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There were some partial grants for operators with less than 20 buses. But other than that, no.

Because in theory, if your first employer had been a rogue, he could have not paid you for the last couple of weeks of your employment. Liability would then technically have fallen to your new employer. various legal proceedings might have ensued, but that’s the bottom line.

The Arriva depot is leased. I very much doubt it will be retained by First beyond the next break clause. The current First depot has plenty of space for electrification, and after a recast of the network, I doubt the existing First PVR will increase very much, if at all, as others above have...

There’s nothing much left to run into the ground tbh.

Exactly. Arriva would inevitably just close down and have to incur the redundancy costs.

The statutory start time is actually 0930. Though individual local authorities can specify/agree an earlier start, and 0900 is not unusual.

Certainly with NX (and I suspect Flix) there is no need for a customer to have any idea of who actually runs the vehicle, and indeed NX effectively prohibited any public reference to operator identity save for the legal address which they couldn’t influence! So whether a customer has ‘heard of’...

But don’t forget that it depends on the detail. If the failed company provides three routes, each requiring two drivers, but the six drivers are all on one rota, they will only spend 33% of their time on any one route. If after the failure each route goes to a different operator, none of the...

Bear in mind that ibus (TfL) doesn’t actually meet the specifications set out in PSVAIR. It is however covered by short-term exemptions I recollect.

That’s not what Dwarfer1979 means. He is referring to a bus working which has a gap at morning and afternoon school times. It is generally ‘inefficient’ as most fleets have their highest vehicle requirement at school start/finish times. A gap in a regular headway timetable to run school...

Also interesting that the ‘mileage’ - as well as having changed from miles to km - is exactly the same! Has it moved entirely on a low loader since the last MOT?!!!

It’s just possible that Stagecoach have more accurate data on their own passenger numbers than those of us on a bus spotters’ website……

The 9 was put out to tender by ECC. NIBS won it. I understand a large number of new buses are on order for both Stephensons and NIBS but inevitably couldn’t be delivered in time to start the new contracts, so some internal transfers were inevitable as a temporary measure. The 351 is commercial...

Its amazing - but not unique to LUL - that what used to be regarded as ‘routine’ - ranging from overhaul and repaint to a seat retrim is now regarded as a ‘project’ rather than a routine exercise. Interesting that on buses, where the operation is of course contracted, TfL require a ‘refurb’...

The presence and growth of Gatwick Airport is a major factor in the strength of the Crawley bus network I suspect.