Scarborough BusFest 2016

[Jimmi]

New event for 2016, held by the West Riding Bus Group on Sunday 22nd May which will see a selection of classic buses touring the historic Scarborough Seafront.

Many of the attendees can be found on the event's Facebook page (linked below) some interesting stuff looks to be attending this event.

Event's Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Scarborough-Bus...317411076/
West Riding Bus Group's Website: http://wrbg.weebly.com/

[BusLoverMum]

New event for 2016, held by the West Riding Bus Group which will see a selection of classic buses touring the historic Scarborough Seafront.

Many of the attendees can be found on the event's Facebook page (linked below) some interesting stuff looks to be attending this event.

Event's Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Scarborough-Bus...317411076/
West Riding Bus Group's Website: http://wrbg.weebly.com/

Big'un and I will try to get to this. Have asked my mum and dad if they fancy it, too, since they live in East Yorkshire.

[S813 FVK]

I'll definitely be going to this. It will at least make up for not being able to get to the Metrocentre Rally yesterday too, thanks to the Tour de Yorkshire proving to be an inconvenience in terms of getting back home for it. Looks to be a great opportunity to have a little ride along the Seafront or wherever they are going on a Metrobus (scheduled to be B198 WUL, which I saw today actually) with it being their last season on the 109. Sure the Open top VR will be something good, too.

[Tom]

I would go but by the time I got to Scarborough I would have to come back! Especially on Sunday service.

i was on a GNE bus a while bacck when a W/c user who lived in my street tried to get on but the ramp didn't work. the driver went on his phone/radio and granted i didn't hear the whole conversation but the bus left with out them and by the time I got home they were just getting out of a Wheelchair accessible taxi ( they as in w/c user and person with them) and all the shopping at there door whilst i walked from the bus stop in the driving wind. Didn't sound like discrimination in that case!

The issue is that response shouldn't be required, and wheelchair users should be able to board buses. Obviously a broken ramp is slightly different (provided it was checked and worked on a first use inspection, and the defect happened in service), but the reports on here and elsewhere indicate that GNE have been knowingly sending out vehicles that cannot safely board wheelchair users at various bus stations, due to the centre door position of the ramp.

[TEN 6083]

I would go but by the time I got to Scarborough I would have to come back! Especially on Sunday service.

Same here as first bus to Newcastle isn't till 0750 and would then have to go to Middlesbrough to get an X93 to Scarborough, and the earliest train I could find to Middlesbrough from Prudhoe is 10:13 arriving at 12:01

[Jimmi]

I'll be there as I quite like the sounds of what's going to be there, hoping the United Leyland Olympian will be doing a run out as I'd love to ride one of them again.

Unsure on my travel arrangements yet, I may drop the original plan of heading to Whitby on Northern from Aycliffe and instead just get the train as far as Middlesbrough then switch to the X93 straight through to Scarborough as it'll give me a bit extra time to play with, getting the train then catching the X93 from Whitby would give me at least 30 minutes less and that's if it arrives in Whitby on-time.

[Tom]

Same here as first bus to Newcastle isn't till 0750 and would then have to go to Middlesbrough to get an X93 to Scarborough

Earliest I could get there is 1438!! So there would be no point whatsoever.

[BusLoverMum]

I would go but by the time I got to Scarborough I would have to come back! Especially on Sunday service.

We're getting a lift to Middlesbrough - the earliest we could get there, otherwise, would be 1pm, by which time we've be needing to think about getting back again, soon, before our local bus finishes for the day!

i was on a GNE bus a while bacck when a W/c user who lived in my street tried to get on but the ramp didn't work. the driver went on his phone/radio and granted i didn't hear the whole conversation but the bus left with out them and by the time I got home they were just getting out of a Wheelchair accessible taxi ( they as in w/c user and person with them) and all the shopping at there door whilst i walked from the bus stop in the driving wind. Didn't sound like discrimination in that case!

The issue is that response shouldn't be required, and wheelchair users should be able to board buses. Obviously a broken ramp is slightly different (provided it was checked and worked on a first use inspection, and the defect happened in service), but the reports on here and elsewhere indicate that GNE have been knowingly sending out vehicles that cannot safely board wheelchair users at various bus stations, due to the centre door position of the ramp.

[Tom]

We're getting a lift to Middlesbrough - the earliest we could get there, otherwise, would be 1pm, by which time we've be needing to think about getting back again, soon, before our local bus finishes for the day!

Shame because it looks like a canny event too!

[Jimmi]

Earliest I could get there is 1438!! So there would be no point whatsoever.

Oh dear! [emoji23]

The earliest I was able to get to Scarborough on public transport was 11:38. I have just found that The Eden's Leopard is going to the event so I'm now heading down there on that from West Auckland, so I should now arrive in Scarborough at around 10am and leave at 4pm.

[Tom]

Oh dear! [emoji23]

The earliest I was able to get to Scarborough on public transport was 11:38. I have just found that The Eden's Leopard is going to the event so I'm now heading down there on that from West Auckland, so I should now arrive in Scarborough at around 10am and leave at 4pm.

I did look at the trains but you have to go via York and I couldn't be bothered with that.

And that will be a canny ride down.

[S813 FVK]

I'll be going down at least the night before and will be going back on the night with school being the next day. Looking to go down to Big Bus Day down in Hull for the first time in September, too.

i was on a GNE bus a while bacck when a W/c user who lived in my street tried to get on but the ramp didn't work. the driver went on his phone/radio and granted i didn't hear the whole conversation but the bus left with out them and by the time I got home they were just getting out of a Wheelchair accessible taxi ( they as in w/c user and person with them) and all the shopping at there door whilst i walked from the bus stop in the driving wind. Didn't sound like discrimination in that case!

