Looking again, a bus arrives at Corporation Street and seems to wait. It then leaves, then 10 minutes later, leaves the Victoria Street stop. So, if we assume the bus will take 3 minutes between those stops, it will still wait at the latter stop for another 7 minutes.
Do they look to be a similar spec to the ones delivered last year ie tinted windows etc?
So are these 'Kinchbus Spare' or is this the new Skylink livery?
1 onto TheCotgrave to replace 143?
They have Skylink vinyls on the front, albeit in a different typeface.
Presumably a new livery similar to the skylink express which is grey with a blue rear so this would be yellow with blue.
As Kinch still seems desperately short of reliable vehicles, it could really do with hanging on to 3 or 4 of any ex-Skylink vehicles going.
Sorry - pressed 'post reply' in error... The town services continue to be plagued by missing journeys. Versa 831 failed yesterday on 12, and 801 seems to have been playing up today on 11. With DRT and Sprint seen as priorities, there are in effect no 'spares' as such currently. DRT 1031 has been out of action for 6 weeks, and ominously its partner 1030 is also off-road for the past 2 days. Long periods of inaction have happened before with the DRT vehicles. Does anyone know what the problem is? 1031 has been at Derby, for some reason for the whole of May.
Can't say I've seen 1031 around Meadow Road. Maybe it is at Mertrux.
Sixes would use 10 out of 12 so is probably the most likely scenario. Either that or my15 but apparently my15 has new buses on order too?
But does My15 really have any new buses on order?
Who knows, that was the rumour alongside skylink derby having new ones on order so likely to be true but only time will tell
No, only skylink derby, kinch ev's and red arrow have an order atm. Thats where all this years investments has gone.
I don’t believe so as the investments for this year are quite large. You need to keep in mind that the my15 is a subsidised service these days and for that reason I think it would be unlikely to see brand new busses unless it did become a profitable route. Most likely it will see cascaded busses from elsewhere in the coming years.
I did always think the idea of it getting Evoras was a bit far fetched
Is not a particularly strenuous route either that’s why the versas have seemed to mostly cope over the last 14 years apart from when they’re doing versa things. Evoras are quite heavy duty so I thought that it was pretty unlikely from the start.
Absolutely nothing of the sort has been confirmed to suggest that - but maybe next year.
Versa things
https://www.facebook.com/groups/psvcircle/permalink/24278118685113013/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v
Could be wrong here but isn't it only subsided from sawley to eastmidlands every1h meaning the every 15min frequency from ilkeston to sawley must be somewhat profitable so ye although don't see them getting new buses this year and agree its unlikely soon don't think it's impossible to have new buses on it even if its next yr or the yr after and not just cascades.
I'm guessing the blue like on the rears of kinch livery buses is on skylinks to make it better known its a kinch not TB route and if so does this mean TB skylinks when replaces will have something on it to mark it as a TB route? Because seems odd ti me that they would change it from yellow with curved backs that are aligned with the planes on the side unless they marking it as kinchbus as its near enough or is the same yellow and blue also this may allow buses from other routes and this route to go between the 2 better even if it has skylink written on the side.
I did wonder if they've been painted like this and when branded it would come down sort of swooping between the wheels.
Id assume so since its pretty standard from very early on for sunlights to be on the vehicle
Just remember that on the front the logos have less effort put in, as they are built to light up when the driver turns the normal external lights on, so they probably need to be simple with as little detail as possible. I'm guessing the logos on the sides and the rear of each vehicle will be much more detailed, as vinyls have not yet been applied.
Today, the following tracked on the 19
19 is running to schedule it’s likely because the route swaps vehicles a few times a day. Unfortunately it does seem to run very thin in terms of passengers carried from what I’ve seen. I wouldn’t call any of the new Spondon routes successful they all seem empty. 19 is only a village loop in the middle of the day and 20/21 takes twice the amount of time as the flyer to get to town and the flyers are every 10mins now. I think the solution to the Spondon bus would be to reinstate the Spondon flyer but it to be altered to go via wyvern and derby train station even on an every half an hour frequency. Three new routes that don’t go where people want them to isn’t really a viable long term solution especially with how Chad and Oakwood residents feel about the cuts to their services. I can see all three routes being pulled when the funding runs out.
I think the term versa things encompasses everything from a Christmas tree dashboard to your internal combustion engine becoming an external combustion engine.
