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    National Express Coaches Discussion

    Am pretty sure that on this particular occasion the Stotts Coach was operating a scheduled working. If memory serves me correctly it was a journey on Service 310 which only ran on Fridays and Sundays and was the return leg of a Bradford-Leicester-Bradford diagram. Am guessing it must have...
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    National Express Coaches Discussion

    Remember once being at Sheffield heading to Leeds on a Friday evening when there were two NX coaches going to Bradford at the same time. One was a regular service with a standard NX vehicle and the other a hired in coach from Stotts of Huddersfield which from memory, was operating a weekend...
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    Flixbus Discussion

    Last Flixbus trip I took a couple of months ago was with McGills, traveling from Bristol to Birmingham and back. On the outbound journey to Birmingham I had paid for a front row seat but upon boarding I was told by the driver that the front seats were unavailable 'because they were wet' (they...
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    First Potteries Discussion

    Here in Bristol there is one route where the last journey is currently earlier an hour earlier on Saturday than on Sunday. On the same service the last journey terminates at that town centre's bus station on Monday to Friday but extends to a housing estate on Sundays. However, both issues are...
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    First Potteries Discussion

    My understanding is that the loadings on the 3 are lighter from the Crewe end with the service becoming busier the nearer you get to Hanley. That's certainly been my experience when I've done the whole route. Last time I did the whole route (on a Friday morning back in February 2022), the...
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    First West of England (Bristol, Bath & The West)

    With regards to the new 374 and 375 will they be able to be operated by deckers or will they need to be Streetlites? Am asking as my understanding is the 28 can't use deckers. It sounds an interesting idea but if it leads to regular single deck workings between Bristol and Wells in place of...
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    First West of England (Bristol, Bath & The West)

    Thanks for explaining
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    First West of England (Bristol, Bath & The West)

    Ended up in Wells last night and saw a number of First buses parked together in an area towards the back of the bus station. I asked my 376 driver about this and he told me that there is insufficient space in Wells Depot for all the buses to be parked there. Can anyone advise me how long this...
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    Reductions to services prior to an eventual withdrawal

    Maybe I was exaggerating about D&G 'making a mess' of services but am sure I did hear an example on this forum of a route where D&G ran lower capacity vehicles than the previous operator and as such that route suffered a decline in passengers to the point where the frequency got reduced. Not...
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    Reductions to services prior to an eventual withdrawal

    Thanks to those who have taken the time to respond. I'd like to say I now have more of an understanding as to why alterations to service such as the 36 might have occurred over time. It did feel a bit at the time as though for former routes such as the T2 and and the Y2-Y5, the operator used...
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    Trivia: Bus routes that use larger capacity vehicles in evenings or on Sundays

    Are there many examples of routes which are normally allocated lower capacity vehicles (e.g. single deckers) during the main part of the day when the services is busier but then use larger capacity vehicles (e.g. double deckers) in the evenings and/or on Sundays when usage is lower? First...
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    Trivia: Bus routes that cannot use double decker vehicles

    I'd be interested to find out some examples of bus routes that cannot use double decker vehicles due to the fact that the route involves passing under a low bridge or due to something like a weight limit on a road. I know this applies to the X8 Bristol to Nailsea route, the 273 route between...
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    Reductions to services prior to an eventual withdrawal

    Something I've always been curious about. I've been aware of several instances where services have been withdrawn and in the months leading up to the withdrawal the service has been reduced in frequency and/or had its route altered so it serves fewer places. For example it was noticeable that...
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    National Express Coaches Discussion

    I thought NX had moved away from diagrams where the drivers had to overnight? My understanding was that most if not all of the cross country routes now seem to terminate at Birmingham with the vehicles and operators returning to their home depot on the same day. I have mixed feelings about...
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    Trivia: National Express routes you have travelled on

    Over the last 20 years I have used the following routes with the following operators: 007 London to Bluewater or Canterbury (Stagecoach or Kings Ferry) 007 Dover to London /Canterbury to London/ Bluewater to London/Ebbsfleet to London (Stagecoach) 010 London to Cambridge (Whippet) 021 London...
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    Staff buses

    A few years ago First Bristol had a service that operated direct between the Hengrove depot and Bristol Bus Station. Think it may have been numbered Service 93 and almost always used a Streetlite. Personally I never saw any members of the public actually that service and on one occasion when I...
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    Trivia: First and last journeys on a service

    I've got a feeling we may have actually encountered each other on that first 84 journey. Seem to recall you and a friend sitting on the back seat with me and telling me you'd been to Macclesfield to photograph the 38. 1703356747 Sounds like you had an eventful journey. I rode the first ever...
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    Trivia: First and last journeys on a service

    Have you ever had the experience of travelling on the very first or very last journey on a bus service after its introduction or before its withdrawal? Back in October 2022 I rode the very first journey on the short lived 47 between Bristol and Yate. It was about 0530 in the morning and raining...
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    D&G Buses

    Since D&G took over from Arriva the last journey on the 38 has now been an hour earlier in both directions departing both Crewe and Macclesfield at 22.35 rather than 23.35. Based on my experience of using that 23.35 journey out of Crewe I can see why D&G may not have viewed that journey as...
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    Short-notice bus allocation changes

    What about a situation where overcrowding occurs on a route where deckers physically can't be used (eg due to a low bridge) so extra journeys are required? Can short notice dispensation normally given to alter a timetable in that case or does the operator have to get round it by running...

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