(12 Dec 2014, 9:03 pm)MarcTheA4 wrote Is Leeds in Yorkshire?

Sorry I'm just really bad with counties and regions, etc., I think it's classed West Yorkshire!

Anyway, I never want to see another Enviro400 ever again. Must have counted about 40-50 in First colours, along with one or two B7TL Geminis and an ALX400.

Saw loads of Arriva stuff as well, although I must say Leeds seems very much like Newcastle - in the sense that certain areas are dominated by different operators.

Saw quite a bit of YorkshireTiger action too!

Yeah - leeds is in Yorkshire. Im down there tomorrow coincidentally!

Really hoping to see this:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/76935272@N...Wed-9kGymJ 
It is currently with Arriva Yorkshire

(12 Dec 2014, 9:05 pm)Robert wrote Yeah - leeds is in Yorkshire. Im down there tomorrow coincidentally!

Oh, have fun Robert!

You'll only see First E400s, so be prepared!

(12 Dec 2014, 9:05 pm)Robert wrote Yeah - leeds is in Yorkshire. Im down there tomorrow coincidentally!

Really hoping to see this:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/76935272@N...Wed-9kGymJ 
It is currently with Arriva Yorkshire

Being used on the 110 route from Leeds to Wakefield, it goes out of the bus station.

(12 Dec 2014, 10:54 pm)tyresmoke wrote Being used on the 110 route from Leeds to Wakefield, it goes out of the bus station.

Hasn't there already been an order for E400s for 110 anyway? Cant see much point in the MMC being there tbh.

(13 Dec 2014, 7:48 am)Robert wrote Hasn't there already been an order for E400s for 110 anyway? Cant see much point in the MMC being there tbh.

Possibly being used for familiarisation purposes, not sure? It seems to be out on service a fair bit mind.

Official Operators for the former Eddie Brown Service work from January 5th 2015 are as followed:

56: Harrogate Coach Travel 'Connexions Buses'
Knaresborough - Harrogate
Knaresborough - Ripon
142/143: Transdev York

Kirkby Lonsdale Coach Hire have recently improved their 580/581 service. It runs 5/6 times a day between Kirkby Lonsdale, Ingleton and Settle as service 581, connecting onwards for Hellifield and Skipton as the 580. The route has a PVR of 2 and is now branded as "The Craven Connection"

A timetable can be found on the Dalesbus site
Previously run by (former Stagecoach 21144) Volvo B10BLE SNZ2230 & Optare Excel Y251DRC

They have now purchased a Mercedes Citaro - BN09FWR is a former Mercedes demonstrator vehicle.


Kirkby Lonsdale BN09FWR by jonathan on Flickr

With the closure of Whittles, the following vehicles have returned to East Yorkshire:

Transbus Pointer Darts 154/5 (YX03 MWG/J) and 170 (YX04 JVW)
AlexanderDennis Enviro200 157/8/9 (YX56 HVF/G/H) and 171/2 (YX57 BXB/C)
Volvo B10BLE/Alexander ALX300 173/4/5/6 (W414/5/6/7 JAT)

Streetdeck SN64 CTU is currently with Transdev Harrogate on their 36 service - not long after a Gemini 3 was trialled on there.

Service and Contract Changes in Sheffield have resulted in a few service allocation changes:

First's 3 Heritage-livered B9TLs 37229 (3910 WE) 37524 (YN58 ETR) and 37528 (YN58 ETX) are now allocated to service 95 (Sheffield - Walkley)



Operation of Monday to Friday limited service M20 (Broomhill - Pitmoor via City Centre) passed from Sheffield Community Transport (SCT), who used a mix of a Optare Alero and vehicles from their Door 2 Door fleet, to Powells who used MPD LG02FFB on the first day yesterday



SCT and TM Travel also swapped contracts with TM Travel taking over the 29 (Sheffield - Pennistone) from SCT, while SCT replaced TM on the 31/31A (Sheffield - Hillsborough) extending it commercially to Loxley during the week using 2 buses. Stagecoach took over the evening and Sunday journeys on the 31 which already run between Sheffield and Loxley.

