(05 Mar 2020, 11:05 pm)S830OFT wrote I would have preferred it if the X3/X3A were sent via Dormanstown and service X4 carried on as normal. Time will tell if these revisions prove popular...Not great for Redcar. They have enough Streetlites to cover but there's usually several off road so sending more Streetlites there in exchange for the Pulsars will just make the problem worse.
Also great to see 1550 - 1559 will move to Redcar as the X3/X3A seem to rarely have enough StreetLites to form the allocaton...
(06 Mar 2020, 6:01 am)scanialover wrote So if these fleet movements have been cancelled isn't that good and sensible news's? The logic behind swooping Stockton's Streetlites for Dormanstown's VDL Pulsars seemed kinda pointless. OK the Streetlites haven't been an altogether success at Stockton, coping with the demands of the services - 5/5a - on which they were intended to operate but then the Dormanstown operated X3/X4 routes have the same issues unless of course there was another reason for the move? Didn't someone suggest that service 63 was going to be upgraded and operated by Streetlites?
X3 was supposed to interwork with 64/64A with Streetlites. 63 would be Temsas and the 5/5A de-Sapphired with Pulsars.
(06 Mar 2020, 8:06 am)Michael Euston wrote Looking at the changes of the X3 and X4 from April. Good that the X3A is extended to Brotton. Good that the X4 is running later in the evening. My only negative is that the turnaround in Whitby has been reduced from 13 minutes to 6 minutes. Not really a problem at this time of year but in the summer it will be a problem.
Certainly agree about the layover at Whitby but agree with the earlier comments that changing the route is definitely not an improvement.