Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Fastrack
Sept 3, 2017 14:26:19 GMT
via mobile
Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2017 14:26:19 GMT
Looking at plans for future development around Ebbsfleet, there are two additional Fastrack style routes planned
Looks like one will at Bluewater heading straight across new developments under a tunnel then via Ebbsfleet Int and out again running closer to Pepper Hill area into Gravesend.
Second is one running closer to Thames from Ingress Park.
|
|
|
|
Post by N230UD on Sept 3, 2017 17:08:35 GMT
Didn't know this, interesting! Fastrack is great, and its a shame most other bus services in Kent are not of similar quality.
Where did you see or hear this?
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Fastrack
Sept 7, 2017 13:07:26 GMT
via mobile
Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2017 13:07:26 GMT
Didn't know this, interesting! Fastrack is great, and its a shame most other bus services in Kent are not of similar quality. Where did you see or hear this? Pop into Ebbsfleet Int Stn and there is a 3D desk top exhibition of the planned town between Bluewater and Gravesend. It's huge. If Arriva run them they'll need a bigger base. Although I would imagine existing routes 481/3 and possibly 480/90 will be absorbed into the networks. |
|
|
|
Post by bus12451 on Aug 24, 2021 10:30:44 GMT
A new 24hr Fastrack bus service commenced operation yesterday - Fastrack AZ between Dartford and Gravesend via Amazon LCY3 The route, operated by Go-Coach runs primarily to serve the new Amazon distribution centre in Dartford, but is also available for general public use. 8 59-plate Enviro400s (ex AB 9505-12) recently acquired from Abellio London are used to run the service, some have been refurbished and repainted into the grey Fastrack livery. |
|
|
|
Post by Catford94 on Aug 24, 2021 21:18:17 GMT
Further to the 2017 posts... I had some small involvement in the earlier stages of Fastrack, and from memory, the plan at that time was for three or four Fastrack routes serving the variety of developments that were about to happen before the economic whatnot hit the fan around 2008... The 'future development' page on the go fastrack website shows route C |
|
|
|
Fastrack
Aug 24, 2021 22:24:50 GMT
via mobile
Post by galwhv69 on Aug 24, 2021 22:24:50 GMT
Unfortunately 9510 is already VOR due to a small RTC
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2021 0:08:09 GMT
A new 24hr Fastrack bus service commenced operation yesterday - Fastrack AZ between Dartford and Gravesend via Amazon LCY3 The route, operated by Go-Coach runs primarily to serve the new Amazon distribution centre in Dartford, but is also available for general public use. 8 59-plate Enviro400s (ex AB 9505-12) recently acquired from Abellio London are used to run the service, some have been refurbished and repainted into the grey Fastrack livery. Haven’t used it yet, but my prayers for a night service have been answered. A pity it doesn’t link in with the TfL night routes at Erith or Bexleyheath, but still very useful for non Amazon workers. |
|
|
|
Post by MoEnviro on Aug 25, 2021 6:26:08 GMT
Some yellow buses from the original Go-coach fleet are being used - 9006 |
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2021 10:10:52 GMT
There is a "bus station" at the new Amazon facility in Dartford. Four bus stops, marked for Gravesend, Dartford, Thamesmead and Woolwich. Currently the AZ route is using Bobb Dunn Way to Burnham Road and into Dartford (so not using Fastrack A route via The Village & Temple Hill yet) Haven't checked the stretch between Greenhithe and Gravesend yet,but they do depart and arrive at Greenhithe from Fastrack B dedicated busway in direction of Ingress Park.
|
|
|
|
Post by vjaska on Aug 25, 2021 13:36:44 GMT
There is a "bus station" at the new Amazon facility in Dartford. Four bus stops, marked for Gravesend, Dartford, Thamesmead and Woolwich. Currently the AZ route is using Bobb Dunn Way to Burnham Road and into Dartford (so not using Fastrack A route via The Village & Temple Hill yet) Haven't checked the stretch between Greenhithe and Gravesend yet,but they do depart and arrive at Greenhithe from Fastrack B dedicated busway in direction of Ingress Park. There is four routes and and at least three operators operating them being Go-Ahead, Stagecoach & Go-Coach - the Go Coach one is KCC contract so accepts Discovery tickets among others but does anyone know the fares or routing of the Go-Ahead & Stagecoach ones? |
|
|
|
Post by MoEnviro on Aug 25, 2021 17:28:11 GMT
There is a "bus station" at the new Amazon facility in Dartford. Four bus stops, marked for Gravesend, Dartford, Thamesmead and Woolwich. Currently the AZ route is using Bobb Dunn Way to Burnham Road and into Dartford (so not using Fastrack A route via The Village & Temple Hill yet) Haven't checked the stretch between Greenhithe and Gravesend yet,but they do depart and arrive at Greenhithe from Fastrack B dedicated busway in direction of Ingress Park. There is four routes and and at least three operators operating them being Go-Ahead, Stagecoach & Go-Coach - the Go Coach one is KCC contract so accepts Discovery tickets among others but does anyone know the fares or routing of the Go-Ahead & Stagecoach ones? I understand the AZ1/2 from Thamesmead and Woolwich is pre-booked only for Amazon Staff. |
|
|
|
Post by bus12451 on Aug 26, 2021 13:25:07 GMT
There is a "bus station" at the new Amazon facility in Dartford. Four bus stops, marked for Gravesend, Dartford, Thamesmead and Woolwich. Currently the AZ route is using Bobb Dunn Way to Burnham Road and into Dartford (so not using Fastrack A route via The Village & Temple Hill yet) Haven't checked the stretch between Greenhithe and Gravesend yet,but they do depart and arrive at Greenhithe from Fastrack B dedicated busway in direction of Ingress Park. There is four routes and and at least three operators operating them being Go-Ahead, Stagecoach & Go-Coach - the Go Coach one is KCC contract so accepts Discovery tickets among others but does anyone know the fares or routing of the Go-Ahead & Stagecoach ones? GAL and Stagecoach London operate both the AZ1 (LCY3 - Woolwich) and AZ2 (LCY3 - Thamesmead), alongside other bus and coach operators. I remember reading somewhere, possibly Twitter, that First Essex is also involved in the operation of those routes but I'm not sure whether that's true or not. Here's the timetable and stops for the AZ1 - consultations.tfl.gov.uk/lsp/0ed73071/user_uploads/woolwich-to-amazon-lcy3-dartford---230821---for-lsp-application.pdfCouldn't find one for the AZ2 unfortunately. |
|
|
|
Post by vjaska on Aug 26, 2021 13:36:10 GMT
|
|
|
|
Post by wirewiper on Sept 3, 2021 11:02:22 GMT
Kent County Council is one of six local authorities that has pre-qualified for ZEBRA funding (Zero Emission Bus Regional Area) and has been asked to develop a full business case for electric buses to operate over the Fastrack network.
(Source: Buses Magazine issue 798, September 2021)
A second round of bids closed in July and further local authorities will be asked to develop business cases later this year.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2021 21:32:24 GMT
If anyone is interested in using the AZ service, the following should be useful.. They don't appear to pick up at the Fastrack B stop in Garrick Street. Also at Ebbsfleet, they stop in both directions at the furthest road marked bus stop away from the existing two stops.
Apparently they can't serve stops that Arriva use.
The only exception I've noticed is at Greenhithe Station where they stop at Fastrack B bus stops.
I've not yet worked out where they actually pick up in Gravesend.
|
|
