(19 Aug 2016, 12:40 pm)Jamie M wrote Well somebody said they saw it, so it probably did happen and is entirely plausible.
I don't think GNE really are renowned for sticking to paper for allocations, all sorts of external factors which I don't know enough about to comment on. Wouldn't put it past running light up to Stanley after, but only someone who was there at either side of the trip at the time could tell us what happened!
I wasn't trying to suggest that they were wrong but if the same bus has been spotted on journeys which can't possibly be linked without the bus running NIS to the start of the route, something must have happened.
To be allocated to the 08:54 X31 from Stanley (the journey Lee saw it operating) after doing service X32, the bus had to have been allocated to the board which, for the purposes of this, I have called 'A'.
No other bus coming in on an X3- service from Stanley apart from the 07:15 X32 appears to be able to run onto the 08:15 X31 to Stanley. While entirely possible, I personally can't see them sending a bus through to Newcastle to operate a journey and then send a bus coming into Newcastle, completely capable of operating the same journey, NIS back to Stanley to operate another journey which, again, the bus that has been sent to Newcastle could have easily operated.
Whatever has happened is certainly strange. It could have been a typo (the X30 to arrive into Newcastle just before the first X32 is the bus that goes onto the 08:54 X31) but that is unlikely given that 0 and 2 are so far apart on a keyboard.
It will be interesting to see what happened but i certainly won't be losing any sleep over it.