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[Matt.N0056]

The Transport manager is the owner of social travel & I write the timetables for Sunny DTS & social travel,  that's the link.
Re Sunday 72 nxwm have the lower 30 min frequency & struggle to cope with the loads at times, a feature I noticed with Diamonds 71 when I decided to run the 71 every 15 mins with AMPM.
Not running Saturday was my idea, gives each companies engineers time to work on the buses etc so they got no excuse for poor reliability. 
The 87 Sunday is a bit of a gamble but let's see how it turns out.
Oh & to answer the question Social travel have 2 super darts & an mpd.

Is the sunny 71 timetable on NWM correct then? There don't seem to be any short journeys to the radlys, but ones starting there to Solihull?

Also I see DTS are running a normal service opposed to a Saturday service, when they don't run.

[PM]

The Transport manager is the owner of social travel & I write the timetables for Sunny DTS & social travel,  that's the link.
Re Sunday 72 nxwm have the lower 30 min frequency & struggle to cope with the loads at times, a feature I noticed with Diamonds 71 when I decided to run the 71 every 15 mins with AMPM.
Not running Saturday was my idea, gives each companies engineers time to work on the buses etc so they got no excuse for poor reliability. 
The 87 Sunday is a bit of a gamble but let's see how it turns out.
Oh & to answer the question Social travel have 2 super darts & an mpd.

Thanks for the info Steve and best of luck, particularly on the 87/97. Will be good to see some competition back on core routes!

[Steveminor]

The nwm timetables are correct. DTS & sunny are both operating a normal service today NOT Saturday service like the others. This has paid off big time for the 71.
The short workings from Radley to solihull are to help the drivers get back on time after i identified a trait lately where buses were getting delayed & having to be adjusted quite regularly to get back on time. These journeys will now run dead from chelmsley to Radley and then back onto their original times.

[Ashley]

The Transport manager is the owner of social travel & I write the timetables for Sunny DTS & social travel,  that's the link.
Re Sunday 72 nxwm have the lower 30 min frequency & struggle to cope with the loads at times, a feature I noticed with Diamonds 71 when I decided to run the 71 every 15 mins with AMPM.
Not running Saturday was my idea, gives each companies engineers time to work on the buses etc so they got no excuse for poor reliability. 
The 87 Sunday is a bit of a gamble but let's see how it turns out.
Oh & to answer the question Social travel have 2 super darts & an mpd.

Can I be a pain and ask for the registrations, many thanks. I will be making time to make use of your services in the new year

[Steveminor]

To be honest I can't remember off the top of my head the 2 spds are s reg the mpd is x reg all ex Cardiff bus.
Sorry I can't help more but won't be long till you see them anyway.

[Ashley]

To be honest I can't remember off the top of my head the 2 spds are s reg the mpd is x reg all ex Cardiff bus.
Sorry I can't help more but won't be long till you see them anyway.

Thanks again :)

[Solo1]

Any photos  of social  travel /timetable

[Steveminor]

Spd

[Steveminor]

For 72 timetable just look half way between nxwm buses

[Solo1]

What aBout times for the 97 social travel & discount. Travel  times

[Steveminor]

2 buses each so times are not clock face. Services run between pine square & city roughly ever 40 mins for each company.
Breaks are different though as DTS wanted buses back at base for lunch so their breaks are in city whereas social trave have their breaks in chelmsley wood

[Tony]

The Transport manager is the owner of social travel & I write the timetables for Sunny DTS & social travel,  that's the link.
Re Sunday 72 nxwm have the lower 30 min frequency & struggle to cope with the loads at times, a feature I noticed with Diamonds 71 when I decided to run the 71 every 15 mins with AMPM.
Not running Saturday was my idea, gives each companies engineers time to work on the buses etc so they got no excuse for poor reliability. 
The 87 Sunday is a bit of a gamble but let's see how it turns out.
Oh & to answer the question Social travel have 2 super darts & an mpd.

Can I be a pain and ask for the registrations, many thanks. I will be making time to make use of your services in the new year

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[the trainbasher]

Either the 1743 has left early or its very late as it's not left moor street in the 20 minutes I've been here!!

[Tony]

Either the 1743 has left early or its very late as it's not left moor street in the 20 minutes I've been here!!

NXWM currently have 24 buses on the 97/97A/97P, 23 of them are currently withing VOSA guidelines of -1+4 of timetable, the 24th is showing as 5m57s late, so it shouldn't be over 20 minutes late

[Steveminor]

929 suffered a broken hose at chelmsley and therefore that journey failed.