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Nottingham and Sutton do seem to be very reliable in recent months but they have also been through bad times. For example the Threes were terribly unreliable with many cancellations before the new buses arrived. Before TrentBarton gave up on the 141 it had become so unreliable that people really...

Hopefully the overtime ban won’t cause too many problems for me travelling up to Aberdeen from Nottingham on Tuesday 7th May. I’m hoping that now there will not be any strikes the following week when I am due to travel back on Thursday 16th May. I had originally planned to make this trip at the...

Going north from Nottingham, changing at Grantham would always be my first choice. Unfortunately these days the LNER trains to Newcastle and Edinburgh do not stop at Grantham. For most of the day, except for a 2 hourly train to York, there is nothing from Grantham to anywhere on the ECML north...

I very much disagree with you. For travel from Nottingham with connections to/from XC services to the NE and Edinburgh, Chesterfield is a much easier and more convenient station to change at than Sheffield. The main advantage of changing at Chesterfield, especially for those with luggage...

A similar situation to the discussion in this thread concerning Wolverhampton, and the recent thread about Winchester and Basingstoke, is XC also missing out calls at Chesterfield. Again the problem being large numbers of people using the trains for the short journey to Sheffield. Almost all of...

I agree. I somewhat understand the reasoning for the X17 extension to Wirksworth as it does provide a through bus to the popular area around Matlock Bath from Sheffield and Chesterfield. Any further extensions beyond Wirksworth would just make the route too long and cause even more delays...

That’s the main reason why I really dislike travelling on them if going away for a few days with luggage. Terrible design when even a very small case won’t fit on the overhead rack. I really don‘t like having to put a small case in the end of the carriage luggage racks and like to have it close...

Thanks for that very comprehensive list of ideas. Reading it brings back many memories of places I visited 25 years ago when I stayed for two weeks in Burghead. I remember quite well that it was August 1999 as I came up with my mother just a few months after my dad had died. When so many people...

Thanks for the suggestions so far. It definitely looks like a trip down to Stonehaven and a coastal walk to Dunnottar Castle will be on my list of trips to do. I will be travelling by train up to Aberdeen from Nottingham so will do the line between Stonehaven and Aberdeen then. Therefore, as I...

Next month I am hoping to visit the North East of Scotland, staying in Aberdeen for 9 nights. I say hoping because this was a trip originally planned for May last year, but I had to cancel it because of a series of RMT and ASLEF strikes at the time which would have made travel to/from Nottingham...

I also spent last week on the North Norfolk Coast. I hadn’t written a report for this thread because it was mainly a holiday walking sections of the coastal path with a little bit of bird watching. I stayed in a very nice, although somewhat expensive hotel, on the coast road at Kelling which Is...

After I had written my comment and posted it I began to think that perhaps I had misunderstood a joke.

But isn‘t the main purpose of church bells for them to be rung before the Sunday service, not midweek during the working day.

For about 10 consecutive years during the 1990’s I used to go on holiday for a week every Easter with my local bellringers. We always stayed in Southwold in Suffolk. We used to ring bells at churches in towns and villages all over Suffolk and parts of Norfolk during the day and then spent the...

I’ve just been out this morning cycling along some country lanes near Southwell in Nottinghamshire. After just a few hours of rain overnight there is standing water in the fields and water running off the fields onto the roads. The ground is so saturated and waterlogged that it can’t take any...

Newark does have a huge catchment area but for Nottingham it would be far more useful to have a few more trains calling at Grantham. Except for the 2 hourly train to York there are no trains throughout the main part of the day from Grantham to anywhere north of Doncaster. Unless you travel via...

I think there are definitely regional variations in cash use, but around here I find it quite localised. Many of my local bus routes pass through some very affluent rural areas, but also within a few miles can also pass through some very depressed ex-mining communities. It is quite noticeable on...

My experience is that many people are using cash to pay for the £2 fares. It is a very convenient amount to be able to pay using the correct amount and not requiring change. If the flat fare was raised to a higher level, even £2.50, paying with the exact correct amount would not be so convenient...

Grey squirrels are certainly a possibility. I had them dig similar holes in my lawn a couple of years ago. They never dug down any deeper than the hole in the photograph.

Returning to the old fares again also has the problem that the longer the £2 fare or any flat fare remains, the more the original fare may have increased due to inflation and fare rises. It won’t just be going back to the old fare but to an even higher fare. On many rural routes, where single...