What's annoying you today? V4
What's annoying you today? V4
(01 Jan 2016, 11:14 pm)S813 FVK Is that on again or is it just a repeat? The second repeat if it is.It's on 4seven right now, chances are it has been on several times.
(01 Jan 2016, 11:14 pm)S813 FVK Is that on again or is it just a repeat? The second repeat if it is.It's on 4seven right now, chances are it has been on several times.
(01 Jan 2016, 10:05 pm)Adrian You deserve a medal for spending that long on a coach.
(01 Jan 2016, 10:05 pm)Adrian You deserve a medal for spending that long on a coach.
(01 Jan 2016, 10:08 pm)LeeCalder As for YourBus, the less said about them the better. I seen one driver yesterday wearing a top hat and another a flat cap and t-shirt.
(01 Jan 2016, 10:08 pm)LeeCalder As for YourBus, the less said about them the better. I seen one driver yesterday wearing a top hat and another a flat cap and t-shirt.
(02 Jan 2016, 9:32 am)Dan As I've said before - all operators have good sides, and bad sides too.
I know enthusiasts who live further down that way who can give a list as long as their arm about how bad Trent Barton are, and regularly make fun of their "really good" slogan. Their 'mango' ticketing system used to be (not sure if it still is) an absolute farce, according to these enthusiasts.
I can't really comment having never experienced either operation for myself, but Yourbus have a fairly modern and presentable fleet. I see fewer photos of Yourbus' fleet looking scruffy than I do Trent Barton's. Trent's investment last year into new coaches and Volvo B8RLEs was, for lack of a better compliment, 'really good', though, and these buses really do look the part. I'd imagine it would massively improve reliability of the services, too.
(02 Jan 2016, 9:32 am)Dan As I've said before - all operators have good sides, and bad sides too.
I know enthusiasts who live further down that way who can give a list as long as their arm about how bad Trent Barton are, and regularly make fun of their "really good" slogan. Their 'mango' ticketing system used to be (not sure if it still is) an absolute farce, according to these enthusiasts.
I can't really comment having never experienced either operation for myself, but Yourbus have a fairly modern and presentable fleet. I see fewer photos of Yourbus' fleet looking scruffy than I do Trent Barton's. Trent's investment last year into new coaches and Volvo B8RLEs was, for lack of a better compliment, 'really good', though, and these buses really do look the part. I'd imagine it would massively improve reliability of the services, too.
(02 Jan 2016, 9:59 am)LeeCalder Of course they do, that's common knowledge.
I can list many of TrentBarton's negatives having lived a few years in Tutbury in Hatton. However, in my opinion the positives outweigh the negatives. I could list negatives for each operator in the North East arm long if I wanted to, however, I won't because it will give you something else to criticise me about ;-)
I myself have a Mango card and use it every time I am down there, including on Thursday, have I ever had any problems with it? No.
YourBus if I'm honest to appear to be flagging. They run a service down every coridor TB do, including 'indigo', 'Red Arrow' and Heanor's H1' (Which won Brand of the Year)
Their fleet is quite tatty, and their drivers presentation doesn't appear to be too good. Let's have a comparison....
I'd also like to point out that I didn't see a single 'odd' panel whist in Nottingham, Hucknall, Heanor or Derby.
(02 Jan 2016, 9:59 am)LeeCalder Of course they do, that's common knowledge.
I can list many of TrentBarton's negatives having lived a few years in Tutbury in Hatton. However, in my opinion the positives outweigh the negatives. I could list negatives for each operator in the North East arm long if I wanted to, however, I won't because it will give you something else to criticise me about ;-)
I myself have a Mango card and use it every time I am down there, including on Thursday, have I ever had any problems with it? No.
YourBus if I'm honest to appear to be flagging. They run a service down every coridor TB do, including 'indigo', 'Red Arrow' and Heanor's H1' (Which won Brand of the Year)
Their fleet is quite tatty, and their drivers presentation doesn't appear to be too good. Let's have a comparison....
I'd also like to point out that I didn't see a single 'odd' panel whist in Nottingham, Hucknall, Heanor or Derby.
To be fair, YourBus take competition to a new level. All of their commercial services, apart from service Y10, are competition to another route...
Y1 - Competition to TrentBarton's H1
Y3 - Competition to TrentBarton's Ilkeston Flyer
Y4 - Competition to the Nottingham - Sandiacre/Stapleford (where some of TrentBarton's i4 services also terminate) section of TrentBarton's i4
Y5 - Competition to TrentBarton's indigo (the 5 coming from the fact that the TrentBarton service was called rainbow 5 before receiving the B7RLEs it uses today)
Y28 - Competition to Nottingham City Transport's 28
Y36 - Competition to Nottingham City Transport's 36
The competition against TrentBarton's Red Arrow, Citylink, was withdrawn simply because it wasn't doing well - other things will be included too.
I have checked the websites to make sure they are pretty much a match and they are - all other services that are operated by YourBus are contracted, hence why i haven't included those if any are indeed competitive routes.
