Had a outing on the DalesBus network yesterday, here's what I claimed haulage on:
0824 Newton Aycliffe Rail Station - Darlington Rail Station (Northern 142463)
0915 7 Darlington Town Centre - Harrowgate Hill, Ashleigh House (ANE 1427)
0944 830 Ingleton Community Centre (ANE 2865) https://flic.kr/p/VwTXnD
1300 833 Gisburn Forest (Traveller's Choice 7 HXP) https://flic.kr/p/V9bgjq
1420 833 Clapham, The Green (Traveller's Choice 7 HXP)
1513 881 Malham, National Park Centre (Kirkby Lonsdale Coach Hire YD63 VKL) https://flic.kr/p/VEPWRJ
1630 884 Skipton Bus Station (Arriva Yorkshire 1459) https://flic.kr/p/UuU3yn
1725 873 Ilkley Bus Station (Transdev Keighley 713) https://flic.kr/p/VwViR2
1835 875 Leeds (Arriva Yorkshire 1456?)
1942 Leeds Rail Station - Darlington Rail Station (TransPennine Express 185146)
2115 7 Newton Aycliffe (ANE 1427)
The reason for the random trip to Harrowgate Hill on the 7 was purely just to kill time. 1427 was certainly a nice surprise, pleased it stayed on that board all day as I got some thrash on it back to Aycliffe in the evening.
The day was pretty relaxing until I got to Skipton when I boarded Transdev TransBus MPD 713 where the driver told me that I could not film or photograph whilst I was on the bus or have the camera visible in any way! We got into Leeds City Centre on the 875 and it was gridlocked with buses, in about 10 minutes we moved about 100 yards at best, eventually we were allowed to depart the bus and had to walk some of the remaining distance to the rail station, I then had issues buying train tickets back to Darlington on the crap Virgin Trains East Coast touch screen machines which you can only get anywhere by slamming the screen with brute force. Got on the train and we started moving in the opposite direction to York as we had to be diverted via Castleford due to a trespass incident between Leeds and York.
It was a pretty enjoyable day although slightly ruined by the issues later in the day and I was a rather long day it has to be said.
If you want to hear my ride Arriva Yorkshire Pulsar 1459 which has a rather high pitched whine when accelerating, watch this video: https://youtu.be/t_cyKaJfI5w
Can't see some of these DalesBus services lasting, the 833 in both directions had just me and a woman who connected from the 830 and I was the only passenger on the 881 to Malham for the whole of my journey and I think it only picked up one passenger in Malham heading back towards Ingleton, 873 had me and two other passengers for the whole journey to Ilkely although the quicker 884 route to Ilkely departs Skipton Bus Station about 10 minutes in front of the 873 and the numbers are reportedly down on the Arriva operated 830 this year as well, not helped by the fact you can no longer connect between the 830 and 881 to head to/from Settle anymore, honestly feel DalesBus have shot themselves in the foot with some of these timetables this year although cuts have had to be made.
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