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TRIVIA: bus routes operated by the most amount of depots

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omnicity4659

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Arriva's X30 between Blyth and Newcastle is operated by Ashington, Blyth and Jesmond depots.
 
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It seems that there is normally one garage that does the normal route and one that helps in the peaks

In ashford

Route 1/A/X - Ashford with Canterbury helping the 1A at peak

Route 2 - Hastings with Ashford helping with peaks on the Ashford - Tenterden section

Also do Folkestone buses (at new Romney) help on the 11?
 

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As we've expanded to historic and multiple operators I'll have to chuck in the classic example of Expresswest during the mid 1980s when Bristol Omnibus, National Welsh, South Wales Transport and Crosville each contributed vehicles, from multiple depots in the case of South Wales Transport. Plus the possibility of even more depots covering breakdowns/duplicates.

If we're going historic it must be difficult to beat the Southdown 31 from Brighton to Southsea.
 

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Stagecoach used to have joint depot working on the 1 & 2 Liverpool-Chester, Birkenhead & Chester depots [the 1 certainly was joint depots], now it's just operated by Birkenhead depot, the Chester depot was the old Crosville depot on Liverpool Road, i think Chester ceased operating the 1 & 2 when Stagecoach moved the depot to Waverton.

I think there's still joint working on the 2 by Stagecoach Rock Ferry and Chester?
Elsewhere on Merseyside the 471/472 are operated by both Arriva (Birkenhead) and Stagecoach (Rock Ferry). Arriva and Stagecoach also both operate the 10,82 and 86.
 

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Few routes in Glasgow jointly run . The 6 for example . Scotstoun and caley . 18 must be a contender for most depots that have ran it , think only 2 do now
 

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Arriva's X30 between Blyth and Newcastle is operated by Ashington, Blyth and Jesmond depots.
Just to add to this, X20 is operated by Alnwick (satellite of Ashington), Ashington and Jesmond (one peak journey). 52 is operated by Jesmond with one peak operated by Ashington. X16 is operated by Jesmond, but switches over to Blyth on evenings and Sundays. 306/308 interwork on Sundays operated by both Blyth and Jesmond. 33/short X14 (then became X16)/57A used to interwork and be run by both Blyth and Ashington.
 

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D &G operative 85 Nantwich-Crewe-Newcastle (under Lyme) jointly Crewe and Adderley Green
 

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Trentbarton Swift Uttoxeter- Ashbourne-Derby run by Uttoxeter outstation (ex Stevensons garage) and Ashbourne outstation
 

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At Stagecoach West, the 94U is mainly operated from Gloucester depot but some journeys in the morning are run by Cheltenham depot.
 

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East Yorkshire x46 (Hull to York) is run by Anlaby Road and Pocklington, the 121 is run by Anlaby Road and Bridlington, the 45 (York to Bridlington) is split between Pocklington and Bridlington and the 153 and 155 are split between depots as well, Anlaby Road does most of the 153s but Elloughton does a couple and Withernsea might do one or two as well, Elloughton does most of the 155s but there is an early morning journey run by Anlaby Road. The 246 was split between Beverley and Hornsea before Hornsea depot closed last year.
 

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First Scotland East's 38 is currently operated only by Larbert depot, but until fairly recently Bannockburn and Linlithgow contributed vehicles too.
 
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I wasn't aware Jesmond depot did the 685 before the sale to Go Ahead (unless it was Sundays). However, before deregulation, the 601/602 Hexham to Newcastle was operated by three depots... Hexham, Newcastle (Gallowgate) and Blyth! I think pre 1985 that the 213 Sunderland to Darlington had one each from Darlington, Sedgefield, Peterlee and Sunderland depots.

Famously, the L1 Cymru Coastliner had vehicles drawn from a number of depots - possibly Chester, Flint, Rhyl, Llandudno Junction, Bangor and Caernarfon, with the vehicles working diagrams so that the drivers got home ok but the vehicles would end up at another depot overnight.

There's fewer examples these days as routes tend to be shorter (because of congestion), fewer depots anyway, and operators tend not to share routes between depots for accountability reasons.

Hi, new to the forum. The first route I ever drove in service was a Bristol RE on the Blyth/Newcastle/Hexham route 601/602/X25/X26 through route, this was early 1985 in the good old days for buses.

5 hours and 4 different routes, admittedly the 601/2 was virtually the same route, loved the job then. Happy days.
 

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Hi, new to the forum. The first route I ever drove in service was a Bristol RE on the Blyth/Newcastle/Hexham route 601/602/X25/X26 through route, this was early 1985 in the good old days for buses.

5 hours and 4 different routes, admittedly the 601/2 was virtually the same route, loved the job then. Happy days.
Welcome!

There can’t have been many REs at those depots at the time.
 

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I think we had 2, fine vehicles, I am sure some of the old hands had tears in their eyes the day they were withdrawn. Edit, the route was operated by four depots I think, Jesmond/Gallowgate/Blyth/Hexham.

Not certain Jesmond did it. However, I had a trip out to Hexham on the last day before United Auto was split on a Blyth Olympian and remember seeing the Catherine Cookson liveried example coming the other way and I’m fairly certain that was a Gallowgate car.
 

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Jesmond definitely did it, I was a jesmond driver.
In which case, you’re better informed.

I was certain that Hexham and Blyth did it and I remember Gallowgate vehicles on there. It surprised me as I tend to remember Jesmond being more on services out to the East but then again, the X25/6 was probably the reason.

Takes me back!
 
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In which case, you’re better informed.

I was certain that Hexham and Blyth did it and I remember Gallowgate vehicles on there. It surprised me as I tend to remember Jesmond being more on services out to the East but then again, the X25/6 was probably the reason.

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Did you work for United? Gallowgate used to operate the 306 to Tynemouth despite the fact that it ran past Jesmond depot, never made sense to me. There were 2 rotas at Jesmond when I started, internal and external ( internal for runs entirely within Tyne and Wear), internal mostly did north of Gosforth, external did Ashington Blyth and Hexham. IIRC the through route from Blyth to Hexham only lasted a couple of years.
 

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Did you work for United? Gallowgate used to operate the 306 to Tynemouth despite the fact that it ran past Jesmond depot, never made sense to me. There were 2 rotas at Jesmond when I started, internal and external ( internal for runs entirely within Tyne and Wear), internal mostly did north of Gosforth, external did Ashington Blyth and Hexham. IIRC the through route from Blyth to Hexham only lasted a couple of years.

Son of a United driver so spent my youth on LHs and REs but a long way South of the Tyne!

I knew that there were different rotas - to do with parity with PTE drivers IIRC?
 
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Yes, when the metro started senior drivers went onto the same money as the metro, they were supposed to be the best paid bus drivers in the country. It was easy then to transfer to the metro, wish I had. Privatization and deregulation ruined the job.
 
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