Recent content by darloscott

Yeah I guess someone has updated the departure time on the page without realising it didn’t need an exemption and taking it off.

ENCTS is valid from 0900 in North Yorkshire along with a number of exceptions on other services - when I ran the 18 our first journey used to leave Stokesley at 0845 if I remember right and accepted concessions.

I think since the network has been rationalised so heavily... messing about with the 28/28a and 29 would mean starting again with a clean sheet. In my opinion - and a plan I had at one point - running an express between Northallerton & Middlesbrough via Brompton, Swainby, Hutton Rudby...

There is a few services where additional spend would, in my opinion, bring in more additional revenue than it would cost you to provide the extra resource. Indeed where they’re spending on school buses these could be utilised on service work during the day for negligible extra cost. I’m thinking...

1383, 1426 and 1428 all departed for scrap from Stockton over the last few days

I would put money on it being Garnetts who already have a number of these ex Arriva London

First E200 has been delivered for Stockton depot in the shape of 3501 which is YX76KMG

It’s 2711 that went on loan to Ashington for the mini services on Saturday. Solo 3051 involved in an accident the other day - 2710 is away on loan at Castleford

Yes there’ll be an increase as vehicles will be coming from Stockton depot to start in the Redcar area. Some X4 services have been extended to start/finish in Whitby where they’d be operating down there anyway. Similarly in a few weeks there are some X3s that currently start or finish in...

The WiFi offering onboard got overtaken by data contracts being so cheap (& often unlimited) so everyone uses their own data connection as 4G/5G beats the old 3G SIM cards that on bus WiFi generally used

Redcar’s final bus in last night was Pulsar 1445 having worked the last X4A to Easington. Final departure (2340 63) was worked by Pulsar 1439. Most vehicles were moved to Stockton shortly after arrival last night with the remainder to transfer today.

This weekends loan to Compass for Moors is Enviro 200 20388 SN65ZGJ

£300 a day is nothing for a bus that’s out all day. Assuming they keep the revenue on top of that which is probably somewhere around £100-150 a day if you’re lucky, and the school is presumably commercial? All in all around £600 a day which isn’t too bad - if they don’t keep the revenue (we...

And 1385 is on loan from Stockton to Darlington covering 2710. Three way swap. 3002 is there for driver familiarisation to start ahead of Stockton taking delivery of their own Enviros shortly. Most of the Kites that were stored at Stockton & Redcar have migrated over to Darlington suggesting...

Exactly this! Drivers won’t need to care about revenue any more, it’s exactly like that where I work in Queensland (Aus)… company tells us not to get involved as it’s not our revenue. They get paid as long as the bus runs…