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Post by jrussa on Mar 18, 2014 18:47:01 GMT
I believe the 44 and 77 at Merton are still under one rota, possibly the same being for the 219 with the 270. When I was there in the early 00s some duty cards had 44 first half with the 77 second half, or vice versa. Because of this there were times when one would be driving along Garrett Lane and would have to concentrate on whether to go straight on (44) or turn right (77) at Earlsfields. The 44/77 have separated now. It was done for the last tender and has remained that way. It is TUPE that has caused some routes to be separated out, and once a split was settled any staff on relevant rotas were glued to it until the next tender, and normally went with the route if lost. This happened with the P5/484 at Q a few years ago. The split took place and all drivers on route 484 were forced to move, P5 drivers stayed. I believe the only joint compilation at Merton now is the 163/164, but I may be out of date. Others in Go-Ahead which, as far as I know are still jointly compiled, are 68/468/X68 and 360/P5 at Q, 36/171 at NX, 14/22 and 74/430 at AF, 507/521 at RA. Of these mentioned the 68/468/X68, 36/171, 74/430 and 507/521 are completely joint compiled so that a duties can mix routes up in a day. The others are only jointly compiled as a rota and drivers stay on the same route during each duty. The main reason for the joint compilations on 74/430 and 36/171 is to balance off driving hours on long spells of duties on the garage terminating routes. Thanks for the information sw11simon. Do you know if Route C10 was paired with any other route when it was with London Central? Also, am I right in thinking a driver who may have drove Route 36 for two rounds may end up after having a lunch break doing a short on Route 171 to Catford and back to New Cross Gate to make up for the hours?
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Post by sw11simon on Mar 19, 2014 3:27:30 GMT
The 44/77 have separated now. It was done for the last tender and has remained that way. It is TUPE that has caused some routes to be separated out, and once a split was settled any staff on relevant rotas were glued to it until the next tender, and normally went with the route if lost. This happened with the P5/484 at Q a few years ago. The split took place and all drivers on route 484 were forced to move, P5 drivers stayed. I believe the only joint compilation at Merton now is the 163/164, but I may be out of date. Others in Go-Ahead which, as far as I know are still jointly compiled, are 68/468/X68 and 360/P5 at Q, 36/171 at NX, 14/22 and 74/430 at AF, 507/521 at RA. Of these mentioned the 68/468/X68, 36/171, 74/430 and 507/521 are completely joint compiled so that a duties can mix routes up in a day. The others are only jointly compiled as a rota and drivers stay on the same route during each duty. The main reason for the joint compilations on 74/430 and 36/171 is to balance off driving hours on long spells of duties on the garage terminating routes. Thanks for the information sw11simon. Do you know if Route C10 was paired with any other route when it was with London Central? Also, am I right in thinking a driver who may have drove Route 36 for two rounds may end up after having a lunch break doing a short on Route 171 to Catford and back to New Cross Gate to make up for the hours? The C10 was always on its own as far as I know. On route 36 a driver can only do 2 rounds in a spell with early morning starts or late evening finishes. A lot of early shifts, for instance, do 2 rounders and take a second spell on the 171, could be either direction and quite possibly just New Cross Gate to Catford and back.
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Post by First Hayes on Mar 19, 2014 10:01:15 GMT
207//427 (Early, Main & School Rota) 207//427//N207 (Late, Twilight & Night Rota) I'm on the Late Rota - Our duties are route intermixed. All week I've been doing 427 first half, then 207 second half. In fact 80% of our duties consist of both 207 and 427 within one duty
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