Think the favourites to be left off are the 19, 35, 40, 42, 71, 168, 335 & 520 & 558.

You'll never see the PR1/PR2 missing unless the bus breaks down, then it's replaced within the next trip, whereas the 42 or 168 could be without a bus for the rest of the day.

Operationally, not a good way to do things, although because every route is a contract, something has to go if the resource just simply isn't there. Obviously the Live Tracking on bus times does help, although sometimes the bus has actually been running, it just hasn't tracked.

Regarding the 82 not tracking, I believe it's a mistake on their end, where the ability to track the bus wasn't selected when publishing the timetable, something very similar to when Borders Buses first took over the 418 & it took about a year for it to finally track as the '0418' for some reason.

Obviously the PVR will increase by 2 on Monday with the 599, so one would hope they have a contingency plan to ensure that they are not going to end up not running services for the full day or indeed taking a bus from the 520 to do a 71...

(18 Mar 2026, 1:07 pm)Nerd4321 wrote The 599 does worry me under GCT as they seem to keep taking a bus of the 35 recently. Seems to do 3/4 trips in the morning then its taken off and its down to 1 bus for about 2 maybe 4 hours before its replaced. And its not like the bus breaks down cause it goes to the depot then onto another service

I hope we dont see this happening with the 599 but if it doesn't track there is no way of knowing

Have you contacted Nexus about this and provided examples.  After all GCT will submit an invoice  and have to explain lost mileage  on why they shouldnt be paid for a service that they havent provided

As predicted. The 599 does not track

(11 hours ago)Nerd4321 wrote As predicted. The 599 does not track

Hopefully its because its the first day, hopefully its tracking soon.

(5 hours ago)Michael wrote Hopefully its because its the first day, hopefully its tracking soon.

The 82 hasn’t tracked since they took over the contract in May last year so i don’t have high hopes for tracking but you never know.

First day of the 599 and only one bus operating this afternoon. Apparently they have had a "breakdown". Guess it sounds better than a "puncture" which is a bit old now.

They did get both of the new buses onto the route this morning it seems, so presume the 82 would have been allocated whatever was spare.

Also the 42 and 71 both seem to have gone missing at various parts of this morning. Wonder why?

Edit - No breakdown it seems as YX26KKD is now operating on the 82 having been on the 599 earlier, operating alongside SK19EYH, no doubt one of the early finishing runs on another route will have then went onto the 599...

(2 hours ago)S830OFT wrote First day of the 599 and only one bus operating this afternoon. Apparently they have had a "breakdown". Guess it sounds better than a "puncture" which is a bit old now.

They did get both of the new buses onto the route this morning it seems, so presume the 82 would have been allocated whatever was spare.

Also the 42 and 71 both seem to have gone missing at various parts of this morning. Wonder why?

First day... good start...........

Lets hope this isn't gonna be a regular thing.... makes it worse, there's no tracking

(2 hours ago)S830OFT wrote First day of the 599 and only one bus operating this afternoon. Apparently they have had a "breakdown". Guess it sounds better than a "puncture" which is a bit old now.

They did get both of the new buses onto the route this morning it seems, so presume the 82 would have been allocated whatever was spare.

Also the 42 and 71 both seem to have gone missing at various parts of this morning. Wonder why?

Could see this happening, but not first day

(2 hours ago)S830OFT wrote Also the 42 and 71 both seem to have gone missing at various parts of this morning. Wonder why?

This seems to be an almost daily occurrence at this point, 42 & 71 having journeys which don't operate, often taking a bus from one to allocate to the other, another is the Durham 40/40A/41 being cut from two buses to one, leading to the one bus having to do a hybrid of both routes [40/40A] so trips are doing something like Cathedral - Waterside - Rail Station - Cathedral.