Diamond Bus - Discussion

[vinh1000]

Anyone know were the 108 peaks come from? Or are they from the garage

dont they change to the 53 after doing the 108?

[Nathan4775]

Vinh1000 Is that were the evening peaks come from ? Or do the evenings come from Solihull routes ? Only ask becuase the evenings happen to be ran using Signature buses

[PM]

I wonder what buses diamond will be using on the emergency tenders. I would have thought that diamond can't actually have that many spare buses floating around as tividale are borrowing off long acre for a start and in this month's fleet changes a lot of buses are moving out of long acre which is presumably where the VIP routes will be run from. Maybe some of these changes will be postponed until when the contracts are let permanently. Does anyone know how long they will be running the emergency contracts for?

[winston]

I wonder what buses diamond will be using on the emergency tenders. I would have thought that diamond can't actually have that many spare buses floating around as tividale are borrowing off long acre for a start and in this month's fleet changes a lot of buses are moving out of long acre which is presumably where the VIP routes will be run from. Maybe some of these changes will be postponed until when the contracts are let permanently. Does anyone know how long they will be running the emergency contracts for?

In the recent Centro tender changes didn't Diamond win some new routes but lost more existing work than they gained, therefore there should be spare buses knocking around

[PM]

I wonder what buses diamond will be using on the emergency tenders. I would have thought that diamond can't actually have that many spare buses floating around as tividale are borrowing off long acre for a start and in this month's fleet changes a lot of buses are moving out of long acre which is presumably where the VIP routes will be run from. Maybe some of these changes will be postponed until when the contracts are let permanently. Does anyone know how long they will be running the emergency contracts for?

In the recent Centro tender changes didn't Diamond win some new routes but lost more existing work than they gained, therefore there should be spare buses knocking around

But it seems overall that 4 buses have been lost from long acre. Though don't know how many actual buses work the VIP stuff will be as some like the 99 is evening and night stuff so say tividale could run that using 002 centros or something else cheaper thats free so that doesnt really count as I'm sure diamond have plenty of buses floating about on evenings and sundays. Daytime work could be more of a squeeze though.

[PM]

Following on from Nitromatt's post in the bugs and errors thread, what is 30929 like to ride on as someone told me it was horrid so intrigued to hear if thats true or not. Think it was VOR a while though but guess it makes sense to have it there as a euro compliant bus

[Matt.N0056]

I wonder what buses diamond will be using on the emergency tenders. I would have thought that diamond can't actually have that many spare buses floating around as tividale are borrowing off long acre for a start and in this month's fleet changes a lot of buses are moving out of long acre which is presumably where the VIP routes will be run from. Maybe some of these changes will be postponed until when the contracts are let permanently. Does anyone know how long they will be running the emergency contracts for?

In the recent Centro tender changes didn't Diamond win some new routes but lost more existing work than they gained, therefore there should be spare buses knocking around

But it seems overall that 4 buses have been lost from long acre. Though don't know how many actual buses work the VIP stuff will be as some like the 99 is evening and night stuff so say tividale could run that using 002 centros or something else cheaper thats free so that doesnt really count as I'm sure diamond have plenty of buses floating about on evenings and sundays. Daytime work could be more of a squeeze though.

Isn't the daytime just 424/650 i.e 3 buses work? So shouldn't be too much of a squeeze

[winston]

I wonder what buses diamond will be using on the emergency tenders. I would have thought that diamond can't actually have that many spare buses floating around as tividale are borrowing off long acre for a start and in this month's fleet changes a lot of buses are moving out of long acre which is presumably where the VIP routes will be run from. Maybe some of these changes will be postponed until when the contracts are let permanently. Does anyone know how long they will be running the emergency contracts for?

In the recent Centro tender changes didn't Diamond win some new routes but lost more existing work than they gained, therefore there should be spare buses knocking around

But it seems overall that 4 buses have been lost from long acre. Though don't know how many actual buses work the VIP stuff will be as some like the 99 is evening and night stuff so say tividale could run that using 002 centros or something else cheaper thats free so that doesnt really count as I'm sure diamond have plenty of buses floating about on evenings and sundays. Daytime work could be more of a squeeze though.

I think the 2 daytime VIP tenders won by Diamond are the 424 & 650, these are both hourly services and appear to require 2 buses & 1 bus respectively

[PM]

Oh right, maybe I overestimated a bit then. Guess daytime stuff is going to be all long acre then for certain and 3 buses isn't stretching it too much. I wonder if tividale will run the 99 at night/sundays as the 99 goes fairly close to both depots and doesn't tividale currently run more nighttime services

[nitromatt1]

Following on from Nitromatt's post in the bugs and errors thread, what is 30929 like to ride on as someone told me it was horrid so intrigued to hear if thats true or not. Think it was VOR a while though but guess it makes sense to have it there as a euro compliant bus

Nothing wrong with it at all, felt quite fast and sounded fine

[Nathan4775]

Two 119's left sutton just 30923 was one an a Dart, both displaying 119  thought it was ran using 1 bus

[PM]

Following on from Nitromatt's post in the bugs and errors thread, what is 30929 like to ride on as someone told me it was horrid so intrigued to hear if thats true or not. Think it was VOR a while though but guess it makes sense to have it there as a euro compliant bus

Nothing wrong with it at all, felt quite fast and sounded fine

That's good-must try and get a ride on that one

[Lukeee]

Anyone know were the 108 peaks come from? Or are they from the garage

Think one may come from the 600 on the evening.

[Kevin_Brum12]

Oh right, maybe I overestimated a bit then. Guess daytime stuff is going to be all long acre then for certain and 3 buses isn't stretching it too much. I wonder if tividale will run the 99 at night/sundays as the 99 goes fairly close to both depots and doesn't tividale currently run more nighttime services

Thinking logically, some of the Diamond Routes thin out in the evening or stop operating.  The 99 would suit a Dart or Solo so probably a couple of buses on the 16 or 50 of an evening could terminate in town then do the diagrams from city rather than trundling back to Long Acre (assumng there is enough fuel in the tank).

Sunday Diamond have plenty of buses spare so I think there will enough to meet the additional commitments.

[Martin]

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