October 2016 Tenders

[karl724223]

Not being funny but with council and tfwm cut backs why throw money at routes that nobody is catching  use the routes or lose them

[MW]

Not being funny but with council and tfwm cut backs why throw money at routes that nobody is catching  use the routes or lose them

It's not real money karl.

The money doesn't exist. It's just a number created by the government. It's not as if they'll spend it anywhere else anyway

[Stuharris 6360]

In connection with Sunday services, does anybody else feel that there should now be seperate timetables for Sundays & Bank Holidays.

[karl724223]

In connection with Sunday services, does anybody else feel that there should now be seperate timetables for Sundays & Bank Holidays.

is there a need for most Sunday and bank holiday services nowadays

[Stuharris 6360]

is there a need for most Sunday and bank holiday services nowadays

well an example , in the past I have seen 276s on a Sunday evening going through Lye virtually empty, Bank Holiday Monday and same journey and bus full.

[Dom]

is there a need for most Sunday and bank holiday services nowadays

To an extent I feel there is for those who can't drive and wish to travel somewhere. For example couple of Sundays back me and my girlfriend went to Merry Hill and we wouldn't of been able to without a bus service.

[Trident 4609]

Sunday evening journeys on the 81, Wolverhampton to Merry Hill have been withdrawn due to lack of patronage.

Not according to the timetable on the NX website. Lists trips on Sunday eveings too.

[Stuharris 6360]

Not according to the timetable on the NX website. Lists trips on Sunday eveings too.

@Nathan, interesting as the Network West Midland lastest weekly update states that the evening journeys are withdrawn, however the new timetable on their website shows the journeys, one hand not knowing what the other is doing perhaps.

[Trident 4609]

@Nathan, interesting as the Network West Midland lastest weekly update states that the evening journeys are withdrawn, however the new timetable on their website shows the journeys, one hand not knowing what the other is doing perhaps.

I recieve the weekley updates too and noticed it said the Sunday night journeys were axed.

[the trainbasher]

@Nathan @Stuharris 6360 here is a link to the tender specification that was the option NXWM won on

https://1drv.ms/w/s!AkYwwM3qx22AgYRpY2N1UYEBX5MkJQ

[Stuharris 6360]

According to the latest network west midlands email, extra evening journeys are to be added under contract on the 222.

Don't know if the current new timetable on there website is correct as it shows last journeys from Dudley at 20:40 Mon - Sat and 17:00 on Sundays and from Merry Hill at 21:15 Mon - Sat and 17:40 on Sunday?

[Trident 4609]

According to the latest network west midlands email, extra evening journeys are to be added under contract on the 222.

Don't know if the current new timetable on there website is correct as it shows last journeys from Dudley at 20:40 Mon - Sat and 17:00 on Sundays and from Merry Hill at 21:15 Mon - Sat and 17:40 on Sunday?

@Stuharris 6360 i noticed that also, but it has now been updated. Will operate hourly during the evening.

[GeminiFan1991]

I was checking the timetable for the 205 thinking it'd be different (Not sure why) but its the same as the Diamond journey which is convenient.

[Dom]

I was checking the timetable for the 205 thinking it'd be different (Not sure why) but its the same as the Diamond journey which is convenient.

It's a tender so unless anything changes within the tender it will be the same.

[Stu]

I have enquired with NX regarding the 81 on Sundays, and am awaiting a response. A query was brought up on my Facebook page, regarding the withdrawal of the Sunday evening journeys. The documents that TheTrainbasher provided here do show that the tender specification didn't include these journeys. Yet NX have announced on their website, and shown in their new timetable, that there will be evening journeys on Sunday.

I suspect one of two things:
1) NX are in error, and there won't be any Sunday evening journeys on the 81
2) NX will be operating Sunday evening journeys on the 81 'out-of-contract', ie commercially.