(01 Aug 2023, 8:40 pm)Storx wrote In fairness they're rarely on there. Hasn't been all 3 since last Wednesday.
(02 Aug 2023, 6:02 pm)peter wrote 2861 has been on the 58 everyday since July 15th, 2834 and 2857 seem to have been escaping onto the 56 recently which is still a fair trek, regardless they're seemingly much more reliable than Ashington's examples.
(02 Aug 2023, 6:31 pm)Storx wrote In fairness Durham is the outlier here, they were only shipped out of Darlington as the local MP was sick of the reliability problems there, they're awful at Ashington and they're even worse at Whitby where there's 1/5 for a PVR of 2 on the road today and that stopped tracking at 9.20am so could very likely be joining the other 4.
Not to mention the Enviro 200's have been filling in for them for ages now, when they used to be used more. They're shot and need removing asap imo.
Mind it'll be interesting if they go to the scrapyard or end up going to Arriva's dumping ground of Kent / Essex to see off 19 year old MPD's down there.
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(02 Aug 2023, 7:52 pm)tyresmoke wrote 2860 lasted all of 10 mins on the 96 this morning and it hasn’t ran for the rest of the day… after yesterday’s half day that’s pretty bad. It would seem Redcar are down to 0/4 working Solos now…
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(02 Aug 2023, 9:27 pm)Storx wrote Wasn't sure whether that actually broke down or was a tracking error. Must say GCT get slated for not running services but the 95/96 are barely useable lately with cancellations almost daily. Appears the 96 just hasn't ran at all today.
Haven't they got 5 Solo's though? 2860 / 2862 / 2863 / 2866 / 2870? Unsure on the state of 2862 as it's been VOR for weeks now.
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(02 Aug 2023, 10:29 pm)tyresmoke wrote The 96 being a contract makes it worse… the 95 is at least commercial but you can get a big bus round 95% of that.
2862 is withdrawn along with 2871. That leaves them with 60, 63, 66 and 70 for two boards… and they can’t even manage that
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(02 Aug 2023, 10:45 pm)Storx wrote It's poor mind I must say, I know I go on about the Solo's, a lot, but they really need to bite the bullet and invest in something that can actually do the services. What, I don't know, but they're not fit for purpose it's not as if they need that many to get the remaining lot out excluding 2601 - 2603.
Ashington (5) - 57/57A + Spare
Durham (4) - 58 + Spare (Could even upgrade to full size bus?)
Whitby (3) - 95/96 + Spare
Darlington (2?) - Replace remaining Solo's
I'm sure the lads down in Tunbridge Wells will be over the moon to have another journey down in some of them, they must've been gutted when they got up here and found out what they were in for
Even GCT can manage to get a nice fleet of Enviro 200 MMC's and excluding the 57/57A and 95 it's all contract work so arguably no different.
(03 Aug 2023, 8:06 am)Ryland wrote 2863 has made it to Whitby for the 95. Still nothing active for the 96. They're must be some minibuses around that Redcar/whitby could use for the interim. Couldn't they even hire one from coast and country since they share a depot
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(09 Aug 2023, 8:23 pm)Ryland wrote According to bus time 2834 has now been withdrawn
(10 Aug 2023, 7:27 pm)peter wrote As has 2866 supposedly, leaving just 7 Solo's with Durham County
-2841/58 at Darlington
-2857/61 at Durham
-2860 at Redcar
-2863/70 at Whitby
Would imagine the ones at Darlington and Durham will go by September with the 52/53/54 loss.
(21 Aug 2023, 5:32 pm)RobinHood wrote Not withdrawn. Had chassis repair, will be back in service soon.
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(25 Sep 2023, 11:27 am)9920up wrote I'm guessing Streetlite 1593 is not withdrawn. But does anyone know where it is and what's up with it? Seems to have been VOR since 7.3.23. Perhaps it's a Christmas Tree?
(06 Dec 2023, 7:11 pm)9920up wrote Long withdrawn Solos 2865/68/69 have now been removed from the yardzat Darlington, presumably to scrap. All 14 gas buses remain stored there though awaiting their fate.
(25 May 2024, 8:19 pm)Storx wrote I suppose this kind of fits in here but I might be missing some buses in the fleet but why was 1776 - 1797 skipped with the MPD's. Something in the back of my head says something was allocated but they never went into service but can't remember what they were.
I know there was the B6's from Glasgow that never got into service but don't believe it was them.
(25 May 2024, 8:48 pm)Kuyoyo wrote 1776-89 were used by step-entry Darts in the Scotland West fleet when their fleet was renumbered into a join system with ANE. 1790-2 were used for the 3 MPDs delivered in early 2006 to Hexham (90/1) and Jesmond (92). 1793-9 were used for the Mini Darts which joined the fleet from First Stop Travel - 1795/6 were the two ALX200s, the rest were all MPDs.