Flange Squeal
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I just wondered what some of the longest (mileage) dead runs out there are, be it between the start/end of routes and the depot, or between journeys on interworked routes.
Back when Rotala's Wessex in Bristol was a thing, they used to have a park and ride contact in Bicester Village. Avonmouth to Bicester must be up there in terms of empty miles I should think.
Morecambe depot has several school service positioning and return runs between Lancaster and Preston each day, while Kendal depot has one morning school positioning run to Morecambe/Lancaster and I believe others to BarrowStagecoach have a couple of X2s that run dead from Preston to Liverpool, some run dead Preston to Crosby/Ainsdale & Southport
Connexions have existing workings their on the 940 and they are not taking back the whole network - the 962 and 965 still its seem being Transdev. Transdev have empty workings between Knaresborough or Boroughbridge and York which they did originally timetable as service workings which add up to a significant amount each day simply through a service using vehicles solely based at York rather than running it also from Starbeck, Harrogate.When Connexions take back on the Otley local network,that will involve dead milage of around 20 miles
I may be able to beat that myself! If the X68 does not return as a scheduled plain 68, then Russell Square to Camberwell Garage is 21 miles.Not many entries from London, which might be expected. However, the last X26 of the day, which arives at Heathrow at 00.31, appears to run dead back to Croydon, a distance of between 20 and 23 miles depending on the route taken. Can any London routes beat that?
Something not right here. Russell Square-Camberwell is 4 miles; and 8 miles from that garage to West Croydon.I may be able to beat that myself! If the X68 does not return as a scheduled plain 68, then Russell Square to Camberwell Garage is 21 miles.
Something not right here. Russell Square-Camberwell is 4 miles; and 8 miles from that garage to West Croydon.
21 miles would enable Arriva to run it out of their Dartford depot!
With bus regulation and traffic conditions, it just feels like 21 miles.Doh! I used Google maps and quoted the minutes, not the miles . The distance is 4 miles.