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RE: Arriva North East: Rare & Odd Workings - January 2016 - omnicity4659 - 10 Jan 2016
(10 Jan 2016, 9:43 pm)S813 FVK But surely there would have been a branded vehicle sitting spare in the depot, too? Going for the unbranded spare because it was parked closest to the depot exit just seems lazy.
Then the moans would begin about a X21/X22 vehicle on the X18.
It's a Sapphire ffs.
RE: Arriva North East: Rare & Odd Workings - January 2016 - mb134 - 10 Jan 2016
(10 Jan 2016, 9:29 pm)GX03 SVC 7518 was parked closest to the depot exit. Plus, it's the highest-spec spare vehicle, so it doesn't make much of an impact if allocated to other services.
That is the worst excuse I think I've ever heard! Laziness at it's finest.
Arriva paid money to have them branded, use them!
RE: Arriva North East: Rare & Odd Workings - January 2016 - S813 FVK - 10 Jan 2016
(10 Jan 2016, 9:48 pm)GX03 SVC Then the moans would begin about a X21/X22 vehicle on the X18.
It's a Sapphire ffs.
Where does the X18 come into this?
I hate to sound patronising but we are discussing 7518 being allocated to services X21/X22 or however it works on a Sunday.
I should probably say that I agree with your point that it is a Sapphire vehicle allocated to a Sapphire service - doing the job it was intended to do. However, we all know that on Sundays, the PVR of most services is reduced. In this instance, however, it would have been more sensible to allocate an X21/X22 branded vehicle rather than the spare.
To be honest, why can't they just add route vinyls for the X21/X22 onto 7518 anyway. They are the only Sapphire routes at Ashington and even if it was to appear on a different service, it would still be classed as a rare/odd working (even if it does happen quite often).
RE: Arriva North East: Rare & Odd Workings - January 2016 - Multi21 - 11 Jan 2016
1452 is spending the morning on 5/5A due to 1556 breaking down. It's on 1050 5 from Middlesbrough
RE: Arriva North East: Rare & Odd Workings - January 2016 - tyresmoke - 11 Jan 2016
(11 Jan 2016, 9:33 am)Multi21 1452 is spending the morning on 5/5A due to 1556 breaking down. It's on 1050 5 from Middlesbrough
Typical you're on Sapphire a week and you're breaking our buses already?! :p What's up with it?
RE: Arriva North East: Rare & Odd Workings - January 2016 - Kuyoyo - 11 Jan 2016
1456 on 17a
RE: Arriva North East: Rare & Odd Workings - January 2016 - Cock Robin - 11 Jan 2016
(10 Jan 2016, 9:43 pm)S813 FVK But surely there would have been a branded vehicle sitting spare in the depot, too? Going for the unbranded spare because it was parked closest to the depot exit just seems lazy.
May be to get the mileage up? If branded ones are always used in preference its never going to do anything. Its not as though the branded ones are going to appear on the 'wrong' route so I can't see that it matters.
RE: Arriva North East: Rare & Odd Workings - January 2016 - Andreos1 - 11 Jan 2016
X3/X4 Streetlite on a 22.
RE: Arriva North East: Rare & Odd Workings - January 2016 - Stuartphin1639 - 11 Jan 2016
2843 on 1/5/5A/19 replacing a pulsar that's been involved in a accident at bishop earlier this morning
RE: Arriva North East: Rare & Odd Workings - January 2016 - Kuyoyo - 11 Jan 2016
7539 out all night on X12
RE: Arriva North East: Rare & Odd Workings - January 2016 - DanPicken - 11 Jan 2016
(11 Jan 2016, 5:00 pm)Kuyoyo 7539 out all night on X12
2840 on the X12 Shuttle.
RE: Arriva North East: Rare & Odd Workings - January 2016 - omnicity4659 - 11 Jan 2016
1790 (u/allox) and a decker on 115.
RE: Arriva North East: Rare & Odd Workings - January 2016 - tyresmoke - 11 Jan 2016
1923 on loan to Redcar operating the 63 all day
RE: Arriva North East: Rare & Odd Workings - January 2016 - Multi21 - 11 Jan 2016
(11 Jan 2016, 9:53 am)tyresmoke Typical you're on Sapphire a week and you're breaking our buses already?! :p What's up with it?
Away you had to know it was going to happen! The battery went on it and wouldn't start again!
RE: Arriva North East: Rare & Odd Workings - January 2016 - Kuyoyo - 11 Jan 2016
(11 Jan 2016, 5:00 pm)Kuyoyo 7539 out all night on X12
![[Image: 24025588490_39647afedb_c.jpg]](https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1455/24025588490_39647afedb_c.jpg)
Arriva North East 7539 (NK15 DZR) by Tony Kuy, on Flickr
RE: Arriva North East: Rare & Odd Workings - January 2016 - Pete1 - 12 Jan 2016
Last Saturday afternoon I caught the GNE No 1 from Chowdene to Newcastle and as we approached the Cannon a single deck Arriva X12 was pulling out of Lowreys Lane turning right onto Durham Road. Later at Gateshead Interchange I saw presumably the same bus parked with its indicator showing 'X12 Low Fell The Cannon'. This seemed an unusual operation for an Arriva bus especially as it has no stops between Gateshead and the Cannon.
RE: Arriva North East: Rare & Odd Workings - January 2016 - omnicity4659 - 12 Jan 2016
(12 Jan 2016, 12:08 am)Pete1 Last Saturday afternoon I caught the GNE No 1 from Chowdene to Newcastle and as we approached the Cannon a single deck Arriva X12 was pulling out of Lowreys Lane turning right onto Durham Road. Later at Gateshead Interchange I saw presumably the same bus parked with its indicator showing 'X12 Low Fell The Cannon'. This seemed an unusual operation for an Arriva bus especially as it has no stops between Gateshead and the Cannon.
Shuttle service for High West Street closure in Gateshead. No X12s will call at Gateshead.
RE: Arriva North East: Rare & Odd Workings - January 2016 - Dan - 12 Jan 2016
(12 Jan 2016, 12:34 am)GX03 SVC Shuttle service for High West Street closure in Gateshead. No X12s will call at Gateshead.
..and although this shuttle service is in operation, several X12s have been sighted this week still going through Gateshead Interchange!
Nine times out of ten it's been a Pulsar (so presumably a Stockton turn) although yesterday at about 15:00 it was a Gemini, so would have been a Durham turn.
Arriva North East: Rare & Odd Workings - January 2016 - MrPottski - 12 Jan 2016
09 reg Pulsar on 4's in Darlington this morning. THAT should be fun!
RE: Arriva North East: Rare & Odd Workings - January 2016 - Jimmi - 12 Jan 2016
(12 Jan 2016, 8:40 am)MrPottski 09 reg Pulsar on 4's in Darlington this morning. THAT should be fun!Can't be worse than when they used to send a EcoCity round there on a morning.
I'm told...
2851 on X1.
4645 on 1/5/5A/19