The closure of Whittle's has seen the following vehicles return to East Yorkshire's fleet

Dennis Dart SLF/Plaxton Pointer
154 (YX03 MWG) now EYMS 335
155 (YX03 MWJ) now EYMS 336
156 (YX03 MWK) now EYMS 337
170 (YX04 JVW) now EYMS 334

Alexander Dennis Enviro200
157 (YX56 HFV) now EYMS 349
158 (YX56 HVG) now EYMS 350
159 (YX56 HVH) now EYMS 351
160 (YX56 HVJ) now EYMS 352
171 (YX57 BXB) now EYMS 354
172 (YX57 BXC) now EYMS 355

Volvo B10BLE/Alexander ALX300
173 (W414 JAT) now EYMS 314
174 (W415 JAT) now EYMS 315
175 (W416 JAT) now EYMS 316
176 (W417 JAT) now EYMS 317

After their successful return to Peak District services in Summer 2014, First South Yorkshire are once again running summer services into the national park in 2015 (information from Derbyshire County Council's website)

Service 240 (First South Yorkshire): The summer weekend service between Sheffield and Bakewell will be re-introduced to run during British Summer Time. The route will be changed to run via Ringinglow, and some buses will run via Chatsworth House as Service 241.

Service 272 (First South Yorkshire): A revised timetable will be introduced on Saturdays and Sundays.

New Service 273 (First South Yorkshire): This service will run between Sheffield, Yorkshire Bridge, Bamford and Castleton on Saturdays, Sundays and Bank Holiday Mondays during British Summer Time. (This will run instead of the 244 which ran in 2014.)

A good news story about Kirkby Lonsdale's 580/581 service from their home town through Ingleton and Settle down to Skipton...

http://www.cravenherald.co.uk/news/11853...s_/?ref=mr

A RURAL bus service, rescued from being axed last autumn after Pennine buses folded, is proving a success, say public transport watchdogs.

The 580 service between Skipton and Settle, was taken on by Kirkby Lonsdale Bus Hire, despite the route having no passenger fare subsidy.

KLBH agreed to take over the bus route for a trial period of 12 months. It is about half way through that time.
It's operation has been followed by the Southern Dales Transport Action Group which has carried out a "Greenprint for action" outlining how it would like to see the development of regional transport networks.
Colin Speakman, of Friends of DalesBus, said: "The 580 has done very well indeed and is meeting all financial targets and is a success, even in winter. Once the better weather comes and more visitors use the service, it should do even better. "
The only drawback was the afternoon gap when the bus was used on school duties and had cost implications which were being examined by the bus company.
Mr Speakman said the service became the 581 from Settle through Ingleton to Kirkby Lonsdale which was still funded by NYCC and a new Sunday 580/581 was due to start on May 3, the first regular Sunday bus along the A65 for about 30 years.

On a broader level, they were looking to recruit bus user champions for each village along bus routes to ensure timetable literature was distributed and bus time table cases kept clean now that North Yorkshire County Council had dropped that service.
They were also considering establishing "bus buddies" who would help older people, suffering isolation, to have days out on the local bus network.
Proposals were being considered to publish a booklet aimed at residents and visitors which would contain route timetables along with places to visit such as market towns, heritage attractions and walks, all accessible by train and bus.

has EYMS Decker 785 moved to scarborough at all cause was parked in depot today

(02 Apr 2015, 6:08 pm)jaimzm wrote has EYMS Decker 785 moved to scarborough at all cause was parked in depot today

Not according to the website. If it has, it should be noted on the website in the coming days. That vehicle does however operate service 121 between Hull and Scarborough so it could have been on layover there.

(02 Apr 2015, 6:12 pm)Robert wrote Not according to the website. If it has, it should be noted on the website in the coming days. That vehicle does however operate service 121 between Hull and Scarborough so it could have been on layover there.

Ah yeah it might of been that it had a new white screen  do they share service with scarborough or is it ran by hull

(02 Apr 2015, 6:22 pm)jaimzm wrote Ah yeah it might of been that it had a new white screen  do they share service with scarborough or is it ran by hull

Service 121 is shared between Scarborough and Hull.

(02 Apr 2015, 6:26 pm)Robert wrote Service 121 is shared between Scarborough and Hull.

Ah Right Thank you 

(02 Apr 2015, 6:26 pm)Robert wrote Service 121 is shared between Scarborough and Hull.

Sure Bridlington also has buses on the 121.

(02 Apr 2015, 6:30 pm)roar wrote Sure Bridlington also has buses on the 121.

Not that i am aware of. It was operated out of Driffield but to improve reliability of the service, the service was transferred to Scarborough and Hull so if one bus was late, another could be put out so the next journey that bus was to operate would depart on time. This depot split happened when Driffield depot closed.

