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Agreed. I have always found the same for Traveline Midlands and Traveline South East - generally updated timetables appeared on them well before they did on the operator sites. Edit 28/09/2020. An example of this is Hulleys 171 (Bakewell - Hartington - Leek), which commences on October 26th...

I'm not sure of the exact dates, but Traveline South East was the first site developed by MENTZ, and after it was implemented for TSE, at various times Traveline South West, Traveline West Midlands and Traveline East Midlands adopted the same format, with a great deal of co-operation between the...

Thanks - now looks fine !

Thanks - as ever this is incredibly useful for understanding how things are changing. However, I’m not sure about the ‘Compressed changes’ option, which appears to give the same result as the Default (at least it does for STA, EUS and SKI, which were the first ones I looked at). Perhaps there...

The problem is that Public Transport is virtually the only location where social distancing is virtually impossible which is still open. All others - pubs, restaurants, places of worship, schools, universities, theatres, gyms, sports stadia etc. are just closed. As a result we are faced with a...

Good point. I always buy tickets in advance for travel from Stafford to London, but usually they are not actually ‘Advance tickets’ - which would take some explaining to the ‘man in the street’ !

The actual report is correct re reservations, it’s the headline mentioning ‘advance tickets‘ which is the problem. (In my view a common issue in all news media because the headlines aren’t written by the same people as the articles so are not specialist in the subject). Unfortunately, the...

Are you sure ? Looking at RTT for 18/05/2020, they appear to have shifted the existing xx17 Oxford Road stopper to xx20 but with four fewer stops and re-instated(?) the xx54/xx55 Oxford Road stopper serving the same number of (but different) stops. The only through Airport service remains the...

Out of interest, what it the best place to find the source of the detailed TfL statistics on how busy early morning trains are ? Although I haven't been able to track these down, I have found an interesting November 2019 article TfL published some tables about Tube Capacity and they are amazing...

I would imagine they are very busy, as they leave Piccadilly at xx30 and take 61 mins to Leeds (with 6 stops) just ahead of the xx34 to Newcastle, which takes 66 mins to Leeds (with 4 stops including Oxford Road and Victoria). Whether they are carrying many passengers to Selby, Brough and Hull...

Based on what you say about Wakefield, it seems that being close to the M1 hasn't done much for its prosperity either !

I would expect that David Brown (like other Northern staff) would have been given the choice of TUPE'ing over to DOHL or staying with Arriva. As Arriva have no obvious vacancies for an MD type role with Cross-Country, Chiltern, London Overground or Grand Central but DOHL potentially have...

Or any voice for Cumbria, Lancashire or North Yorkshire for that matter. Being charitable, perhaps Louise Gittins, Vice chair of TFN, and Jools Townsend, CEO of the Association of Community Rail Partnerships, are supposed to represent the interests of all the non-metropolitan areas as well as...

Re qualifications, he is a Conservative Mayor.

Has any announcement been made about a new Senior Management Team for Northern Trains ? If the first task of the board is to produce a turnround plan in 100 days, rather than direct the business on a day-to-day basis, it is difficult to see why anything should change in that time. (Other than...

Sorry - I can see now that my earlier post was rather ambiguous. When I mentioned available resources I was referring to the crew to man these units and the well-known staffing issues in the North-west on Sundays. Clearly there is no shortage of EMUs, even on Northern !

A simple reason for favouring the Crewe line is that, as far as I can see, it requires two units to operate an hourly service, while the Stoke line needs three (with very long layovers at Piccadilly). At present it seems that on Sundays, two units are used on Crewe and, generally, one on Stoke...

1) Stoke provides connections to a whole host of significant places which Crewe doesn’t - e.g. Coventry, Oxford, Reading, Southampton, Bournemouth, Bristol, Cheltenham, Exeter. On the other hand Crewe offers connections to Shrewsbury, Hereford, South Wales, North Wales, Preston, Cumbria and...

However, the number of buses per hour between Colne and Barnoldswick is reduced from 4 to 2 and the journey time from both Skipton and Barnoldswick to Colne and points beyond increased by around 10 mins. I would imagine that people attending the consultation sessions will not be too happy with...

However, that level of service was both unprecedented and short-lived, as traditionally both Skipton -Barnoldswick (Ezra Laycock/Pennine) and Skipton-Earby-Colne-Barnoldswick (Ribble X43) were generally hourly. After deregulation, these were combined as one hourly route under Pennine (not...