Stagecoach Cumbria & North Lancashire

[enrag2000]

RE: Stagecoach Cumbria & North Lancashire

(07/09/2014 17:39)bkp550 Wrote:  It seems that Arriva are not using Carlisle Bus Station for the 185 and 685 services at the moment. Is there some dispute with Stagecoach? Not sure if this is connected with Arriva working on some 185 duties. Yesterday an Arriva bus working a 185 to Haltwhistle, which departed from the sweet shop outside the bus station at 1:20pm, was only a few minutes in front of a Telford's vehicle on the same service. The Arriva driver left his vehicle to get the passengers from the stand and the Telford's vehicle consequently left empty.

The problem is that the 185 at 1320 is a new service and the usual stand for the 685 (stand 5) is occupied by the incoming 179/outgoing 79 at that time; the adjacent stands are also in use. Arriva are still using stand 5 for the usual 685 journeys.

The Telford's vehicle you saw would have been the incoming 185 service which then departs light - presumably back to Newcastleton on a non-schoolday, it does a Brampton school run on schooldays.

Having said that, I suppose Stagecoach management will not be too happy that these 185 journeys now operate along the main road through Warwick Bridge instead of Crosby on Eden as previously.