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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2020 19:56:06 GMT 1
I asked a genuine question, there is no need to have be rude to me, or be nasty is there? I feel a upset that I asked the question now. Why would they keep a 62 reg plate bus as not needed when there is older buses in use? Also with this pandemic on keeping big buses out of service for the reason as it's not needed isn't a good reason as it could replace a smaller bus on a diagram that a big bus could do. Only one other reason is there a breakdown. 1474 get swapped more often than the other buses, so the reason of it may just have not been needed doesn't really work. I guess I won't ask questions in the future that much as I only asked to improve my knowledge and I don't know much about the bus industry. Only reason I assumed it was an accident, as 1412 was in an accident last year and there was a time 1412 was getting swapped pretty much a lot of the time it was out and maybe 1412 performance was affected by the accident and just wondered if 1474 had the same fate. 1474 may be having work done so engineering may want it to be used on a couple of trips to see how the fixes to any issues cope It did get put on 156/159's all day the other day this is the perfect route to test a vehicle I guess, because it's nice and local
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Post by burtonsa02 on Sept 28, 2020 14:40:29 GMT 1
Ross Travel YJ54 CEF heading to St Wilfreds and will be doing 520 I believe
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Post by stephen01 on Sept 28, 2020 15:30:17 GMT 1
Ross Travel YJ54 CEF heading to St Wilfreds and will be doing 520 I believe it could also be doing one of the duplicates on SW1 or SW2 routes for Arriva
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2020 16:16:46 GMT 1
1004 doesnt sound too good, looks like there was an issue with it, bus was stood outside my stop for 15 minutes, think the driver restarted the engine a few times, but it eventually moved after 15 mins
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Post by 37057 on Sept 29, 2020 9:07:20 GMT 1
63288 on 641
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Post by burtonsa02 on Sept 29, 2020 12:45:31 GMT 1
Well the people who need to go to Doncaster today are going in style! 1500 doing the 408 to Doncaster at 12:45. They must be very lucky as before the service changes in September they mostly got the little E200s
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2020 12:59:04 GMT 1
Well the people who need to go to Doncaster today are going in style! 1500 doing the 408 to Doncaster at 12:45. They must be very lucky as before the service changes in September they mostly got the little E200s Before the service changes they mostly got the Tempos, as the 408/409 used to interwork with the 187,my local route, although the E200's did go to Doncaster occasionally, but was mostly worked by tempos.
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Post by burtonsa02 on Sept 29, 2020 13:14:25 GMT 1
Well the people who need to go to Doncaster today are going in style! 1500 doing the 408 to Doncaster at 12:45. They must be very lucky as before the service changes in September they mostly got the little E200s Before the service changes they mostly got the Tempos, as the 408/409 used to interwork with the 187,my local route, although the E200's did go to Doncaster occasionally, but was mostly worked by tempos. I saw the odd tempos on it as I remember it did interwork with the 187. Around the evening it was the E200s mostly
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2020 13:29:13 GMT 1
Before the service changes they mostly got the Tempos, as the 408/409 used to interwork with the 187,my local route, although the E200's did go to Doncaster occasionally, but was mostly worked by tempos. I saw the odd tempos on it as I remember it did interwork with the 187. Around the evening it was the E200s mostly E200's did sometimes cover the last few doncaster workings as they did sometimes do a bus swap at Pontefract with a Tempo. I do know that though the last 409 short to Darrington was very rarely a Tempo or a E200, that was usually a pulsar or a commander 95 percent of the time as the bus on that diagram, did an X60 in the early morning before moving to 187/409 circuit
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Post by burtonsa02 on Sept 29, 2020 15:22:58 GMT 1
An optare solo sr and a sapphire Gemini 2 both leaving st wilfrids on the S76/476. Dont know both of the numbers. A odd combination to be fair. Usually see an Olympus as S76 with either a little E200. I have seen a Evolution and a commander doing this too
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2020 16:49:24 GMT 1
1312 on the 163/166 circuit this afternoon
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Post by burtonsa02 on Sept 30, 2020 8:48:22 GMT 1
1606 at the front and I believe 1026 at the back heading to New College Pontefract. Extremely full, looks like a new college student wont be happy as they are left behind!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2020 9:47:48 GMT 1
1606 at the front and I believe 1026 at the back heading to New College Pontefract. Extremely full, looks like a new college student wont be happy as they are left behind! Looks like 1403 did the return on the 0900 to Wakefield
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2020 10:02:18 GMT 1
1307 on 188.
