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RE: Arriva North East: Rare & Odd Workings - August 2015 - Stuartphin1639 - 08 Aug 2015
(08 Aug 2015, 10:16 pm)John_R The majority of the odd allocations of 1799 happen due to it being the spare bus at Feethams regularly.
Until today the spare bus was 1799 at one point, 4655 when 1799 replaced it on the X66, then 7534 after 4655 replaced that on the 7
RE: Arriva North East: Rare & Odd Workings - August 2015 - Stuartphin1639 - 08 Aug 2015
(08 Aug 2015, 9:53 pm)tyresmoke Haha I dunno about that as they'll have the same amount of extra boards to cover
Haha true, how many scanias do you's have Scott?
RE: Arriva North East: Rare & Odd Workings - August 2015 - tyresmoke - 09 Aug 2015
(08 Aug 2015, 11:10 pm)Stuartphin1639 Haha true, how many scanias do you's have Scott?
Just the three, 4652/4/8 - I understand it will be three of the (former) X1 Pulsars coming the other way.
Arriva North East: Rare & Odd Workings - August 2015 - MrPottski - 09 Aug 2015
(09 Aug 2015, 9:56 am)tyresmoke Just the three, 4652/4/8 - I understand it will be three of the (former) X1 Pulsars coming the other way.
Changed their mind on MAX-ing them for the X75/6 then?
Generic Frequenta Solo 2851 is operating the X66/X26 today.
RE: Arriva North East: Rare & Odd Workings - August 2015 - tyresmoke - 09 Aug 2015
(09 Aug 2015, 9:59 am)MrPottski Changed their mind on MAX-ing them for the X75/6 then?
Generic Frequenta Solo 2851 is operating the X66/X26 today.
Think engineering want all the Scanias in one place rather than having 3 on their own at Stockton. Unsure what that means for Jesmonds 4 though?!
RE: Arriva North East: Rare & Odd Workings - August 2015 - mb134 - 09 Aug 2015
(09 Aug 2015, 10:02 am)tyresmoke Think engineering want all the Scanias in one place rather than having 3 on their own at Stockton. Unsure what that means for Jesmonds 4 though?!
Or the two at Ashington?
RE: Arriva North East: Rare & Odd Workings - August 2015 - tyresmoke - 09 Aug 2015
(09 Aug 2015, 11:04 am)mb134 Or the two at Ashington?
Yes quite.... Those would ideally be replaced with double decks I suppose and could then be used to bolster the MAX fleet at Darlington, potentially freeing up 1416 for another project elsewhere.
All academic though until we have enough vehicles to cover all of our MAX projects!
RE: Arriva North East: Rare & Odd Workings - August 2015 - Stuartphin1639 - 09 Aug 2015
(09 Aug 2015, 11:17 am)tyresmoke Yes quite.... Those would ideally be replaced with double decks I suppose and could then be used to bolster the MAX fleet at Darlington, potentially freeing up 1416 for another project elsewhere.
All academic though until we have enough vehicles to cover all of our MAX projects!
Just a question how many running boards do the 1/5/5A/19 have in Darlington would it be possible to send the scanias from up north to Darlington and MAX that service
RE: Arriva North East: Rare & Odd Workings - August 2015 - Kuyoyo - 09 Aug 2015
(09 Aug 2015, 7:09 pm)Stuartphin1639 Just a question how many running boards do the 1/5/5A/19 have in Darlington would it be possible to send the scanias from up north to Darlington and MAX that service
PVR of 11.
Arriva North East: Rare & Odd Workings - August 2015 - MrPottski - 09 Aug 2015
All the Scanias at Darlington....sigh
RE: Arriva North East: Rare & Odd Workings - August 2015 - JoshP - 09 Aug 2015
(09 Aug 2015, 8:02 pm)MrPottski All the Scanias at Darlington....sigh
Vile machines. Enviro 200 or 300 would better suit all MAX Omnicity services
RE: Arriva North East: Rare & Odd Workings - August 2015 - Jimmi - 09 Aug 2015
(09 Aug 2015, 9:22 pm)JoshP Vile machines. Enviro 200 or 300 would better suit all MAX Omnicity services
I think the Omnicity's are okay but I have to admit I'm not the biggest fan of them especially the amount of legroom between most of the seats and some of them do sound rough although they are 10 years old now and some have been truly battered especially the ones that went to Redcar/Whitby for 63 then later the X93 with the latter being a heavily demanding route so the that they are still running reasonably well is pretty good.
I'd like Pulsar's on the X66 myself.
RE: Arriva North East: Rare & Odd Workings - August 2015 - Kuyoyo - 09 Aug 2015
(09 Aug 2015, 9:28 pm)Jimmi I think the Omnicity's are okay but I have to admit I'm not the biggest fan of them especially the amount of legroom between most of the seats and some of them do sound rough although they are 10 years old now and some have been truly battered especially the ones that went to Redcar/Whitby for 63 then later the X93 with the latter being a heavily demanding route so the that they are still running reasonably well is pretty good.
I'd like Pulsar's on the X66 myself.
I'd say Pulsars on some X66s will be the norm
RE: Arriva North East: Rare & Odd Workings - August 2015 - Kuyoyo - 10 Aug 2015
1422 on 21a
RE: Arriva North East: Rare & Odd Workings - August 2015 - S813 FVK - 10 Aug 2015
7618 on 43: https://www.flickr.com/photos/dansnortheastbusphotos/20274644779/in/dateposted/
RE: Arriva North East: Rare & Odd Workings - August 2015 - Stuartphin1639 - 10 Aug 2015
One of 1425-28 are on the sapphire service 7, surely there should be a sapphire branded pulsar on there
It was the 20:15&22:15 off Darlington
21:15&23:15 off Durham
RE: Arriva North East: Rare & Odd Workings - August 2015 - GUG - 10 Aug 2015
A generic liveried MAX omnicity made it onto the 8 this afternoon, I think it replaced 1461 At around 4-5 ish but I'm not 100%.
RE: Arriva North East: Rare & Odd Workings - August 2015 - omnicity4659 - 11 Aug 2015
7506 on 35.
RE: Arriva North East: Rare & Odd Workings - August 2015 - tyresmoke - 11 Aug 2015
1417 on 17A today rather unusual, especially given 1905 was on 9s... One on 17s too but thats normal while its scheduled to do an X12 end of the day.
RE: Arriva North East: Rare & Odd Workings - August 2015 - Stuartphin1639 - 11 Aug 2015
4644 appeared on the 7s earlier on today