(01 Jan 2016, 8:59 pm)Jimmi I'm bad enough talking to one person at times, never mind a group!Took you long enough to talk to me when we met at Dalton Park earlier in the year, you hardly said more than 2 words to me on the 202
I am a quiet person, as two enthusiasts I know were discussing between themselves yesterday. If they are reading this, I'm not bothered, I know that I say very little but the truth is I want to be more talkative but struggle to do so. Oh and I still haven't done anything to my Facebook, as I still seem to be unable to go and find my friends on there.
(01 Jan 2016, 9:25 pm)Adrian Best way. You get to see a lot more interesting stock by travelling around a bit! Unfortunately there'll always be people that don't appreciate what's not on their door step.
I'd love to do Dublin one day. I was down Derby not so long ago, and found things a bit average. Arriva had some interesting stock down there, but I'd probably want to do it again in the summer and explore a bit more.
(01 Jan 2016, 10:37 pm)Jimmi Watched it once and wasn't particularly keen on it, after seeing it I was in the mindest of 'I don't like it but other people will', but I went on to full on hate it once people who like the show wouldn't respect my opinions for not liking the show, some people even thought that there was seriously something wrong with me mentally because I didn't like it, they'd be right by saying there is something wrong with me mentally, but it does not really relate to my taste in TV shows.
(01 Jan 2016, 11:15 pm)Jimmi I remember loads of people kicking right off when the beeb opted out of a (Repeat) episode to announce the death of Nelson Mandela.
(01 Jan 2016, 11:29 pm)GMitchelhill Had to change in London and each wait in London was a few hours. Plus coach between London and Antwerp, we got to wander around the Le shuttle train, I even got photos of the coach onboard the train.I used to goto France, Belgium and Luxembourg 4 times a week on a coach, did it for months...
Mind we had plenty of time off the coach coming back to blighty because it took that long to go through customs.
(01 Jan 2016, 8:59 pm)Jimmi I'm bad enough talking to one person at times, never mind a group!Took you long enough to talk to me when we met at Dalton Park earlier in the year, you hardly said more than 2 words to me on the 202
I am a quiet person, as two enthusiasts I know were discussing between themselves yesterday. If they are reading this, I'm not bothered, I know that I say very little but the truth is I want to be more talkative but struggle to do so. Oh and I still haven't done anything to my Facebook, as I still seem to be unable to go and find my friends on there.
(01 Jan 2016, 9:25 pm)Adrian Best way. You get to see a lot more interesting stock by travelling around a bit! Unfortunately there'll always be people that don't appreciate what's not on their door step.
I'd love to do Dublin one day. I was down Derby not so long ago, and found things a bit average. Arriva had some interesting stock down there, but I'd probably want to do it again in the summer and explore a bit more.
(01 Jan 2016, 10:37 pm)Jimmi Watched it once and wasn't particularly keen on it, after seeing it I was in the mindest of 'I don't like it but other people will', but I went on to full on hate it once people who like the show wouldn't respect my opinions for not liking the show, some people even thought that there was seriously something wrong with me mentally because I didn't like it, they'd be right by saying there is something wrong with me mentally, but it does not really relate to my taste in TV shows.
(01 Jan 2016, 11:15 pm)Jimmi I remember loads of people kicking right off when the beeb opted out of a (Repeat) episode to announce the death of Nelson Mandela.
(01 Jan 2016, 11:29 pm)GMitchelhill Had to change in London and each wait in London was a few hours. Plus coach between London and Antwerp, we got to wander around the Le shuttle train, I even got photos of the coach onboard the train.I used to goto France, Belgium and Luxembourg 4 times a week on a coach, did it for months...
Mind we had plenty of time off the coach coming back to blighty because it took that long to go through customs.
(02 Jan 2016, 10:26 am)S813 FVK To be fair, YourBus take competition to a new level. All of their commercial services, apart from service Y10, are competition to another route...
(02 Jan 2016, 10:26 am)S813 FVK To be fair, YourBus take competition to a new level. All of their commercial services, apart from service Y10, are competition to another route...
(02 Jan 2016, 10:26 am)S813 FVK To be fair, YourBus take competition to a new level. All of their commercial services, apart from service Y10, are competition to another route...
Y1 - Competition to TrentBarton's H1
Y3 - Competition to TrentBarton's Ilkeston Flyer
Y4 - Competition to the Nottingham - Sandiacre/Stapleford (where some of TrentBarton's i4 services also terminate) section of TrentBarton's i4
Y5 - Competition to TrentBarton's indigo (the 5 coming from the fact that the TrentBarton service was called rainbow 5 before receiving the B7RLEs it uses today)
Y28 - Competition to Nottingham City Transport's 28
Y36 - Competition to Nottingham City Transport's 36
The competition against TrentBarton's Red Arrow, Citylink, was withdrawn simply because it wasn't doing well - other things will be included too.
I have checked the websites to make sure they are pretty much a match and they are - all other services that are operated by YourBus are contracted, hence why i haven't included those if any are indeed competitive routes.
