BusAndTrainUser Verify

Tuesday 23rd January 2024 Technology company Prospective and First Bus are seemingly very keen to promote and publicise the use of AI in schedules and timetable compilation. Following the article in trade magazine Coach & Bus Week last month, the story appeared on the BBC News website last Thursday repeating the claim about "20% more... Continue Reading →

RailAir reaches Watford

Tuesday 17th October 2023 Photo courtesy First Bus First Beeline’s new route RA3 running hourly between Watford Junction railway station and Heathrow Airport is now in its 13th week so I thought it was high time I gave it a try to see how it’s settled in. It recreates a link offered many years ago... Continue Reading →

A look in on Staines (-upon-Thames)

Thursday 8th October 2020 Following recent trips to Selsdon/Croydon and the Herts/Essex border I've continued my 'London Country 50th anniversary' inspired days out to the former London Transport red and green bus boundary territory by taking a look at how things are fairing in that prosperous corner of Surrey that includes Walton, Weybridge and Woking.... Continue Reading →

Route 459 revisited three months on

Tuesday 11th February 2020 New route 459 linking the small community of Iver in Buckinghamshire (just over the Greater London border) with Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5 entered its third and final phase of introduction at the beginning of this month so I thought I'd follow up my previous visit in November with another ride around... Continue Reading →

railair takes off from Guildford

Wednesday 3rd July 2019 Bus and coach routes serving airports have expanded greatly over the last few decades with a seemingly constant stream of new initiatives. I wrote about the recent upgrade to First Glasgow's route 500 between Glasgow Airport and the city centre last month while over at Edinburgh Airport, Xplore Dundee have started... Continue Reading →

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