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Post by dlspotter on Sept 30, 2020 10:34:26 GMT 1
That'll have to get swapped at Castleford. The 156 or 159 should really do the New Fryston services as it restricts space on the 188 due to the tiny buses which can get really busy.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2020 10:36:47 GMT 1
That'll have to get swapped at Castleford. The 156 or 159 should really do the New Fryston services as it restricts space on the 188 due to the tiny buses which can get really busy. If you do that then it restricts space on the 156 or 159 as a few diagrams on the 156 and 159 do an X60 and do the 168 and in the afternoon, there's a 168 bus that goes on to the 156/159 for 2 hours while a bus of the 156/159 goes on the 168 for 2 hours and they swap again after. Not the fact that a tempo appeared on the 188 surprised me it, was 1307 that surprised me. 1003 has been swapped off for the 187 for 1466, so I'm thinking 1307 will get swapped at Castleford for 1003
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Post by dlspotter on Sept 30, 2020 11:33:28 GMT 1
That'll have to get swapped at Castleford. The 156 or 159 should really do the New Fryston services as it restricts space on the 188 due to the tiny buses which can get really busy. If you do that then it restricts space on the 156 or 159 as a few diagrams on the 156 and 159 do an X60 and do the 168 and in the afternoon, there's a 168 bus that goes on to the 156/159 for 2 hours while a bus of the 156/159 goes on the 168 for 2 hours and they swap again after. Not the fact that a tempo appeared on the 188 surprised me it, was 1307 that surprised me. 1003 has been swapped off for the 187 for 1466, so I'm thinking 1307 will get swapped at Castleford for 1003 I'm just thinking it wouldn't have to be every 15 minutes to New Fryston, maybe just one or two services per hour, especially those that don't interwork. It might restrict space on the 156/159 but as those routes have combined frequency of four buses per hour with quite a significant part of the route having 7 buses per hour, it's easier to wait for the next bus there than for example someone who lives in Kirkthorpe which only gets the one 188 per hour.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2020 11:35:57 GMT 1
If you do that then it restricts space on the 156 or 159 as a few diagrams on the 156 and 159 do an X60 and do the 168 and in the afternoon, there's a 168 bus that goes on to the 156/159 for 2 hours while a bus of the 156/159 goes on the 168 for 2 hours and they swap again after. Not the fact that a tempo appeared on the 188 surprised me it, was 1307 that surprised me. 1003 has been swapped off for the 187 for 1466, so I'm thinking 1307 will get swapped at Castleford for 1003 I'm just thinking it wouldn't have to be every 15 minutes to New Fryston, maybe just one or two services per hour, especially those that don't interwork. It might restrict space on the 156/159 but as those routes have combined frequency of four buses per hour with quite a significant part of the route having 7 buses per hour, it's easier to wait for the next bus there than for example someone who lives in Kirkthorpe which only gets the one 188 per hour. Thing is for that to happen the diagrams need to interwork with itself, so the 156/159 will need to work on it's own for this to happen. You do have a point though with the frequency of 4 buses per hour it kinda wastes the big single deckers.
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Post by stephen01 on Sept 30, 2020 12:19:24 GMT 1
Has that come back from Tiger then
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2020 12:22:02 GMT 1
Has that come back from Tiger then Looks like it. Saw it with my own eyes. Although 1309/1310 are operating at Tiger today. Wonder if there has been a change of plan, maybe the commanders are going to Waterloo there isn't any in service today and Tempos coming back?As Arriva spent money on repainting the tempos and giving them leather seats
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Post by stephen01 on Sept 30, 2020 12:23:56 GMT 1
Has that come back from Tiger then Looks like it. Saw it with my own eyes. Although 1309/1310 are operating at Tiger today. Wonder if there has been a change of plan, maybe the commanders are going to Waterloo there isn't any in service today and Tempos coming back?As Arriva spent money on repainting the tempos and giving them leather seats Makes sense to have the Tempos on 184 & 187 at present and 156/159 till things improve
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2020 12:25:26 GMT 1
Looks like it. Saw it with my own eyes. Although 1309/1310 are operating at Tiger today. Wonder if there has been a change of plan, maybe the commanders are going to Waterloo there isn't any in service today and Tempos coming back?As Arriva spent money on repainting the tempos and giving them leather seats Makes sense to have the Tempos on 184 & 187 at present and 156/159 till things improve Indeed it does. 184 interworks on it's own now as well so no issue there. But they still could be used to go to Leeds from time to time.
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Post by stephen01 on Sept 30, 2020 12:31:38 GMT 1
Makes sense to have the Tempos on 184 & 187 at present and 156/159 till things improve Indeed it does. 184 interworks on it's own now as well so no issue there. But they still could be used to go to Leeds from time to time. true as even on 410/411 there's only 2 duties at the minute that have to be deckers for the 410 trips that serve the Pontefract New College.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2020 12:36:21 GMT 1
Indeed it does. 184 interworks on it's own now as well so no issue there. But they still could be used to go to Leeds from time to time. true as even on 410/411 there's only 2 duties at the minute that have to be deckers for the 410 trips that serve the Pontefract New College. 1311 has been on 411/410 twice this week as well. Good buses they are, good to ride on., So that explains why there's 2 or 3 singles on the 189 recently, some deckers are on 410/411 that makes sense. I find them a lot better than other buses to ride on when going up/down hills, like the one in Airedale.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2020 15:10:36 GMT 1
Indeed it does. 184 interworks on it's own now as well so no issue there. But they still could be used to go to Leeds from time to time. true as even on 410/411 there's only 2 duties at the minute that have to be deckers for the 410 trips that serve the Pontefract New College. Wonder if 1308 is on the 189 as there are 2 189s as SPCA on bustimes, as 1308 hasn't been on Tiger routes for a few days I know 189 SPCA is 1983 and I have a feeling the other one could be 1308. Just a hunch of course.
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