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T3 Announcement Delayed

There's some news trickling out that the union at a large operator have told their members that the T3 announcement that was due tomorrow has been "postponed until further notice". Whilst there's been no official public acknowledgement by…
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Late and Live: Rolling Down From Heaven

Over 2 years of building work on the £135m new Stockport Interchange completed this week and was opened today (Sunday 17th March). Reaction online from the public seems quite positive. There's a 2-acre garden on the roof, and…
Jumping The Gun
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Jumping The Gun

When I brought you news last week of First's spurious registration of a football service from Shaw Wren's Nest to the Etihad, I unknowingly managed to 'break' some breaking news! Again, don't say I don't bring you anything…
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Supersonic Paint Jobs

The BNC kicked off their "busy year ahead" by sitting on 25th January. Mayor B turned up 1hr 26minutes late and immediately got to work angrily berating Avanti WC's managing director for poor reliability/performance (who I must say…
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Quickies

Work has started on electrifying Oldham depot (First, soon to 'bee' Stagecoach). A total of 17 chargers for an EV fleet of 50 are being installed. Although First have insisted on using their own contractors funded by TfGM…
Bee-Day 1
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Bee-Day 1

We're 4 days into the Bee Network era and things are quite mutedly... business as usual. The second sign of what was to come - after the 'soft launch' of the app the previous week - came on…