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    Bradford Interchange Bus Station closed until further notice

    Which will be balanced somewhat by the mileage saved by the buses from the north of Halifax such as the 521/522/523 not having to cross Halifax to Edward Street to terminate.
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    First West Yorkshire & York discussion

    I've just complained to Metro that the recently updated timetables on the 523 near me give the first service M-F as 0934, totally ignoring the services at 06:29 07:34 07:59 08:34 and 09:04. Similarly, on Saturday the services at 08:04 08:34 09:04 aren't shown. (This is the first update since...
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    Trivia: Where can you still buy a single for less than £2?

    First in Halifax still have TOTO (tap on, tap off) fares under £2 for short journeys on 521/522/523.
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    Northern Rail Singles

    ...or use the Seat Frog app to swap an Advance to a later (or earlier) train for a small fee.
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    West Yorkshire "Enhanced Partnership Plus" proposal

    Exactly the same happened when I complained about First removing the last service on the 521 in north Halifax. It made it not worth complaining, which is basically what they want.
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    How can I buy plusbus on-line with Northern?

    All this is really good news. Let's hope it rolls out quickly!
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    How can I buy plusbus on-line with Northern?

    In general a Plusbus bought for a destination to any station in a PTE area has availability on buses throughout the PTE's area. On the Manchester Plusbus page it says: 'A Manchester PlusBus ticket gives you unlimited bus travel around the Greater Manchester zone, as shown by the travel maps...
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    £2 Scheme Route Recommendations

    The X17 Barnsley to Wirksworth in Derbyshire seems to be good value. Monday to Saturday it looks like a change of bus might be needed but the Stagecoach website appears to allow it to be done for £2. On Sunday the bus runs through, no change needed.
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    Any current railcard promotions?

    Trainpal has £20 off some 3 year digital railcards at the moment, making them £70.
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    First West Yorkshire & York discussion

    I've noticed the tap on machines on all the 521/522/523 buses I've used in Halifax in the past couple of weeks.
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    Through the depot in service? (Yorkshire Traction, others?)

    When I was a growing up in Sheffield in the late 70s/early 80s we'd very occasionally have a driver change inside the bus garage on Herries Road. (More usually in the lay-bys immediately outside though!)
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    Northern launch Hull Halifax service

    They didn't when I caught it. It arrived into the Manchester bound platform and departed straight back out towards Bradford. It was running late, and made up most of the late running by doing so.
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    Government considering splitting Northern into North West and North East franchises from March 31

    I really hope they don't split. I remember a few times when Northern Spirit Calder Valley services were disrupted on the Lancashire side of The Pennines that requests for assistance at Manchester Victoria were met with comments along the lines of 'nothing to do with us, and NS don't have any...
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    Special Offers Discussion

    23% off with Quidco for Omio. Ends in six days.
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    Special Offers Discussion

    22% today with Quidco for Omio. Ends 23.59 tonight.
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    Northern £10 Rail Offer on again 23/09/19 to 24/11/19

    I have six tokens which I'm not going to be able to use. I'll give three away (they are Johnson Press tokens so three are needed!) which will be posted at my expense by second class post tomorrow to the first two people to PM me their details. If this breaks any house rules, I'll apologise in...
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    Northern £10 Rail Offer on again 23/09/19 to 24/11/19

    If you did Karl, that's a great result. However the two conductors I encountered told me they couldn't sell them, so buying on the train isn't something I'd advise anyone to rely on. The terms and conditions are here: https://www.northernrailway.co.uk/jpimedia Condition 7: Affix three tokens...
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    Northern £10 Rail Offer on again 23/09/19 to 24/11/19

    I've had them issued at Chester without any trouble at all. (Related, but off topic: I travelled from Halifax to Chester direct on 29 May this year on a day when Halifax station had no electricity due to a fire in a nearby mill and so the ticket office was closed. Both conductors on the train...
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    SY Connect+ ticket format and Park&Ride

    You can also buy SY Connect+ (and all the other PTE day tickets) on the First bus app. It's a great idea; I wish they'd use the same integration in West Yorkshire for the DaySaver (ex-MetroDayRover) tickets too...
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    West Yorkshire Day Rover Changes from 22nd July.

    All this tinkering and they still haven't managed to solve the problem of how to integrate the paper ticket range with MCards.

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