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    First South West (Kernow & Buses of Somerset)

    Hadn't realised this previously so sorry if posted before, but open air deck T14 GWR now with South Pennines Community Transport. https://www.flickr.com/search/?text=T14%20GWR&sort=date-posted-desc
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    First South West (Kernow & Buses of Somerset)

    A real shame to see the new Exmoor Coaster timetable. Only every 3 hours or so and a 1 bus operation from 31st March to 25th May. A far cry from last year's timetable...
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    Trivia : Open top buses that have appeared on non tourist services

    Not sure if this counts as non-tourist, but Transpora open top W501 RBB (branded for the Bournemouth Coaster) has been out operating the Weymouth Park and Ride service.
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    First South West (Kernow & Buses of Somerset)

    All quite disappointing really after expecting a lot more, especially with Marc Huws involved. Nothing that different really, if anything a reduction compared to previous summers. Maybe more to come one day, but does seem to be a big uplift in open top deckers for relatively little change. The...
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    First South West (Kernow & Buses of Somerset)

    Interesting if correct as this would duplicate most of Morebus Route 30 but would offer open top format. I'd had thought a potentially successful option would be to replicate the old Jurassic Mule services between Charmouth, Lyme Regis and Seaton with an open top service, especially now...
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    First West of England (Bristol, Bath & The West)

    Tonight's 9pm D2 departure to Frome left absolutely full to the rafters. Driver wasn't taking money/tickets, just loading people on and off. Many other services seen in Bath today were full and standing, including an X39 to Bristol around 330pm Which wasn't stopping and had full on the...
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    First Hampshire & Dorset (Wessex, Dorset & South Somerset)

    The other E400s also seem to have been prone to some reliability issues and are already regularly on local or school routes rather than the Jurassic routes.
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    Why aren't 'Placement'/'Dead Mileage' trips more common

    The X51/53 in Dorset can be a frustrating one with long out of service runs in the morning and evening from Weymouth all the way to Lyme Regis, mostly along the normal core trunk route itself. A distance of over 30 miles as well. Them journeys are already there and would help to enhance the...
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    First Hampshire & Dorset (Wessex, Dorset & South Somerset)

    37581 was also used as the commentary box parked on the promenade pavement opposite Alexandra Gardens. Was looking great in the very warm sunshine in its new green paint!
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    First South West (Kernow & Buses of Somerset)

    Prior to this week, First Wessex have been operating closed school journeys on the S1 between Weymouth and Portland. The bus used comes off the 502 holiday park route. This week it seems the open topper has been substituted for a closed top decker or saloon for the afternoon school journey and...
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    First Hampshire & Dorset (Wessex, Dorset & South Somerset)

    Details have started to emerge for new timetables from 30th May. A real frequency uplift across the board which is good to see: Main headlines so far: X51 - Weymouth to Dorchester - Bridport - Axminster Will now operate between Weymouth and Dorchester again for the first time in a few years...
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    First South West (Kernow & Buses of Somerset)

    Is all the work being run from them depots? The Lyme Regis and Axminster runs might be just as straight forward from Bridport?
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    First West of England (Bristol, Bath & The West)

    Interesting fact but YS03ZKE also served on the X53 Jurassic Coast route for 1 year prior to the Scania Omnidekkas that have passed through Ensign in the same month!
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    First West of England (Bristol, Bath & The West)

    They certainly have done a lot of miles, would love to know how many! Back when they started the X53 also extended from Bournemouth on selected journeys all the way through to Exeter. First journey out was around 5am, last one returning 1130pm ish. Obviously things are scaled back a bit now, but...
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    Double deck routes temporarily operated by single deckers

    Over the past few days the Jurassic Coaster routes in Dorset (X51, X53, X54) have been nearly exclusively worked by single deck Streetlites & B7RLEs, with the normal branded double deckers on Weymouth town routes.
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    Buses and the coronavirus

    First Wessex (Dorset) has imposed a rather draconian timetable from Monday. No services at all on the following routes. Fully suspended: 3: Weymouth to Westham 4: Weymouth to Preston 8: Weymouth to Chickerell X51: Dorchester-Bridport-Lyme Regis-Axminster X53: Weymouth to Bridport X54...
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    First Dorset X53

    They Weymouth to Poole section is X54. However for the past few summer seasons (May to Sept) an X55 service has also run in addition from Weymouth to Lulworth Cove, Monkey World and Bovington Tank Museum. The X51 and X53 summer uplifted services will start at the beginning of May. Many journeys...
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    Christmas,Boxing and New Year's day services

    First wessex ran a successful new years eve service until 3/4am in Weymouth and Dorchester. This was also a free service after 8pm due to funding from the Weymouth BID. Services ran every 30 minutes on Route 1 to Portland. Last bus from town 315am. Last return 341am. Route 2 to Littlemoor...
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    First West of England (Bristol, Bath & The West)

    Optare Solo SR 53615 has moved from Dorset to Buses of Somerset.

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