Whiteway215
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Thank you for this most helpful summaryMore changes from 1st September
Bath 1: Increasing back to every 10 mins
Bath 3: Foxhill - Bathford (Every 20 mins)
Bath 3A: Weston - Batheaston (Every 20 mins)
Bath 4: Reduced to every 20 mins
Bath 5: Increasing back to every 10 mins
Bath 6/6A/7: Change of Bay in Bus Station and withdrawal of Sunday service
Bath 9: Change of Bay in Bus Station
Bath 42: Retimed, 1 less evening trip
37/37A: First bus is now an hour later at around 7am but the last bus is also an hour later at 7pm (It also looks like a few trips might be run from Bristol)
39/X39: Minor changes
126: Minor changes to School/College services
172/173/174: Timetable change but as normal traveline have missed most 172 trips out!
178: Most trips run later by up to 10 mins
179: Can't see any changes at the moment
349: Two trips around lunch time will be run by First and the 7pm departure by First is withdrawn.
376: Minor changes, mainly a bit of extra time added in.
Brislington & Portway: Daytime Off Peak frequency reduce from every 15 mins to every 20 mins.
D1: Minor changes
D2/D2A: Half the trips renumbered to D2A to distinguish route in Frome.
D3: Minor changes
X31: Minor changes
Collecting all these waifs and strays of deckers from all over the empire makes me wonder if 30875 and 32015 may yet return from the dead.You can see the logic of accumulating the older deckers - short term draftees for the additional Bath uni services and the Bristol Q busters. How short term will they be.... thought that with 30871/7 and they're still out and about. In fact, I was expecting all the W regs (save the open toppers) and the Tridents to be very short lived so when one of each received Coaster livery, that was a bit of surprise. Have to say that when I spied 30945 in LH, I was pleasantly surprised how decent it looked, though simple cosmetics doesn't mean it's not a shed!
The consensus of rumours on 33488-90 is they're staying at LH, though for what route? The X5 releases 4 vehicles but which ones? Like you, I'd think the two Eclipses naturally but will the two plain e400s join the 91/92 HE ones to replace the 376 Streetdecks?
Agree about the Darts and the Streetlites, and wonder if the Bath e200s could end up moving to Lawrence Hill?
Whatever else leaves Bath I am doubtful if the exodus would include 44520-6 as I imagine they would be needed for the 1. I believe their engines were upgraded to Euro 6 through a local authority grant