And "that" song would have sounded weird.One would have hoped not, sales would have plummeted
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The Ryanair tickets are worthless when it's busy as you won’t have a guaranteed seat.
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Saddened to hear this but from a customer point of view it is a bit of an ask to effectively go the wrong way at the M3/M25 intersection ie to Heathrow then do a 360 degree turn to go back to Gatwick.
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Interesting. Is the purpose of this to replace or supplement New Covent Garden for coach layover?
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Driver shortages partly to blame. No sooner had the 204 been reintroduced from Poole to Gatwick than services were cancelled day after day due to Solent Coaches 'handing back' journeys at relatively short notice due to non-availability. Even cut back to run Bournemouth to Heathrow there are plenty of random hires every week from a wide range of operators as the supposed contractor still fails to run all the trips.
In the 1980s National Travel SW / Shamrock and Rambler used to hire in Seaview Coaches of Parkstone to cover any additional workings. On the peak summer saturdays National Travel hired in from far and wide with many NBC operators providing just about anything suitable including coaches which had been relegated to dp status / work.
Yes Indeed, I doubt they will bring back the NX routes to Gatwick that used to run up Portsmouth.
It’s a whole new depot. Or will be. To be the base of Stansted A services, some Luton A services and limited long distance cross country services.
Butts
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On Sunday we arrived back from the USA into T3 at Heathrow.
Due to a delay in the flight arrival / baggage reclaim we would have missed our booked Train to Birmingham from Euston.
The WCML was in a bit of a meltdown with lots of services either cancelled of full.
Seeking an alternative we were able to book National Express tickets at £10 each literally hours before we travelled from Victoria to Birmingham.
Utilising our pre-purchased Heathrow Express and the Tube we proceeded to Victoria Coach Station and joined the 1430 Direct to Birmingham non-stop.
It was not a National Express coach so they must be farming some services out.
Although it took twice as long as the Train and was a bit uncomfortable I am still amazed at how cheap it was booked hours before.
Thanks for getting us home.
Due to a delay in the flight arrival / baggage reclaim we would have missed our booked Train to Birmingham from Euston.
The WCML was in a bit of a meltdown with lots of services either cancelled of full.
Seeking an alternative we were able to book National Express tickets at £10 each literally hours before we travelled from Victoria to Birmingham.
Utilising our pre-purchased Heathrow Express and the Tube we proceeded to Victoria Coach Station and joined the 1430 Direct to Birmingham non-stop.
It was not a National Express coach so they must be farming some services out.
Although it took twice as long as the Train and was a bit uncomfortable I am still amazed at how cheap it was booked hours before.
Thanks for getting us home.
WelshBluebird
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Had an interesting experience a couple of weeks ago during the rail strikes. Was heading to a gig in Swindon and needed to get back home in Bristol that evening. Ended up on the National Express at something past midnight. Was fairly full on arriving into Swindon as it is the last coach from London to there, but literally everyone emptied out leaving just myself and my partner to get on and be the only passengers onward to Bristol. I guess because there are more direct and later coaches to Bristol nobody in their right mind would use this one all the way! The two drivers onboard were great though, very friendly and happy to have a chat and a few jokes. And it only cost a fiver each! We've been on some quiet coach journeys before but never been literally the only passengers!
The 040 is the direct Bristol service. One of the more frequent services on the network. Did your service go via Bath?
£10 is a good price. The Heathrow to Birmingham price would of been higher. Quite often when I have looked short notice NX service have sold out, so you were lucky.
Butts
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I was surprised when my son told me the price particularly bearing in mind the Rail problems the same day,
There were several other options at £10 on other services that afternoon.
WelshBluebird
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It was the 401 which normally only goes as far as Swindon, or sometimes through to Frome. But there's one journey a day (two on a Friday i believe) that goes into Bristol and that is the one we were on. Didn't go via Bath, was direct after Swindon (apart from a quick stop on the outskirts of Swindon).
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That was the 041 which ran Friday to Monday with a regular driver before covid.
The regular driver on it saw it go from a handful of people to being regularly full leaving Bath with the return from London also being almost full. I'm surprised it never returned.
