Arriva North East

[kuyoyo]

RE: Arriva North East

(13/08/2013 23:21)N391OTY Wrote:  Arriva are currently operating the Metro replacement service 900 Haymarket to Four Lane Ends with vehicles hired in from Garnetts and TGM. They are also operating service 901 Haymarket to Airport using their own vehicles. So far I have seen the following in use -

900 Garnetts T693KPU, V173MEV, X288 NNO, Y359/361/508 NHK

900 TGM S236 JUA, T312/313/317/318/319/320 FGN, LJ58 GCF (and T421 GGO parked up spare at Regent Centre one day last week)

901 Arriva 7445/46/66-76/78-80, 7520, 7609/12

Of course there will have been other vehicles used as I have only seriously viewed these services on 4 days up to now.

The four Garnetts V and Y reg now have destination panels proclaiming 'Metro Rail Replacement 900' so I would expect them to be the regular performers from now on.

Service 900 requires 5 vehicles off-peak but another 5 turn out for the afternoon rush-hour. Service 901 appears to require 9 vehicles off-peak (not sure whether there are any extras). I think that some 900 turns in the evening are worked by Arriva as vehicles become spare off the day services. That certainly happened on Sunday when 7478 turned up at FLE on the 1920 departure, having taken over from T317 FGN.

These services are planned to finish on Friday 30 August.

901 requires 10 buses off-peak with 2 extras joining in at peak times. Officially, the vehicles allocated for the work are the newly refurbished DAFs apart from 7477.