29 Dec 2021, 10:00 am
#127
(29 Dec 2021, 1:59 am)6049 You're then adding in resources to facilitate driver changeovers at Stanley from Chester. That's dead mileage in a van or bus to a depot which currently has next to no dead mileage for driver changeovers as of the top of my head, Chester changeovers all occur at the Front Street/South Burns.
Consett, all changeovers at some stage involve dead mileage. Drivers there all either have to take a bus up to Consett or Stanley - whether that's running light to/from the depot to start/end points, or just using a bus as a shuttle to relieve a service at Consett/Stanley.
Keep the resources where they're needed anyway instead of diluting them. Not every X30/X31 changeover happens at Stanley anyway if its changed at Consett as an X70/X71. The only way I could think of avoiding it would be to interwork it with an X21, but the frequency wouldn't make it an easy interwork and you'd probably have to magic some low height deckers out of thin air which won't happen.
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I know most X30/X31 & X70/X71/X72 changeovers happen at Consett unless it's the odd run where it so happens a driver needs changed at Stanley.
It was more mentioning should GNE ever need to increase running / recovery times on the X30's and X70's going forward meaning that interworking patterns would no doubt need to change with the X30/X31 no longer interworking with the X70/X71/X72.
But your point (I know Dan did mention it too) about keeping at Consett regardless of mileage does make sense if CLS do little or no remote changeovers. Vehicle allocations is another debate but that's already been discussed and put to bed.
