Arriva North East

[Barney]

RE: Arriva North East
Thanks a lot for that information, Kuyoyo I don't know that part of the country too well, but I take it that each depot is going 'live' in turn. This will no doubt be apparent when the little grey icons turn green. As a matter of interest, which depots are in the Northumbria region?

[kuyoyo]

RE: Arriva North East

(05/01/2014 23:13)Barney Wrote:  Thanks a lot for that information, Kuyoyo I don't know that part of the country too well, but I take it that each depot is going 'live' in turn. This will no doubt be apparent when the little grey icons turn green. As a matter of interest, which depots are in the Northumbria region?

Arriva Durham County: Darlington, Durham, Redcar, Stockton, Whitby (effectively an outstation of Redcar but classed as a separate depot)
Arriva Northumbria: Ashington (with an outstation at Rothbury Motors in Alnwick), Blyth and Newcastle Jesmond

[kuyoyo]

RE: Arriva North East

(04/01/2014 21:03)kuyoyo Wrote:  Major Teesside network changes coming 16th February 2014, at the moment they aren't online but paper leaflets have revealed the following:

Stockton
5/5A/5B - completely revised...
5 - will run half hourly from Middlesbrough to Easington via current route, except missing Hollybush estate in Skelton, and one journey each per hour will divert via Liverton Mines or Skinningrove (replacing simplified X4)
5A - will run half hourly from Middlesbrough to Brotton via current route as far as Skelton and then will divert via Hollybush estate and the industrial estate to serve the new(ish) Skelton Asda, before following the bypass to Brotton, operating both ways through Brotton, with a new terminal loop (serving Kilton Lane, A174 and back to Green Tree)
5B - evening journeys re-numbered to service 5 but continue along same route as present, with changes to times
The Loftus to Whitby link will be provided by Redcar operated service 4

6 - no change at present (due to be changed end of March following withdrawal of council funding)

7 - peak timetable changes to run every 12 mins to give extra time, Sunday 7A withdrawn from Leven Road, Kirk Road and Green Lane, following the same loop of Willey Flatts as normal service 7. Will continue to serve Kingsmead.

9 - revised timetable but still keeping its 15 minute frequency, and faster journey times on a Sunday.

15 - few early journeys withdrawn and changes to times at peak times.

17/17A/17B - completely revised
17 - Middlesbrough to Ingleby Barwick/Yarm - half hourly following same route as current 17B then extended to Ingleby Barwick, one journey terminating at Sober Hall and one extending to Kingsmead via Yarm replacing current X6. Runs to Bassleton Court at peak times (when new X17 operates)
17A - changes to times to give extra running time
17B - effectively the current 'short 17' to Lockerbie Walk. Will run Mon-Fri only however.
X17 - same route as current X6 but peak time service only, 17 will cover Ingleby-Yarm-Kingsmead during the daytime.

21A - changes to times, last journey in each direction withdrawn.

27/27A - revised to run Middlesbrough to Netherfields only, still upto every 7/8 mins (cut to 10 mins on Sat), no through buses to Marton (replaced by new 29)

28 - revised to run every 20 mins to Nunthorpe, with hourly extensions to Lingdale. Will divert via Saltersgill estate (replacing service 30), but will then run direct up Marton Road (not serving Easterside or Marton Manor) to Southern Cross before serving Mallowdale enroute to Nunthorpe, instead of Eagle Park (which is covered by new 29A)

29/29A - revised to run every 20 mins to Southern Cross, splitting into 2 service 29s to Cypress Road (replacing 27A) and one 29A to Stokesley via Eagle Park (replacing 28), Nunthorpe village and Great Ayton.

30 - replaced by service 28 in Saltersgill

X6 - withdrawn, replaced by new peak X17 and daytime 17

Redcar
4 - completely withdrawn in its current form

22 - revised timetable during Mon-Sat daytime, evening buses will stay the same. Sunday 22A withdrawn and is replaced by new Sunday service X4. Service 22 will continue to operate hourly between Middlesbrough and New Marske as present.

63 - extra bus added to PVR to help aid reliability, revised timetable with some journeys finishing at Redcar High St at peak times, instead of the bus station

64/64A - revised timetable to give 4 64A's and 2 64s per hour, to an unchanged route

81/81A - revised timetable which will see the 'long' journeys to Stokesley operate as service 81A, via Green Lane estate in Redcar. 'Short' journeys numbered 81 will now terminate at Guisborough Market Place instead of Farndale Drive to aid reliability.

