(22 Aug 2013, 1:59 pm)Andreos1 wrote My own thoughts, based on the apparent unreliability of services in the area - how many 13's, 14's and x25s go missing, is to avoid the well known Langley Park triangle.
It is less famous that its well known cousin in Bermuda, but is notorious amongst drivers - who are loath to operate a vehicle in the area.
Services have been reported to vanish without trace or develop mysterious engine problems, rendering the vehicles un-servicable.
However, when said vehicles operate on other routes, they are known to work absolutely fine.
By consolidating everyone on one bus, bosses hope that the never-ending posting on the wall, querying the whereabouts of their bus will end, simply because the entire populations of the villages will have vanished with the bus.
An interesting theory and one I'm inclined to agree with.
Langley Park is indeed a magical place unlike any other in the North East. I mean where else could you leave one Co-op, drive round the corner and immediately encounter shop which looks exactly the same as the one you've just left. A band of horse-riding, cart-pulling travelers arrive in Langley on a Sunday morning but you never see them leave.
I have seen many buses disappearing up Kingsway, or towards the cemetery, never to return. I once witnessed a bus driving up towards the cemetery in GNE livery only to return a few minutes later in Arriva colours. A mysterious minibus operated by Classic runs on a Saturday evening. I mistakenly presumed that this was the JSB (now Scarlet Band) operated 52, but the timetable showed there to be no service operating at the time in which I observed it.
Very strange!