(22/09/2012 11:43)kuyoyo Wrote: [ -> ]Stands 1-8 on Stockton High Street will no-longer be in use from 1st October, effecting all Stockton areas services bar the 35 & 565. More details later.
(22/09/2012 21:12)kuyoyo Wrote: [ -> ] (22/09/2012 11:43)kuyoyo Wrote: [ -> ]Stands 1-8 on Stockton High Street will no-longer be in use from 1st October, effecting all Stockton areas services bar the 35 & 565. More details later.
I said more details later.
The closure of these stops is to do with the work on the High Street. From Monday, work starts on moving the bus stops from outside the Post Office to further over with the taxi rank moving in the other direction. The stops outside the Post Office are not affected for now, but as such the following changes are being made (more details will be included once the map and other stuff are on-line):
All services will use one of the 4 temporary stops being installed in the lay-by currently home to Stands 6-8. Stand 9 will also be used. Due to Stand 1 being closed, vehicles at the end of the day laying over will use the lay-by over the road outside the Shambles Market Hall, or alternatively the 'Coach' loading lay-by just after the High Street/Yarm Road/Bridge Road traffic lights.
Full details thanks to Stagecoach's website
No map included though.
A nightmare of a day with diversions on most Stockton area routes, and extra dupilcate workings on the 36. Other hightlights included:
16837 on one such 36 duplicate workings, intially to Park End but was cut back to terminate at Middlesbrough Bus Station due to it being required for Macmillans
24105 was used as a change-over on the 13
After being 35 minutes late on the 0847 37 from North Tees Hospital, 37-branded 22062 operated a 38
3 more B10BLE to have moved to Stockton for storage are 21136/9/46 (R236/9/46 KRG). There are a few others already in Flowers Storage Shed in addition to the previously reported 21102/47.
Diversion on service 59 may well become "temporarily permanent" - the official Stagecoach site seems to suggest that Browns Bridge has indeed been washed away in the floods. Therefore I reckon it could be a good few months before its back on normal route.
Busways 19161 working on the X47 service this evening. Don't think deckers are a common sight on this route, but expecting to be corrected!
(26/09/2012 22:30)N391OTY Wrote: [ -> ]Busways 19161 working on the X47 service this evening. Don't think deckers are a common sight on this route, but expecting to be corrected!
Not a common sight but been seen a few times before, indeed one was on there a few weeks ago.
(26/09/2012 20:06)tyresmoke Wrote: [ -> ]Diversion on service 59 may well become "temporarily permanent" - the official Stagecoach site seems to suggest that Browns Bridge has indeed been washed away in the floods. Therefore I reckon it could be a good few months before its back on normal route.
Indeed, from what I heard from a resident from that area, the bridge has gone so the 59s will most likely be diverted (most likely some other way that via Oxbridge Road, Grangfield and Grays Road).
More details on the Browns Bridge flood, the bridge itself hasn't been washed away, but the foundations have been, leaving the bridge in danger of collapse. Until the water goes down, we won't know exactly how long the 59 will be diverted for.
(27/09/2012 10:25)kuyoyo Wrote: [ -> ]More details on the Browns Bridge flood, the bridge itself hasn't been washed away, but the foundations have been, leaving the bridge in danger of collapse. Until the water goes down, we won't know exactly how long the 59 will be diverted for.
Had confirmation - all Teesside services are now back on normal route as of tonight with the reopening of Browns Bridge. Just a stroke of luck it happened before the work on Stockton High Street South End begins on Monday.
A total of 7 of the 10 Olympians out on local work today:
16831-3 all on 12/14/34
16835 on 52/58 as replacement for 22195 after that threw its belts (22195 later replaced 22469 on the 13 after one of the windows broke, and then almost got replaced at the depot after its nearside wing-mirror was broken by a strong blast of wind coming along Newport Road)
16838 was on 12/34
16839/40 were on 11
16834/6/7 appear to have been used on the Sunderland AFC Park & Ride services, none of the 3 were parked in the depot when I was sat outside on 22195 at 1250
21136 is the latest B10BLE to have arrived at Stockton for storage. 21137 is said to be here, already stored in Flowers.
(29/09/2012 17:25)kuyoyo Wrote: [ -> ]A total of 7 of the 10 Olympians out on local work today:
16831-3 all on 12/14/34
16835 on 52/58 as replacement for 22195 after that threw its belts (22195 later replaced 22469 on the 13 after one of the windows broke, and then almost got replaced at the depot after its nearside wing-mirror was broken by a strong blast of wind coming along Newport Road)
16838 was on 12/34
16839/40 were on 11
16834/6/7 appear to have been used on the Sunderland AFC Park & Ride services, none of the 3 were parked in the depot when I was sat outside on 22195 at 1250
21136 is the latest B10BLE to have arrived at Stockton for storage. 21137 is said to be here, already stored in Flowers.
BIB - Although I stated this last night, can I just say now that I can't remember what the exact reason was for the swap, I only heard it off the driver when he said, had 22195 been taken off the 13 at the depot, it would have been the second swap in less than half an hour. The reason for the wing-mirror being changed rather than 22195 being taken off was presumably due to the lack of serviceable vehicles in the yard, the only one there being 22471 (22668 had just left the yard prior to 22195 getting there).