X3/X3A - revised route which will still run half hourly, from Middlesbrough to Saltburn, extending to Skelton via Hob Hill. X3 will then run Skelton Medical Centre and the High Street extending upto Lingdale (replacing withdrawn service 4). X3A will operate direct to Skelton High St via Coniston Road then via Hollybush estate to North Skelton, then via the bypass to Skelton Asda where it will terminate. Sunday buses will run every hour between Redcar and Lingdale as service 3.

X4 - Revised route and timetable which will see X4 run half hourly from Middlesbrough to Loftus, via Redcar and Saltburn (combined with X3/X3A to give a 15 min frequency), operating direct from Carlin How to Loftus, no longer serving Liverton Mines or Skinningrove (replaced by service 5). In Loftus buses will continue to Whitby as service 4 (replacing X5 on this section)

Some mistakes on this list:
The Stokesley 81s will remain as the 81 with the short running as 81As instead. The 81A will serve the Green Lane estate at the cost of Kirkleatham Village dropping to an hourly service.
The X17 will 8 AM runs into Middlesbrough from Ingleby Barwick (6 from Kingsmead) and 6 outbound (4 extending to Kingsmead). The Afternoon timetable is an odd frequency going 1625 1645 1700 1720 1735 1750

[kuyoyo]

RE: Arriva North East
Good news for residents in Hartburn and Stillington

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/lo...s/?ref=rss

[Barney]

RE: Arriva North East
Arriva Durham County: Darlington, Durham, Redcar, Stockton, Whitby (effectively an outstation of Redcar but classed as a separate depot)
Arriva Northumbria: Ashington (with an outstation at Rothbury Motors in Alnwick), Blyth and Newcastle Jesmond
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I checked my Arriva app before and it seems that most of ANE's routes are now giving real-time information. Are all of the depots in the region now 'live'? If so, it will be interesting to see which region is next. My guess is that Arriva Yorkshire will be as First Leeds already provide real-time information.

Also, has there been anything in the local media publicising this innovation? Over to you, Kuyoyo.

[kuyoyo]

RE: Arriva North East

(21/01/2014 17:50)Barney Wrote:  I checked my Arriva app before and it seems that most of ANE's routes are now giving real-time information. Are all of the depots in the region now 'live'? If so, it will be interesting to see which region is next. My guess is that Arriva Yorkshire will be as First Leeds already provide real-time information.

Also, has there been anything in the local media publicising this innovation? Over to you, Kuyoyo.

All the depots are indeed live but there are minor problems with certain vehicles not being tracked however these are being sorted.

As for local media advising, it is currently being pushed in local radio while there's also posters up in bus stops such as 'We can't tell you why Dads can't dance. But we can tell you when the bus is due' as well as one about aliens, one on dinosaurs and one on the Lottery.

[kuyoyo]

RE: Arriva North East
Onto another subject, as previously mentioned, the 'Fresh' branded Pulsars are all due to lose their branding as part of the new Teesside network from the 16th February, as the 29/29a will no longer be Pulsar-worked and nor will the 27, and as I understand it, the 9 and 27a will be interwork using the Pulsars. However, after the work completed on 1451/2, and the removal of the number off 1450, the work has been halted for two reasons:

1: Stockton's bodywork team are busy helping with MOTs
2: Jesmond are reportedly too busy to do it, something about repainting Darts

So chances are, from the 17th February, the chance of a 27-branded Pulsar on the 9 or a 9 branded one on the 27a (or one of either on 21a or 29 as I understand one 9/27a board will work the first 21a from Peterlee) will increase.

[kuyoyo]

RE: Arriva North East
Further Stockton Pulsars debranded are 1441/2/3 and 1445. The remaining 6 27-branded examples are due to be completed in the next two weeks.

Currently on-loan to Whitby for trials on the X93 is Blyth's X10/X11 branded Gemini 7624.
   

[kuyoyo]

RE: Arriva North East
As they have been posted elsewhere (credit to tyresmoke), this is the order list for this year:

10 VDL Pulsar - Stockton -Service 5/5A (Sapphire spec)
14 VDL Pulsar - Redcar/Whitby - Service X3/X4/4 (Sapphire spec)
8 VDL Pulsar - Jesmond - Service 306
5 VDL Pulsar - Darlington - Service 1/5 (these may be diverted to Durham for the 23)
6 ADL Enviro 400 - Ashington - Service X21/X22 (Sapphire spec)
6 unknown double deck -Ashington/Alnwick -Service X18

In addition, older Enviro400s (assumed to be 7514-21) will be refurbished to Sapphire specification for the X21/X22.

[Metroline1511]

RE: Arriva North East
It is saying something that quite a few buses on order will be to Sapphire spec. I may prefer an alternative route to route 7 for Pulsars. In a way, route 5 felt "semi-Sapphire" last Spring while it still had the leather-seated OmniCities!