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Post by DT 11 on Jul 22, 2013 6:59:46 GMT
Hi All
Are the local schools in contact with London operators?
Reason I'm asking this is because some Schools break up for Holiday earlier than others so running the route in some cases will be pointless and say If a School finishes early like at 12. Does the school contact the operator to run the service early, also I had in mind does all the Schools along that route have to Agree to finish early so that the route can run early.
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Post by greeny253 on Jul 22, 2013 9:33:53 GMT
The school routes at Dagenham always ran earlier if the schools they serviced kicked out early on the last day. The 650/6 started in the school so it was easier than some of the others.
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Post by snoggle on Jul 22, 2013 13:35:36 GMT
Good question. I had a look on LVF to see if anything was running on the 6xx services. Oddly the 679 did run this morning but the 657 did not nor did the 675 despite them serving the same schools at Woodford. Other Go Ahead operated routes in and around Romford operated but Arriva's 647 did not. I don't know what dates the schools finish in Havering and Brentwood - perhaps it's today?
The JFS routes to Kingsbury run by Sullivans have all run this morning but that school has rather different hours and terms to other schools.
In the past I once snapped a 626 in Barnet at lunchtime - early finish and a complete surprise to see it. I assume the school did advise Metroline / TfL about differing finish times.
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Post by Hassaan on Jul 22, 2013 15:37:08 GMT
On Friday one afternoon 635 ran around 45 minutes later than usual, and only one afternoon 698 ran.
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Post by eggmiester on Jul 22, 2013 21:56:41 GMT
where a school requires so the school buses can be run earlier than the normal time, not just at the end of term either, some cases schools may finish early for events or exams at various times throughout the school year etc. the schools will normally contact the operators directly who will organise the bus to run early. normally tfl will not need to be informed as the school buses operate on a mileage based gross cost contract, they would only need to inform tfl if there is a permanent change to timings as a result of changes to school times.
during the holidays the school bus timetables are suspended and routes that include School day only (SDO) journeys (like the 229 and 401) will operate a special school holiday schedule until the end of august/beginning of september, with the SDO journeys omitted.
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Post by john on Jul 23, 2013 9:03:06 GMT
I know when I was at King's Wood, the headteacher there used to be in contact with NS constantly about the needs of the route with the school. I'd assume that the same is with all routes in this instance as egg has mentioned
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Post by londonbusboy on Jul 23, 2013 13:29:54 GMT
TB has school bus routes running up until Wednesday and normal bus routes with school day schedules changed to non school days from Monday 22nd.
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Post by VPL630 on Jul 23, 2013 14:39:18 GMT
Good question. I had a look on LVF to see if anything was running on the 6xx services. Oddly the 679 did run this morning but the 657 did not nor did the 675 despite them serving the same schools at Woodford. Other Go Ahead operated routes in and around Romford operated but Arriva's 647 did not. I don't what dates the schools finish in Havering and Brentwood - perhaps it's today? The JFS routes to Kingsbury run by Sullivans have all run this morning but that school has rather different hours and terms to other schools. In the past I once snapped a 626 in Barnet at lunchtime - early finish and a complete surprise to see it. I assume the school did advise Metroline / TfL about differing finish times. Regarding Brentwood, The school that I used to go to broke up on the 18th and My sister broke up today from another school, Also Shenfield which the 608 serves broke up on the 18th yet the 608 is still running today!!! |
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Post by eggmiester on Jul 23, 2013 18:29:52 GMT
Today for instance, the 658's finished (all 3 buses -2BX and 1MW) ran their afternoon journeys early, departing Crown Woods School at 1pm. The 625, 661 and 669 ran as per scheduled.
Tomorrow the 669 finishes, the afternoon buses have been asked to be at cleeve park school for 12:45pm.
AFAIK the 625 and 661 will run as planned until the end of the week.
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Post by Tangy on Jul 24, 2013 17:40:16 GMT
during the holidays the school bus timetables are suspended and routes that include School day only (SDO) journeys (like the 229 and 401) will operate a special school holiday schedule until the end of august/beginning of september, with the SDO journeys omitted. It seems the 313 schoolday extra to Dame Alice Owen's School doesn't get suspended during school holidays but continues to run albeit curtailed to PB station during the holidays. I know this as it my regular bus home from work should I finish on time! |
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