Go North East: Rare & Odd Workings 2022
Go North East: Rare & Odd Workings 2022
(25 Mar 2022, 3:11 pm)Drifter60 Allocations do seem to be a mess today mind. I’m not sure why - perhaps just a bad day? Long term it’s either one of two things, either there’s too many branded buses for the depot to cope with which leaves little room for manoeuvre with VORs etc. or the depot team don’t seem to managing this effectively.It seems like the 07:49 60 service, basically every day M-F is operated by a solo, as there are already some on the 9&5.
Some things can be explained, if all of the Violets bar 1 aren’t available for service, then they aren’t available, simple as - although it does now seem that one of them has made it onto scholars this afternoon. Also, Prince Bishops popping up all over the place is a due to the 4 spare branded buses they have, because of the 20 being reduced currently. The 61 has a PB daily. But of course the 20 currently should never not have a branded bus really, unless there were more then 4 out of service.
As for the 60, I mentioned weeks back that it seems to be a conscious decision that they allocate some of the Drifter StreetLites to 5/9 circuit, happens regularly, it’s odd but not rare. Unknown why this occurs.
(25 Mar 2022, 3:11 pm)Drifter60 Allocations do seem to be a mess today mind. I’m not sure why - perhaps just a bad day? Long term it’s either one of two things, either there’s too many branded buses for the depot to cope with which leaves little room for manoeuvre with VORs etc. or the depot team don’t seem to managing this effectively.It seems like the 07:49 60 service, basically every day M-F is operated by a solo, as there are already some on the 9&5.
Some things can be explained, if all of the Violets bar 1 aren’t available for service, then they aren’t available, simple as - although it does now seem that one of them has made it onto scholars this afternoon. Also, Prince Bishops popping up all over the place is a due to the 4 spare branded buses they have, because of the 20 being reduced currently. The 61 has a PB daily. But of course the 20 currently should never not have a branded bus really, unless there were more then 4 out of service.
As for the 60, I mentioned weeks back that it seems to be a conscious decision that they allocate some of the Drifter StreetLites to 5/9 circuit, happens regularly, it’s odd but not rare. Unknown why this occurs.
