Yorkshire Bus Operations
Yorkshire Bus Operations
First South Yorkshire
Delivery of the 13 Streetlites and 13 Streetdecks for Olive Grove services 1a/56 is now complete - although not all have entered service yet (at time of posting, only Streetdecks 35309/11-8 have entered service, while 63912/3 have yet to be reported in use). 63912 has received 'Buses for Sheffield' branding and was used for the launch of the vehicles (alongside a Stagecoach example with the same branding) on Friday.
Their arrival has released the original batch of Mirco-Hybrid Streetlites 63129-45 to Doncaster to replace the remaining B10BLEs there, along with a small number of B7Ls. The remaining active Tridents at Doncaster have been cascaded to First Kernow, replaced by B7TLs from Manchester.
Formerly here on-loan, E200 44637/8 (MX14 FUH, YY16 FJT) have been purchased by First from Dawsonrentals - they have been transferred to Buses of Somerset. No details yet on if 44639 (YX14 RZG) has also been purchased.
Stagecoach Yorkshire
Derbyshire County Council have put the timetable for the extended X17 on their transport website - it starts on the 22nd July.
The breakdown is as followed:
- The Chesterfield-Sheffield short journeys Monday to Saturday are extended via Meadowhall and the M1 to Barnsley. The only weekday exception to that is the 0715 departure from Matlock which extends to Barnsley, all Matlock journeys will continue to terminate in Sheffield Interchange during the week - on Sundays journeys will operate between Matlock and Barnsley (although the first departure from Barnsley isn't until 0938 arriving in Matlock at 1204, with the last full length journey to Barnsley leaves Matlock at 1510 - giving just 3 hours in Matlock)
- The present last Monday to Saturday departure from Sheffield to Matlock will run 5 minutes later than present. A new later journey from Barnsley to Chesterfield is introduced, leaving Barnsley at 2015 and Sheffield at 2105 with arrival in Chesterfield at 2142 (the driver and vehicle on that working has a 75 minute layover in Barnsley). In contrast, the last Monday to Saturday journey between Chesterfield and Matlock is retimed to run 15 minutes earlier at 2220 (presently 2235) with the return working also likewise retimed to leave Matlock at 2250 (2305) and revised to terminate in Chesterfield Coach Station (presently this extends to Cavendish Street)
- Journeys from Sheffield to Chesterfield and Matlock will move to Stand D4 in Sheffield Interchange, presently using Stand B4
