Arriva North East: Rare & Odd Workings - September 2020
Arriva North East: Rare & Odd Workings - September 2020
I shall be in Middlesbrough and east Yorkshire next week. I am hoping to ride a MAX Volvo B9TL on route X93 or X94 from Middlesbrough through to Scarborough. I am willing to catch route X4 to Whitby and connect with a Volvo B9TL there if it makes all the difference. Mind you, it might not as route X4 takes so much longer to reach Whitby.
Looking on Flickr, I have seen occasional other buses from Redcar garage on route X93. My most likely buses are the 8.50 X94, 9.20 X93 or 9.50 X94 from Middlesbrough.
As far as any of you know, is one of the above journeys definitely operated by Whitby garage and therefore (barring anything unforeseen) a Volvo B9TL?
I thank any of you who can let me know!
(12 Sep 2020, 6:01 pm)Metroline1511 I shall be in Middlesbrough and east Yorkshire next week. I am hoping to ride a MAX Volvo B9TL on route X93 or X94 from Middlesbrough through to Scarborough. I am willing to catch route X4 to Whitby and connect with a Volvo B9TL there if it makes all the difference. Mind you, it might not as route X4 takes so much longer to reach Whitby.
Looking on Flickr, I have seen occasional other buses from Redcar garage on route X93. My most likely buses are the 8.50 X94, 9.20 X93 or 9.50 X94 from Middlesbrough.
As far as any of you know, is one of the above journeys definitely operated by Whitby garage and therefore (barring anything unforeseen) a Volvo B9TL?
I thank any of you who can let me know!
(12 Sep 2020, 6:01 pm)Metroline1511 I shall be in Middlesbrough and east Yorkshire next week. I am hoping to ride a MAX Volvo B9TL on route X93 or X94 from Middlesbrough through to Scarborough. I am willing to catch route X4 to Whitby and connect with a Volvo B9TL there if it makes all the difference. Mind you, it might not as route X4 takes so much longer to reach Whitby.
Looking on Flickr, I have seen occasional other buses from Redcar garage on route X93. My most likely buses are the 8.50 X94, 9.20 X93 or 9.50 X94 from Middlesbrough.
As far as any of you know, is one of the above journeys definitely operated by Whitby garage and therefore (barring anything unforeseen) a Volvo B9TL?
I thank any of you who can let me know!
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When I did 4 days on the 18 last week it connected with the 0750 X94 in Guisborough from Middlesbrough on the school holiday times, and three days out of four that was a B9, the other being a B7, and that's a Redcar bus. Pulsars have been used a fair bit on the 0850 and 0950 in recent weeks. 0920 pretty much nailed on a decker but often 7424 can appear on that one.
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On Bus Times (which for some reason, isn't showing any Arriva vehicles on the map and the main fleetlist page shows the last tracked times as around 2-half 2 yesterday but the vehicle pages do have their tracking data from today) lists today's X93/X94 allocation as
Departures from Middlesbrough
0750 X94 (Redcar working): B7 7426
0850 X94: B9 7402
0920 X93 (Whitby working): B7 7424
0950 X94: Pulsar 1436
1020 X93: B9 7406
1120 X93: B9 7401
1220 X93: B9 7404
1320 X93: B9 7405
7425 is showing as last being used last Tuesday (1st September) while 7403 was out on the early X94 working yesterday.
(12 Sep 2020, 6:23 pm)peter On paper, the X93 journey should be a B9 as this operates to/from Whitby, while the two X94 journeys would be operated by B7TL's or something else as they start/finish at Middlesbrough and hence are operated by Redcar.
In reality this is not the case, as Whitby is an outstation of Redcar it seems to be a lot more fluid. For example last week (excluding Tuesday where trackers weren't working in the morning) the 8:50 was run by a B9 3 days and a B7 one day, and the 9:50 was also run by a B9 3 days but also a Pulsar one day. Whereas the 9.20 was only run by a B9 2 days, a B7 the other day and a Temsa the other. So it'll probably be a case of being lucky as to what turns up on the day!
