Saturday 1st November 2025 Runcorn's two stations have very different pedigrees and present quite a contrast. The town's long standing main station, called Runcorn, opened way back in April 1869 whereas its youthful compatriot, Runcorn East, is a much more contemporary addition to the network, opening as recently as October 1983. The town of Rucorn... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 9th September 2025 As mentioned in recent blogs, last week saw a number of changes to bus routes in Powys, not least significant surgery to the TrawsCymru network through the county. Whereas TrawsCymru had been expanding across mid and south east Wales over the last six years by swallowing up traditionally run local bus... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 15th April 2025 Readers may recall an Explore Wales trip I did with my brother last September when we missed out on a planned journey on the lovely Sherpa'r Wyddfa branded route S1 through Llanberis and a ride on the Conwy Valley railway line from Betws-y-Coed to Llandudno Junction due to a late running... Continue Reading →
Saturday 7th September 2024 I left you in Thursday's blog departing Machynlleth on the 08:52 Transport for Wales train up the Cambrian Coast line to Pwllheli on day 2 of a tour of the scenic rail lines in Wales. The Cambrian coast timetable has eight return trains a day roughly every two hours between Machynlleth... Continue Reading →
Thursday 5th September 2024 Llanwrtyd station in the Heart of Wales After last month’s three day jaunt enjoying Scotland’s scenic railways with a Spirit of Scotland Travel Pass I spent a couple of days in Wales at the beginning of this week doing the same. My brother had expressed a desire to enjoy the best... 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 →
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 9th May 2024 Rail companies which bought into the Vivarail idea of refurbished London Underground D78 stock becoming diesel/battery Class 230 and electric Class 484 trains in their new guise haven’t had a lot of luck with their purchases. The idea sounded good when first mooted by the late Adrian Shooter who founded Vivarail... Continue Reading →
Saturday 28th October 2023 Welcome to BusAndTrainUser Verify a new occasional media monitoring service which aims to fact check the veracity of headline grabbing negative claims about buses and trains so beloved of modern main stream and social media channels. To kick off here’s a story that appeared across many media outlets earlier this month... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 29th November 2022 Having enjoyed a recent ride on the new CAF built Class 196 trains with West Midlands Railway I headed off to North Wales last week to see if the new sister Class 197 units being introduced by Transport for Wales would be any different. Actually I was on my way over... Continue Reading →
Saturday 3rd September 2022 I know; it’s not a mid size town in its own right; not even a small size town come to that. More just a crossroads in Flintshire’s sprawling Deeside conurbation but ‘beggars can’t be choosers’ when it comes to awkward letters in my fortnightly A-to-Z visiting odyssey. The town gained its... Continue Reading →
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