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Their machines seem to transmit the position of the vehicle to the SIRI-VM feed at all times, whether the machine is logged on or not, and whether the vehicle is on a service or not - whereas Ticketer only transmits vehicle position data to the SIRI-VM feed when the ticket machine meets two...

That’s the set time that all the machines come online for updates I think. Ticketer machines all come alive overnight at about 0300 for what they call ‘overnight maintenance’ (firmware updates, and ensuring all data is up to date etc), and although it’s been a few years since I last used VIX...

If I remember rightly, the 14 day rule is if you’re loaning the vehicle AND O disc. If it’s just the vehicle, then no, it can be for as long as you want.

Rather than driver availability, it sounds like it might be a genuine operational issue where because the journeys operate at a different time in the school holidays, those journeys have, in error, not been included in a shift when compiling the duties. If it was a driver availability issue...

Can confirm, I drove it to Grantham earlier - the other two are still with D&G and I don’t think there are plans to ship them out in the immediate future. 530 should’ve originally been the one coming here, but Sod’s Law struck, and it’s now awaiting a new engine! (Which is even more annoying...

Spot on - the next phase of NottsBus On Demand will be replacing these.

Yep, we use bus workings. You’ll sometimes hear them referred to as ‘car lines’ too.

I drove this route last summer for a couple of weeks - on one day, carrying a group of about 15 ramblers from Macclesfield to the Cat & Fiddle. I think every journey I drove was well-loaded, and there was a good mix of locals and tourists on board (judging that by a) the mix of local authority...

There are multiple low bridges on the Stagecoach 31, Brylaine B5, and also PC Coaches 55 (which all follow the same route in this area) between Branston and Metheringham. The first is 13ft3 at Station Road, Potterhanworth; the second is 14ft0 on Lincoln Road, Dunston.

Centrebus in Grantham have a few: Service 9 (Grantham-Woolsthorpe-by-Belvoir) can only use singles because of two low bridges - one being Springfield Road rail bridge in Grantham (11ft6), the other being as you come in to Woolsthorpe, where one of the many driveways on the Belvoir estate passes...

Very true! That’s being administered by an organisation called RTIG - I was told that full information would be hopefully be available by Christmas, but that has of course passed us by, so I assume there’s a sticking point holding things up. If I remember correctly, in the original proposal for...

No - the key dates are as follows: Vehicles new from Oct 2024 must be fitted from new Vehicles new between Oct 2019-Sep 2024 must be fitted by Oct 2024 Vehicles new between Oct 2014-Sep 2019 must be fitted by Oct 2025 Vehicles new between Jan 1973-Sep 2014 must be fitted by Oct 2026 (The word...

For the newest vehicles (anything which entered service on or after September 2019), it comes in to force in just 10 months time - they have to be fitted with the equipment, and it must be operational by October.

Taking a look at some data from the last couple of months, it’s evident those journeys do actually need that amount of added time - they frequently become heavily delayed en route.

The ticket machine and next stop displays have their own, separate GPS antennae. It’s a shame nobody’s come up with a way to integrate the lot yet!