Tuesday 25th November 2025 Folkestone’s long standing Bouverie Square bus station is no more. After 50 years public service it closed at the end of September to be converted into a town centre community park (to be also known as a 'Green Heart') as part of Folkestone and Hythe District Council’s £20 million Brighter Future... Continue Reading →
Thursday 13th November 2025 It's not just Great British Railways (GBR) "coming soon", so too is a "Gateway" scheme to improve access to York railway station. Whereas no-one is quite sure what the future GBR will look and feel like, anyone visiting York at the moment can't fail to notice extensive works taking place to... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 2nd September 2025 This week sees a raft of bus services improvements with new Bus Service Improvement Plan funded routes in many areas as well as major changes to the TrawsCymru network and other services in Powys. I hope to sample many of these changed routes over the next few weeks but first up... Continue Reading →
Thursday 20th February 2025 Hello A new bus station opened in Gosport last October and I finally got round to paying a visit last Friday to take a look. It's been built alongside the old site which, after 52 years, had definitely seen better days, and, like its predecessor, is conveniently located next to the... Continue Reading →
Thursday 6th February 2025 Southampton gained a new bus hub at the end of last year, and I got round to paying a visit early on Sunday morning to see what the £3.9 million spent has delivered. It's located on Castle Way by Albion Place south of the popular West Quay Shopping Centre and close... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 10th December 2024 It's been a bumper year for bus station rebuilds and Transport Hubs. Already featured in blogs this year have been Belfast, Cardiff, Cheltenham, Crewe, Durham, Halifax, Inverness and Stockport and just in the last few weeks there's been two more - Kingston-upon-Thames and Porthcawl with another 'frozen-in-time' rebuild in Porth. So... Continue Reading →
Thursday 7th November 2024 It's taken me a while, but my travels finally enabled a catch up with two public transport infrastructure developments. The £27 million rebuild of Sunderland station's southern entrance which opened last December and Halifax's newly rebuilt £20.5 million bus station which fully opened in July after a partial opening a year... Continue Reading →
Thursday 17th October 2024 It’s been in the planning for over a decade and taken four years to build. It’s cost £340 million (almost double the original £175 million estimate) due to construction cost inflation. It’s got eight platforms for trains and 26 departure bays for buses and coaches all under one roof. It’s been... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 2nd July 2024 Hot on the heels of the much delayed commencement of trams running to Blackpool North railway station, comes another “At last” transport development: the long awaited, much anticipated, opening of Cardiff’s new Bus Interchange on Sunday. The Welsh capital’s former bus station closed in 2015 to make way for a smart... Continue Reading →
Sunday 16th June 2024 I’d read about Gloucestershire Council’s plans to spend £33 million on a Transport Hub at Arle Court in Cheltenham, so while I was wandering around the country on my recent Rail Rover I stopped off to take a look. Don’t be misled by any hype surrounding the term ‘Transport Hub”. Basically... Continue Reading →
Friday 14th June 2024 It’s some time off completion but my visit to Cardiff and the Valleys the weekend before last confirmed work is well in hand to transform the area’s rail network into a modern, electrified 'turn-up-and-go' Metro branded system. A new fleet of trains manufactured by Stadler are destined for the network including... Continue Reading →
Thursday 28th March 2024 Stockport's impressive new Interchange opened for business on Sunday last week (17th March). It’s cost a cool £140 million and forms part of a £1 billion regeneration makeover of the town centre. The so called ‘north/south divide’ and need for ‘levelling up’, both never far from a politician’s sound bite these... Continue Reading →
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