It's simply so they can keep to time on such a lengthy route (with fast running) that's already way too long as it is without adding on more time for an ever slower bus lol. I remember when Coastliner borrowed a Harrogate Olimpian to cover for a college run on the 843, they had to swap it for a newer model due to the engine being so old and underperforming it couldn't keep to time.
Lol - we are in fantasy here, surely more likely to be gearbox settings or the axle ratio than the engine.
Unusual yes but good practice to get on top of a problem before it happens to more engines. They will have a new or refurbed engines under warranty which will be far more reliable than risking high mileage ones going pop.
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Am I missing something, or is that just one additional journey to and from Scarborough?Coastliner has announced details of the summer uplift:
Summer is here on Coastliner!
Note that there is no Saturday 20th July 2026. Looks like its identical to the uplift from last year.
Yes same as last year.
Yes, an extension of a Leeds-York 843 in the morning and an additional evening journey to return. Plus the 840 on a Sunday morning starting from Leeds instead of York. Same as 2025.
Other than 2021 when it went 30m it’s never been much more than 1 or 2 trips. 2018/2019 there was 1x X40 and 1x X43, 2016 1 am Tadcaster to Scarborough and back to Malton and 1x X40
Aah yes, good point.
Not usually, if they do then its unplanned. Like on May Day Bank Holiday weekend, when people were being left behind from Stonebow going to Whitby so a second bus was put on from Malton. The only planned change to Whitby services is extending the Sunday morning 840 to start in Leeds instead of York to provide an earlier journey into York from Leeds on a Sunday.
Going back a few years, the Whitby route used to get an additional X40 (running limited stop between Leeds and Malton) from Leeds to Whitby in the morning and back in the late afternoon, plus an associated short working from Whitby to Malton and back to Whitby, running 7 days a week from May to September. When the year-round service is only 4 journeys a day and 2 on Sundays, that's quite a significant uplift! But in recent years, with the exception of the one year they ran half-hourly to Scarborough (at the expense of through services to Whitby), the summer uplift has been minimal – and has been inconsistent over time, usually changing from one year to the next and without a lot of notice as to what extra services might run and over what period.
First also displays the route number before the destination (or at least sometimes because they are incompetent and the displays are inconsistent) and that makes more sense in a region where several services often share the same final destination. Take the 4/4F, 40 and 50/50A, for example. Or take the X1, 501, 537, and 343.
It’s far clearer on the left of the display as the angle of the display can cause problems when on the right. Transdev’s destinations are far clearer than most in my opinion.
Possibly for a handful of long-standing prestige routes, or where they created a completely new route like CityZap, but they were applying names-only to all sorts of randomly selected routes, including some that had never had a name before at all – the most egregious examples I can think of were CastleLine (York to Malton via Castle Howard), OtleyDash (Otley town service) and PendleWizz (Skipton to Burnley). No reason you can't have route branding as well as the number, but when these routes didn't have a number but instead suddenly had a 9/10 letter name with two words smushed together like that, it was confusing for passengers who had known them as 81 and 965 for donkey's years (although PendleWizz had been through so many different numbers by that stage). But also, it meant that the destination display would have to alternate between the route name and the destination, instead of showing both the destination and number at the same time, and it made a mess of some travel planners that expect the route number to be ~3 characters rather than ~10.
CastleLine did gain a lot of traction, and some customers (not particularly enthusiasts) were actually sad to see it go.
It went hand-in-hand with Coastliner and worked quite well in advertising. Certainly made the service stand out more.
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The show doesn't start until tomorrow. It might be the empty run from Burnley to Harrogate ahead of tomorrow, probably joined by some other vehicles then.
Yes, I meant ready for the shuttle, not working on it - the shuttle doesn't go along Skipton Road.The new Transdev Go app provided by Passenger will launch in August:
A new Transdev Go app is coming this Summer
The show doesn't start until tomorrow. It might be the empty run from Burnley to Harrogate ahead of tomorrow, probably joined by some other vehicles then.
2019 is also at Starbeck depot. Over the past year or two, the visiting vehicles have, in the main, been used on schools duties to enable to Starbus fleet to operate on Show Shuttles.
Are these not just Great Yorkshire Show event loans?
