PD0000478/394 - ARRIVA MIDLANDS NORTH LTD T/A ARRIVA MIDLANDS, THURMASTON GARAGE, 4 WESTMORELAND AVENUE, THURMASTON, LEICESTER, LE4 8PH
Registration Accepted
Starting Point: Birmingham
Finish Point: Drayton Manor Theme Park
Via: Tyburn House, Minworth
Service Number: X76
Service Type: Limited Stop
Effective Date: 05-MAY-2014
Other Details: Service will run on Easter Sunday/Monday 20/21 April 2014 then Sundays from 04/05/2014 to 14/09/2014, May Day Monday 05/05/2014, Spring Bank Holiday Monday 26/05/2014 and Late Summer Bank Holiday, 25/08/2014
Not before time. Tamworth garage used to rake cash in off these. Most Bank Holidays there were 7 or 8 of us out there at any one time with full deckers.
Tamworth used to have success with all their X7# numbered routes under Midland red north, but Arriva seemed incapable of running them and let them wither away to nothing
Quote from: bob on March 24, 2014, 10:13:46 PM
Tamworth used to have success with all their X7# numbered routes under Midland red north, but Arriva seemed incapable of running them and let them wither away to nothing
I would say part of that is to do with worsening traffic conditions making them less attractive for commuters to use.
Quote from: monkeyjoe on March 24, 2014, 08:32:54 PM
PD0000478/394 - ARRIVA MIDLANDS NORTH LTD T/A ARRIVA MIDLANDS, THURMASTON GARAGE, 4 WESTMORELAND AVENUE, THURMASTON, LEICESTER, LE4 8PH
Registration Accepted
Starting Point: Birmingham
Finish Point: Drayton Manor Theme Park
Via: Tyburn House, Minworth
Service Number: X76
Service Type: Limited Stop
Effective Date: 05-MAY-2014
Other Details: Service will run on Easter Sunday/Monday 20/21 April 2014 then Sundays from 04/05/2014 to 14/09/2014, May Day Monday 05/05/2014, Spring Bank Holiday Monday 26/05/2014 and Late Summer Bank Holiday, 25/08/2014
Why not run the X76 on Saturdays as well
Quote from: lynx1103 on April 13, 2014, 09:50:47 PM
Quote from: monkeyjoe on March 24, 2014, 08:32:54 PM
PD0000478/394 - ARRIVA MIDLANDS NORTH LTD T/A ARRIVA MIDLANDS, THURMASTON GARAGE, 4 WESTMORELAND AVENUE, THURMASTON, LEICESTER, LE4 8PH
Registration Accepted
Starting Point: Birmingham
Finish Point: Drayton Manor Theme Park
Via: Tyburn House, Minworth
Service Number: X76
Service Type: Limited Stop
Effective Date: 05-MAY-2014
Other Details: Service will run on Easter Sunday/Monday 20/21 April 2014 then Sundays from 04/05/2014 to 14/09/2014, May Day Monday 05/05/2014, Spring Bank Holiday Monday 26/05/2014 and Late Summer Bank Holiday, 25/08/2014
Why not run the X76 on Saturdays as well
Saturday PVR is already very high, whereas Sundays there are plenty of vehicles.
Has anybody seen which vehicles have been used on the X76?
Quote from: Nathan on June 13, 2014, 10:35:17 PM
Has anybody seen which vehicles have been used on the X76?
A Gemini was on a few weeks ago.
Has it been busy?
Saw one Gemini a few weeks ago in Brum, looked about half full. Surprised me because other than on here I hadn't seen or heard anything advertising it.
What also surprised me was where I saw it... coming out the tunnel under the bullring onto Moor St. Thought if anything it'd follow the same routing through the city centre as the 110/116 but just checking on the nwm timetables page it does a full loop of the Queensway!
PD0000478/394 - ARRIVA MIDLANDS NORTH LTD T/A ARRIVA MIDLANDS, THURMASTON GARAGE, 4 WESTMORELAND AVENUE, THURMASTON, LEICESTER, LE4 8PH
Cancellation Accepted: Operating between Birmingham and Drayton Manor Theme Park given service number X76 effective from 17-Aug-2014.
Isnt that just normal? Ie that it just funs for a few weeks each year. Or is it being withdrawn due to poor usage
Seems a bit early in the summer to be finishing it 'naturally', would have thought they'd at least have kept it until after the August Bank Holiday weekend.
Maybe its just another failure then lol up there with the 19, 310 and 334, & probably the 530 in a couple of months aha