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
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 -
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
So what is it? This is the blog for bustraintimes.co.uk, I'll be talking about it's development, site updates, and public transport in general. The aim of bustraintimes.co.uk is to provide online door to
