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  1. omnicity4659

    Northern trialling PRT tickets from ticket machines

    No reason why buses can't accept them as they are, we accept printed stock without scanning them. Having actual PlusBus etickets would stop the select few who wave their standard station to station tickets at us drivers expecting a free ride :D
  2. omnicity4659

    Train departing before replacement bus arrives

    Rail replacement bus stop at Market Rasen is at the Tesco petrol station, which matches your description of a "5 minute walk".
  3. omnicity4659

    TRIVIA: Places that National Express coaches no longer serve

    Ashington, Blyth, Whitley Bay, North Shields and South Shields. Also believe Morpeth is no longer served and it stops on the outskirts of Alnwick instead of the bus station.
  4. omnicity4659

    Career as a MIP (Wheelchair User)

    Mobility impaired person
  5. omnicity4659

    West Highland line Alco blockage 27.10.22

    It's Alvance these days.
  6. omnicity4659

    Ensignbus £10 contactless limit and Apple Pay / Google Pay ban

    That's what I meant, apologies. But yeah, it should be the case that on buses where the fare isn't variable based on tapping and capping, that any amount should be authorised immediately. I believe Ticketer does this anyway for higher value tickets. It seems like the £10 limit on Ensignbus...
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    Ensignbus £10 contactless limit and Apple Pay / Google Pay ban

    With Ensignbus banning Monzo and Revolut cards, even after the £10 limit, then that narrows it down to the fraudulent use of Virtual Cards. You don't have to have money on any card to be able to pay for a bus ticket from a Ticketer machine due to the delay in processing, but with a conventional...
  8. omnicity4659

    [TRIVIA] Incorrectly spelt destinations

    "Morpeth & Kikhill" is displayed on the "via Bedlington Station" screen of Arriva's 2 in Northumberland. All other 'via' screens show the correct spelling of Kirkhill.
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    Has on train entertainment had its day?

    Virgin's BEAM was the best offering on the railway in my opinion, they actually provided full series of shows to watch, along with movies that were popular at the time. They regularly rotated what was being shown too. Other operators used an existing entertainment provider (VUER on National...
  10. omnicity4659

    Royal Trains - are there any lines that Royal Trains have never traversed?

    Can't imagine any royal trains have been on the Blyth & Tyne line or up to Ashington/Newbiggin at any point :lol: Closest one has been is Tynemouth, now part of the Metro.
  11. omnicity4659

    Avanti in crisis talks to consider OLR

    DfT had the rights to the old Northern logo transferred to them - all that they didn't have rights for was "arriva", which ARN removed before handover. Nothing to do with fonts, however I'd imagine they have to pay to license the VAG Rounded font that they currently use...
  12. omnicity4659

    Passenger bridge congestion at Newcastle

    There's a subway linking platform 2 with 3 and 4 at Newcastle. Accessible by lifts behind Boots on 2 and next to Costa on 3.
  13. omnicity4659

    Using Trainline and Paying with Klarna One Time card

    Hopefully this is something that gets sorted out sooner rather than later, as virtual cards are growing in popularity as a product on their own, without being attached to the likes of Google or Apple Pay.
  14. omnicity4659

    The Official DVSA Guide to Driving Buses and Coaches 2022

    Yup, WHSmith had it in my local branch, although check the edition as they had older copies on display too. I'd suggest that only the larger WHS stores will stock it.
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    Stations rebranded to Great British Railways design / Rail Alphabet 2

    The italicised i for tourist information is used nationally on road signs and other settings, it makes sense from a wayfinding point of view to have different symbols, especially if tourists don't speak English as their first language.
  16. omnicity4659

    Longest bus route in England?

    Go North East's X11 between Newcastle and Scarborough, around 90 miles.
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    Rail replacement buses during strikes

    Tyne and Wear Metro ran replacement buses between Pelaw and South Hylton on Saturday 25th to cover for engineering works. They said it wasn't possible to provide buses on the Tuesday and Thursday, which is probably true as they didn't have anyone contracted to run the 'preplanned' service on...
  18. omnicity4659

    TRIVIA: Train services (England) not serving any Conservative constituency

    I think the Metro, along with Northern's short Newcastle to MetroCentre services, will be the only contenders for Tyne and Wear. Morpeth to MetroCentre would have qualified had it not been extended to Hexham and Carlisle...and Cramlington (in Blyth Valley) turning blue in 2019!
  19. omnicity4659

    How do BTP manage to cover the rail network?

    No, it would be local police as it wouldn't be on railway property.

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