Saturday 18th October 2025 Wrexham is another place with two stations that initially didn’t make it on to my list of intended visits for this fortnightly series. Along with Colchester, which also h…| BusAndTrainUser
Thursday 16th October 2025 West of England Combined Authority’s (WECA) extensive WESTlink branded DRT scheme saw an interesting new development last month – the addition of a fixed bus route with a fixed timetable. Quite a novelty for a DRT obsessed Authority. Being on the WESTlink database from my previous rides, I was intrigued to... Continue Reading →| BusAndTrainUser
Tuesday 14th October 2025 Knowing the frustrations I’ve experienced claiming Delay Repay over the years with Avanti West Coast and GWR, when I met up with Alex Hornby during the summer he kindly offered a visit to see Northern’s Customer Contact Centre in Sheffield which deals with Delay Repay. As you can imagine, I jumped... Continue Reading →| BusAndTrainUser
Saturday 11th October 2025 Now, this route really is a Bucket List Must Do. Except it’s probably one of Britain’s most challenging bus routes to take a ride on. The service only runs in the summer and passengers need to first take a sporadically timed tiny passenger ferry boat run by one ferryman, Mr Morrison,... Continue Reading →| BusAndTrainUser
Thursday 9th October 2025 The two words “at last” have become all too familiar in a heading when it comes to blogging about new trains entering service in Britain, and these latest CAF built trains for London’s DLR network are no different. The first of the 54 trains was unveiled to the media by Mayor... Continue Reading →| BusAndTrainUser
Tuesday 7th October 2025 Both TfL and Brighton & Hove Bus Company introduced a new high profile express bus route last week. It was interesting to take a ride on both to compare and contrast. TfL’s much hyped route BL1 began on Saturday 27th September providing a quicker alternative for passengers travelling by bus between... Continue Reading →| BusAndTrainUser
Saturday 4th October 2025 Here’s something a little different for this fortnightly series. A place which has two names with each enjoying the presence of two stations. As you can see from the map below, Epsom and neighbouring Ewell are one continuous urban sprawl in Surrey and famously resisted being included in Greater London on... Continue Reading →| BusAndTrainUser
Thursday 2nd October 2025 There’s never a dull moment in Cornwall’s ever changing bus scene. In recent times we’ve seen……First Bus show no interest in its Cornish operations, running ageing second hand vehicles in a dreadful state transferred from other parts of the country… … allowing the rising star that was Western Greyhound… …to steal... Continue Reading →| BusAndTrainUser
