(10 Apr 2014, 3:26 pm)Robert wrote Indeed, it uses the 3 B7s that are at Stanley although (and this could well have changed) with Stanley depot covering 2 places (Stanley and Consett) there are a selection of drivers who drive all the routes that go to Consett (excluding the Stanley based 'Lime 78' runs) and the rest at Stanley driving all the routes that go to Stanley (excluding all the 'Venture V8, 130, 131 and 704' services) but with Stanley been quite a small depot I wouldn't say that the routes need to be split into 'Units'. I am not a depot expert myself but as far as im aware that's how it worked.
There was a woman up at Stanley called Bev who came down to Chester to work in the offices having worked up at Stanley for about twenty years, and she told me her husband was Unit 2 and that he did the Red Kites, the X70/X71 and the 15/15A (pretty much all of the non-Venture routes up at the Consett area, excluding the X78 which she said runs off a scholars) and that Unit 1 drivers do the Diamonds, the Lime, the X43 and the X30/X31; and finally all Venture drivers were from Consett only. Mind, I don't know if things have changed since then but I'll be honest as a result I've always looked at it that way and to me thats always made sense. However Robert, you are the Stanley expert
