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Ye Olde School Days

Ye Olde School Days

 
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09 Oct 2019, 7:51 pm #5
I went to school in Sunderland in the 90s and used to get the Busways number 6. In the first few years it was generally decker operated IIRC with the AL Fleetlines or the EJR Atlanteans. The deckers got les and less common with Darts taking over for a good while - making for horrendously crammed journeys and must have been awful for the 'normal' full fare paying adults who used the service! It was always a relief when a Lynx turned up, or on a rare occasion a decker emerged over the hill! Deckers got ever less common once the Atlanteans went to Newcastle and Sunderland got a load more Darts in exchange.

They started running dupes using a TWOC minibus on the morning peak which helped a bit and was generally quieter - though was always a gamble as to whether to wait and see if that turned up! In 1994, Sunderland Busways got the three evaluation models (954, 1203 and 1901) which became the regulars on the service, and although they were still too small for the loadings, were infinitely better than the loathed Darts! I remember the journey home on 1901 one evening when the driver somehow took the wrong route and ended up in a random housing estate being directed by a schoolkid!
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09 Oct 2019, 7:51 pm #5

I went to school in Sunderland in the 90s and used to get the Busways number 6. In the first few years it was generally decker operated IIRC with the AL Fleetlines or the EJR Atlanteans. The deckers got les and less common with Darts taking over for a good while - making for horrendously crammed journeys and must have been awful for the 'normal' full fare paying adults who used the service! It was always a relief when a Lynx turned up, or on a rare occasion a decker emerged over the hill! Deckers got ever less common once the Atlanteans went to Newcastle and Sunderland got a load more Darts in exchange.

They started running dupes using a TWOC minibus on the morning peak which helped a bit and was generally quieter - though was always a gamble as to whether to wait and see if that turned up! In 1994, Sunderland Busways got the three evaluation models (954, 1203 and 1901) which became the regulars on the service, and although they were still too small for the loadings, were infinitely better than the loathed Darts! I remember the journey home on 1901 one evening when the driver somehow took the wrong route and ended up in a random housing estate being directed by a schoolkid!

 
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Ye Olde School Days - by ifm001 - 07 Oct 2019, 5:58 pm
RE: Ye Olde School Days - by Andreos1 - 08 Oct 2019, 3:40 pm
RE: Ye Olde School Days - by Andreos1 - 08 Oct 2019, 10:31 pm
RE: Ye Olde School Days - by BusLoverMum - 08 Oct 2019, 8:00 pm
RE: Ye Olde School Days - by stagecoachbusdepot - 09 Oct 2019, 7:51 pm
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