(02 Jan 2016, 10:26 am)S813 FVK To be fair, YourBus take competition to a new level. All of their commercial services, apart from service Y10, are competition to another route...
Y1 - Competition to TrentBarton's H1
Y3 - Competition to TrentBarton's Ilkeston Flyer
Y4 - Competition to the Nottingham - Sandiacre/Stapleford (where some of TrentBarton's i4 services also terminate) section of TrentBarton's i4
Y5 - Competition to TrentBarton's indigo (the 5 coming from the fact that the TrentBarton service was called rainbow 5 before receiving the B7RLEs it uses today)
Y28 - Competition to Nottingham City Transport's 28
Y36 - Competition to Nottingham City Transport's 36
The competition against TrentBarton's Red Arrow, Citylink, was withdrawn simply because it wasn't doing well - other things will be included too.
I have checked the websites to make sure they are pretty much a match and they are - all other services that are operated by YourBus are contracted, hence why i haven't included those if any are indeed competitive routes.
(02 Jan 2016, 10:36 am)LeeCalder I remember not so long ago, BBC East Midlands Today done a piece on YourBus, and how they had an almost identical timetable to that of TrentBarton.
I remember YourBus declined to comment... so the Beep slated the hell out of them on the piece.
(02 Jan 2016, 10:36 am)LeeCalder I remember not so long ago, BBC East Midlands Today done a piece on YourBus, and how they had an almost identical timetable to that of TrentBarton.
I remember YourBus declined to comment... so the Beep slated the hell out of them on the piece.
(02 Jan 2016, 10:36 am)LeeCalder I remember not so long ago, BBC East Midlands Today done a piece on YourBus, and how they had an almost identical timetable to that of TrentBarton.
I remember YourBus declined to comment... so the Beep slated the hell out of them on the piece.
(02 Jan 2016, 10:36 am)LeeCalder I remember not so long ago, BBC East Midlands Today done a piece on YourBus, and how they had an almost identical timetable to that of TrentBarton.
I remember YourBus declined to comment... so the Beep slated the hell out of them on the piece.
(02 Jan 2016, 10:39 am)Dan The article that I believe you're referring to is below - when Trent Barton had a marketing campaign which involved giving commuters free breakfast:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-der...e-23663131
A link to this article was originally posted here. Funny looking back at Andreos1's comment, with the knowledge that Go North East have had a 'coffee bike' for marketing events at bus stations along the routes of services which received investment in 2014. Comments regarding coffee being allowed on buses were made at the time of these events, if I remember correctly, and Go North East stated that hot drinks were permitted on buses as long as it has a lid.
Go North East: #Fab56 Coffee by Daniel Graham, on Flickr
(02 Jan 2016, 10:39 am)Dan The article that I believe you're referring to is below - when Trent Barton had a marketing campaign which involved giving commuters free breakfast:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-der...e-23663131
A link to this article was originally posted here. Funny looking back at Andreos1's comment, with the knowledge that Go North East have had a 'coffee bike' for marketing events at bus stations along the routes of services which received investment in 2014. Comments regarding coffee being allowed on buses were made at the time of these events, if I remember correctly, and Go North East stated that hot drinks were permitted on buses as long as it has a lid.
Go North East: #Fab56 Coffee by Daniel Graham, on Flickr
(02 Jan 2016, 10:30 am)MrFozz Took you long enough to talk to me when we met at Dalton Park earlier in the year, you hardly said more than 2 words to me on the 202
(02 Jan 2016, 10:30 am)MrFozz Took you long enough to talk to me when we met at Dalton Park earlier in the year, you hardly said more than 2 words to me on the 202
(01 Jan 2016, 11:14 pm)S813 FVK Is that on again or is it just a repeat? The second repeat if it is.
(01 Jan 2016, 11:14 pm)S813 FVK Is that on again or is it just a repeat? The second repeat if it is.
People on Flickr today.
Had all sorts of randoms favouring my photo of 7412 today, the ones doing it purely to boost their views. Plus I've been getting invitations to add pretty much all my photos of Pulsars to a new group, and Pulsars feature very heavily on my Flickr so it is really annoying pressing 'accept invitation' for every photo and I know for a fact he hasn't found all of them yet!
Fifa 16 is a rip off! For Christmas, my parents bought me a "Deluxe Edition" which meant I was suppost to be getting 40 free Premium Gold Packs, and as I redeemed the code on a Sarurday, and the fact I recived two packs last Saturday (Not yesterday, Saturday last week) but I've not recived yesterday's yet!
Not more annoying, just find it distressful really. Just a lad I was chatting to, as decided to block me, I know i can post a lot of stuff especially when boredom gets to me. But argh *bangs head off wall*
(04 Jan 2016, 6:18 am)Dan First day back to work, and lo and behold... Delays systemwide on the the Tyne & Wear Metro network.
12 minutes late at 0615 in the morning is an absolute farce - technical fault or no technical fault!