New service SOT all stations to Stafford!

[Trainfan344]

Hanley bus station.

Are you trying to make yourself miserable?

 

[backontrack]

Are you trying to make yourself miserable?

Nope, but how else do you escape from Hanley?

 

[Jona26]

Nope, but how else do you escape from Hanley?

Don't go there in the first place

 

[backontrack]

But what if you're forced to go there?

 

[thenorthern]

Given that the London Midland Franchise is due to expire within 2 years I wonder if the next West Midlands Franchise invitation to Tender will specify those 3 stations. Norton Bridge won't ever reopen although the other 2 may have done at one point but won't now given the state of their platforms. Given that Central Trains quickly applied to close Etruria after the 2003 upgrade I wonder why they never did the same of these 3.

Its a bit of a joke now that the DfT still call the bus service a rail replacement bus as its now more of a rail enhancement bus.