X76 to drayton Manor is coming back

[monkeyjoe]

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

[andy]

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.

[Bob]

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

[monkeyjoe]

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.

[lynx1103]

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

[andy]

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.

[Trident 4609]

Has anybody seen which vehicles have been used on the X76?

[the trainbasher]

Has anybody seen which vehicles have been used on the X76?

A Gemini was on a few weeks ago.

[Bob]

Has it been busy?

[Kevin]

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!

[the trainbasher]

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.

[Bob]

Isnt that just normal?  Ie that it just funs for a few weeks each year.  Or is it being withdrawn due to poor usage

[Stu]

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.

[Bob]

Maybe its just another failure then lol up there with the 19, 310 and 334, & probably the 530 in a couple of months aha