On Trains & Buses

They were revoked at the start of September but it has taken time before I removed entries for Cheap Evening Return fares from my sample U.K. train fares page. Here they are for sake of posterity (along with the dates when I reckon that I last encountered them in brackets at the end of every entry on the list):

Glossop to Manchester: £2.05 (2013-04-06)

Knutsford to Stockport: £3.30 (2014-02-11)

Macclesfield to Manchester: £4.45 (2014-02-11)

Manchester Airport to Manchester: £1.95 (2012-12-29)

Stockport to Macclesfield: £3.30 (2014-01-07)

Wilmslow to Alderley Edge: £1.15 (2014-02-11)

Wilmslow to Stockport: £2:25 (2014-01-07)

They were good while they lasted so the cost of train travel has gone up with their demise. The world has changed a lot since I first discovered these in August 2000 on the way home from Buxton.

Today, PassengerFocus’ update email dropped into my inbox with a few interesting headlines. One of these is regarding a report that they had done on bus service punctuality. This is not the only item they have on the subject since there is a sample action plan too. With the way that traffic levels and incidents affect the timeliness of buses, it all makes interesting reading and that this is a busy time of year with long nights and often challenging weather conditions makes it even more so.

London Midland have published details of their Christmas and New Year train services as part of a general Christmas section that is also promotional in tone.

Arriva Trains Wales now have their Christmas and New Year service level details up on their website.

It took me until today find where Stagecoach Manchester have details of their Christmas and New Year bus services when this has been posted since last month.

Now have spotted details of CrossCountry train services for Christmas & New Year period. An interesting touch is the highlighting of the likely busy times for their services. Seat bookings are recommended too.

Connect 88 service between Knutsford, Wilmslow and Altrincham has its own website. You have to wonder if the GHA Gold branding is set to be applied to other services that they operate. Only time will tell…

Northern has added extra journeys from Manchester Victoria to and from both Preston and Wigan. They started doing this in mid-November and goes on until the last Saturday before Christmas.

Arriva now has an area on its website for details of Christmas and New Year travel time changes for its English and Welsh bus services. From the landing page, select your own region to get to the information that you need.

Scottish Citylink has published details of their Christmas and New Year coach services on their website. So have Irish Citylink but their message is much simpler: they are offering a full service every day apart from Christmas Day when no coaches are running.