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freetoview33

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No worries. They would be a reduction in though at Hengrove due to the change in 76.

Not a major one though, personally I'm not that happy that the 76 is getting cut back, it is well used between Henbury and Cribbs so there will be plenty of upset people but yes there are other services, so it could be worse. I wonder if this is more to do with Metrobus works at Cribbs Causeway and thus lack of stop space, compared to consolidating resources.
 

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Not a major one though, personally I'm not that happy that the 76 is getting cut back, it is well used between Henbury and Cribbs so there will be plenty of upset people but yes there are other services, so it could be worse. I wonder if this is more to do with Metrobus works at Cribbs Causeway and thus lack of stop space, compared to consolidating resources.
I'd take the opposite approach - I can't see many normal passengers being worried that the 76 won't run beyond Henbury. With that stretch having the 1 (and either the 3 or 4), with Southmead having the 2, and Gloucester Rd the 75/78, there really are plenty of alternatives.

I remember when it was extended there nobody could understand why, other than operational convenience!
 

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Indeed. There's no real point to the 76 running beyond Henbury to Cribbs Causeway. So I can see the logic as to why they've decided to cut it back to Henbury again. Tormarton Crescent or Crow Lane lay-by? May well be Tormarton Crescent as I think the reason they originally changed it from Crow Lane to Tormarton Crescent some years ago was due to problems with troublesome youths at Crow Lane lay-by.

Will be good to see 76's with Henbury on the destination display again though rather than the usual Cribbs Causeway! Bus services in Bristol isn't as interesting as it used to be, due to far fewer terminating destinations to what there were years ago. For instance a number of services nowadays terminates at Cribbs Causeway and UWE Frenchay. Whereas a number of years ago services terminating in north Bristol would be Henbury, Southmead, Filton(or Filton Church or even Filton West!), Patchway(or Patchway Shadow Factory!), Carrefoure, Bradley Stoke, Polytechnic, Stoke Lodge, Westbury, Avonmouth, Shirehampton, Lawrence Weston. I know things have changed since those days with the build of the stores in the Cribbs Causeway area. But just saying, it's just not as interesting as it used to be!

Incidentally where is the source for these changes in January? Any more further changes in January likely to soon become published?
 

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Looks like news about the changes to the 50 have already become public. It already looks like these changes are going to be unpopular. Why? Because the frequency of the 50 has been reduced to 30 minutes, and the 50a will not serve Hengrove and Whitchurch, instead being curtailed at Airport Road and heading straight back to the depot. These changes have been made apparently due to Metrobus, in which one the routes will serve Bamfield Road which the 50 also serves. However Metrobus will be no good to many people as it will not serve huge swathes in the area that the 50 does (and also the route of the Metrobus route apparently has also changed so it won't go up up Bamfield anymore).
 

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Looks like news about the changes to the 50 have already become public. It already looks like these changes are going to be unpopular. Why? Because the frequency of the 50 has been reduced to 30 minutes, and the 50a will not serve Hengrove and Whitchurch, instead being curtailed at Airport Road and heading straight back to the depot. These changes have been made apparently due to Metrobus, in which one the routes will serve Bamfield Road which the 50 also serves. However Metrobus will be no good to many people as it will not serve huge swathes in the area that the 50 does (and also the route of the Metrobus route apparently has also changed so it won't go up up Bamfield anymore).

If these changes are due to MetroBus, not sure why these changes are in January. As the MetroBus services serving Hengrove won't be running by then!
 

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The fire damaged E400 33750 should be back and about soon and heading to Weston. It's almost ready in orange.
 

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The fire damaged E400 33750 should be back and about soon and heading to Weston. It's almost ready in orange.
Good to hear. How is the 'exceling' of buses coming along btw? It looks to be almost done now - I rarely see an urban liveried one in Bristol.
 

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Good to hear. How is the 'exceling' of buses coming along btw? It looks to be almost done now - I rarely see an urban liveried one in Bristol.
Not far now, still a few to go

Dart 42948 running in a unbranded express yourself livery
 
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Not far now, still a few to go

Dart 42948 running in a unbranded express yourself livery

Where is 42948 now? Is it back in Weston only it had come to Bath with 42959.

I was surprised to see purple 42910 on Bath Uni U1 this morning. Perhaps it never went to Weston with 42897/99?
Maybe our WM friends would know. Also 10036/37 were alive and well on the U1
 

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Good to hear. How is the 'exceling' of buses coming along btw? It looks to be almost done now - I rarely see an urban liveried one in Bristol.
Weston currently has 31 E400s plus 33750 when it turns up making 32. Quite a few of these are now orange, I reckon around 18/19 with sone running unbranded. Plus the 3 Streetlites. It certainley looks striking and impressive when you see a row of them in Bristol Bus Stn occupying bays 9/10/11/12. I think some investment should be made to replicate the brand onto the bays. Some customers still remain confused asking if they are First. It will be interesting if the vehicles operated by Abus on the X8 will be so treated as well.

There are still examples floating around in both Urban and Express Yourself.
 

