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Post by SCH117X on Apr 5, 2019 18:49:18 GMT 1
More NY Hodgsons registrations on VOSA today, this time under the short notice procedure 29 Richmond-Darlington via Aldborough St John 34 Richmond-Darlington via Catterick Village, Middleton, Tyas 72 Darlington-Northallerton via Dalton on Tees, Great Smeaton
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Post by SCH117X on Apr 11, 2019 22:23:38 GMT 1
NYCCs Service Change list was expanded earlier this month oddly claiming the 31X by Reliance will be a new service rather than a change of operator. Also describes a route change to Connexions X1 which means it will do exactly the same loop to the Aspins via St James as Transdevs 1A rather than running to St James via the Aspins
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Post by jc on Apr 12, 2019 18:23:08 GMT 1
NYCCs Service Change list was expanded earlier this month oddly claiming the 31X by Reliance will be a new service rather than a change of operator. They released this a few days ago reliancebuses.co.uk/changes-to-bus-services-29th-april-2019/Headline seems to be nothing's going to change much - question mark over the short York-Easingwold 31x journeys, I'd imagine they've asked NYCC for funding to maintain the current 29 which has been declined. "Additional service to Huby at 1944" - from where?
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Post by SCH117X on Apr 16, 2019 17:43:13 GMT 1
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Post by jc on Apr 17, 2019 18:03:24 GMT 1
It's as clear as mud. "Reduction in off peak services from Aldwark, Flawith, Tholthorpe and Helperby" could mean a bus(es) running from York to Linton off peak, or they're resurrecting the old 29A/31 via Linton and Alne since there's no mention of cutting service between Linton and Easingwold.
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Post by stevieinselby on Apr 17, 2019 18:48:00 GMT 1
Hodgsons have now published their new timetables for buses around Richmond and Northallerton. Mostly it's just a case of tweaking the departure time by 5 or 10 minutes, but they are adding a commuter journey from Darlington to Northallerton and back, and a commuter journey from Barnard Castle to Richmond and back (morning journey is via A66), and reinstating the 53 between Northallerton and Leeming village, although with the two journeys on that route running at midday and 5pm only, and no option to get into Northallerton before lunchtime, I am not sure how well used they will be.
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Post by Marcus on Apr 17, 2019 22:27:12 GMT 1
Metro has confirmed the 906 Hardcastle Crags - Widdop will sadly not be returning this year, unfortunately not surprising
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Post by dennisthemenace504 on Apr 18, 2019 17:47:51 GMT 1
Metro has confirmed the 906 Hardcastle Crags - Widdop will sadly not be returning this year, unfortunately not surprising I enjoyed doing that as overtime, last year Some times, we'd get a really busy bus
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Post by 1071 on Apr 18, 2019 18:15:39 GMT 1
Metro has confirmed the 906 Hardcastle Crags - Widdop will sadly not be returning this year, unfortunately not surprising I enjoyed doing that as overtime, last year Some times, we'd get a really busy bus Going a bit off track but will tlc ever get their new website uploaded
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Post by Father Dougal McGuire on Apr 20, 2019 23:33:44 GMT 1
I enjoyed doing that as overtime, last year Some times, we'd get a really busy bus Going a bit off track but will tlc ever get their new website uploaded If it's anything like the need to get their buses looking presentable and not like they've been taken out of Barnsley then I doubt it.
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Post by boeing737229adv on Apr 21, 2019 20:19:01 GMT 1
If it's anything like the need to get their buses looking presentable and not like they've been taken out of Barnsley then I doubt it. I'm glad I'm not the only one who's noticed the extremely decrepid appearance of TLC's fleet! One of the 63 plate extra short-wheelbase ones that currently runs in Hudds looks ABSOLUTELY TERRIBLE! There's an absolutely massive gash in the top left corner of its rear end, and it's scratched & scraped down to the BARE METAL all along the sides! AND, whatsmore, no fewer than FOUR enviro 200s, also running in hudds, have extremely scaly paintwork, where the probably massive dents & dings have been crudely filled in and then not 're painted, Absolutely RANCID THINGS! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Even the 64 plate access bus solos have managed to get that treatment and they were the last buses ever delivered new to K-line while it was still called that, not that it makes any difference on the scale of things! Anyway, rant over.
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Post by SCH117X on Apr 24, 2019 17:22:21 GMT 1
Reliance have published their new timetables - the 31X gets reduced to the York-Helmsley/Kirkbymoorside services only and those get reduced to three workings each way Mon-Fri (the first northbound working commencing at Easingwold) while the 30 only runs on a largely hourly basis so there is a significant reduction in the number of direct York-Easingwold workings compared to the current joint service with Transdev. reliancebuses.co.uk/
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Post by deerfold on Apr 24, 2019 18:02:31 GMT 1
Reliance have published their new timetables - the 31X gets reduced to the York-Helmsley/Kirkbymoorside services only and those get reduced to three workings each way Mon-Fri (the first northbound working commencing at Easingwold) while the 30 only runs on a largely hourly basis so there is a significant reduction in the number of direct York-Easingwold workings compared to the current joint service with Transdev. reliancebuses.co.uk/Not sure what it is about bus operators and poor spelling. Someone needs to teach them the difference between "checkout" and "check out".
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Post by jc on Apr 24, 2019 18:22:19 GMT 1
"Reduction in off peak services from Aldwark, Flawith, Tholthorpe and Helperby." There's no service north of Linton whatsoever on a school holiday. Am I missing something?
