Cannock Garage

[Kevin]

Spent a while in Cannock yesterday (74 from Stafford, half hour or so in the Podge & Tin looking out the window and a round trip on the Pye Green circle)...  Didn't see a single bus wrongly allocated... Just saying.

[Tony]

Spent a while in Cannock yesterday (74 from Stafford, half hour or so in the Podge & Tin looking out the window and a round trip on the Pye Green circle)...  Didn't see a single bus wrongly allocated... Just saying.

One interesting thing yesterday though, the BBC were filming in Cannock Bus Station, zooming in on a 25 Pye Green circular destination and lots of other buses including Selects Y-NBB dart on the 23, I wonder if that had any influence?

[Westy]

Probably similar to our place.

When the Eddie Stobart series was being filmed a few years, we got contacted for permission to film on our premises.

Our company decided to move the filming to our other depot nearby because it wouldve looked better on camera, which meant I had to ring the company that Stobarts were delivering for, to check it was ok.

Some companies say if the delivery address does not match the address on the delivery note then they wont do it for insurance purposes.

Coke is one such company!

[Bob]

There were plenty of wrongly branded buses yesterday 3701-4 for a start

[Bob]

Today route 1 commanders were on 62, 68, & probably one or two on 70/76. Dont know where the three 74/75 branded pulsars were as it looked like a full complement of deckers again on the staffords.  At least three anyway!  Finally

[Ashley]

Today route 1 commanders were on 62, 68, & probably one or two on 70/76. Dont know where the three 74/75 branded pulsars were as it looked like a full complement of deckers again on the staffords.  At least three anyway!  Finally

One was on loan to Stafford, saw it on the 12
3730 was on 70/76

Not sure about the other three

[Bob]

When you say on loan to stafford do you mean a pulsar?

[Ashley]

When you say on loan to stafford do you mean a pulsar?

Yes I was referring to the debranded Pulsars, well the one at Stafford still had full 74/75 branding if that helps

[Bob]

Changes to route and timetables coming on 74/75, 2/2a coming up

[leewhayward29]

Changes to route and timetables coming on 74/75, 2/2a coming up

What is the changes to 2/2A

[Bob]

Dont know.  Changes listed on vosa n & p 28th nov.

[Cheese]

Dont know.  Changes listed on vosa n & p 28th nov.

Timing changes I believe, particularly the Sunday services as far as I know.

[Bob]

Been to wolvestoday got BF52 NZR on a 70 there and an ex stafford pulsar on a 68 back. Someone mentioned on another post that kickdown etc can be caused by the way the gearbox is set up. Both buses but particularly the pulsar kickdown every time they pulled off or had to accelerate. Could things not be tweaked so that you don't have a bus with an engine thats constantly struggling and labouring?  It sounds awful. B7s/omnilinks /citaros dont do it or if they do they dont create the noise from hell racket that pulsars do. That aside they werent bad journeys. Caught BU51 KWM on a 31 later on.  This has got to be cannocks worst dart at the moment far worse than KWJ. The bus when idling or slowing down to turn into a street etc vibrates so badly the change was rattling in the cab! The brakes screeched bad too. Surely the times approaching to withdraw most of the batch. Terrible condition. If this was your first impression of arriva youd rate them with sunny travel etc cos its on a par with their heaps

[Bob]

Are they having a problem with one of the deckers ? As theres been one on pye greens all week,  thought perhaps they were keeping it local maybe

[Bob]

Supposed to be being resprayed and refurbished.  Hopefully never to be seen again.  Which of the two had the engine blown?