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Patrick Woodcock

Patrick Woodcock

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Trains

Bus replacement service between Southport and Wigan on 16-20 November

There will be a bus replacement service running between Southport and Parbold station on 16-20 November. This is due to the renewal of a bridge over Leads and Liverpool canal which necessitates the

  • Patrick Woodcock
    Patrick Woodcock
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Trains

Buses replace trains between Crediton and Barnstaple from Saturday 26 October to Friday 8 November

Engineering work is taking place between 26 October - 8 November affecting the Great Western Railway service between Crediton and Barnstable. Buses will replace trains between Crediton and Barnstaple, with some buses extended

  • Patrick Woodcock
    Patrick Woodcock
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Derby

YourBus has ceased trading

The company YourBus has ceased trading as of October 4th 2019. This affects the following services in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire:Y1 Heanor - DerbyY3 Cotmanhay - Ilkeston - Kirk Hallam - DerbyY5 Nottingham

  • Patrick Woodcock
    Patrick Woodcock
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Bus replacement between Bristol Temple Meads, Weston-super-Mare and Taunton October 6&13

There will be a bus replacement service for trains running between Bristol Temple Meads, Weston-super-Mare and Taunton on Sunday 6 October & Sunday 13 October. This is due to the refurbishment of bridges

  • Patrick Woodcock
    Patrick Woodcock
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Trains

Wirral - Liverpool train back in action

MerseyRail has announced that the Wirral Loop line renewal is now complete and trains are running again. The line was built in the 1970s. The renewal consisted of the installation of new track

  • Patrick Woodcock
    Patrick Woodcock
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Buses

Go North East makes service changes to Washington and Sunderland buses

These are effective from Sunderland from 23 July 2017. More information at https://www.gonortheast.co.uk/washington-service-changes-23-july-2017/ Black Cats 2 & 2A Route & Timetable changes indiGo 82, 82A and 82B -

  • Patrick Woodcock
    Patrick Woodcock
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Trains

London Underground & DLR stations near the London Marathon Route

Here is a map of the London Marathon route (red squares) and all London Underground / DLR stations. It does not show bus stops or National Rail stations. If you're a spectator it should

  • Patrick Woodcock
    Patrick Woodcock
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Trains

Timelapse video of upgrade work done on Severn Tunnel by Network Rail

Network Rail have release a timelapse video show the upgrade work being carried out on the Severn Tunnel. The tunnel was originally built by Great Western Railway (GWR) between 1873 and 1886, linking

  • Patrick Woodcock
    Patrick Woodcock
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ScotRail announces service alterations in Central Scotland for next two months

ScotRail has announced that there will be track renewal and level crossing work taking place between Glasgow, Dundee and perth every weekend until Nov 20th. If you are going to be travelling on

  • Patrick Woodcock
    Patrick Woodcock
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Stagecoach goes Contactless

Stagecoach is planning to provide Contactless payment for all it's UK services. Contactless payment has already gone live on Stagecoach's Oxford services. The new ticket machines have been installed on 180 buses currently

  • Patrick Woodcock
    Patrick Woodcock
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Website updates

Launching Soon

Public Transport for Pros Get ready for Bus Train Times, an entirely new way to get directions and times for trains and buses in the UK. How will this be different to other

  • Patrick Woodcock
    Patrick Woodcock
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Buses

Local bus usage drops by 108 million passenger journeys in a year

The latest national statistics have revealed that local bus usage in the UK has dropped by 43 million passenger journeys from 5,188 passenger journeys in 2014 to 5,080 in 2015. This

  • Patrick Woodcock
    Patrick Woodcock
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Buses

Changes to bus services in Lancashire

Following cuts to subsidies from Lancashire County Council, changes to the timetables of the following TransDev run services have been announced. Despite the withdrawal of funding they have managed to save a number

  • Patrick Woodcock
    Patrick Woodcock
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Trains

Network Rail considering selling off Bristol Temple Meads

Network Rail is considering the sell off of 18 major rail stations including the iconic Bristol Temple Meads. It is currently owned by Network Rail who were brought into the public sector in

  • Patrick Woodcock
    Patrick Woodcock
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Trains

Tube strike called off

RMT has suspended tomorrow's tube strike, however the dispute over pay, staffing and Night Tube is still ongoing. While Transport Union RMT has agreed to suspend tomorrow's strike, the week long strike scheduled

  • Patrick Woodcock
    Patrick Woodcock
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Trains

Train use rises while bus use declines in Scotland

A new report by Transport Scotland has revealed that bus use in Scotland has declined by 12% since 2006, while the use of ScotRail has increased by 29%. Overall there has been a

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    Patrick Woodcock
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Trains

Work continues on storm damaged Dover railway line

Work on the currently out of action Dover railway line may be getting a boost from a new task force being set up. Lead by Dover and Deal MP Charlie Elphicke and with

  • Patrick Woodcock
    Patrick Woodcock
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Buses

All UK buses may accept contactless payment in 2022

The big five bus operators - Stagecoach, First Bus, Go-Ahead, Arriva and National Express - are working together to formulate a plan to support cashless payment on every UK bus by 2022. They

  • Patrick Woodcock
    Patrick Woodcock
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Swansea

New nightbus for Swansea students

First Cymru's will be extending it's unibus 8 Swansea service, populoar with Swansea students. It will run until approx 2:30am for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday nights during the term time. The new

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    Patrick Woodcock
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Lancashire

Preston Bus Services 12/12A, 13A, 112, 114, 75, 80 at risk

Preston bus have announced that their locally subsidised bus services 12/12A, 13A, 112, 114, 75, 80 are at risk of being cut by Lancashire County Council and are asking bus users to

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    Patrick Woodcock
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Website updates

.uk vs .co.uk

I've decided to switch over to using bustraintimes.uk rather than bustraintimes.co.uk. Although there's not much recognition of .uk so far I think that will change over time and co.uk

  • Patrick Woodcock
    Patrick Woodcock
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Closure of Transport Direct

In May Google made available journey planning for local buses in Google Maps. This means that Google Maps now offers complete complete public transport journey planning for the UK. On hearing this I

  • Patrick Woodcock
    Patrick Woodcock
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Website updates

The journey planning feature

Progress is continuing with the journey planning feature. Thanks to PostGIS's multipoint it can find good routes between places thus giving me a list of possible journeys. The next step is integrating the

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    Patrick Woodcock
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Maps and first screenshot

Here's the first screenshot of Bus train times. It shows the map with bus stops loaded on and the routes between them. After much deliberation I've chosen to use MapQuest as the mapping

  • Patrick Woodcock
    Patrick Woodcock
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Still going & data imports

Well it's been a while. I've had muchos problems with getting the NaPTAN & TNDS dataset into a database within a reasonable amount of time. We're talking 10,000+ .xml files and millions

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    Patrick Woodcock
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