(07 Jun 2017, 7:55 am)Andreos1 wrote I got on a Birtley bound bus at the Galleries recently and it arrived a little late. The SR didn't rush and it had a decent load.
By the time it got to Ayton, we were early.
The bus laid over for a few moments and set off on time again. We got to Birtley early.
It seemed almost as though the timetable wasn't suitable to keep to or maintain the timetable. In the past, the Cadet's struggled to make time up like that.
I alluded to the PVR dropping in my reply to Michael. I wonder if the withdrawal of the MPD's is just a coincidence and has nothing to do with these changes?
The vehicle change has also seen a reliability change, there is no doubt about that. When the Cadet's, Merit's and B7 President's were allocated, the reliability was shocking, the MPD's not so bad.