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(10/12/2015 19:49)Valandil Wrote: [ -> ]Yeah, tbh it's hard to resolve, but the 7 and 110 aren't co-ordinated very well between Penketh and Warrington, meaning that one of the 7's per hour does very well on this stretch, but the other does not (though that is making the wildly unrealistic assumption of working to the timetable!)

Tbh, when I'm travelling into Liverpool, I often don't catch the 7 anyway.
E.g. today I was waiting for the 7, but it looked like it wasn't showing up, so rather than wait another 30 mins in the rain, I got on the 110 which came along instead (at which point the 7 promptly arrived of course), with the intention of transferring onto the X1 at Runcorn.
(As it happens, that didn't show up either -- I actually ended up getting the 79C, which was then diverted, meaning that so overall it took about 3hrs to get into Liverpool).

Quicker by train!

(11/12/2015 07:30)childwallblues Wrote: [ -> ]Quicker by train!

True but do people want to spend an extra £4.20 for an Arriva/Stagecoach dayrider? Or just the £5.20 for an Arriva dayrider

There appears to be a on going police incident involving the 7 this evening on South Lane in between Cronton and Warrington. The bus was surrounded by blue light vehicles and the road was closed, unsure if it had crashed or if the bus was properly involved.

2345 now parked at the front of the depot obviously with Nfs in the window, wonder what they plan to do with it.

(11/12/2015 18:21)MPTE1955 Wrote: [ -> ]2345 now parked at the front of the depot obviously with Nfs in the window, wonder what they plan to do with it.

How has it survived so long in the North West and Wales fleet? Its about a year now isn't it since Green Lane withdrew its last saw another V reg dart

(11/12/2015 18:21)MPTE1955 Wrote: [ -> ]2345 now parked at the front of the depot obviously with Nfs in the window, wonder what they plan to do with it.

Yeah it was parked at the front of the depot a couple of weeks ago as well. It will be interesting to see what the future has in store for it

(11/12/2015 19:08)RedPanda Wrote: [ -> ]How has it survived so long in the North West and Wales fleet? Its about a year now isn't it since Green Lane withdrew its last saw another V reg dart

It was withdrawn in May (it was the last Dart in service at Green Lane) so only about six months ago. The reason it has lasted so long is because Green Lane depot was short of vehicles at the time (early January) and the recently withdrawn 2345 had nearly a year remaining on its MoT. It was reinstated and mainly used on the 68 because of its age and lower capacity compared to the rest of the fleet at Green Lane at the time. For me 2345 was the best Dart Green Lane has ever operated - second only to 7537

2345 was used as this year's "battle bus" as well

I would expect 2345 to be Scrapped along with all the other Darts with Arriva North West

Nice to see 4594, 4661 and 4678 on the 14 today. 4672 was on there yesterday

(30/12/2015 17:08)SL64 JDZ Wrote: [ -> ]Nice to see 4594, 4661 and 4678 on the 14 today. 4672 was on there yesterday

Not unusual to have deckers on the 14 these days.

(30/12/2015 20:19)childwallblues Wrote: [ -> ]Not unusual to have deckers on the 14 these days.

It would say that it is definitely unusual when there's three Arriva double deckers on the 14 all at the same time. Even on Saturdays (the Saturday timetable was in operation today) I've personally never seen more than two Enviro400s on there all at the same time. The only days there are more is on a Sunday or Bank Holiday when there are more spare deckers available for other Green Lane routes