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My memory tells me there was some kind of awkward maintenance disaster/fiasco at Livingston depot a few years ago wasn't there? Im sure the proverbial also hit the fan at Larbert Depot also.

X10 and X10A barely scrapes by. How that route managed to get some relatively new Enviro 400 Deckers and not some displaced manky clapped out Geminis from Glasgow is actually quite impressive.

Stirling has been left to stagnate- but thats mainly because its not brilliant bus operating territory, so not all the blame lies at the door with First on this one. Fallkirk - bus services are all things to all people and the network is very unweidly and the current form it is in - and today...

Terminating services at Bellgrove and High Street these days are performance risks, especially as if you terminated at Bellgrove or High Street in service and then departed as empties the driver would need to put in a new headcode for the empties into the GSMR. Then the traincrew have to make...

Silverburn park and ride in Glasgow was as far as I know the only bus-based park and ride service in Glasgow at the time and was opened up when Silverburn Shopping Centre opened. There was a building that would have been a nice waiting area, but was never opened to the public. Facilities was...

On Boxing Day I passed a broken down 500 branded decker on the hard shoulder of the M8 just before Braehead. Couple of hours later there was a branded 38 on the 500s, presuming that the broken down 500 was replaced by the 38 branded bus which was spare- plenty of them on a Boxing Day Sunday...

This can also leave bus drivers in an awkward situation where someone has a FirstDay/week or Month ticket and has no other means of payment or, more realistically, simply won't pay again (in their eyes) to use the 46 bus. What if someone doesn't know that the contract changed hands and has...

The amount of block failures at Lugton and the associated obsolescence of using Absolute Block Signalling says to me the current infrastructure is not adequate….. It also only takes one train to be late between Barrhead and Kilmarnock on the single line sections to absolutely stuff up the...

That is exactly the solution I had, but sadly this kind of common sense does not work on the railway.

I remember watching it at the time and it was an uncomfortable bit of viewing. the only positive, it wasn’t very pretentious like more modern day documentaries, it followed day today people being honest and speaking their minds.

The Pioneering Spirit bus route. I wonder if any customers call the route the Pioneering Spirit or if it means anything to the customers? I have a sneaky suspicion the answer to both is "naw".

I very much doubt either company will go after each other. Competition costs money, vast sums of money and passenger numbers will never be the same again- this is why Xplore pruned services for the end of January. Stagecoach are savvy enough to know they cannot go after them due to the...

The difference here is that in Dundee, they are a main operator and Nat Ex have done them a massive favour by already making/planning efficiencies to the network.

Well its not the age of the bus, but the condition of the bus that matters and presentation at McGills is generally very good. Unlike a rival multinational operator who has buses that are in a terrible condition internally, but has operations in England where similar and older buses have been...

Probably not. If i recall correctly the stance arrival and departure fees for using the Airport were reported to be quite high.

Im not suprised by this. This useless bus stop at the main entrance featured in an article in buses magazine in the November 2019 issue discussing the bus war. If you have two buses at the bus stop at the same time and another bus comes in its chaos. For those who havent been there before...

The 19A and the X2 were heavily discussed in this thread. First Glasgow were mentioned in the news article also.

https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/18823757.royston-residents-transport-blow-bus-services-axed/ Outrage as the 19A loses its SPT subsidised evening service. The anger passes from the money grabbing shareholder focused capaitalist greedy First to the publicly accountable, publicly funded...

I have a very old Strathclyde's Buses timetable from nineteen canteen somewhere deep in my loft for the 37. I can't remember off the top off my head, but it was very regular back in the day, right from first thing in the morning to last thing at night. it slowly got run down when First...

Makes so much sense to split this service. Been up and down on the route, when it was a 38 years ago and when it became an X38 and done a few runs Stirling to Edinburgh and found it very relaxing- but also very long winded and you can end up with a numb bum! I've also been on the route a few...