This from the Stagecoach South West newsletter.
We are delighted to announce that the South West Falcon has been selected as a finalist in the UK Coach Awards for their 2018 competition. We have been placed in the ‘Top Express Operation’ category and are up against megabus.com, Service 900 and Citylink Air from Scottish Citylink Coaches and the Express City Connect from Stagecoach East Scotland.
Citylink 900 runs between Glasgow and Edinburgh ...
... and Citylink Air between Glasgow and Edinburgh Airport.
Express City Connect is the brand name now used for services from Glasgow and Edinburgh to Fife and on the Aberdeen.
Kenilworth Konfirmed!
The new Kenilworth Station did, indeed open last Monday 30th April; duly recorded by the Kenilworth local press.
The first departure (0616 to Coventry) was wll loaded and well watched by well-wishers.
On Tuessday 1st May it was visited by Alan, our Northampton correspondent who forwarded a brief report to the fbb blogging room.
Kenilworth railway station has had a soft launch – on to a veritable two foot thick bed of Andrex. This morning (Wednesday 2nd) Traveline still recommends a taxi when asked for trains from Coventry to Kenilworth.
But, by the time this blog was compose, it had appeared.
On Tuesday it was among the stations listed on the self service ticket machine at Northampton which then tells me no fares are available.
At Coventry there is no sign of Kenilworth on self service machines ...
or departure sheets ...
... but a real booking office person sells a ticket for the 1136 train.
The platform at Kenilworth is on a higher level than the booking office – hence the fence.
The bus stop outside is served only by peak time peak flow station link and rail replacement buses.
The accompanying map is also very helpful but only if you want Stagecoach Buses.
Sir Brian and National Excess run competing Coventry – Kenilworth – Leamington bus services along nearby Warwick Road.
The new Kenilworth Station did, indeed open last Monday 30th April; duly recorded by the Kenilworth local press.
Kenilworth railway station has had a soft launch – on to a veritable two foot thick bed of Andrex. This morning (Wednesday 2nd) Traveline still recommends a taxi when asked for trains from Coventry to Kenilworth.
But, by the time this blog was compose, it had appeared.
At Coventry there is no sign of Kenilworth on self service machines ...
Not only does Kenilworth station also have a small caff but yesterday (Tuesday 1st May) it was the only place where paper pocket timetable leaflets could be found.
What is particularly pleasing is that the architects of the new station ...
... have tastefully echoed the design of its long-lost forerunner.
But don't expect to find it on Station road, you will be sorely disappointed.
It is on a little spur of Priory Road opposite the Off-Licence and Chippy.
A chip shop in Kenilworth has been named as the best in the Midlands.
Alfie Grimshaw’s, on Priory Road, was set up in 2007 by David Blackburn, who left a job in IT to follow his dream of opening a traditonal Yorkshire-style fish and chip shop.
Another good reason for catching a train to Kenilworth?
New-Look Car Parks?
Research by the University of Toronto’s Department of Civil Engineering shows how that adoption of self-driving cars could significantly reduce the amount of urban space dedicated to parking. Cars drop off their passengers and park themselves.
Hmmm.
How do you get yours out if it's blocked in he middle somewhere?
Who remembers the Butterley Liftpark?
The project was not a commercial success probably (amongst several other reasons), because the idea was well before its time and its operation relied upon state of the art 1960’s electronics, rotary limit switches and photo electric cells. Several were however sold, the two nearest being in Nottingham near Canning Circus.
The original stood here on the old A61 at, surprisingly, Butterley!
Tomorrow, we return to Sheffield to try to resolve an aggravating little publicity problem.
Next T M Travel blog : Monday 7th May
Never believe a salesman when the 'As now' situation doesn't reflect reality. I don't know any car park in the UK where it's possible to fully open all the car doors when parked next to another car with all its doors open !
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The DfT seem particularly keen on the idea of autonomous cars driving themselves off to park somewhere else and spoke at length about it at a conference I went to last year.
ReplyDeleteWhilst the space taken by town centre car parks can, no doubt, be put to better use no one seems to be able to say where the alternative car parks will be, nor have they thought about the increase on traffic caused by all these empty car movements!
As the DfT expert expounded the benefits of autonomous vehicles an idea formed in my mind. What if we started running larger than car-sized vehicles around defined routes at set times. They would pick anyone up at a designated stopping point. True they wouldn't be door-to-door, but we're always being told how good a brisk walk is for us. Best of all, with my idea the vehicle wouldn't need to park at all during the day as it would be off on its next predetermined trip. Could this idea catch on?