(18 Oct 2015, 11:15 am)DaveyBowyer wrote Not seen Ashington depot do this mind bar once, always got up to 50mph and I've even been on one of the Daf coaches last year which overtook a Jesmomd B10BLE ALX300 under the Central Motorway.
I think that Ashington are quite strict on driver discipline on the main routes due to the fact that if they're late, then passengers are more likely to claim under the Sapphire guarentee.
With Blyth, I think that they need to do the following:
- Crack down on the small minority of awkward drivers.
- Setup the vehicles to ensure that they run to time.
- Split the X8 with the section between Cramlington and Blyth being replaced by a service which would combine with the X10 / X11 from Blyth and between Cramlington and Newcastle roughly every 10 minutes. Also, extra time would be given to the X10 / X11 to improve reliability.
- X7 / X8 revised timetable to improve reliability.
- 308 PVR increased to 10 vehicles with a revised timetable to improve reliability. According adjustments also made to service 306.
i actually agree but the hybrid deckers used on the 308 hae to take a little bit of time to get upto speed as it is the vehicle that is slow not the drivers
(18 Oct 2015, 12:15 pm)GX03 SVC wrote Ashington depot earlier.did you only see 7446. was 7445 there aswell
7446 is now here, no sign of the loaned DAF so I assume thats returned to Newcastle. No sign of any refurbished B7s from London either.