And now to C&G.I think this is it...
It was originally on a Solo of ABC Travel of Southport, who were bought out and eventually became part of Glenvale who were then bought by Stagecoach.
At some point, the Solo was withdrawn and the plate transferred onto a Dart locally which has since been transferred to the Midlands
I cant confirm what you saw however there's been a bus celebrating 100 years of service since April:I think I just saw a Stagecoach bus painted in the old maroon and cream Devon General livery go past us on an Exeter to Crediton run.
Can anyone confirm this for me? Thanks all.
I'm sure i saw it earlier today in Exeter and so it's likely that one on the 5.I think I just saw a Stagecoach bus painted in the old maroon and cream Devon General livery go past us on an Exeter to Crediton run.
Can anyone confirm this for me? Thanks all.
I think I just saw a Stagecoach bus painted in the old maroon and cream Devon General livery go past us on an Exeter to Crediton run.
Can anyone confirm this for me? Thanks all.
You must’ve been past my house today.It was on the 5! Was walking to the Tesco in Crediton, turned around and saw it! Not quick enough to get my camera out though!
Been meaning to reply to this thread since I saw the changes announced.Hence my reference to the “main route” and I doubt that the 24 will augment it much. Then again, it’s a reflection of how hard it is to create a sustainable network in the FAAAAArest!
According to BusTimes tracker Stagecoach Gold 22774 GX58MVH has been in Newport today presumarably on Route Learning duties
I thought the E300's are for the X5 and Scania deckers would be used on the 7XP?
Thanks. I've seen pictures elsewhere of the E300's running from PAtchway but haven't heard anything on the decker front!Think that’s the case. This is just route learning for the drivers
Some new routes in Plymouth would be nice too....
How about.... city to southway, city to Plympton, city to Honicknowle and West Park.
They would need to have considerably different routings and offer something that current Plymouth CityBus routes do not provide, or you just end up with a pointless and wasteful bus war.
According to Traveline, the Nailsea - Weston College journeys will transfer to Stagecoach along with the rest of X5, so plenty of dead mileage!I should think that First will keep the Nailsea - Weston College run. As for route numbers perhaps the Nailsea trip would be better renumbered as X5A to avoid confusion?
Dave
It's started already - 22751 on the 3B and 22754 on the 3A this evening.And no doubt we'll get gold single deckers straying on to other Patchway routes from time to time!
Do Stagecoach do route learning? 1641 X5 yesterday parked on wrong stop on sea front at Weston, had to reverse onto busy Marine Parade then took wrong turn into town centre bus lane, had to reverse again then went up Oxford Street and missed terminus where people were waiting. Timetable at Marine Parade stop shows 1641 as college days only, terminating at Portishead, when it operates all the time and goes through to Cribbs.
Probably a Gold or two from Cwmbran, maybe a Trident if they've arrivedDoes anyone know which modern buses will be on display at the Cwmbran open day on Saturday?
Not directly fleet related but...
Severn Express with Stagecoach hasn't got off to a very good start -
- removed the popular flexible mobile 10-journey carnet tickets, resulting in a 'back door' fares increase for many
- driver took wrong turn yesterday - had to reverse onto a roundabout to recover route
- only single deckers on some peak pm services
- peak service 20 minutes late turning up this morning
Already 'regulars' are talking about learning to drive/buying a car/driving instead...... Probably over-reacting but people don't have a huge amount of patience for these kind of things when they have been provided with a generally reliable service by First for many years
The first week of any service is never going to be perfect, after today's problems I suspect Stagecoach will have a much better idea of the difficulties with this service and will believe it can only get better as time goes on!
It might be something in how they operate differently - different depot locations, inter working/duty composition etc. Also, this is “back to work” week - first since the tolls were lifted.As it was a friendly transfer one would hope First would pass on what they've learned about the route and its operational difficulties to Stagecoach. Perhaps I'm over-optimistic though!