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    Trivia: Where can you still buy a single for less than £2?

    National Express West Midlands issue a ' Short Hop ' fare. Generally for distances up to 1 mile, priced £1.50. Only to be paid by cash,exact change only, into the fare hopper.
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    Companies That You Expect to Disappear Soon

    There is an Officer's Club in Preston ( seen it last week) and believe there is one in Rochdale.
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    Speculative : future of the British bus industry

    Nothing dire regarding the closure of Discount Travel Solutions.
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    Annoying television adverts...

    Who or what is Dolmio ?
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    Best value unsubsidised day (bus) tickets

    National Express WM day ticket, whatever it is called. £4 for all the way between Stourbridge/ Codsall and Leamington Spa. Not even any a.m. peak hour restriction any more !
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    Smoking on Trains

    Never seen any ante vape notices on Avanti West Coast, or Virgin before them. That includes their managed stations and rolling stock.
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    What products can you remember that have disappeared?

    Phillips mobile phones. Bosch mobile phones. Sagem mobile phones. Ericsson mobile phones. Panasonic mobile phones. Blackberry mobile phones. HTC mobile phones.
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    What products can you remember that have disappeared?

    Gob stoppers.
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    Trivia: Which combinations of London terminals don't have a direct bus between them?

    Fenchurch Street to any of them ?
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    Trivia: Station names that do not reflect where they are

    If any sense was to be applied it would be renamed 'Oldbury and West Bromwich'.
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    Trivia: Largest town/city without a major bus depot

    Solihull. Town 123,000. Borough 215,000.
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    Comedic "things you would ban": minor things that irritate you

    Agree. And any sentence,written or spoken, substituting 'got' with 'gotten '.
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    Comedic "things you would ban": minor things that irritate you

    Men wearing Alice Bands. Yes you Jack Grealish.
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    Comedic "things you would ban": minor things that irritate you

    Children in supermarkets ( full stop ) on Saturday mornings.
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    Comedic "things you would ban": minor things that irritate you

    Trent Barton bus timetables in 12 hour formats. Ok, I understand that the company operates in a backward part of England, but just modernise.
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    Old sayings that you heard in your childhood.

    "Love a duck". When surprised.
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    Annoying television adverts...

    But not to a bloke named Gareth !
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    National Express Depot in Birmingham to be Redeveloped

    Today is was reported in the Birmingham Mail that Digbeth Coach Station is to be redeveloped. In its place are to be built 2200 apartments. *Mod note* Thread title changed as it is not Digbeth Coach Station that is to be redeveloped. Please remember that if you're reporting news like this, you...
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    Is Birmingham OK?

    Society now in the U. K. is as unequal as in Queen Victoria's reign.
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    Bleakest / loneliest mainline station

    Tipton. Why? Because it's in Tipton. So if you miss a train, got 29 minutes to wait for the next one what do you do ?

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