Arriva North West - St Helens Depot

[St Helens Rider]

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(25/01/2013 22:04)bolton bus basher Wrote:  all st helens services suspended for the night

Not surprised given the current weather conditions.

[motormayhem]

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Ive got 718 out on the 360 shorts,beats them cold darts any day.

[T42 PVM (Moderator)]

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apart from its speed its crap like the rest of the solo SRs in my opinion :P

[motormayhem]

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So long as its warm and not faulty i couldnt give a dam what people think lol :p

[CX54 DKD (Moderator)]

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Not all of the SRs have, seemingly, had their power output reduced. Still a number of them that are particularly nippy in getting up to speed. I forget which it was but there was one on 356 lates this week just gone and there was certainly no speed issues at all with that and it flew up Crank hill.

[Bevan Price]

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(26/01/2013 15:02)motormayhem Wrote:  Ive got 718 out on the 360 shorts,beats them cold darts any day.

It must have replaced a Dart sometime during the day - it wasn't on the 360 in mid-morning.
Do they send an empty bus from St. Helens to Wigan, Golborne or Warrington to do driver changes on the 360 uring the day ??

There was also a SR on the 320 Ashton shorts this morning (xx45 from St. Helens).

[Metroline1511]

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With these Solo SRs on route 320 lately, I'd quite like to ride one from St Helens to Wigan next Saturday. I'd also like route 34 to be a Marshall or a refurbished Pointer. I rode an MTL-moquetted Pointer on route 34 in 2010 in place of then regular ex-North Western Scania single-deckers.

[motormayhem]

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718 replaced 2493 at 13:30 just as i was taking over as the wheel arch got ripped off by the snow in the bus stops.

[motormayhem]

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The driver change overs we take company vans to wigan bus stn and do them there.

[T42 PVM (Moderator)]

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(26/01/2013 21:11)Metroline1511 Wrote:  With these Solo SRs on route 320 lately, I'd quite like to ride one from St Helens to Wigan next Saturday. I'd also like route 34 to be a Marshall or a refurbished Pointer. I rode an MTL-moquetted Pointer on route 34 in 2010 in place of then regular ex-North Western Scania single-deckers.

solo SR (as far as am aware) has never made it onto a 320 long the 34 mins past from st helens is a short, the only referbed pointer dart at st helens is 2324 and that really is the pride of our darts 10 out of 10