First West of England (Bristol, Bath & The West)

[The exile]

Its a bit of a ballache TBH - remember the old 581 did it. To Filton is ok as you come along, left and up the road to the car park, round and back out. From Filton, you can’t turn right so you have to go down to the roundabout by Asda and then back up.

Besides, I'm not certain why you’d do it? It would be be better to improve links and facilities at Parkway.

As long as all the stoppers that currently terminate at Filton AW are reinstated to Parkway

 

[Private Baxter]

100 years of buses operating in Wells​

https://www.somersetcountygazette.co.uk/news/19581541.100-years-buses-operating-wells/By Phil Hill @GazettePHillChief reporter

Thanks for sharing. I genuinely didn't know it had been operating from the same site for 100 years, so I've learnt something! Looks like a good event anyway. Wish I could go!

 

[freetoview33]

As long as all the stoppers that currently terminate at Filton AW are reinstated to Parkway

I am informed (Although can't share sources yet) that it will happen next year.

 

[Whiteway215]

I was passing Wells Depot this evening and with permission had a look at 32009.
The windscreen is badly cracked and the whole bus looks very poorly.
I'm not sure how much longer it will be parked there in the corner.
(This one was acting as a canteen)

 

[Private Baxter]

I was passing Wells Depot this evening and with permission had a look at 32009.
The windscreen is badly cracked and the whole bus looks very poorly.
I'm not sure how much longer it will be parked there in the corner.
(This one was acting as a canteen)

Star attraction for next weekend perhaps

 

[Whiteway215]

Star attraction for next weekend perhaps

Yes I was wondering if it would still be around for the open day!

Only surmising but on the First South West thread, On the Buses indicated that Wigleys were due to collect scrap from Wells at the same time as they delivered on tow one of the Aberdeen E500s for First Kernow.

 

[Citistar]

Star attraction for next weekend perhaps

I've heard the suggestion that management is planning to put a tent up in front of it to hide the shame.

 

[aquae39]

The newest Bath Unibus branding out now! (Image shows 33947, YX66WEW)

 

[TheGrandWazoo]

Thanks for sharing. I genuinely didn't know it had been operating from the same site for 100 years, so I've learnt something! Looks like a good event anyway. Wish I could go!

I'm away for it but I tend not to go to those sort of events anyway.

It may be from the same site but it's a Triggers Broom depot having been redeveloped heavily in the late 70s/early 80s

I was passing Wells Depot this evening and with permission had a look at 32009.
The windscreen is badly cracked and the whole bus looks very poorly.
I'm not sure how much longer it will be parked there in the corner.
(This one was acting as a canteen)

It is visible from the road (where I spied it just over a week ago) so assume they will look to get rid of it this week. Not a great advert.

 

[Private Baxter]

I'm away for it but I tend not to go to those sort of events anyway.

It may be from the same site but it's a Triggers Broom depot having been redeveloped heavily in the late 70s/early 80s

I don't think I've ever been to one either, but this one kind of stood out, and had I been available I would likely have made an exception for it.

Indeed sometime in the mid to late 80s the site was partially redeveloped and the bus station building was sold off, though the depot remained. However this is just outside of my memory, so I only remember the Princes Road site.

 

[TheGrandWazoo]

I don't think I've ever been to one either, but this one kind of stood out, and had I been available I would likely have made an exception for it.

Indeed sometime in the mid to late 80s the site was partially redeveloped and the bus station building was sold off, though the depot remained. However this is just outside of my memory, so I only remember the Princes Road site.

Not the original depot building as this shot shows (credit to Guy Lowlander)

S1658 Bristol Omnibus Co. 2506 (528JHU) Bristol MW6G - ECW.

Bristol Omnibus Co. 2506 (528JHU) Bristol MW6G - ECW. {1960}. Wells, 2 September 1976.

www.flickr.com

 

[Whiteway215]

According to the First South West thread there is a large number of buses heading down there from Hengrove.
What is coming in to replace them?

Meanwhile 32292 and the 323xx ‘s carry on regardless at Hengrove.

Does anyone know if 32009 has been removed from Wells?

 

[carlberry]

According to the First South West thread there is a large number of buses heading down there from Hengrove.
What is coming in to replace them?

Meanwhile 32292 and the 323xx ‘s carry on regardless at Hengrove.

Does anyone know if 32009 has been removed from Wells?

I believe a few buses are being swapped with First South West, some 371xxs going down and 33420-22 coming back.
32009 has been replaced by an Enviro 500 today.

 

[TheGrandWazoo]

I believe a few buses are being swapped with First South West, some 371xxs going down and 33420-22 coming back.
32009 has been replaced by an Enviro 500 today.

Wonder where 33420-22 will end up?

 

[Callum15632]

Wonder where 33420-22 will end up?

33422 is now at Hengrove and ALX400 32292 is VOR awaiting transfer. Does anyone know where 32292 is transferring to?

 

[vla50]

33422 is now at Hengrove and ALX400 32292 is VOR awaiting transfer. Does anyone know where 32292 is transferring to?

Perhaps it would be withdrawn

 

[Callum15632]

Perhaps it would be withdrawn

No on a Facebook group some Hengrove driver posted a picture of it on the defect card because it is VOR it said Details of defect: Transfer.

