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So it would appear that Central has held onto 3 runs (previously 6) on the 44 Mon-Fri. The 25 is back to being fully Longstone operated- previously 4 runs from Marine Mon-Fri.
It was 6 M-F and 3 on a Saturday so will be interesting to see where they go, especially as there are now more at Central. They are on service 9 today but tomorrow will give us a better idea.
668-671 appear to now be at Central. Looks like service 44 has gone fully back to Longstone as well - assuming 631,637 and 638 are now based at Longstone.
This is a link to a story in March 2010 reporting the planned return to the traditional livery.
https://www.scotsman.com/news/madder-and-white-pink-buses-return-classic-livery-2442739
Don't know if it's just a problem with tracking (or a bigger issue such as driver shortage) but at the moment only 9 buses are showing as out in service on the 44 and only 13 on the 3. Usually on a Saturday these are 14 and 18 respectively.
Presumably the reason for this is to cover the 6 buses that Central now run on Service 44.
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Absolutely there are exceptions but broadly speaking Longstone have swapped the buses that they use on services 25 and 33 when compared to last week.
Excellent summary. The only thing off the top of my head is one evening X44 is run by Marine and the split of the 25 is about 3-4 buses from Marine Monday-Friday with all others across the week from Longstone.
The 25 and 33 have swapped back again today so the 25 is mainly E400s again.
I did wonder what would happen with the 44 as it is a split depot operation now but it remains all E400s from Longstone and Central.