Arriva North East: Rare & Odd Workings - September 2020
Arriva North East: Rare & Odd Workings - September 2020
(26 Sep 2020, 12:35 pm)Metroline1511 One of the reasons I came to Middlesbrough last week rather than this week was in case the route X93 Volvo B9TLs were used on the rail replacement service between Middlesbrough and Whitby. Maybe this service has not been operated by Arriva or has used other vehicles instead.
(26 Sep 2020, 12:35 pm)Metroline1511 One of the reasons I came to Middlesbrough last week rather than this week was in case the route X93 Volvo B9TLs were used on the rail replacement service between Middlesbrough and Whitby. Maybe this service has not been operated by Arriva or has used other vehicles instead.
(22 Sep 2020, 10:22 am)Storx It's not that rare to have a decker on the 57/57A (it's 7510 on today); as there seems to be 2 minis off the road (again) - which is common tbh. They badly need something to replace 1800/1801 and 3 Solos which are battered at Ashington.
Blyth tend to like putting Gemini's and Pulsars on their random runs (One of the Max Gemini's was on the other night, yet they had a 308 Gemini on the X7 - not to confuse people).
(22 Sep 2020, 10:22 am)Storx It's not that rare to have a decker on the 57/57A (it's 7510 on today); as there seems to be 2 minis off the road (again) - which is common tbh. They badly need something to replace 1800/1801 and 3 Solos which are battered at Ashington.
Blyth tend to like putting Gemini's and Pulsars on their random runs (One of the Max Gemini's was on the other night, yet they had a 308 Gemini on the X7 - not to confuse people).
(26 Sep 2020, 1:12 pm)Andreos1 I've seen Stanley Coaches in the area and there was a Levante the other night displaying rail replacement. Didn't see who's it was.
(26 Sep 2020, 1:22 pm)Kuyoyo The Rail Replacement between Middlesbrough and Whitby hasn’t had any Arriva involvement - mainly been Compass Royston and Go North East with appearances from York Pullman, Stanley Travel and Coatham.
(26 Sep 2020, 1:12 pm)Andreos1 I've seen Stanley Coaches in the area and there was a Levante the other night displaying rail replacement. Didn't see who's it was.
(26 Sep 2020, 1:22 pm)Kuyoyo The Rail Replacement between Middlesbrough and Whitby hasn’t had any Arriva involvement - mainly been Compass Royston and Go North East with appearances from York Pullman, Stanley Travel and Coatham.
(26 Sep 2020, 3:10 pm)GNE6312 Seems the deckers always seem to be allover. The X7 dupes have been 308 or X10/X11 deckers rather than B7s like I expected.
(26 Sep 2020, 3:10 pm)GNE6312 Seems the deckers always seem to be allover. The X7 dupes have been 308 or X10/X11 deckers rather than B7s like I expected.
(26 Sep 2020, 6:14 pm)Storx Ah Blyth has always been like that, it's because they swap things around in Blyth to keep things on time rather than having a bus on time sitting around for 10 minutes for it's next run while the 308 is 10 minutes late coming in, they'll just send that out on the 308 instead and the late 308 goes on the X7 or whatever. Works well really rather than some rather interesting allocations. Deckers on 1, singles on the peak 308 runs after promising double figure times not to do it etc.Blyth do the nightime 57, they don't do any through the day (except Sunday).
I was talking about the 57/57A there though, there's some random runs that Blyth seem to run. Does anyone actually know what's the pattern for the 57A is as it appears there's like 3 random runs Blyth do then Ashington do the rest. Then Sundays are different again with Blyth running 1 bus and Ashington the other.
(26 Sep 2020, 6:14 pm)Storx Ah Blyth has always been like that, it's because they swap things around in Blyth to keep things on time rather than having a bus on time sitting around for 10 minutes for it's next run while the 308 is 10 minutes late coming in, they'll just send that out on the 308 instead and the late 308 goes on the X7 or whatever. Works well really rather than some rather interesting allocations. Deckers on 1, singles on the peak 308 runs after promising double figure times not to do it etc.Blyth do the nightime 57, they don't do any through the day (except Sunday).