Arriva Yorkshiire
Volvo B9TL/Opatre Olympus 1904 (YJ08 EEB) has moved from Dewsbury to Selby for use on the 415. Rumours are going around that a number of these will replace Geminis 1500-7 on the service due to increasing unreliability.

Information all from members of the 'Travel West Yorkshire' forum

First South Yorkshire
Streetdeck 35101 (SN64 CSF) has transferred from Sheffield Olive Grove to Rotherham Midland Road to commence trials on the X78 (Doncaster to Sheffield via Rotherham and Meadowhall) ahead of an alleged order for 22 for use on the X78 replacing the increasing unreliable (and increasing costly) Volvo B9TLs presently used on the service.

With thanks to Duncan Robinson on 'The Northern Road Transport Trust' Facebook group, it will work the following X78 journeys on weekday:
Doncaster to Sheffield: 0530 0830 1140 1450 1810 2110
Doncaster to Rotherham: 2345
Rotherham to Doncaster: 0448
Sheffield to Doncaster: 0650 1005 1315 1630 1945 2230

Got a few nags regarding the bus scene in Yorkshire:

1. Why is the X20 called the X20? It started off as an express running straight along the A165 to Blue Dolphin rather than going around Cayton Village. This continued until this season when it was routed to go around Cayton and follow the same route as the standard 120 from Scarborough to Filey. Would it not be better to renumber the X20 journeys to 120 and advertise the service as every 30 minutes between Scarborough and Filey for the next season?
   
2. Who came up with the idea to remove the North Bay turning circle that the 109 used? Absolutely bonkers in my opinion.
   
3. Scarborough and District need to repair some details displayed on their P&R Centros. At least two still display 'At least every 12 minutes' rather than 15.
   

I appreciate that nobody on here will be able to give me an answer for most of the above but it annoyed me a bit.

Connexions' four Olympians were used on a special tour on Sunday, which was billed as a 'G104AAD farewell' (it is due for withdrawal shortly), which possibly turned out to be just that as it failed with after the first part of its run! Still a good afternoon out though. Here are a few pictures from the day (one of the line up, plus one of each bus):

The four vehicles posed together:


M921PKN stands outside the Victoria pub by Cattal railway station:


N859VHH negotiates the level crossing at Starbeck:


P168BTV in Bickerton village:


G104AAD on Thorp Arch Trading Estate where it had broken down. (Coming round the corner is P168BTV which rescued us):

(02 Apr 2015, 6:30 pm)roar wrote Sure Bridlington also has buses on the 121.

Regarding this: Bridlington used to have one of the three 120 boards. However, this was later removed and transferred to Scarborough.

(17 Apr 2015, 7:00 pm)Adam wrote The second batch of electric Versas have now been delivered to First York. It's thought they will be operating Park & Ride Routes 59 (joining the first batch that currently operate that route) and the 9. If I recall correctly from my travels down there last year, the 9 operates with Wright Eclipse Urbans.

Picture from MTBP/Yorkshire Bus Spotters

https://www.flickr.com/photos/york-bus/16553115803/

Yep the 9 uses Eclipses

One of Harrogate & District's Leyland Olympians, normally used only on school work, has worked a peak Thorpe Arch-Harrogate service the past two evenings, releasing one of the main fleet for Flower Show shuttles. Here it is about to pull up for me to board it:

(24 Apr 2015, 7:13 pm)theblackwatch wrote One of Harrogate & District's Leyland Olympians, normally used only on school work, has worked a peak Thorpe Arch-Harrogate service the past two evenings, releasing one of the main fleet for Flower Show shuttles. Here it is about to pull up for me to board it:

Quality working! My recollection of the 770 says it is quite tight for time too, normally a good route for enthusiastic driving with B10BLEs, so I can only imagine what a Leyland was like!

Transdev Keighley have now refurbished the first 2 of their 13-strong 10-year old Volvo B7RLEs used on 'The Shuttle' 662 (Keighley - Bradford). The first is 1801. The registration is reportedly expected to change.

photo @ Mark Smith

http://m.sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk/news/local/sheffield-bus-driver-found-dead-days-after-fatal-collision-involving-man-facing-sex-offence-trial-1-7240840?WT.mc_id=Outbrain_text&obref=obinsite

Tragic.

Eyms take first MCV Bodied Volvo B5TL
http://www.route-one.net/vehicles/first-...v-evoseti/