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33412, 33413, 33414, 33416, 33419, 33506, 33508, 33550, 33560, 33566, 33571, 33666, 33667, 33750, 33827, 33828, 33829, 47551, 47552, 47553
 

D2007wsm

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In eXcel orange (20)

33412, 33413, 33414, 33416, 33419, 33506, 33508, 33550, 33560, 33566, 33571, 33666, 33667, 33750, 33827, 33828, 33829, 47551, 47552, 47553
Hopefully when 33415 reaches its place in the queue, it will have it's heating sorted. I went on it on an X2 Monday and upstairs there was no heat at all. It was like it all last winter as well.
 

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In eXcel orange (20)

33412, 33413, 33414, 33416, 33419, 33506, 33508, 33550, 33560, 33566, 33571, 33666, 33667, 33750, 33827, 33828, 33829, 47551, 47552, 47553
Weston currently has 31 E400s plus 33750 when it turns up making 32. Quite a few of these are now orange, I reckon around 18/19 with sone running unbranded. Plus the 3 Streetlites. It certainley looks striking and impressive when you see a row of them in Bristol Bus Stn occupying bays 9/10/11/12. I think some investment should be made to replicate the brand onto the bays. Some customers still remain confused asking if they are First. It will be interesting if the vehicles operated by Abus on the X8 will be so treated as well.

There are still examples floating around in both Urban and Express Yourself.
Thanks for all the updates. I agree it does look really good, particularly, in my opinion, on the streetlites. Not far to go now, and hopefully express yourself stuff will also be gone soon. Wonder what the next big rebrand project is.... hopefully Bath!!
 

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Thanks for all the updates. I agree it does look really good, particularly, in my opinion, on the streetlites. Not far to go now, and hopefully express yourself stuff will also be gone soon. Wonder what the next big rebrand project is.... hopefully Bath!!
Maybe as they started that on the 5 route B7RLEs and 1 Optare Solo.

There was talk of branding etc. for Weston Town Services to compliment the Excel country fleet. No idea what the plan is though.
 

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Maybe as they started that on the 5 route B7RLEs and 1 Optare Solo.

There was talk of branding etc. for Weston Town Services to compliment the Excel country fleet. No idea what the plan is though.
Indeed, that seems likely. I had envisioned a style similar to that in Bath, but perhaps in red, but that is pure speculation. I reckon they will do it though at some point.
 

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Not a major one though, personally I'm not that happy that the 76 is getting cut back, it is well used between Henbury and Cribbs so there will be plenty of upset people but yes there are other services, so it could be worse. I wonder if this is more to do with Metrobus works at Cribbs Causeway and thus lack of stop space, compared to consolidating resources.
Does Henbury really need that many services to Cribbs Causeway? As things stand Service 76 is one of 4 routes between Henbury and Cribbs and one of 3 routes via. Station Road.

Dave
 

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It would be nice to see something green or yellow based. These colours would have foundations in history, but yellow would compliment the orange on the Excels.
Indeed, that seems likely. I had envisioned a style similar to that in Bath, but perhaps in red, but that is pure speculation. I reckon they will do it though at some point.
 

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Does Henbury really need that many services to Cribbs Causeway? As things stand Service 76 is one of 4 routes between Henbury and Cribbs and one of 3 routes via. Station Road.

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The 2 doesn't really serve Henbury.
The 1, 3 and 4 need to serve Cribbs, yes I guess technically there isn't an over whelming need for the 76 to serve Cribbs, just stating that it is the most used service between Henbury and Cribbs, it just means more people from town and up gloucester road will be forced onto the 75 and 78. Also more from henbury onto the 1 and maybe a few onto the 3 and 4.

Though as the 4 is less frequent than the 1/76 and stops on the other side of the road, more people get the 1/76 even though the 4 is the faster option.

A few people from Station Road, Southmead Road and South Bristol will also now have to change busses to complete the journey
 

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It would be nice to see something green or yellow based. These colours would have foundations in history, but yellow would compliment the orange on the Excels.
Well there was a rumour that Weston town was going into a livery similar to Badgerline, but I think this has been talked down now.
 

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33830 now out in plain Orange working in Bristol today also about was 32546 in town and 32545 at Cribbs Causeway
 

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Well there was a rumour that Weston town was going into a livery similar to Badgerline, but I think this has been talked down now.
Last year, that was the plan until another operator introduced buses onto a route painted yellow and green.

I seen the design of the proposed livery and it looked very smart. Based on the livery of years gone buy with a modern twist.
 

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Last year, that was the plan until another operator introduced buses onto a route painted yellow and green.

I seen the design of the proposed livery and it looked very smart. Based on the livery of years gone buy with a modern twist.
So you are saying, that it is still in the pipeline, just a little different to planned?
 

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So you are saying, that it is still in the pipeline, just a little different to planned?
Last I heard was that it wasn't going to happen anymore and the designs would be used elsewhere in the group. I seen the designs in the September and the plans were shelved in November.

Who knows what will be happen with the demise of the other yellow and green buses.
 

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