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Hi, I just catched a bit of Inside Out West Midlands, in which they said the Servern Valley Railway is desperate for new engineer apprenticeships. They talked about how people aren't taking on a "career" there. Now I assumed it's all voluntary, for no pay; but the way they talked was as if it...

The London Midland website allows you to buy a ticket to "London All-Zones Travelcard". What does this actually mean? i.e. does it give you a ticket to Euston plus an all zones travelcard? Or does it just allow you to travel to a station in the travelcard area? Finally where is this ticket...

Just had one of those days from hell, but basically the ticket office told us to catch the 1043 Bournemouth service from Wolverhampton, which was announced and said on the screens it was calling at Birmingham International and Coventry. We had a shock when it passed through Tyseley; the guard...

Arriva have taken a big step into the West Midlands market buying out local company Midland. http://arrivabus.co.uk/arriva-aquire-midland.aspx This is a fleet of 61 buses, operating these routes: http://www.midlandbus.net/tt_westmidlands.htm Fleet list at wmbusphotos...

Firstly I wholly expect the answer to be "no", and having never used a Pacer I don't know what they're like (luckily, probably). http://www.halesowennews.co.uk/news/9468327.Cradley_Heath_firm_releases_new_images_of_proposed_light_rail_link/ Parry People Movers - class 139...

How protected are bus company names and liveries? It seems strange how many second hand buses retain their former companies' liveries and even brand names on the side. For example ACL Travel and Handyrider buses are seen in Wolverhampton operated by Travel Express with no effort made to hide...

If you have a railway photo in your avatar (that you took yourself or is special to you): Where did you take it? What's special about it? Mine is from my only ever journey to London. Ended up with a confusing trip (off peak restrictions, either the guard or London Midland's website got it...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18194235 From this weekend all websites must obtain consent before storing cookies on user's computers. I am so annoyed at this, as they are complicating a basic feature of web browsing. Cookies are the standard for storing data on the user's machine...

Does anyone have any links or articles about it? It all seems to be going on in the background. I know they're taking over a lot of Midland and Diamond's routes. They seem to have brought in a lot of new and nearly-new buses, mostly from Leicester. I note they've also opened a new garage...

So I've found myself catching the Liverpool to Birmingham service quite a few times the past few weeks. Every time the train has "turned into" the Birmingham to Euston stopper. I'm wondering why this isn't advertised as Liverpool to Euston. The waiting time in between the journeys wasn't very...

On Monday I purchased an off-peak return from Leicester to Birmingham, £10.65 (16-25 railcard). I caught the 18:16 and the guard told me I was too early for that ticket. As I'm travelling at the same time tomorrow, what time is this ticket valid? There are signs in the station saying XC day...

Hi, I was just on the 18:22 Birmingham to Stanstead XC service. Around Narborough, the driver blew his horn as we hit something quite hard. We stopped shortly after (although I was surprised how long it took to stop - a good minute or two; we were clearly decelerating. Just goes to show how...

I'm working on a little video game but realised I might be breaching trademarks. Does anybody know the status of the following things: - the standard "tube map" - the London Underground roundell - the name "London Underground", "Underground", "Overground" in general - the London...

Purely hypothetical; how much does a typical bus cost? I know volume of order would be important, let's say one was to order ten of each: Wright Streetcar 33 seat Optare Solo SR smallest Wright Eclipse 2 I'm sorry I don't know much about buses, so let's assume a "basic" order with a...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/hands-off-our-land/9165205/Countryside-planning-revolution-new-city-proposed-for-Midlands.html If like me you're a Midlands kid, you probably have some vague dream of what a joined up Birmingham and Coventry would be like - not saying I'd want it to ever...

So some jobs in the police force and local councils are going to be sourced from private, commercial companies. I'm not going to argue whether that's right or wrong, I have a question really: How can this possibly save money? I'm sure there is a reason, otherwise they wouldn't be doing it...

The new cities are Chelmsford (understandable), Perth (Scottish), and St Asaph... Forgive me for being biased, but why is St Asaph, population 3,500, worthy of being a city over Dudley, population 195,000, or even Reading, 232,000? ...well, yes I know why, it had to be Welsh, I think. In...

I was trying to work out which existing freight locos would look nice as locos for a passenger service, but it occured to me I don't know of any loco hauled trains other than the HST and the 225/variations of. (Barring private charters and such) I'm wondering what the newest loco-hauled...

Earlier in the year we had a large amount of Wright Eclipse single deckers brought in on the cross city 2, 3, and 4 routes. This week I've noticed several other routes are operating "them", but I haven't noticed reductions on the cross cities'; is this a new order? There are a lot of them (on...

Hi, trying to get a return for my sister from Wolverhampton to Birmingham, an open return doesn't seem to be available? Virgin and London Midland's websites only seem to be giving me singles each way (or a day return). Cheapest (not virgin-only) I can find is two singles which comes to £8.40...