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Post by SCH117X on Oct 8, 2010 18:33:03 GMT 1
Premiere have finally got up the nose of Wellglade through competing with them on the Nottingham-Cotgrave route as Wellglade are launching a bargainbus on the route - its not your typical route for a bus war as Cotgrave is a rural mining village set on the fringe of the Vale of Belvoir and the route spends a fair time passing fields. omnibuses.blogspot.com/2010/10/spoiling-for-fight.htmlAs the urban area of the route is to a large extent NCT teritory I wonder if NCT will get pulled into it if the bargainbus starts extracting their custom. |
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Post by humberside on Oct 9, 2010 12:19:15 GMT 1
AFAIK Bargain Bus doesn't serve any substantial residential areas in NCT territory. Both it and Red 2 go directly from Cotgrave into the City Centre
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Post by SCH117X on Oct 15, 2010 18:32:43 GMT 1
The war is expanding - Premiere are to launch a service ("Red 4") to Long Eaton well into the heart of traditional Barton territory and Wellglade are launching another bargain bus in reponse "4".
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Post by SCH117X on Oct 21, 2010 18:53:17 GMT 1
And expanding further as Wellglade are launch a Nottingham-Loughborough service in competition with Premieres X9 (again a pretty untypical route for a bus war)
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Post by humberside on Oct 22, 2010 10:12:27 GMT 1
It wasn't so long ago the the X9 route was given up by Arriva (it was their 99). Back then it was an hourly Mon-Sat daytime service with I think a limited evening tendered service. Since taking it over Premiere have doubled the Mon-Sat daytime frequency to half hourly and added evening and Sunday daytime services
But from Wellglade's perspective just adding extra buses were Premiere choose to compete with TrentBarton doesn't seem to be working, so they obviously must feel then they need to attack Premiere elsewhere, on a route I guess they are very proud of how they have developed
Just have to hope though that when this bus war is over the Nottingham-Loughborough 'fast' corridor doesn't loose out. It would be a shame if events it Cotgrave and Stapleford meant the X9 route ends up with a lower service than now. That certainly would give added weight to those supporting quality contracts
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Post by SCH117X on Oct 24, 2010 21:54:08 GMT 1
Latest is that a NCT vehicle has been seen seemingly surveying space at bus stops in Long Eaton which implies that NCT are possibly looking at getting involved in the battle (they presently do not operate there)
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Post by SCH117X on Dec 11, 2010 23:50:58 GMT 1
Getting even dafter.. Yourbus (Dunn / Diamond) have registered a Nottm-Newark service in competition with the Pathfinder (NCT) Nottm-Southwell service. A bit like someone registering a Leeds-Thirsk service to compete with the 36 to Ripon.
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Post by blister987 on Dec 14, 2010 0:14:26 GMT 1
The Newark to Nottingham is in direct competition with marshalls of Sutton on Trent 90 service.
Your bus are planning to run it from their Tuxford depot if they can get any drivers!
The depot was taken over from Veolia after yet another 'mess up' by the management.
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Post by dwarfer1979 on Dec 14, 2010 9:36:58 GMT 1
The Newark to Nottingham is in direct competition with marshalls of Sutton on Trent 90 service. If that is the case why have they numbered it Y100 (the route number of the Nottingham-Southwell service) rather than Y90. This has been posted on another group and was questioned there as not appearing to match what information we have about this registration. You would suspect that Marshalls would be a harder operator to compete with, a high quality local independent tends to engender a great deal of customer loyalty that it is hard to overcome for a lower-quality interloper. |
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Post by SCH117X on Dec 15, 2010 20:05:09 GMT 1
Notts CC have listed the Y100 as Nottingham-Southwell-Newark
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Post by SCH117X on Dec 19, 2010 19:57:05 GMT 1
Premiere are to withdraw the "Red 4" but have also lodged a timetable change to the X9.
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Post by PinkHours on Jan 15, 2011 11:03:51 GMT 1
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Post by SCH117X on Mar 22, 2011 18:00:04 GMT 1
From Notts CC travel pages
Y100 Nottingham - Southwell - Newark: Monday to Saturday (yourbus) Service withdrawn with effect from 16 April 2011.
Didn't last long - something for the X70 / 77 to try to beat.
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