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bustimes.org have deleted 20612 from the Worcester fleet list and it's now showing on their national First fleet list as allocated to Great Yarmouth depot.

It is still at Padmore Street as I type, but presumably soon to depart.

Therefore I guess that our service S55 has been discontinued (?) and so we will not need any seat-belted vehicles (?)

..... EXCEPT that today it's back on the Worcester list of bustimes.org !!!

The registration for the S55 school service has been cancelled

Reddibus wrote: ↑

22:52 Tuesday 15th August 2023

The registration for the S55 school service has been cancelled

Thanks Reddibus !

I don't think that Great Yarmouth have had a coach allocated for some time .

ANDREW wrote: ↑

16:17 Wednesday 16th August 2023

I don't think that Great Yarmouth have had a coach allocated for some time .

But they do now - usual if Bustimes is correct get out clause - as 20612 is out on service this morning on route 6.

This is getting confusing as 20612 is definitely still in 'the corner' at Padmore Street. Just to add to the mix , 20611 is reported as in service with Lakeside of Ellesmere. And also on the patch earlier were 35152 and 35170.

Right ,I should have checked the www.eastnorfolkbus.blogspot.com earlier - FEC at Gt.Yarmouth WERE going to acquire two coaches for a workers contract ,one of which WAS 20612 but this did not go ahead. So all we need to know now is which vehicle is running around Gt.Yarmouth pretending to be 20612. Time for a lie down I think . . . . . .

LK07CDF was seen being driven heading north on the M5\J5 around 13.50 today.

The problem is Bus Times takes the timetable feed from data supplied by the Bus operator links it to freely available tracking data operators have to make available to drive such things as real time information and then links it to a database of vehicles they keep for each operator;.

As it says on the Bus Times website the the fleet lists are not always complete. The issue is anyone can have a login to change vehicle data and in fact the system only works if this happens. Unfortunately some of the data changes are either a little premature or based on wrong observations/assumptions.

The other issue is bus operators themselves don't always make certain the data coming from the ticket machine which in the main provides the tracking is correct. Someone at Great Yarmouth depot had obviously set a ticket machine up with 20612 details and have ended up putting this ticket machine on another vehicle