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Post by TB123 on Jul 11, 2023 17:16:27 GMT
Presumably 3 for the 715, 2 for the 557 and 1 for the 437 or according cascades. Very impressive little operator in my experience. And they show how route branding should be done, looks very smart.
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Post by wirewiper on Aug 3, 2023 17:01:48 GMT
Another Surrey route gaining new ADL Enviro200 MMCs is the 32 between Guildford, Dorking, Reigate and Redhill. Compass Travel of Worthing, who operate the route on behalf of Surrey County Council, has taken delivery of four 10.8m examples. These have 40 Alexander Dennis SmartSeats with USB charging, free WiFi and audio-visual next stop announcements. The buses carry Surrey Hills Xplorer route branding. www.route-one.net/news/compass-travel-takes-delivery-of-four-enviro200s/
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Post by twobellstogo on Aug 3, 2023 17:29:44 GMT
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Post by twobellstogo on Aug 25, 2023 16:03:16 GMT
Should people care š it looks like 37409 will be the final Stagecoach 715, before it passes to Falcon. This is my regular commute, so for me itās a bit of an end of an era.
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Post by gwiwer on Aug 26, 2023 15:52:31 GMT
My 715 from Guildford to Kingston yesterday was almost full out of Guildford and carried over 100 passengers with many boarding / alighting at intermediate stops all along the route. I hope Falcon have bug enough buses. Could it revert to a 30-minute headway in the future?
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Post by mark on Aug 26, 2023 16:05:22 GMT
My 715 from Guildford to Kingston yesterday was almost full out of Guildford and carried over 100 passengers with many boarding / alighting at intermediate stops all along the route. I hope Falcon have bug enough buses. Could it revert to a 30-minute headway in the future? I guess the key phrase is "almost full" - that suggests that demand and supply are almost perfectly balanced! It's one of those routes that serves many local flows - I'm not sure a large number of people ever make the end to end journey though!
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Post by twobellstogo on Aug 26, 2023 16:37:56 GMT
My 715 from Guildford to Kingston yesterday was almost full out of Guildford and carried over 100 passengers with many boarding / alighting at intermediate stops all along the route. I hope Falcon have bug enough buses. Could it revert to a 30-minute headway in the future? I believe Falcon have longer E200MMCs on order for the 715, to arrive later this year. As Iāve said above, the 715 is my regular commute and it does get very busy. Iād love it if it went to 2 buses per hour, and it probably needs it, but I canāt see it happening. The 6, which covers the 715 at the immediate Guildford end is getting a frequency uplift soon and I suspect that will be that.
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Post by twobellstogo on Aug 26, 2023 16:39:38 GMT
My 715 from Guildford to Kingston yesterday was almost full out of Guildford and carried over 100 passengers with many boarding / alighting at intermediate stops all along the route. I hope Falcon have bug enough buses. Could it revert to a 30-minute headway in the future? I guess the key phrase is "almost full" - that suggests that demand and supply are almost perfectly balanced!Ā It's one of those routes that serves many local flows - I'm not sure a large number of people ever make the end to end journey though! The natural break in the 715 is at Cobham, in my experience - from the Guildford end very few people go beyond Fairmile, and from the Kingston end very few go past Cobham Village.
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Post by gwiwer on Aug 26, 2023 19:17:52 GMT
I guess the key phrase is "almost full" - that suggests that demand and supply are almost perfectly balanced! It's one of those routes that serves many local flows - I'm not sure a large number of people ever make the end to end journey though! The natural break in the 715 is at Cobham, in my experience - from the Guildford end very few people go beyond Fairmile, and from the Kingston end very few go past Cobham Village. As was true way back in LPTB / LT days when that was the limit of the 215 from Kingston and the 415 from Guildford; if you wanted a through journey you used the Green Line 715 at a premium fare. We picked up ten at Wisley Gardens for Kingston, not all in the same group, at the very uninviting location in the middle of major roadworks. What an awful place to have to wait for a bus. We had a couple on besides myself from end to end and not obviously bus cranks either. They were each using a Freedom (or some other form of) Pass which isn't valid by train.
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Post by twobellstogo on Aug 28, 2023 18:51:36 GMT
First go on the 715 under Falcon today. Apart from my second 715 circumnavigating the Esher one way system twice, it seemed all pretty good. Both buses absolutely jammed with passengers.
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Post by cardinal on Aug 29, 2023 10:53:58 GMT
First go on the 715 under Falcon today. Apart from my second 715 circumnavigating the Esher one way system twice, it seemed all pretty good. Both buses absolutely jammed with passengers. Are they using full length buses ?
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Post by theaeroplaneguy on Aug 29, 2023 11:20:42 GMT
First go on the 715 under Falcon today. Apart from my second 715 circumnavigating the Esher one way system twice, it seemed all pretty good. Both buses absolutely jammed with passengers. Are they using full length buses ? At the moment, Falcon have only received one of the 3 new full length buses ordered for the 715, so they are currently using a combination of full length and short buses
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Post by twobellstogo on Aug 29, 2023 11:55:06 GMT
First go on the 715 under Falcon today. Apart from my second 715 circumnavigating the Esher one way system twice, it seemed all pretty good. Both buses absolutely jammed with passengers. Are they using full length buses ? Yesterday was one baby E200MMC and one longer one.
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Post by gwiwer on Aug 29, 2023 14:03:18 GMT
It needs full-size buses. Some trips really need 'deckers but the bridge at Hinchley Wood precludes that and was the reason LT had to run so many RFs between Kingston and Esher along the Portsmouth Road. They can't come the other way through Lower Green with a 'decker either (as per the Sunday route) because there's an even tighter low bridge there. The only 'decker option is Esher - Scilly Isles - Weston Green and through Thames Ditton which misses out several stops that are otherwise only served hourly by the 458. Even then I'm not sure of the clearance at Thames Ditton bridge.
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Post by vjaska on Aug 29, 2023 16:31:18 GMT
It needs full-size buses. Some trips really need 'deckers but the bridge at Hinchley Wood precludes that and was the reason LT had to run so many RFs between Kingston and Esher along the Portsmouth Road. They can't come the other way through Lower Green with a 'decker either (as per the Sunday route) because there's an even tighter low bridge there. Ā The only 'decker option is Esher - Scilly Isles - Weston Green and through Thames Ditton which misses out several stops that are otherwise only served hourly by the 458. Ā Even then I'm not sure of the clearance at Thames Ditton bridge. Ā The Thames Ditton bridge is 11ā9ā which would rule out deckers
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