Arriva North West - Birkenhead Depot

[iMarkeh]

RE: Arriva North West - Birkenhead Depot

(13/12/2020 17:13)L401CJF Wrote:  Allocations office as in duty allocation - its where the chap who does all the shifts and holidays etc works- he is also working the Woodside desk so to speak, ie checking those due to book on there are there etc.

Woodside is a base where a number of duties book on and book off there. Drivers who are on a shift on either the 409,410,411,413,414,464,487 will either report to or sign off at Woodside as well as take their meal break there. All reliefs at Woodside are done in either the bus park or woodside bus station with the exception of the 464/487 who shunt in a van to Hamilton St.

It is a pain at the moment as there are no shifts that book on and finish at woodside, but rather you sign on at laird st in the morning and take the bus out then finish at woodside, or you may book on at woodside in the afternoon and run the bus into Laird St at the end of the day, so you have to work out where to park your car -if you have time to take it to laird st or vice versa on your break etc.

Worth mentioning woodside canteen isn't open weekends , and didn't open during the lockdown period so proved it could be avoided successfully.

As far as I know no service changes, I assume all 410s will have the driver change on Duke St instead.

Thank you for that information. Very interesting.

I can certainly see the issue with booking on in one place and signing off somewhere else. That can't be good for drivers trying to work out where to park their car.

As for service changes, I would have thought possible they may have opted to do some small changes to then interwork services so that they could reduce the amount of shunt vehicles needed (Drop Woodside on the 409 then interwork it with the 418 so then drivers change outside the depot for example).

413/414/464/487 I presume will end up changing over at the back of the Pyramids the same as Stagecoach does on the 471/2