Arriva North East: Rare & Odd Workings

This is a good point.

I've always reported workings that have seen branded buses working other routes, or non-branded vehicles working a route in place of a branded vehicle. I don't see this as massively beneficial, or interesting, but initially started doing it as I was aware that people liked getting pictures of that sort of working, especially when Sapphire and MAX were in their relative infancy.

I guess instances such as, for example, an MPD appearing on the X15 are what this thread is intended for.

I think the thread has slightly lost its way, in the sense that any working that isn't 100% "correct" is now R&O. For instance, I wouldn't class a generic MAX vehicle allocated to any MAX route as rare, odd, or anything else.

BusLoverMum 23 Nov 2017, 5:10 pm

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(23 Nov 2017, 4:35 pm)MurdnunoC wrote At what point does a working cease to become 'rare or odd'?

When it's every blooming day. I've given up reporting corporate pulsars or max ALX400s on Durham's sapphire services now it's become clear that they're daily allocations since the timetable changes.

1324 on the 48, though.

And 7474 was sitting in dbs, this afternoon, so I wasn't seeing things, the other day. Anyone know why this has come down from Jesmond?

JamesDunkley 23 Nov 2017, 5:32 pm

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NK05GXC/4649 has replaced NK13CFO/4809 on the 17:25 service X21 off Darlington for Sunderland.

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omnicity4659 23 Nov 2017, 6:18 pm

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(23 Nov 2017, 5:10 pm)BusLoverMum wrote And 7474 was sitting in dbs, this afternoon, so I wasn't seeing things, the other day. Anyone know why this has come down from Jesmond?

To provide extra capacity for Lumiere.

BusLoverMum 23 Nov 2017, 6:26 pm

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(23 Nov 2017, 6:18 pm)omnicity4659 wrote To provide extra capacity for Lumiere.

Is it sticking around for the Christmas festival, next weekend, then?

MurdnunoC 23 Nov 2017, 9:19 pm

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(23 Nov 2017, 5:07 pm)mb134 wrote I think the thread has slightly lost its way, in the sense that any working that isn't 100% "correct" is now R&O. For instance, I wouldn't class a generic MAX vehicle allocated to any MAX route as rare, odd, or anything else.

And this is why I've asked the question. The thread has lost its way and, to me anyway, is probably one of the most annoying things about this forum. Fair enough, people can post what they want and I don't have to browse this particular thread (and for the most part I don't!), however I would love to know what constitutes a rare or odd working these days - especially since we've seen just about every conceivable combination of rare and odd allocation of vehicles to routes by Darlington reported in this very thread.

(23 Nov 2017, 5:10 pm)BusLoverMum wrote And 7474 was sitting in dbs, this afternoon, so I wasn't seeing things, the other day. Anyone know why this has come down from Jesmond?

A valid observation. 7474, in my opinion, is a legitimate 'rare and odd' sighting. Not only is the bus is on-loan from Jesmond, it also contains branding for a set of services outside of the immediate locale as well as being an odd vehicle type for the depot in question.