Cannock Garage

[Tony]

Hmmmm maybe the x51 to cannock might pick up a few passengers...

Why don't nxwm set up a service to cannock all day?

Here we go again......

because the last one didn't make any money, which is also probably why Arriva cannot manage charging £2.30

Tony - who has actually just come home on an X51 to Cannock because a tree has fallen on the overhead lines by Walsall

[Bob]

Well im sure hiking the fare by over 50% is really going to tempt passengers and drive growth.....I mean why would anyone even consider usi g the train when they can pay more for a bus...interestingly there arent enough streetlites toaaccomodate a spare so we can expect to see darts etc on there should anything untoward happen. ..

[Bob]

And you still can't download timetables from the website or the sapphire website!  That looks really impressive!  Launching an improved service and short of turning up at a bloody bus stop and hoping theres a timetable on it you cant find out when the buses are running?  Im sure certain people will jump to their defence. ...

[Tony]

Hmmmm maybe the x51 to cannock might pick up a few passengers...

Why don't nxwm set up a service to cannock all day?

Here we go again......

because the last one didn't make any money, which is also probably why Arriva cannot manage charging £2.30

Tony - who has actually just come home on an X51 to Cannock because a tree has fallen on the overhead lines by Walsall

Here is my bus home, apart from the people I guided onto it from the cancelled train you could count on one hand the other passengers
http://wmbusphotos.com/NXWM/4475-4699/4528.html

[Cheese]

And you still can't download timetables from the website or the sapphire website!  That looks really impressive!  Launching an improved service and short of turning up at a bloody bus stop and hoping theres a timetable on it you cant find out when the buses are running?  Im sure certain people will jump to their defence. ...

2 minutes on Traveline will provide the updated timetables for the 1, 2/2A/2E.  And they can be downloaded as PDFs.  Shame Centro have also coded them onto Traveline as well, wish they wouldn't as they can't be trusted with any service once it leaves the Centro boundary...  Note that evening/Sunday journeys to Hednesford are numbered 2E and are separate on Traveline, they are there, just not on the same timetable.

All other Arriva service changes from this weekend in Staffs should be on Traveline also (25/26, 60, 825 - mostly changes to evening/Sunday journeys), I checked earlier today and the updated times for next week appeared correct.

[Bob]

Thanks. Its a pity we have to go to those lengths though! According to the network wm site there were "improved journey times between walsall & cannock" ill have to have a look

[Bob]

Oddly according to the timetable it takes 30mins inbound and 40 outbound? ????

[Bob]

The deckers are already starting to slip off the staffords. ..just seen on 3/4 full on the 74 leaving cannock ( proving theyre needed) & theres one on pye greens meaning therell be a pulsar or knowing cannock prob a mpd or cadet on the 74/5 somewhere. 

[covlad27]

http://www.arrivasapphire.co.uk/

Lists the bus fare as being 2.40 from cannock to walsall unchanges but 3.30 from huntington to walsall

[Bob]

That has changed from earlier in the week.  Not all of those fares were listed then

[covlad27]

They must of made a serious error

[Bob]

Looks like theyre having teething troubles with the deckers already one has been on pye greens again today (meaning a peak 74 will be run by a pulsar) & got taken off and driven back to garage by an engineer

[cannockanorak]

pye green branded VDL pulsar on rugeley rail replacement today

[Ck]

Route 2 still running on Walsall despite it suppose tobe 2e just seen a 74/75 branded on it thought it was sapphire branded

[andy]

Route 2 still running on Walsall despite it suppose tobe 2e just seen a 74/75 branded on it thought it was sapphire branded

Not til tomorrow.