... with one exception. Emsworth and District won the tender for services between Petersfield and Midhurst. fbb does not know when the contract began but service 92 with occasional 91s and 93s ...
... trundle between the two towns.
SERVICE CANCELLED from 14th April.
The route is tendered by Hampshire and West Sussex, but the latter authority doesn't admit to the 91 on its map!
Fortunately Hampshire is correct and up-to-date with 91, 92 and 93 shown on their version.
Still operating the moment is route 54 from Petersfield to Chichester, BUT it too is ...
SERVICE CANCELLED from 14th April.
The West Sussex map also shows services 300 and 36 ...
... which haven't run for over 12 months!
Now that graphics are so easy to amend, it seem daft to post inaccurate maps on line; as fbb often says, get your average 7 year old to make the changes - it will only take a few minutes!
So what is the 28, eh? And where is the 27?
they both appear on the Havant local network map courtesy of Hampshire.
A little over two years ago, the former half hourly route 27, the mainstay of Emsworth and District's business, was put out for tender by Hampshire Council. E & D lost the job to, incredibly, First Bus.
It must involve horrific amounts of "dead running" to get a bus from First's depot to Havant or Rowlands Castle. Rumours locally are that First got its sums wrong and they are losing much fine gold!
The service was drastically reduced to every two hours (formerly half hourly between Emsworth and Havant, hourly to Rowlands Castle). Local resident Alan has contacted fbb to confirm and enhance much of the detail. He suggests that, despite fbb's assertion that the "old" 27 was "commercial", the route has always been tendered. The reduction was the result of Hampshire's substantial cutbacks in their budget.
Thanks Alan for your helpful contribution.
Disappointed at not winning the contract, E & D started a commercial service 28 two years ago.
Sadly for the company, it was not a roaring success and so was cut back and now operates a few journeys off peak.
SERVICE CANCELLED from 14th April.
Also cancelled from the start of the Easter Holidays are various school services, namely:-
Is anything left? This is a bit of a mystery; the E & D website shows several school runs for which fbb has NOT seen cancellation documents. These are-
It would seem somewhat illogical to run these bits when all the rest are being ditched. Perhaps these five make pots of money?
Maybe an expert on the company's activities will be able to correct and update fbb's information?
It is also unclear as to whether the coaching business will continue.
As an indication, their web site advertises trips for 2014!
A DAY IN EASTBOURNE
Sunday 17th August 2014 £17.50 Adults & Seniors, £12 Child A drive to this historic seaside town with more details to follow.
THORPE PARK COACH ONLY
Saturday 30th August 2014 £15 Adults, Seniors & Children Coach only travel to Thorpe park, use vouchers or Merlin passes but save on the driving.
THAT'LL BE THE DAY CHRISTMAS SHOW
Friday 12th December £33 Adults & Seniors Limited Spaces
So we are too late for them!
The West Sussex map also shows services 300 and 36 ...
Now that graphics are so easy to amend, it seem daft to post inaccurate maps on line; as fbb often says, get your average 7 year old to make the changes - it will only take a few minutes!
So what is the 28, eh? And where is the 27?
A little over two years ago, the former half hourly route 27, the mainstay of Emsworth and District's business, was put out for tender by Hampshire Council. E & D lost the job to, incredibly, First Bus.
The service was drastically reduced to every two hours (formerly half hourly between Emsworth and Havant, hourly to Rowlands Castle). Local resident Alan has contacted fbb to confirm and enhance much of the detail. He suggests that, despite fbb's assertion that the "old" 27 was "commercial", the route has always been tendered. The reduction was the result of Hampshire's substantial cutbacks in their budget.
Thanks Alan for your helpful contribution.
Disappointed at not winning the contract, E & D started a commercial service 28 two years ago.
Also cancelled from the start of the Easter Holidays are various school services, namely:-
28A
44B
147
635
636
639
Is anything left? This is a bit of a mystery; the E & D website shows several school runs for which fbb has NOT seen cancellation documents. These are-
44A
51
121/121A
641
S1
S1
It would seem somewhat illogical to run these bits when all the rest are being ditched. Perhaps these five make pots of money?
Maybe an expert on the company's activities will be able to correct and update fbb's information?
It is also unclear as to whether the coaching business will continue.
A DAY IN EASTBOURNE
Sunday 17th August 2014 £17.50 Adults & Seniors, £12 Child A drive to this historic seaside town with more details to follow.
THORPE PARK COACH ONLY
Saturday 30th August 2014 £15 Adults, Seniors & Children Coach only travel to Thorpe park, use vouchers or Merlin passes but save on the driving.
THAT'LL BE THE DAY CHRISTMAS SHOW
Friday 12th December £33 Adults & Seniors Limited Spaces
So we are too late for them!
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fbb's Best Worst Endeavours!
Last Sunday's episode featured action on and around a railway station. The setting was a Southern Region Branch near to Oxford (very likely!).
The episode features a grumpy and mysterious ticket office clerk. Is he the arch criminal?
Trains come and go, but then Endeavour Morse sets off down a closed branch line ...
... with very shiny tops to the obviously in-use rails!
And what hobby do you think this guy enjoys?
And what hobby do you think this guy enjoys?
Towards the end of the episode there is a scene is a loft complete with railway memorabilia and a model layout.
But fbb is pretty sure you couldn't by a Class 52 diesel with a working headlight in 1968.
But your eager blogger really struggles with that station.
Ropley? Yippee. On the Mid Hants Railway (Watercress Line), Ropley is the location for the "outside" shots, at least.
But NOT the booking office shots?
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Next Norwich blog : Wednesday 21st February
FBB should really challenge some of the rumours he hears and reports parrot fashion.
ReplyDeleteGiven how First have been busy cutting back services elsewhere, does he really think that they’d elect to lose money on a route for over two years?? The amount of dead mileage is hardly excessive either.
Regarding Morse I had the same discussion in the office yesterday and tried to find a definitive date for the introduction of the Trix Western diesel, as that to me was the only major inaccuracy (if you can accept immaculate Bulleid pacifics in 1968). The closed station was Quainton Road, still open for freight passing through to this day, and they kept the modern footbridge in soft focus in the distance so you couldn't see the lift shaft. Otherwise they made a much better effort with period transport than a lot of programmes do.
ReplyDeleteI think the booking office is at Okehampton on the Dartmoor Railway
ReplyDeleteThis article (https://www.railwaymagazinemodelling.co.uk/rmm-july-issue-blasts-from-the-past-trix/) suggests that the Trix "Western" came out in 1965.
ReplyDeleteBut is wasn't two rail!
ReplyDeleteOther sources suggest Trix switched to two rail in 1957. Certainly my father had a Trix BR Standard 5 running on two rail by 1963 - possibly earlier.
DeleteEmsworth & District acquired the West Sussex routes upon Countryliner's demise in 2012.
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