Wouldn't be an off topic forum without one of these Is anybody watching this year? Or does everyone just hate it with a passion?

Discuss.

Does anyone have any ideas on the allocations of the 51/2/3/4?

Also, I think the 51 will be successful, and will run the 307 off the road, what does everyone else think?

(31 Aug 2013, 11:35 pm)gtomlinson wrote I have fond memories of her random trips on the 28. Fantastic legroom.
Turned up on the pre hybrid 21s a fair few times too.

Then again. I liked the Optare Excels....

The Optare Excels were brilliant. I was down Blackpool a few weeks ago, and an ex-GNE Excel pulled up on service 11.

Hope it is ok to post this here, if the Competition Sub Forum is the right place then please move it there...

I am bored at the moment and thought I would post a quiz for members, mostly football, and sprinklings of History, Geography and Cryptic Clues and Anagrams, I trust you guys not to Google the answers, anyone interested, dont reply to this thread, PM me your entry...

The prize for 1st first place is.....(b]ABSOLUTELY NOWT[/b], as I will tally scores for everyone and the overall leader will see there name at the top of a leaderboard, I aslo want to create a score prediction thread.

Heres my first quiz, I will be doing 2 per week, Wednesdays and Sundays each with 10 questions, I am going to start with 10 now

1. How many managers have won tbe Premier League?
2. Dave Beasant made history in 1988, what did he do?
3. Sunderland did in 1979, Villa in 1981, who did it in 1980?
4. Here is Five Football related Anagrams, 1 point for each
4a. Nauseate Brain Dog
4b. Jovial of on Greenshanks
4c. Ribbon Bassy Rob
4d. Cordial or on saint
4e. Is off-centere, unmatched
5. How many times has a British Football team won the Olympics?
6. What was the first game to ever be dubbed 'The Championship of the World'
7. What is the oldest game in english football(any level)
8. Name a team that was part of the foundation of the Premier League, but have never played in it?
9. Where Wimbledon used to play?
10. How many times has a football team from South Shields merged into a Gateshead team?

As I said, if you fancy a crack

News, debate and discussion on Yorkshire's Bus Operations.
Bus operators include the likes of Arriva, First, Stagecoach, and large independents such as EYMS, Harrogate Coach Travel, Tates, TM Travel and Yorkshire Tiger.

From Saturday 31st August (today), Transdev York will no longer run the services shown below.
The services will be operated by Arriva from Monday.

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York City Centre - Acomb

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South Bank - York City Centre - Broadway - Fulford

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York City Centre - Broadway - University of York

Some Transdev York Optare Solos have already begun to appear online, ready to be sold as shown here.

The next set of works in Stockton High St will take place from Monday which will see 4 stands taken out of use, and therefore a number of revised stand locations.
http://www.connectteesvalley.com/data/tr..._end_1.pdf

Who win the Premier League this season, will Jose bring that magic back to the Bridge or Pellegrini at the Etihad, how about David Moyes, will Arsene Wenger end his trophy drought or Tottenham in 2014AB or can Brendan Rogers bring some glory to Anfield

AB=After Bale

So The Tories been made to look like a bunch of tits in front of the world, after Cameron was seemingly adamant we would take military action against Assad, then lost a vote in Parliament...

What is you guys opinions, I personally say well done to the Politicians who pushed through the defeat on Cameron, yes atrocities have been committed and the evidence for such an act is insurmountable, but in my opinion our Arab Allies should be leading the strikes i.e Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan and Turkey....

Your opinions guys...Yay or Nay

Thought I'd start this off for things going on around the region (non-transport related) that may be a particular interest to some members.

Proper Food & Drink Festivals - North Shields 2013
http://www.properfoodanddrinkfestivals.co.uk/

Looks a decent day out if you're a fan of proper grub, chilli, and interesting drink. I think I may head across on Saturday.

Caught the tail end of a programme on BBC Parliament earlier (it may be on i-player, haven't checked - 20:10 - 20.55), primarily about Dr Beeching, but it also focused on the investment made by successive Governments since then, both in the nationalised and privatised sector.

It didn't really throw any new light or inform the audience about any new revelations, but it was interesting.

It just got me thinking, was Beeching right? Was he shortsighted? Why have successive Governments barely touched the railway infrastructure since in the way of funding? Why since privatisation, has there been a massive increase in subsidies and also investment in the system - not like anything seen before?

Any thoughts or ideas?