(29 Sep 2015, 5:44 am)Dan wrote On another note - I noticed an invitation to tender for three Durham Park & Ride Lumiere services went out about a week ago.
I believe it was a fairly short-notice contract: Durham County Council gave operators about a week to express interest.
In the past (notably when Arriva has operated the normal Park & Ride services), Arriva has operated the additional buses on services PR1 and PR2, while Go North East has operated special service PR5.
I was wondering about this yesterday as I'm not sure Scarlet Band would have the resources to take on for the extra runs on the normal Durham Park and Ride services.
Looking at the Lumiere website, the park and rides will be the same as last time with the three usual Park and Ride sites/services being in operation with extra Park and Rides from New College Durham (which GNE did last time) and Merryoaks which is near Cock o' the North on the A167 (think Garrnett's did these services last time).
I remember Arriva used the Park and Ride branded Solos plus some double deckers on their additional PR1/PR2 runs with some of the deckers being X93 branded Enviro 400's. If I remember correctly the PR1 was split in Durham so they didn't operate across the city as normal.
Should be intresting to see what happens this time around. Going to need to learn how to use my camera at night for this.