(20 Mar 2022, 10:59 am)Wybus wrote I was in the area yesterday and it was clear there was a lot of lost mileage by the amount of buses parked on layoverAt least those ones were out the way. I was waiting for a 61 a few weeks ago, it came in, stopped in the bus stand at Park Lane (complete with board set to '61 Murton'), driver got off and another one didn't turn up (the driver was clearly oblivious to the fact the next journey had been cancelled).
Firstly in Sunderland around lunchtime, parked up in the Interchange were 3 Cherries, 2 56s, 2 Prince Bishops and 2 GNE buses displaying 9 Jarrow. So that’s at least 9 boards not running
Then a bit later in Washington it was a similar situation, the layover area had 2 X Lines, 2 Connections 4s, a normal livery bus probably from a 50 and a Little Pinks
And then late afternoon in Chester le Street there were buses strewn all over town. A Versa parked up on Front Street, another Versa and an Angel parked up by Tesco, and another Angel and an X21 parked on a side street where I’ve never seen buses parked before. The 21 I caught in the direction of Brandon, had to be taken by a/the leading driver as there was no normal drive relief.
Cue the bus that was following to come in and now being unable to use the stand. Dropped people off somewhere else, parked in the bays at the back and the driver had to (or more probably decided to) walk over to take the bus sat in the stand.
No communication from anyone until I went into the footnote on the website and found the cancelled bus.