That place seems busy enough as it is, always queues waiting for a stand and even when they get one it's often not even close to the right one, so should be fun for Dartmoor passengers
your right it is a shambles, buses are supposed to drop off and if not straight out, park in either the layover bays or on Verney Street, but in reality they just dump them
Any operator can access a bus station. They just have to pay.
Quite! We won't ask how much they've clobbered you for.
It’ll be publicly available. The charge is calculated on the basis of the proportion of the costs of providing and running the bus station in respect of the number of presentations. It was a principle set during bus deregulation by the the Monopolies and Mergers Commission.
Sure I'm not the only one whose eye was drawn to one vehicle in particular in this image. Is that a Plaxton Supreme body?
Where can I find this fleet update? Thanks
Can only assume terminal failure myself. I’ve noticed it made a week in service in January. I wonder if/when 32764 and 32768 will enter service in Somerset.
The Supreme is ODL525X - belongs to Marc Morgan-Huws - a very fine Bedford YNT / Plaxton Supreme IV (?GT).
I also wonder when Somerset will start painting the newly cascaded deckers.
We won’t. Excluding the E400s most are short term additions.
(awaits follow up questions - what's replacing them? when will they get repainted? why? when?)
More Gemini's on the way?
I've been told by my little voices that it's the Cardiff bendis.(awaits follow up questions - what's replacing them? when will they get repainted? why? when?)
So does this mean the Lolynes and Geminis up there will only be short terms?
Isn’t that what the man said?
I recall suggesting something along these lines before given that the Dartmoor Explorer which started at Tavistock last summer came empty from Duchy College anyway. I would have thought the train to Gunnislake connecting with the bus there would make a better scenic day out - great views of the Tamar Estuary and then the Calstock viaduct - than a boring(ish) haul out of Plymouth following the route of the Stagecoach 1. And if the bus and train operator (remind me, who is the train operator....) could organise connections from the train arrival at 09.11 and departure at 15.19 with through ticketing as a package - excellent idea!
First Group’s GWR, who can show to work with bus companies to create new connections in the south west eg; Totnes for the South Hams and Okehampton for Dartmoor.
Absolutely. If this is the plan, with a combined ticket, then I think it could be excellent. And unlike the other two examples it is with First Bus.
32766 is still in daily service with First Hants and Dorset so not sure when or if that's transferring.
I expect it will transfer once something has arrived to displace it. I believe the turquoise vehicles in Bristol for route 5 are transferring to Solent in due course, so I expect at that point 32764 will transfer to Somerset.
I know there's some sort of vehicle transfer going on there, can't quite remember what it is but it'll probably transfer then yeah.
Yes, there's good people there who understand the importance of public transport integration.
So it is! My mistake, misremembered.
So of the white ones only 32127 and 128 left in service now I believe.
I'd assume so - perhaps when the B9s come down from Ensign for the Lands End Coaster they might be swapped (ie a B9 comes down to FSW, and then a B7 is then towed up to Ensign on the same truck?)