I was talking about the 57/57A there though, there's some random runs that Blyth seem to run. Does anyone actually know what's the pattern for the 57A is as it appears there's like 3 random runs Blyth do then Ashington do the rest. Then Sundays are different again with Blyth running 1 bus and Ashington the other.
(27 Sep 2020, 8:39 pm)Driver9*** Blyth do the nightime 57, they don't do any through the day (except Sunday).
(27 Sep 2020, 8:39 pm)Driver9*** Blyth do the nightime 57, they don't do any through the day (except Sunday).
(27 Sep 2020, 11:00 pm)Storx I don't believe they do now, I live on the route and it's definitely Ashington doing evening runs lately, Blyth seems to drop in and does a random few buses at around 7pm though during the week anyway.Probably to get vehicles back to the depot. Do you know the arriva boards for these.
https://bustimes.org/services/57a-north-...2020-09-21
Seems very random but assume there's some logic behind it.
(27 Sep 2020, 11:00 pm)Storx I don't believe they do now, I live on the route and it's definitely Ashington doing evening runs lately, Blyth seems to drop in and does a random few buses at around 7pm though during the week anyway.Probably to get vehicles back to the depot. Do you know the arriva boards for these.
https://bustimes.org/services/57a-north-...2020-09-21
Seems very random but assume there's some logic behind it.
(27 Sep 2020, 11:00 pm)Storx I don't believe they do now, I live on the route and it's definitely Ashington doing evening runs lately, Blyth seems to drop in and does a random few buses at around 7pm though during the week anyway.
https://bustimes.org/services/57a-north-...2020-09-21
Seems very random but assume there's some logic behind it.
(27 Sep 2020, 11:00 pm)Storx I don't believe they do now, I live on the route and it's definitely Ashington doing evening runs lately, Blyth seems to drop in and does a random few buses at around 7pm though during the week anyway.
https://bustimes.org/services/57a-north-...2020-09-21
Seems very random but assume there's some logic behind it.
(28 Sep 2020, 8:45 am)mb134 Yeah evening runs are all Ashington, bar that Blyth run as the two Ashington evening boards go off for driver breaks.It looks like one of the blyth runs uses 1502, is a pulsar standard for the 57/57A.
From memory it's the 0649 57A to Whitley Bay and 0652 57 to Whitley Bay that eventually run onto the evening runs - though if they've been allocated anything unsuitable for the evening runs they are swapped in the evening when they return to Ashington for the driver break.
(28 Sep 2020, 8:45 am)mb134 Yeah evening runs are all Ashington, bar that Blyth run as the two Ashington evening boards go off for driver breaks.It looks like one of the blyth runs uses 1502, is a pulsar standard for the 57/57A.
From memory it's the 0649 57A to Whitley Bay and 0652 57 to Whitley Bay that eventually run onto the evening runs - though if they've been allocated anything unsuitable for the evening runs they are swapped in the evening when they return to Ashington for the driver break.
(28 Sep 2020, 9:49 am)ASX_Terranova It looks like one of the blyth runs uses 1502, is a pulsar standard for the 57/57A.
Also that long gap is a bit strange especially with scholars and works around that time.
(28 Sep 2020, 9:49 am)ASX_Terranova It looks like one of the blyth runs uses 1502, is a pulsar standard for the 57/57A.
Also that long gap is a bit strange especially with scholars and works around that time.
(28 Sep 2020, 8:45 am)mb134 Yeah evening runs are all Ashington, bar that Blyth run as the two Ashington evening boards go off for driver breaks.
From memory it's the 0649 57A to Whitley Bay and 0652 57 to Whitley Bay that eventually run onto the evening runs - though if they've been allocated anything unsuitable for the evening runs they are swapped in the evening when they return to Ashington for the driver break.
(28 Sep 2020, 8:45 am)mb134 Yeah evening runs are all Ashington, bar that Blyth run as the two Ashington evening boards go off for driver breaks.
From memory it's the 0649 57A to Whitley Bay and 0652 57 to Whitley Bay that eventually run onto the evening runs - though if they've been allocated anything unsuitable for the evening runs they are swapped in the evening when they return to Ashington for the driver break.
