Recent content by DaveHarries

Good: I look forward to trying one if the chance arises. I was once at Dudley Port when a 730 turned up in service but unfortunately it was not going where I wanted to go. Dave

OK thanks. A planning application, ref. 2023/0586/FUL, went in to Mendip Council in April 2023 for electric charging points for Wells depot. It was approved in July 2023 and that was what made me wonder what might happen to any buses not needed for a day's work on the X1/X4...

Could be but another thought occurs to me. These newly announced electrics for Weston depot are supposed to be 24 vehicles for the X1 (Oldmixon - Weston-s-Mare - Bristol) and X4 (Bristol - Pill - Portishead) but what is the combined PVR of those routes? I wouldn't have thought 24 vehicles so if...

TBH I think if they were all WRightbus it would be a bit boring - nothing wrong with a bit of variety. But if they have to be Wright then I hope for this shape - https://www.flickr.com/photos/192431505@N04/53602319752/ - rather than the other one. But I wouldn't mind some ADL ones as well which...

Further to the above, and with links to relevant news sources of information: - Cornwall Council: the EVs for Go Cornwall Bus will be for Services 70/70A/70B between Plymouth, Torpoint and Rame Peninsula. EVs also for Truro Park & Ride (£1.3m from ZEBRA towards infrastructure and buses) and for...

Pulhams are getting 15 as part of an order for 201 ZEBs from GoAhead. https://www.pulhams.co.uk/15-zero-emission-buses-for-pulhams/ Dave

Nice idea. I wonder if any operator has ever experimented with a trans-Dartmoor link between Okehampton and Newton Abbot via. South Zeal, Chagford, Moretonhampstead and Bovey? Or maybe Exeter - Tavistock as an extension of the 359. Dave

The problems with the 13 are not only the circuitous nature of the route but the lack of frequency to attract usage. IMO the previous arrangement from First Bristol (Services 20 & 22) was better. Ones displaced by the new electrics in Leeds? Dave

And not to be outdone come these newbies from Newport Bus which are listed on BLOTW: Yutong E9: Z45-Z55 (CK24 AVL/AVP/AVV/AVA/AVH/AVO/AUN/AUU/AUY/AUF/AVM) Yutong U11DD: CK24 AUH & one other (no fleet numbers given on BLOTW). Dave

Indeed, and people describing it as a "third world bus service" on Facebook which I think is very OTT. I don't entirely blame First for taking the 3 out of Avonmouth: I work from a business premises on the Chittening Estate, just north of the rail bridge where the A403 passes over the Hallen to...

Thanks: I didn't know where "Augean" is. I work on the Chittening estate which is the other side of that railway bridge but it isn't too bad. Dave

I work in the northern end of Avonmouth (albeit not for A*****) and that new 15 doesn't suit either my start or finish times: it is, to partly paraphrase a cartoon character from my younger days, about as much use as a sack of wet mice Dave

COW - Train not to be moooved..... *gets coat* Dave

Somerset County Council have said on their website that routes 25, 28, 54, 58 & 58A are safe until at least March 2025 but services 25 & 28 will see some changes to their routes and timetables which will include the 25 being, it seems, dropped from Cotford St. Luke meaning that the route will be...

Indeed. Noticeable are the following, particularly for the Valley Lines: - Services between Rhymney and Cardiff Central are recast on Mondays to Saturdays with a higher frequency. Trains from Rhymney will no longer operate to Penarth but will now operate to either Barry Island (xx:11 past the...