Does anyone know if 33420-22 are going to be allocated to Hengrove Depot? If so, what routes are they going to be used on? I think they might go on the 75 and 76.

 

[carlberry]

No on a Facebook group some Hengrove driver posted a picture of it on the defect card because it is VOR it said Details of defect: Transfer.

Does anyone know if 33420-22 are going to be allocated to Hengrove Depot? If so, what routes are they going to be used on? I think they might go on the 75 and 76.

32292 is 18 years old, I don't know how many First depots would want that! Anything at Hengrove (that's not liveried for something) is going to end up on the 75/76.

 

[vla50]

No on a Facebook group some Hengrove driver posted a picture of it on the defect card because it is VOR it said Details of defect: Transfer.

Does anyone know if 33420-22 are going to be allocated to Hengrove Depot? If so, what routes are they going to be used on? I think they might go on the 75 and 76.

Could also mean being transferred to somewhere like Ensignbus

 

[Callum15632]

36825-36829 are now back at Hengrove Depot after being at SPS.

Is 47559 the bus allocated to the Sunday only first operated 12 & 622?

 

[vla50]

What were the points of those Q Busters around Winter 2019 in Bristol?

 

[TheGrandWazoo]

What were the points of those Q Busters around Winter 2019 in Bristol?

When the schools go back after the summer hols, traffic goes mental from then til Xmas. They put in extra resources, sometimes on part routes, to help reliability.

 

[Marcus Fryer]

Is 47559 the bus allocated to the Sunday only first operated 12 & 622?

According to the bus tracker it’s been the bus for the 12 & 622 every Sunday, and during the week on the 35. It is one of the Streetlites allocated to Marlborough Street (MS), which also work the X8. 47559 is the only 37-seater allocated to MS; the buses that work the X8 are 41 seaters. So I would guess the answer is ‘yes’.

 

[TheGrandWazoo]

According to the bus tracker it’s been the bus for the 12 & 622 every Sunday, and during the week on the 35. It is one of the Streetlites allocated to Marlborough Street (MS), which also work the X8. 47559 is the only 37-seater allocated to MS; the buses that work the X8 are 41 seaters. So I would guess the answer is ‘yes’.

All the Streetlites are 37 seaters since 63068-78 moved to Leicester. It’s because 47559 is in Urban whilst the others at Marlborough St are in Excel colours AFAIK.

 

[Marcus Fryer]

All the Streetlites are 37 seaters since 63068-78 moved to Leicester. It’s because 47559 is in Urban whilst the others at Marlborough St are in Excel colours AFAIK.

Thanks for the correction re seats - don't know where I got the impression 44735-47 were 41-seaters from.
However, the UK Buses fleet list has 44743/44/47 as also in urban and based at Lawrence Hill (i.e. Marlborough Street), and Bus Times shows them sometimes working the 35 or X8 (although 44743 hasn't tracked since 15 September).
Presumably, provided the UK Buses fleet list is correct, there's therefore no reason why one of these couldn't be used for the 12 & 622 on a Sunday

 

[TheGrandWazoo]

Thanks for the correction re seats - don't know where I got the impression 44735-47 were 41-seaters from.
However, the UK Buses fleet list has 44743/44/47 as also in urban and based at Lawrence Hill (i.e. Marlborough Street), and Bus Times shows them sometimes working the 35 or X8 (although 44743 hasn't tracked since 15 September).
Presumably, provided the UK Buses fleet list is correct, there's therefore no reason why one of these couldn't be used for the 12 & 622 on a Sunday

Missed those. Perhaps it's just that they prefer the Micro-Hybrid one out?

 

[Callum15632]

Missed those. Perhaps it's just that they prefer the Micro-Hybrid one out?

47443,47444 and 47447 are all Micro Hybrid as their exhausts got upgraded during lockdown.

 

[TheGrandWazoo]

47443,47444 and 47447 are all Micro Hybrid as their exhausts got upgraded during lockdown.

Are they Micro Hybrids? They have had the exhaust mods to achieve Euro VI standard but didn't Micro Hybrids have some form of regenerative tech to charge the batteries and so reduce fuel consumption?

 

[cnjb8]

Thanks for the correction re seats - don't know where I got the impression 44735-47 were 41-seaters from.
However, the UK Buses fleet list has 44743/44/47 as also in urban and based at Lawrence Hill (i.e. Marlborough Street), and Bus Times shows them sometimes working the 35 or X8 (although 44743 hasn't tracked since 15 September).
Presumably, provided the UK Buses fleet list is correct, there's therefore no reason why one of these couldn't be used for the 12 & 622 on a Sunday

Take UK Buses fleet lists with a pinch of salt, not very accurate

 

[DaveHarries]

As long as all the stoppers that currently terminate at Filton AW are reinstated to Parkway

Which they won't be. From what I can tell, if all goes as seems to be planned (going by info on the RTT website), the Weston-super-Mare - Filton Abbey Wood local stoppers are being rerouted to help provide a 2tph Monday to Saturday daytime service on the Severn Beach line wef 13-Dec-2021. A shuttle service will run roughly hourly between Bristol Temple Meads and Filton Abbey Wood at off-peak times.

Dave