Also they've uploaded what appear to be separate timetable leaflets for the 30/30X and 31X rather than the combined booklet, where's the summary of all buses between Easingwold and York?
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Post by SCH117X on Apr 24, 2019 18:50:59 GMT 1
Obviously explains how they can take the 31X on without any significant fleet increase
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Post by jc on Apr 24, 2019 19:27:21 GMT 1
Obviously explains how they can take the 31X on without any significant fleet increase Probably hoping for NYCC to come in with a tendered Easingwold- Helperby- Aldwark service to spare them from the inevitable flak. Note the redundant "school/college days only" footnote on the "term time" timetable. One return journey between Ampleforth Abbey, Oswaldkirk and Helmsley only on schooldays.
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Post by stevieinselby on Apr 24, 2019 22:19:46 GMT 1
Reliance have published their new timetables - the 31X gets reduced to the York-Helmsley/Kirkbymoorside services only and those get reduced to three workings each way Mon-Fri (the first northbound working commencing at Easingwold) while the 30 only runs on a largely hourly basis so there is a significant reduction in the number of direct York-Easingwold workings compared to the current joint service with Transdev. reliancebuses.co.uk/Those do seem to be pretty savage cuts. I can understand the loss of the short workings between York and Easingwold on the 31X – there's still the 30 and 40 both running hourly, which gives Easingwold a similar level of daytime service to York as you get from larger towns like Tadcaster and Pocklington. And the 31X does at least now give people of Kirkbymoorside a usable return service rather than getting them into York and leaving them with no way of getting home that doesn't involve an hour's wait for a connection as they have now. But running the 31X on the shorter route missing out Oswaldkirk and Ampleforth Abbey seems unnecessarily parsimonious as it leaves little in the way of usable service there. And the effective withdrawal of all bus services apart from school buses from Aldwark, Flawith, Tholthorpe and Helperby is appalling. I can't help thinking that any commuters in those villages are going to have to have alternative arrangements in place to get to work during the 13 weeks a year of school holidays, and so they will probably just use them all year round and abandon the bus completely, making the journey that remains even less well-used. The different schoolday and school holiday timetables are going to put people off using it as well. I can't understand why they are not running even just that one service from Easingwold all year round, and why they can't keep a consistent weekday timetable all year round – they could well have completely shot themselves in the foot here, not only in driving away customers because the service is no longer usable but also in destroying any goodwill that people had for them when they took the service on from Transdev.
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Post by jc on Apr 25, 2019 1:52:03 GMT 1
I can understand the loss of the short workings between York and Easingwold on the 31X – there's still the 30 and 40 both running hourly, which gives Easingwold a similar level of daytime service to York as you get from larger towns like Tadcaster and Pocklington. If a single operator had been operating all buses to Easingwold for many years I wonder if they would be trying to encourage through passengers to York on the 40 rather than accommodate them on the A19 corridor and divert the 40 via, say, Clifton Moor Tesco to encourage more intermediate trips.
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Post by chas on Apr 25, 2019 23:19:53 GMT 1
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Post by deerfold on Apr 26, 2019 9:00:18 GMT 1
They appear to have forgotten that they're withdrawing the last trip on the X6a (unless that's what they mean by a minor time change on the X6).
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Post by SCH117X on Apr 26, 2019 18:41:30 GMT 1
Curious how you found that given the News page has the most recent item as Feb 8 Stonebow Closure in York. Seems that they are still using St James as a terminal point for the X1 which will tee off passengers for the Aspin Estate when the bus, if on time, sits there for 3 minutes while Transdevs 1A runs through stopping on request, and the last four workings from Harrogate (last two on a Saturday) no longer serve the Aspin Estate. There is a mistake in the timings for the 1505 Monday-Friday working from Harrogate
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Post by chas on Apr 26, 2019 22:30:37 GMT 1
Curious how you found that given the News page has the most recent item as Feb 8 Stonebow Closure in York. Seems that they are still using St James as a terminal point for the X1 which will tee off passengers for the Aspin Estate when the bus, if on time, sits there for 3 minutes while Transdevs 1A runs through stopping on request, and the last four workings from Harrogate (last two on a Saturday) no longer serve the Aspin Estate. There is a mistake in the timings for the 1505 Monday-Friday working from Harrogate Connexions announced it on their FaceBook page.
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Post by deerfold on Apr 27, 2019 8:52:11 GMT 1
Curious how you found that given the News page has the most recent item as Feb 8 Stonebow Closure in York. Seems that they are still using St James as a terminal point for the X1 which will tee off passengers for the Aspin Estate when the bus, if on time, sits there for 3 minutes while Transdevs 1A runs through stopping on request, and the last four workings from Harrogate (last two on a Saturday) no longer serve the Aspin Estate. There is a mistake in the timings for the 1505 Monday-Friday working from Harrogate Connexions announced it on their FaceBook page. Is that where you need to be to get Connexions news now? Bad news for those who just look on their website or who used to look at their Twitter feed.
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Post by SCH117X on Apr 27, 2019 10:30:04 GMT 1
Connexions announced it on their FaceBook page. Is that where you need to be to get Connexions news now? Bad news for those who just look on their website or who used to look at their Twitter feed. Was there ever any news to any extent on their twitter feed ? Just seemed to be a continuous slagging off of Transdev and anyone who made a critical comment of them / their services or lack of - hardly surprising NYCC never listed it on their list of operators twitter accounts.
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Post by jc on May 8, 2019 20:47:05 GMT 1
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