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Teflon988
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https://www.nationalexpress.com/en/help/live-service-updates
Scroll down page to Stop Planned to return in 2023
Unfortunately, we are not able to give a confirmed date on when these stops will be available to book. Please continue to check our Route Map, which automatically updates with the stops we are currently serving. Returning stop lists are subject to change and we regret that our Customer Contact Centre isn't able to provide any further detail on when certain stops or journeys may return.
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Scroll down page to Stop Planned to return in 2023
Unfortunately, we are not able to give a confirmed date on when these stops will be available to book. Please continue to check our Route Map, which automatically updates with the stops we are currently serving. Returning stop lists are subject to change and we regret that our Customer Contact Centre isn't able to provide any further detail on when certain stops or journeys may return.
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Teflon988
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Sorry JonathanH,here is the list.
Listed here are the stops which are planned to be reintroduced during 2023.*
Amesbury
Andover
Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Attleborough
Ayr
Banbury
Bangor (Gwynedd)
Belfast
Belfast Port
Bicester Village (Outlet Centre)
Bickington (Devon)
Bideford
Boston
Brean Sands (Pontins)
Bridport
Brixham
Burnham-on-Sea
Burnham-on-Sea (Haven)
Burton upon Trent
Cairnryan Port (Stena Line)
Canterbury (Park & Ride)
Castle Douglas
Cheshire Oaks
Chester Zoo
Chichester
Coalville
Corby
Crowden
Dereham
Dover (Ferry Port)
Dumfries
East Midlands Airport
Eastbourne
Flint
Fremington
Gorleston-on-Sea
Greenfield (Flintshire)
Gronant (for Presthaven Sands)
Harlow
Hickstead
High Wycombe Coachway
Highbridge
Hollingworth
Honiton
Instow
Kettering
Kilmarnock
King's Lynn
Lancaster University
Launceston
Leamington Spa
London (Aldgate)
London (Blackfriars)
London (Farringdon Barbican)
London (King's Cross St Pancras)
London (Shoreditch)
London (South Hackney)
London (Southwark)
London (Waterloo)
Minehead (Butlins)
Morpeth
Newhall (Derbys)
Newton Stewart
Okehampton
Pensarn
Peterborough
Portsmouth (Rudmore Roundabout)
Prestatyn
Prestatyn (Ffrith)
Prestatyn Sands (Pontins)
Presthaven Sands
Raymond's Hill
Reading (Town Centre)
Rhyl
Rhyl (Robin Hood - East)
Rhyl (Robin Hood - West)
Rotherham
Skegness
Skegness (Butlins)
South Shields
St Columb Major
Stevenage
Stonehouse
Stranraer
Swadlincote
Swaffham
Tewkesbury
Towyn (for Lyons Winkups & Primrose)
Towyn (Wales)
Ty-Mawr (for Park Resorts)
Wadebridge
Warrington
Wellingborough
Wigan
Wisbech
Woodville
Worcester
Worcester-Warndon
Wragby
Wymondham
Yelland
Unfortunately, we are not able to give a confirmed date on when these stops will be available to book. Please continue to check our Route Map, which automatically updates with the stops we are currently serving. Returning stop lists are subject to change and we regret that our Customer Contact Centre isn't able to provide any further detail on when certain stops or journeys may return.
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I had a look at the NX Website. Wakefield is served by the 564 3 times a day.
It's the one to London at 00:40 or so that I need.
Yes, able to purchase a ticket for that service.
920 overnight coach to Belfast in its final guise - basically was an overnight coach to Manchester, then on to the ferry terminal before going on to Ayr and Kilmarnock mid morning.
Unfortunately it no longer seems to do the Leeds to wakefield ticket on that service.
What was the purpose of going to Ayr and Kilmarnock?
Closer to the depot of Bruce Coaches I imagine.
2019 times in this post - https://www.railforums.co.uk/thread...-to-glasgow-or-edinburgh.179105/#post-3909883
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As all National Express services are now unregistered, at under 15 miles this journey is not possible.
johncrossley
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Why did they register short journeys in the first place? Why can't they resume such registrations?
I've no idea what that means, but it's a bloody PITA for night time connections.