Should hopefully get nice and busy when the weather improves towards the end of next week. 37014 does the honours as the first bus to operate it!
Believe it’s running this weekend
They’re in the Bodmin paintshop queue
Will all the B7TLs destined for Sunseeker receive paint? Or would it be staggered throughout the season?
Thanks for the update.
How many Geminis will be painted roughly in Somerset please? I believe you originally told me most of the pending deckers for there are only for the short term so they wouldn't be painted.
Might mean some of the ones due to cascade in from Cornwall (2 were mentioned to enter by Whitsun?) and 4 are expected from West Yorkshire so could be those.
I assume Sunday service on Good Friday and Easter Monday.
Yes, there are details on First Kernow Website here https://www.firstbus.co.uk/cornwall...es/planned-changes/easter-service-levels-2022
Yes, very interesting. The X52 is of course an open top route that runs through the summer, calling at several local attractions on the way such as Durdle Door, Lulworth Cove, the Tank Museum and Monkey World. There is the Portland Coaster too that is run from Weymouth, so it will be interesting to see if this is added to the Adventures by Bus portfolio as well.
So all three have assumed their normal status.
So all three have assumed their normal status.
Apart from the SRs, that’s the newest Solo of that kind, I believe?
Yes, and historically seems to be the least reliable.
Are the Tin Coaster and 19 remaining crosslinked?
Yes, the Tin Coaster and 19 interwork with 2 open-tops (ideally, but likely will be closed top sometimes). The 17 operates on its own now, opposed to interworking with the others like before the service changes.
Just need the T1 to call in now.
On the face of it given the amount of layover incorporated in the lengthy cycle time for each bus there would appear to be sufficient to absorb the diversion without additional PVR, but then I don't know what how robust the schedules are in practice and that's likely to be the key.
Calling in adds around 4 mins to the timing (8 mins to a round trip)
So long as the T1 doesn't use St Erth Station forecourt it both makes a mockery of Cornwall Council's claims of a 'transport hub' there and severely inconveniences the passengers who wish to board or alight in the area onto or from that bus route. Personally, I maintain that the T2 would need to call there too to justify the interchange claim in full, but I understand why that probably won't happen. I'm not, by the way, suggesting that First are culpable here.
Yes, that's what I estimated as the maximum additional running time, although going towards Penzance it's probably a minute less. There's 25 min scheduled layover at Penzance on each trip which *on the face of it* could be reduced. There's 11 min at Truro and 9 min at St Ives so no scope to reduce these without compromising reliability.
Although looking at early morning, if my assumptions about the bus workings are correct the layovers at Penzance are much reduced, so maybe therein lies the problem.
