(27 Mar 2022, 6:40 pm)cbma06 wrote The 204/204A and 59 supposed to be operated by a corporate solo either 665 or 666, but as usually there’s a good Percentage there’s a Peterlee purple solo on, wasn’t it mentioned awhile ago that 2 services were going to Chester

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(27 Mar 2022, 6:40 pm)cbma06 wrote The 204/204A and 59 supposed to be operated by a corporate solo either 665 or 666, but as usually there’s a good Percentage there’s a Peterlee purple solo on, wasn’t it mentioned awhile ago that 2 services were going to Chester


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(27 Mar 2022, 6:46 pm)Dan wrote With the transfer of the Peterlee operations to Deptford (excluding service 204), I'd imagine service 59 should consistently be allocated a fleet livery Solo moving forwards - they have 665, 666 and 672 allocated.

Clearly with everything moving around today, today was always going to be a bit different.

(27 Mar 2022, 7:23 pm)peter wrote Do you happen to have a list of all the movements today? From what I can tell it's all of Peterlee's buses to Deptford, 6304/5/7 to Washington, 8341-46 to Percy Main, 5380-5388 to Percy Main but was wondering if there's any other's I've missed? I see the Omnicities have all been withdrawn from BusTimes as well, was wondering if they've been withdrawn or if someone's got carried away!

(27 Mar 2022, 7:43 pm)Unber43 wrote All OmniCities have been withdrawn except 5272 or 5257.

(27 Mar 2022, 5:38 pm)Unber43 wrote And it shouldn't be a Peterlee Purples Branded vehicle.

(27 Mar 2022, 7:43 pm)Unber43 wrote All OmniCities have been withdrawn except 5272 or 5257.

(28 Mar 2022, 8:43 am)Arcticrossy92 wrote Wil miss the Omnicities

Not everybodies cup of tea, but spent alot of time on them when they were on the Red Kite, and later the Toonlink X30/X31. Always felt the power when sitting at the back on the way to work.

(28 Mar 2022, 8:43 am)Arcticrossy92 wrote Wil miss the Omnicities

Not everybodies cup of tea, but spent alot of time on them when they were on the Red Kite, and later the Toonlink X30/X31. Always felt the power when sitting at the back on the way to work.

(27 Mar 2022, 6:28 pm)Jimmi wrote There's about a 1-2 mile difference between the two to reach Wheatley Hill/Thornley (Arnison Centre is irrelevant as there's no dead running from that end), also most of the Peterlee drivers who will likely already know the route will most likely be at Deptford now, CLS drivers would most likely need route learning to do it properly (or risk drivers just winging it)

(28 Mar 2022, 8:43 am)Arcticrossy92 wrote Wil miss the Omnicities

Not everybodies cup of tea, but spent alot of time on them when they were on the Red Kite, and later the Toonlink X30/X31. Always felt the power when sitting at the back on the way to work.

(27 Mar 2022, 7:23 pm)peter wrote Do you happen to have a list of all the movements today? From what I can tell it's all of Peterlee's buses to Deptford, 6304/5/7 to Washington, 8341-46 to Percy Main, 5380-5388 to Percy Main but was wondering if there's any other's I've missed? I see the Omnicities have all been withdrawn from BusTimes as well, was wondering if they've been withdrawn or if someone's got carried away!

(29 Mar 2022, 12:11 am)stagecoachbusdepot wrote The return of the normal timetable on the X1 doesn't seem to be working out too well judging by the essay listed under short notice cancellations for the service today and yesterday.  Hopefully there's no 9-5 workers in Peterlee relying on the service since after the 1653 departure the next three in a row are cancelled, meaning a wait until 1900.  Hopefully some journeys will be reinstated of course but as it stands, not too an appealing an offer!

(02 Apr 2022, 9:00 am)Michael wrote Is the X11 coming back this year?

(02 Apr 2022, 9:48 am)Train8261 wrote I'm surprised it wasn't announced alongside Toontour. Same with the B1

(02 Apr 2022, 3:11 pm)OrangeArrow49 wrote What's changing on the X85 on Monday?

(02 Apr 2022, 3:58 pm)peter wrote The afternoon journey seemingly withdrawn if the timetable on Nexus is to be believed. Presumably because the morning journey can fit in with interworking with the AD122 (one turn doesn't start until 09:10) whereas the afternoon journey can't.

(02 Apr 2022, 10:53 pm)stagecoachbusdepot wrote GNE site still showing it as operating assuming you are referring to the 1720 one?

(03 Apr 2022, 3:53 pm)Malarkey wrote Tell you what the evening runs of the 82/84/84A are a joke, noticed last night whilst getting a few photos that you have a 84/84A at xx:58/xx:28 to Rickleton then you have an 82 to Birtley at xx:06/xx:36 which runs off the 85, where is the justification in having two "minibus" services within 6 minutes of each other, following this you then have the 2 at xx13 to Silksworth then the 50 to Chester-Le-Street at xx:16. So you have 4 buses within 18 minutes of each other to Lambton/Ayton & Harraton with a then 12 minute gap till the next 82/84/84A cycle followed by a 30 minute gap where you'd then repeat the same cycle again.

I can't understand why Go North East could not have the 2 or the 82 additionally serve Harraton and Rickleton on an Evening covering this section of the 84/84A as I can remember going back to the days of the 638 that used to do this on an Evening, Alternatively you could have 84/84A extend from Rickleton to Birtley covering this section of the 82.

Any changes would require a change in interworking pattern as currently they interwork at Washington Galleries to them instead interwork at Concord so the driver would do the following:

84/84A - Birtley to Concord / 85 - Concord to Washington Galleries / 85 - Washington Galleries to Concord / 84/84A - Concord to Birtley

Either way you'd reduce resource required to operate the services. I did also note a few drivers were being supervised last night as they'd not done these routes before.

(03 Apr 2022, 7:45 pm)Adrian wrote Evening 50s from Chester-le-Street to Washington (and beyond) are timed at xx.45 and the 8 to Washington (and on to Sunderland) is xx.49

Being a cynic, I'd suggest we'll sooner or later see one of the two axed 'due to low use', despite them having more of a fighting chance if more evenly spread across the clock-face.

(03 Apr 2022, 7:45 pm)Adrian wrote Evening 50s from Chester-le-Street to Washington (and beyond) are timed at xx.45 and the 8 to Washington (and on to Sunderland) is xx.49

Being a cynic, I'd suggest we'll sooner or later see one of the two axed 'due to low use', despite them having more of a fighting chance if more evenly spread across the clock-face.