Saltburn Circular

[Lollist]

Anyone know any Information about the new Saltburn Circular?

[NEbushopper]

Anyone know any Information about the new Saltburn Circular?

Where did this news come from?
found nowt online. info realesed soon?

[Lollist]

Imparenlty they won a contract acording to a spotter and another person on here and they have been brining vehicles down there

[Kuyoyo]

With the extension of Tees Flex, the contract has been cancelled - it was only due to start with Flex ending.

[Lollist]

I dont see the point in teesflex its easier opening up new routes

[tyresmoke]

They did test the route with Enviro 200 36466, but as Kuyoyoyoyoyoyoyo says the 18 month extension to Flex will see it cancelled.
It was due to run from Loftus to Saltburn via two different routes.




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[col87]

I dont see the point in teesflex its easier opening up new routes

It’s nothing more than a vanity project for Ben.

[Lottie332]

They did test the route with Enviro 200 36466, but as Kuyoyoyoyoyoyoyo says the 18 month extension to Flex will see it cancelled.
It was due to run from Loftus to Saltburn via two different routes.




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36094 also got tested on it a few weeks back

[tvd]

It's not been cancelled, and is starting Monday 27 th March. Timetables out now, connecting the East Cleveland villages with Skelton Asda and Saltburn.

A Stagecoach bus was in Loftus today with a few drivers on board, presumably route learning (looking a bit lost at bank top with hazards on, before pulling away)

Buses numbered 1 and 2, operating clockwise and anticlockwise routes between Loftus and Saltburn. Serving Liverton Mines, Liverton, Moorsholm, Stanghow, Lingdale, Skelton ASDA, East Cleveland hospital, Skelton and Saltburn. Going via Skinningrove and Carlin how the other way.

[Lollist]

Will they aqquire more buses then?

[toward6931]

Will they aqquire more buses then?

Hopefully when the new E400 MMCs start getting delivered throughout the country walkergate will acquire more decker's to regain the ones they lost, before ousting the 2007/2008 E400s earmarked for replacement by the 11 new ones.

i think you could easily lose around 4 E200s and 5 E300s from walkergate if they get replaced by double decker's, slatyford could use the E300s in place of the E200s that seem to get allocated randomly, depending on how many buses they need for any contract services that were rumored to bidding for that should leave some spare for salt burn circular

[Lottie332]

It's not been cancelled, and is starting Monday 27 th March.  Timetables out now, connecting the East Cleveland villages with Skelton Asda and Saltburn.

A Stagecoach bus was in Loftus today with a few drivers on board, presumably route learning  (looking a bit lost at bank top with hazards on, before pulling away)

Buses numbered 1 and 2, operating clockwise and anticlockwise routes between Loftus and Saltburn.  Serving Liverton Mines, Liverton, Moorsholm, Stanghow, Lingdale, Skelton ASDA, East Cleveland hospital, Skelton and Saltburn.  Going via Skinningrove and Carlin how the other way.

That would've been 27246-SN65OCG that u probs saw. Seen it in Stockton town at aprox. 12:38 yesterday afternoon before proceeding light to East Cleveland

[NEbushopper]

It's not been cancelled, and is starting Monday 27 th March. Timetables out now, connecting the East Cleveland villages with Skelton Asda and Saltburn.

A Stagecoach bus was in Loftus today with a few drivers on board, presumably route learning (looking a bit lost at bank top with hazards on, before pulling away)

Buses numbered 1 and 2, operating clockwise and anticlockwise routes between Loftus and Saltburn. Serving Liverton Mines, Liverton, Moorsholm, Stanghow, Lingdale, Skelton ASDA, East Cleveland hospital, Skelton and Saltburn. Going via Skinningrove and Carlin how the other way.

Does anyone know where you can find the timetable?

[Jimmi]

Does anyone know where you can find the timetable?

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[Lollist]

It is a good Idea but I think It should go to Stockton as well because its well away from the rest of the stagecoach network

[Lottie332]

It is a good Idea but I think It should go to Stockton as well because its well away from the rest of the stagecoach network

It is going to Stockton

[Lollist]

I was making a suggestion

[Kuyoyo]

Will they aqquire more buses then?

Understand 3 E200s will move from Hartlepool to Stockton to operate the 1/2.

It is a good Idea but I think It should go to Stockton as well because its well away from the rest of the stagecoach network

It's a tendered service funded by the Tees Valley CA and tendered on their behalf by Redcar and Cleveland Council, as an eventual replacement for Flex within the East Cleveland area. It's not planned to be part of the Stagecoach network, but certainly part of the overall Tees Valley Bus network.

Hopefully when the new E400 MMCs start getting delivered throughout the country walkergate will acquire more decker's to regain the ones they lost, before ousting the 2007/2008 E400s earmarked for replacement by the 11 new ones.

i think you could easily lose around 4 E200s and 5 E300s from walkergate if they get replaced by double decker's, slatyford could use the E300s in place of the E200s that seem to get allocated randomly, depending on how many buses they need for any contract services that were rumored to bidding for that should leave some spare for salt burn circular

How many times - Walkergate need those E200s for the 317, it just happens that to give enough spare cover you need more than the PVR (7 for 5) and at the end of the day, most customers would rather any size bus turns up rather than no bus turning up because the only spare isn't suitable (or the wrong brand - see the many complains in the past with Trent Barton and then Transdev, mainly during the tenue of a certain seemingly disgraced MD of both companies.....). Likewise, Slatyford need the E200s for the 32/32A/35 - and a quick look on Bus Times confirms the active examples are all on 32/32A or 35 (although the one on 35s is the one on-loan from South Shields).
You only have to look at Carlisle's recent use of an E200 on the 685 and their attitude to that - their 37034-7 are Euro6 so if they end up with issues with their E400MMCs or their 3 Euro6 E300s (given they do now seem hesitant to send any of their Euro6 MAN E300s on long 685s anymore after 22879 broke down at Corbridge), they are the only vehicles that can be used without a £50 fine. End of the day, a bus is a bus and the majority of passengers would rather a bus turn up than no bus at all.

[Lollist]

So will stockton give three buses in return

[Lottie332]

So will stockton give three buses in return

they were supposed to be getting E300s however they supposedly to be too big for the pits at hpool