I seem to recall the artist-formerly-known-as-the-X46 did run into Brixham when I was a fish town yokel in the 90s. Might have been a fever dream, but Im sure I remember going on the coach on occasion.
Given the increase in traffic in and out these days, plus the traffic joy of the Exeter roads at any time of the day, I can't see it happening again. There's a reason the 46 has become very limited in the last few years. Add on the Devon Metro improvements coming soon, you might find that SC give up on the thing entirely.
Not usually one to comment on buses, not my area, but from years of experience the first 97 to Cheltenham and back is always operated by a 10 branded bus as it then goes on to work a 10 to Tuffley...Sundays are normally operated by ordinary Stagecoach single deckers, although last night an unbranded Gold bus went past my window just after 8pm, a full two hours after the last bus is scheduled...I'm amazed at how badly Stagecoach Cheltenham and Gloucester (especially the Gloucester bit) manage route branding! Today was a fairly usual example.
One of the unbranded Gold deckers recently arrived from Oxford was on the 94. It's nice to see them being used (I assume they're for the 93 at the end of next month) however the route does have it's own set of branded buses.
Route 10 (gold branded) had a stagecoach standard decker on it. No problem, they may be short. Standing behind it in Cheltenham was one reasons they were short as a Route 10 branded decker was on route 97 (gold route with it's own branded buses). Slightly later the reason for the shortage of branded buses on the 97 showed up as another route 10 working was being operated with one of the route 97 branded buses. Clearly Gloucester depot hasn't got a vast amount of spare space however this hasn't happened suddenly so if the operations department cant, or cant be bothered to, allocate buses properly who bother with the branding, just have the gold bit!
Thats now done by South Glos i dont know where they change over.They do park at Citybus in Plymouth.Stagecoach Plymouth depot have barred them from tbe depot.Noticed that the 06.00 Exeter-London service, requires a change of coach at Severn View services, connecting on to Cardiff-London service, but cant seem to find where the coach from Exeter goes after the services, with no return working can find, what does the coach do after dropping off the passengers for London?.
What are the new driver change over arrangements for the Cornwall/Devon-London overnight services, The 02.15 From Exeter-London now does Bristol centre 04.05 and Bristol UWE 04.25, London 07.00 instead of 07.25.
Noticed that the 06.00 Exeter-London service, requires a change of coach at Severn View services, connecting on to Cardiff-London service, but cant seem to find where the coach from Exeter goes after the services, with no return working can find, what does the coach do after dropping off the passengers for London?.
What are the new driver change over arrangements for the Cornwall/Devon-London overnight services, The 02.15 From Exeter-London now does Bristol centre 04.05 and Bristol UWE 04.25, London 07.00 instead of 07.25.
Unless I'm going mad and having really boring hallucinations, there was an E200 MMC running around on the S in Exeter this morning.
I was driving one 37443Unless I'm going mad and having really boring hallucinations, there was an E200 MMC running around on the S in Exeter this morning.
Information posted on May 8th 2018 at 15:35
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The former Stagecoach Merseyside & South Lancashire Enviro 200MMCs, 37440-44, are in the process of being transferred from Plymouth to Exeter with 37443/44 having already been transferred and replaced at Plymouth by Dart SLFs 35244/65. 37440/41/42 will move to Exeter when Dart SLFs 35245/46 are released from repaint and repairs are completed on 35243.
Dart SLF 35154 is reported to have transferred from Exeter to Torquay whilst 34610 which had been on loan to Exeter from the Reserve Fleet has been replaced by 34864 from Torquay.
Just found this thread and I have some information on Barnstaple's fleet.
Barnstaple's 19xxx (19008/065/093/094/095/102/105/106/107/109/110/119) are expect to be replaced immanently with Exeter's 156xx in replacement due to the E400 coastliners arriving but this is just the current theory which could change...
Luke warm..... You’re telling us. It’s South West not South East!Good afternoon, Im not very hot ( even luke warm with Stagecoach south east) Can anyone explain what is going on with Falcon route? It seems some much older stock has appeared...
57 plate:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/rbdgmphotogtaphy/28755953928/
https://flic.kr/p/HRZihr
59 plate:
https://flic.kr/p/27Gb4on
The Falcon fleet was brand new.Only the Panthers are second hand.Scuttlebut is that's why plymouth lost the megabus, when mega-control requested a spare unit for a brakedown ect, they were unable to provide as it was running as a falcon! A lot of the 'new' coaches are ex Scottish stock, which have spent a few years in a reserve field, so they're having a few issues with reliability
I think they are referring to the additional stock advanced as “new” rather than the core 65 plates fleet.The Falcon fleet was brand new.Only the Panthers are second hand.
Do Megabus drivers fancy grinding around Saltash in a knackered Dart or Trident?I see stagecoach are advertising for more drivers in Plymouth starting September. Doesn't this seem a bit strange? I thought they would have an abundance of drivers now they have 'lost' all Megabus work and the contracted 48 from September?