station map is not working Is it part of the a master plan to focus the bus/taxi/drop off in this area.
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    CODE BLACK- "DO NOT TRAVEL" GWR Sunday 18/02/2024

    133% over 3 months should be well within contingency planning and will not be the direct.
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    Derbyshire Wayfarer validity

    Well I was there so I know exactly what happened.
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    Derbyshire Wayfarer validity

    Thanks. That is good news for my son(30)who has a ENCTS card issued for his disability. No, as in proof of age. As previously 60 was the age when the Concessionary fare could be applies and I use. If issued with a Senior Railcard you would be 60+. An ENCTS card could be any age although I...
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    Derbyshire Wayfarer validity

    A Senior Railcard has been accepted for years the purposes of proof of age (60)when buy £7.70 Concessionary Derbyshire Wayfarer. Possession of an ENCTS is now required which means the the Wayfarer is no longer a 60+ ticket but a ENCTS. Question. Can a Disabled ENCTS Card Holder now obtain a...
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    Derbyshire Wayfarer validity

    The iKB says: November 2023: The Derbyshire Wayfarer is available for Adults, Children, people aged over 60 (Proof of ID required) and Derbyshire County Council Concessionary Pass holders. February 2024: The Derbyshire Wayfarer is available for Adults, Children, Derbyshire County Council...
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    Lineside yellow cylinder???

    If the lubricant is graphite then it has excellent electrical conductivity. It is also very hard and can be applied as a powder and spreads extremely thinly.
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    Sheffield Supertram & Tram Train news

    Previously the trams in this area were underused, with trams from Broomhill(Crookes Junction) to Fulwood(Nether Green) being one of earliest sections to close, the section along Glossop Road up to Broomhill was not completed. The impossibility of a Park n' Ride, the difficulty of managing the...
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    Pumpkin Sheffield closed

    The 'Application' notices pasted on the windows and doors indicate it will open as something else.
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    Six trains damaged near Kirkstall Forge

    Decades ago our slowly moving train near Shipley was attacked by three older teenagers with distinctive clothing and witnessed and even photographed by at least four passengers. Neither the guard or BTP at Leeds took any notice or took contact details or statements.
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    Routeing Advice Please - Cleethorpes <> Derby <> Bletchley

    We travel regularly between Sheffield and Leighton Buzzard.The via Tamworth route is usually the fastest and has the cheapest advances. The disadvantage is the number of XC trains arriving late at Tamworth and with only an hourly service to Milton Keynes a long wait in the bus shelter is not...
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    Manchester Victoria then and now

    I actually loved it - particularly the Boddingtons and playing on a 'Manchester' dart board. It was about going places- Heysham, Stranraer, Holyhead, Oxenholme, ...out of the gloom into pastures and pastures new or a Greenfield. I actually bought tickets to Prague there.
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    Manchester Victoria then and now

    Fifty years ago: 18 and beer on a Sunday. The entrance that led down to the Boddington's brewery and the pub at the gates, filling lemonade bottles with beer Waiting for the Bangor train somewhere on platform eleven. "Where is the 'middle'"? "It's where you can't see an end!" Destination signs...
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    NR app shows tram departures from Rotherham but not Meadowhall?

    Trains(Sheffield on departure board) and tram trains (Sheffield Cathedral or Cathedral on departure board and clearly on tram train) depart from different platforms.
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    NR app shows tram departures from Rotherham but not Meadowhall?

    No, tram trains (Black route from Cathedral to Parkgate) don't go to Meadowhall Interchange, they go through Meadowhall South. The trams at Meadowhall Interchange are on Purple and Yellow route services.
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    Hope Valley Capacity Scheme updates

    Your last paragraph makes a lot of sense. The 195s have made the Marple route immeasurably more comfortable and arrival/departure at the exit doors at Piccadilly(and free bus) saves 5 minutes of real hassle to from and at platform 13/14. It is now my route of choice unless I am going on the...
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    Helping a local bus company.

    Does my local bus company benefit more from the revenue from a ENCTS senior ticket or by my purchase of a Derbyshire Wayfarer ticket(£7.00 for 60+ folk), the rail bit I use later anyway? The whole bus route is more than 20 miles.
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    How often are quiet coaches actually quiet?

    Which of course we do.
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    How often are quiet coaches actually quiet?

    Quiet coaches are too often populated by stressed out people, whose 'tutting', 'glancing', 'groaning' and 'moaning' irritate everybody else and not the person(s) who irritates them. I regularly travel with an autistic person who finds the behaviour of the these people far more difficult to deal...

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