(12 Sep 2020, 6:42 pm)tyresmoke When I did 4 days on the 18 last week it connected with the 0750 X94 in Guisborough from Middlesbrough on the school holiday times, and three days out of four that was a B9, the other being a B7, and that's a Redcar bus. Pulsars have been used a fair bit on the 0850 and 0950 in recent weeks. 0920 pretty much nailed on a decker but often 7424 can appear on that one.
(12 Sep 2020, 6:23 pm)peter On paper, the X93 journey should be a B9 as this operates to/from Whitby, while the two X94 journeys would be operated by B7TL's or something else as they start/finish at Middlesbrough and hence are operated by Redcar.
In reality this is not the case, as Whitby is an outstation of Redcar it seems to be a lot more fluid. For example last week (excluding Tuesday where trackers weren't working in the morning) the 8:50 was run by a B9 3 days and a B7 one day, and the 9:50 was also run by a B9 3 days but also a Pulsar one day. Whereas the 9.20 was only run by a B9 2 days, a B7 the other day and a Temsa the other. So it'll probably be a case of being lucky as to what turns up on the day!
(12 Sep 2020, 6:42 pm)tyresmoke When I did 4 days on the 18 last week it connected with the 0750 X94 in Guisborough from Middlesbrough on the school holiday times, and three days out of four that was a B9, the other being a B7, and that's a Redcar bus. Pulsars have been used a fair bit on the 0850 and 0950 in recent weeks. 0920 pretty much nailed on a decker but often 7424 can appear on that one.
Darlington’s 0622 is currently on the 13:03 service 1 from Bishop Auckland to Darlington which in turn should be the 14:00 X1 to Tow Law unless it gets swapped over
(14 Sep 2020, 6:20 pm)Andreos1 63 branded Pulsar on the X4 this afternoon.X3 will be a mix of Streetlites and Temsas - not sure what the total PVR for X3/64 is but the X4 is 8 so that only leaves 5 Streetlites spare (if they're all out) so the balance will be made up of Temsas.
Not sure what the crack is with the X3, but there seems to be more and more Streetlites appearing as opposed to the Temsas.
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(14 Sep 2020, 6:20 pm)Andreos1 63 branded Pulsar on the X4 this afternoon.X3 will be a mix of Streetlites and Temsas - not sure what the total PVR for X3/64 is but the X4 is 8 so that only leaves 5 Streetlites spare (if they're all out) so the balance will be made up of Temsas.
Not sure what the crack is with the X3, but there seems to be more and more Streetlites appearing as opposed to the Temsas.
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(15 Sep 2020, 5:15 pm)tyresmoke X3 will be a mix of Streetlites and Temsas - not sure what the total PVR for X3/64 is but the X4 is 8 so that only leaves 5 Streetlites spare (if they're all out) so the balance will be made up of Temsas.
(15 Sep 2020, 5:15 pm)tyresmoke X3 will be a mix of Streetlites and Temsas - not sure what the total PVR for X3/64 is but the X4 is 8 so that only leaves 5 Streetlites spare (if they're all out) so the balance will be made up of Temsas.
I caught route X93 on Thursday as planned. As I was offered an earlier breakfast at Premier Inn at Middlesbrough, I caught route X4 to Whitby (Streetlite 1562) in case it gave me more choice there. When I arrived there was an X94 worked by a Silver Gemini branded for Whitby Park & Ride. The next bus was an X93, the 9.20 from Middlesbrough, which was a Volvo B9TL as hoped (7406)!
I did see a MAX former London VLA too.
(21 Sep 2020, 8:06 pm)GNE6312 7445 on the 57/57A as part of an eventfull 7 days
(21 Sep 2020, 8:06 pm)GNE6312 7445 on the 57/57A as part of an eventfull 7 days
0622 currently on Sapphire 7 16:17 from Darlington
4650 on Sapphire 1/5/5A/X1 16:10 from Darlington
4649 on Sapphire 1/5/5A/X1/86 16:20 from Darlington
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.
