(16 Mar 2014, 5:51 pm)Marcus wrote I've always felt like a small circular around Chester would be a good idea. Perhaps;
Chester --- South Pelaw --- Pelton --- Newfield --- Grange Villa --- Pelton Fell --- Chester
So it basically does a loop around the Pelton area. As a Chester-Le-Street resident, I can literally imagine it going round and round and round all day, instead of having the 78s, 8s and 28s darting out of one and into the next one, I think a shuttle would be excellent with possibly a rotor like the X22 had (there were 6 drivers for it), except it could run each day of the week.
Many years ago, when it was Northern General and there were that many services in Chester you couldn't count them with all your fingers and all your toes, Chester had a lot of minibuses amongst their Nationals and Metrobuses. Many were stored inside the main garage, but that arch at the right of the face of the depot was where they were kept. It isn't used at all now, apart from for the night bus or an anciallairy vehicle, but years ago when Chester was stuffed with minibuses (don't exactly know how many but I'd say around ten), they were stored under the archway. What would happen, would they wouldn't go through the washer or get refuelled (I think they were physically scrubbed down and physically refuelled), and would go through the arch. You know where that steel door is, that hasn't moved since the last Solo Chester had, and in the morning that was slid open and they would drive out of there. Perhaps if Chester got a few Solo SR's they could run this service and be stored there, although I highly doubt it. If you want anymore facts like the one about the archway, I've got loads of them!
I don't know really know the route, but doesn't the 34/34A achieve this to an extent?