Arriva Leicester

[LazyGuy222]

Buses are starting to be located on bustimes.org, still under Arriva Midlands North. 3 MMCs were on the 127, one of the 50/51 ones was on the 44/A, and 2/3 of the 158 Pulsars were on other routes.

If you click the route a Leicester bus is on, it directs you to the routes page on the Arriva Midlands area, but it doesn't show vehicles there.

[leicesterbusadventurer]

Buses are starting to be located on bustimes.org, still under Arriva Midlands North. 3 MMCs were on the 127, one of the 50/51 ones was on the 44/A, and 2/3 of the 158 Pulsars were on other routes.

If you click the route a Leicester bus is on, it directs you to the routes page on the Arriva Midlands area, but it doesn't show vehicles there.

MMCs on the 127 are normal on Sundays now (I'm not sure if Wigston have started allocating their spare ones on other routes), and spare 158 Pulsars usually go on the 55/104.

Some sad fleet changes from Wigston, 4027 has now been withdrawn leaving 4028 as the last VLW left and 4213 has returned to Derby. To make matters worse 2990 has returned from Wycombe.

A few other notable workings included 3109 and 4205 on the 87, 3110 on the X3, 4422 on the 85, 4504 on the 84, hardly any 84/85 branded MMCs on the 84 or 85 (4508, 4511 and 4513) all on the 50/51 and 4509 on the 31A and both 4754 and 4756 on the 14. 4505 was the MMC mentioned above, and 3809 was on the 53.

[leepenfold30]

2274 is now withdrawn

Just 2 Darts left at Wigston & Hinckley 2209 2277

[LazyGuy222]

So all buses are now appearing on there. You can click a route page from the Arriva Midlands part and it'll show you the buses. However, to see the fleet list you'd still need to go to the AM North page.

[LazyGuy222]

Adding onto that it gives you a full stop list with the lateness/earlyness of the bus, just like on the Arriva bus website.

[markcf83]

What is the normal allocation for the 29?

[leicesterbusadventurer]

What is the normal allocation for the 29?

Usually it should only really be Pulsars 3770-3778 (although only 3771-3773 appear to be doing it today) but Versas, Streetlites and sometimes even Solos can appear. It was supposed to have about 3 or 4 DDs starting from last November but they've thrown that out the window and it only gets 1 which doesn't even do the full route now.

3770 is listed but not tracking, it might just have ran since it was listed or it doesn't have a tracker on it yet. 3774 is on the 14, 3775 on the 56, 3776 on the 158, 3777 on the 127 and 3778 on the 55. Sapphires 3802 and 3804 are both on the 127 along with 14-branded 3764 and 5/5A branded 4524. Amazingly, 3765 isn't even running today having spent yesterday on the 53, leaving the other 14 to be 2991. Amazingly, 3800 is on the 6 with 2528 on the 158.

Today's other 29s include all 3 Streetlites, 2937, 2948, 2979, 3766 and 4770.

[leicesterbusadventurer]

Streetlite 3305 is now at Wigston. It's working the short 49s. 2737 is also back and is on the 87 and 2570 is on the X84.

[LazyGuy222]

I don't believe the trackers work properly, at least not as efficiently as they do for First. Not all buses appear i don't believe. At 16:00, only 2 buses were on the 50 according to bustimes.

[leicesterbusadventurer]

How about that? MIRA bus 2003 is on the 31 this afternoon, 2406 is on the 5A, neither of the 53 branded Pulsars are on the 53. 3810 is on the 158 while 3811 is on the 127. 3775 is on the 16A and 4211 has found itself on the 8 from Hinckley to Lutterworth.

[47609FireFly]

StreetLite 3305 was noted working out of Wigston depot, on route 49, on 11/09/2019. Looks like it has had a fresh coat of light blue paint.

[Wright liberator]

Is it correct that I've heard Leicester uni route with bendibuses is being withdrawn or contract not renewed ?

[LazyGuy222]

I don't think so. It's due to return to service next week as that's when the Uni starts.

[leicesterbusadventurer]

Was 4521 in an accident a few weeks ago? It looked different when I had it yesterday.

[LazyGuy222]

I sadly believe that 3717 has departed us/been withdrawn. It's not been out in service in a number of weeks.