RE: Arriva North East - Latest
1500 is now at Ashington depot, although I don't know about any others.
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(12 Dec 2014, 5:09 pm)Cock Robin wrote What's the point of that? Why not just send the 12 regs to Redcar and Stockton?! Less than a year difference.
When are they due anyway?
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(14 Dec 2014, 9:13 pm)MrPottski wrote The Sunday X66 working is down as a Solo, although some of the later runs to Catterick do tend to be busy. The loadings are never very high, a few weeks ago, I took 2 people all the way to Boro and brought 6 back. The top speed thing is a good point, most top out at 52/53, some can hit 58 and 2865 can hit 60 whereas all the Pulsars are limited to 60, although the Solos can manage the timings ok. Anything is better then an EcoCity on the A66 on a windy day though!
(15 Dec 2014, 4:39 pm)MrPottski wrote No Max on Sundays at all, the Scanias stay tucked up in the depot. I don't think the loadings would justify an evening service, but stranger things have happened.
(15 Dec 2014, 4:43 pm)MrPottski wrote On a different note, I was driving the X66 today and noticed 4001 in Boro bus station, 4007 NIS in Stockton high street and 4039 (I think) on the 17a, also in Stockton, while quite a few Pulsars were left in the depot. Must have been test day I guess, because I saw an Catterick branded Scania being driven there by a fitter as well.
(15 Dec 2014, 5:49 pm)Cock Robin wrote Wednesday test day I think unless its changed.
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(15 Dec 2014, 4:39 pm)MrPottski wrote No Max on Sundays at all, the Scanias stay tucked up in the depot. I don't think the loadings would justify an evening service, but stranger things have happened.
(18 Dec 2014, 5:03 pm)MarcTheA4 wrote I think that's pretty poor, tbh. If customers board the service expecting everything MAX offers - they'll be pretty peeved on a Sunday when they can't access any of those.
Can probably claim 'false advertising'.
(18 Dec 2014, 5:23 pm)Jimmi wrote Yeah it is rather poor that we aren't getting the advertised MAX benefits on a Sunday.
Sapphire service 7 passengers weren't happy when MPD 1760 turned up this afternoon, especially as it was smaller bus which made me unhappy as everyone piled on the 5A instead. I once had this disappoint in the form of Dart 1611 which really annoyed me as I really wanted to use the WiFi on this day as Stockton Calling were announcing their headliners and because I didn't want to pay to use my mobile internet data, so I had to wait until I got home.
The topic of buses not having enhanced features which were advertised but not provided on Sunday's was debated on here in the past when Go North East launched the Tynedale Xpress X84/X85 where on the first day an MPD was used instead of a Solar with WiFi as advertised. I think this was pinned down to lower costs - I'm not sure if this is still the case on that service. I imagine this happens on the 26A/X66 on a Sunday to keep the running costs down, same with the 2/11/12 in Darlington which use Solos on Sundays instead of EcoCitys.
Also there was 2865 and at least one Solo on the X26/X27 today.
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