It's 12 years ago since the last Olympians ran in service, only seems like 5 minutes. As for the Geminis, there will still be Geminis in the fleet for some time, its just 698 and 705 that don't have long left due to the age of them
Doesn't that just highlight something... There is always the next generation of vehicles that we will miss.
Was you on the last service day - albeit a one day service - when 630 came out to play followed by 629? That very last run from Hessle Foreshore (that seemed to be a very last minute decision by both drivers to depart from the station-cottingham-skidby-humberbridge car park roundabouts) down Clive Sully in a two bus formation was epic and was honestly some of the best Olympian thrash I have ever had
No unfortunately I missed it as we were on holiday at the time. I did many miles in 629 and 630 in service at Pocklington though, both were good buses. I'm pleased 629 survives in preservation
Who has it now? Last I heard it was part of Yorkshire buses?
I'm not sure who owns it now offhand but will make enquiries
I've seen that Go Ahead have ordered a batch of B8RLE Evoras (unsure of exact number) with the first one already in Cleckheaton, for the 615/616/619/633 services. These should allow the current cascaded buses to move onto the 571 and any extras along with the B7RLEs currently on the 571 to return to East Yorkshire.
Why can’t ey get evoras instead of adl
From Hull and Halifax and Hell? Good Lord deliver me. A folk song.
That certainly isn't the first time that a Pocklington driver has just not shown up for one of the Sunday/BH journeys and no-one has known anything about it – smacks of slack management if there is no-one monitoring whether drivers are booking on and following up if they don't turn up. (I get that sometimes a driver might go AWOL for good reasons or bad, and there isn't a lot that management can do at 5 minutes' notice when they find out that the driver who was supposed to be at the depot isn't there, but the lack of information and communication is the problem)
I was talking to people on Moorsbus yesterday who used the Wolds Explorer on Saturday. They didn't even know it ran on Sundays & Bank Holidays! Shows the lack of promotion for the service from EY! They said it was like a private taxi service on Saturday.
To use the words of the M31 driver yesterday, "No surprises there."
The communication problem is horrendous. No excuses for EY to not inform people.
Sold to P&O Lloyd
They seemed to be ok with the X98/99 take on too.
Perhaps the more recent launches have been at shorter notice, and/or on less generous terms, meaning that they haven't been able to get new vehicles in time, or get the fleet shuffled round to a final reallocation and get them rebranded in only a short window. The initial launch, and the X98/X99, had a longer turnaround and so gave them the opportunity to get everything ready beforehand.
I would imagine that is probably the likeliest reasons
It might be an EY issue. Alternatively, it could be Metro were looking at some last minute revisions.
When I asked Metro when the timetables were due to be published a week and a half before the launch of the services that seemed to let them know they hadn't had them yet.
