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- 18:06 Saturday 27th July 2019
- Forum: DRM Bus
- Topic: End of the 420?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 24374
Re: End of the 420?
Looks like DRM are withdrawing most of their 420 journeys, if not all, between Worcester and Bromyard. The biggest surprise would be that they've lasted this long. Anecdotal experience over the last 30 years is that weekday daytimes are very lightly loaded (maybe 5 or so between Rushwick and Bromya...
- 18:51 Saturday 29th June 2019
- Forum: Fleet Discussion
- Topic: First Group to be split and sold off.
- Replies: 74
- Views: 104719
Re: First Group to be split and sold off.
Stagecoach and Virgin have been barred from making franchise bids on two counts. a) Failure to run the East Coast franchise at a profit mainly because of over enthusiastic predictions of increase in passenger numbers which never materialised, leading to heavy losses and inability to pay £2 Billion ...
- 23:55 Thursday 27th June 2019
- Forum: Fleet Discussion
- Topic: First Group to be split and sold off.
- Replies: 74
- Views: 104719
Re: First Group to be split and sold off.
If Worcester were to be cherry picked for advance sale - then in practice it would be to either Rotala or Stagecoach. Although geographically close by, it's not a natural fit to bolt on to NXWM, and then even with Stagecoach - it's either a distant output of United Counties, or Cheltenham & Glou...
- 09:15 Wednesday 26th June 2019
- Forum: Fleet Discussion
- Topic: First Group to be split and sold off.
- Replies: 74
- Views: 104719
Re: First Group to be split and sold off.
I think there are some parallels between FirstGroup and Brexit(!) in so far as investors are now so fed up they just want an ending, and there really isn’t much confidence that the board will be able to deliver. Yesterday, votes against the board ranged from 15% to 45%, including the three largest i...
- 09:05 Tuesday 25th June 2019
- Forum: Services, Routes and Timetables
- Topic: Worcestershire's future passenger transport
- Replies: 26
- Views: 36594
Re: Worcestershire's future passenger transport
In terms of population Gloucester is about 30% bigger. Where Worcester struggles is the fact that all routes start end or pass through Crowngate which strangles the routes, 2 ways in, one way out and built for mini buses. The lay out of the approach roads doesn't help as they are narrow with tight ...
- 22:27 Wednesday 22nd May 2019
- Forum: Fleet Discussion
- Topic: Double Deckers
- Replies: 54
- Views: 93966
Re: Double Deckers
If we're going down the route of speculation, should be noted that there should be at least some Bristol Geminis getting freed up before the end of the year. The cynic in me thinks these better fit the age profile of recent transfers in! (Personally, I think the older B9s run better)
- 20:05 Friday 17th May 2019
- Forum: Services, Routes and Timetables
- Topic: TRACKING !
- Replies: 32
- Views: 46293
Re: TRACKING !
Maybe not weird. Could be that Midland Classic’s machines have similar or consecutive serial numbers and just been misassigned/mistyped on bustimes. Pretty sure that First, and Midland Classic, will know exactly where all their buses are! (And doubt they refer to bustimes for that information!)
- 20:48 Tuesday 5th March 2019
- Forum: Services, Routes and Timetables
- Topic: New Forest Services
- Replies: 16
- Views: 45262
Re: New Forest Services
With the proposed changes to the 24 and 31 would be expecting the council to see efficiencies and cut the 713 and 746 by the end of the year. But that all might change now Stagecoach have the whole network again...
- 16:20 Friday 22nd February 2019
- Forum: DRM Bus
- Topic: Basking in the sun
- Replies: 0
- Views: 26180
Basking in the sun
Happened to come across a big pink ‘un this afternoon going slow enough that even I could get a photo...
- 18:04 Saturday 9th February 2019
- Forum: Services, Routes and Timetables
- Topic: Disabled and pensioner concessionary passes under threat
- Replies: 8
- Views: 11655
Re: Disabled and pensioner concessionary passes under threat
As a non-pensioner - my obersvation was that the leisure use significantly increased once it came in nationally. So, using a summer 420 as an example - Hereford council would be paying X amount for 40-odd “Brummie” pensioners (on a really busy day) to have a day out. They’d take up all of the fixed ...