The issue is that response shouldn't be required, and wheelchair users should be able to board buses. Obviously a broken ramp is slightly different (provided it was checked and worked on a first use inspection, and the defect happened in service), but the reports on here and elsewhere indicate that GNE have been knowingly sending out vehicles that cannot safely board wheelchair users at various bus stations, due to the centre door position of the ramp.

[BusLoverMum]

Oh dear! [emoji23]

The earliest I was able to get to Scarborough on public transport was 11:38. I have just found that The Eden's Leopard is going to the event so I'm now heading down there on that from West Auckland, so I should now arrive in Scarborough at around 10am and leave at 4pm.

*ears prick up*

bet that leaves early, mind.

[Jimmi]

I did look at the trains but you have to go via York and I couldn't be bothered with that.

And that will be a canny ride down.

Yeah I probably could have got there earlier on trains but it would have been more expensive.

Pleased that I'm now going on the Leopard as it's a good old motor plus it will probably be more fun plus all I need to worry about now is getting to West Auckland on the morning but I should be easily able to sort that out.

I'll be going down at least the night before and will be going back on the night with school being the next day. Looking to go down to Big Bus Day down in Hull for the first time in September, too.

I may be heading to Big Bus Day as well but I'm undecided on that at this stage, think there was another event somewhere I was looking at for the same day.

*ears prick up*

bet that leaves early, mind.

8am.

[BusLoverMum]

Shame because it looks like a canny event too!

Hopefully we can get there before lunch and spend a few hours there. Hope to meet up with my parents on the day, too. My dad's thing is motorbikes - the older and more obscure the better - but he'll enjoy this, if he's feeling up to it.

[BusLoverMum]

Yeah I probably could have got there earlier on trains but it would have been more expensive.

Pleased that I'm now going on the Leopard as it's a good old motor plus it will probably be more fun plus all I need to worry about now is getting to West Auckland on the morning but I should be easily able to sort that out.


I may be heading to Big Bus Day as well but I'm undecided on that at this stage, think there was another event somewhere I was looking at for the same day.


8am.

Do you have any more info on that? Husband will probably prefer dropping us at West Auckland to Boro.

Big bus day would be great, given that I spent half my childhood in Hull, but rather tight on the day. it's also a rather small venue that Big'un might find stressful - if the weather held up, we'd probably end up watching everything bobbing up and down at the marina, just to chill out.

i was on a GNE bus a while bacck when a W/c user who lived in my street tried to get on but the ramp didn't work. the driver went on his phone/radio and granted i didn't hear the whole conversation but the bus left with out them and by the time I got home they were just getting out of a Wheelchair accessible taxi ( they as in w/c user and person with them) and all the shopping at there door whilst i walked from the bus stop in the driving wind. Didn't sound like discrimination in that case!

The issue is that response shouldn't be required, and wheelchair users should be able to board buses. Obviously a broken ramp is slightly different (provided it was checked and worked on a first use inspection, and the defect happened in service), but the reports on here and elsewhere indicate that GNE have been knowingly sending out vehicles that cannot safely board wheelchair users at various bus stations, due to the centre door position of the ramp.

[northern156]

I did look at the trains but you have to go via York and I couldn't be bothered with that.

And that will be a canny ride down.

It'd be quicker via York than any other way seeing as you're doing 100mph+ most of the way!

[BusLoverMum]

It'd be quicker via York than any other way seeing as you're doing 100mph+ most of the way!

you'd be surprised - we investigated the trains and they'd have been barely quicker for us, from Durham or Sunderland, than bus all the way.

[northern156]

you'd be surprised - we investigated the trains and they'd have been barely quicker for us, from Durham or Sunderland, than bus all the way.

I may be wrong as this is from the top of my head, but say Newcastle to Scarborough. 60 minutes Newcastle - York then, say, a 15 minute connection onto a 50 minute trip to Scarbs?
Admittedly Sunderland and the coast could be a bit messier and therefore take longer but anywhere on the ECML seems a fair bit quicker?

Plus you'd get all valuable RailMiles which, for me personally, is much better :p

[BusLoverMum]

I may be wrong as this is from the top of my head, but say Newcastle to Scarborough. 60 minutes Newcastle - York then, say, a 15 minute connection onto a 50 minute trip to Scarbs?
Admittedly Sunderland and the coast could be a bit messier and therefore take longer but anywhere on the ECML seems a fair bit quicker?

Plus you'd get all valuable RailMiles which, for me personally, is much better :p

Getting on at Durham narrows down the trains to York quite a lot. And we're talking 2 hours each way on the X93 from Boro to Scabby vs almost the same on the train from Durham, costing a lot more. Admittedly, the toilets are a little better, on the trains!

Edit - almost £90 return for the two of us - sod that! Admittedly it would pay for a railcard, instantly, but we're talking £12.80 for arriva day tickets or £18.20 for explorers, here!

i was on a GNE bus a while bacck when a W/c user who lived in my street tried to get on but the ramp didn't work. the driver went on his phone/radio and granted i didn't hear the whole conversation but the bus left with out them and by the time I got home they were just getting out of a Wheelchair accessible taxi ( they as in w/c user and person with them) and all the shopping at there door whilst i walked from the bus stop in the driving wind. Didn't sound like discrimination in that case!

The issue is that response shouldn't be required, and wheelchair users should be able to board buses. Obviously a broken ramp is slightly different (provided it was checked and worked on a first use inspection, and the defect happened in service), but the reports on here and elsewhere indicate that GNE have been knowingly sending out vehicles that cannot safely board wheelchair users at various bus stations, due to the centre door position of the ramp.