First West of England

[BrumKev86]

It's been like it down here for the past few months, honestly don't know what First are doing. How confusing it must be for passengers to see a South Gloucestershire Lynx with branding of Yate, Thornbury and Chipping Sodbury on a 2 to Stockwood. Theres currently a Gemini with 1,2,2A branding that has been on a 522 to Bath, done the 349 to Keynsham and back. 17 between Southmead to Keynsham and later the T1s to Thornbury. 

Seems at least in North Somerset we are still getting the badgerline in the main, quite a few transfers from Leicester and Worcester that haven't been painted yet but won't be given First's policy I would imagine. 

[markcf83]

It's been like it down here for the past few months, honestly don't know what First are doing. How confusing it must be for passengers to see a South Gloucestershire Lynx with branding of Yate, Thornbury and Chipping Sodbury on a 2 to Stockwood. Theres currently a Gemini with 1,2,2A branding that has been on a 522 to Bath, done the 349 to Keynsham and back. 17 between Southmead to Keynsham and later the T1s to Thornbury.

Seems at least in North Somerset we are still getting the badgerline in the main, quite a few transfers from Leicester and Worcester that haven't been painted yet but won't be given First's policy I would imagine.

.....not forgetting the eight that moved to Bristol from Leeds recently.....

[BrumKev86]

Really bad disruption yesterday (Thursday) in North Somerset due to the closure of the M5 between 21 and 22, a serious accident with a biker and van. Alot of X1's leaving Bristol took hours to get to Weston, one service (35153) left at 16.07 and didn't get to Weston interchange till 22.12. Must have been challenging for all the drivers and passengers on board. 

[ellspurs]

Per Route-One, First are to become a Flixbus Partner at the start of 2025, with buses mainly operating from the south-west depots (and Yorkshire).