(TMT) YN56 OWP (Read 771 times)

[thrybergh]

Seen today on service 122, this busis in red livery and is brand new, itis a solo, same as the dunn line a1 solos, but is standard length. The bus is really good and has led displays, there was 6 people on the bus, me, 3 girls and a woman who wa sshoing the bu driver the route etc, this apparently is the brand new bus TM TRAVEL have bought for the new and improved 122 service.

Will try and publish photo soon.

[mattw]

thrybergh said:

Seen today on service 122, this busis in red livery and is brand new, itis a solo, same as the dunn line a1 solos, but is standard length. The bus is really good and has led displays, there was 6 people on the bus, me, 3 girls and a woman who wa sshoing the bu driver the route etc, this apparently is the brand new bus TM TRAVEL have bought for the new and improved 122 service.

Will try and publish photo soon.

I saw this bus earlier though again didnt manage a picture due to been on another bus at the time. Looks a great bus and lets hope that they stick to using this bus on that service only. And good luck to TM runnig the route.

[yorks06]

I doubt the bus will stick to that route specifically. From what ive seen TM put pritty much anything on any route say for example the 65 meadowhall to buxton one day journey X may be a Solo the next day a SLF dart next day a primo and so on. If the 122s SLF spec it will probably be a single deck/Mini of some description. Also the 122 Cant run off one bus because when 1 journey gets into dinnington the return runs already left so a bus will do a 251 crystal peaks - dinnington, 122 dinnington - rotherham, 122 rotherham - dinnington, 251 dinnington - crystal peaks if the timetables are anything to go by, in the evenings and sundays that doesnt apply as the 251 only runs during the day likewise with the dinnington extensions.

[thrybergh]

Well i don't know but their was an advert in the wndow advrtising the 122 route, and then there was he 122 leaflets on the dashboard, so not sure, but i can allways ask the driver tomorrow.

[yorks06]

could be a case of 2 regular buses that being one and another solos being the other.

[thrybergh]

I think your right yorks06 as i have just seen on the 122 YN55 KMV travelling towads rotherham in the last minute.

[yorks06]

Well a look at the 122 timetable will show which journeys will have a changeover of bus bus as ive said anything that goes to dinnington will come back as something else as the return leg lives dinnington 5/10? mins before the outbound one arrives. Later this evening it will return to 1 bus as theres no through runs in the late evening.

[donnytom]

Here's a photo:

matthew9559.fotopic.net/p38053493.html

[yorks06]

So it seems the bus isn't just for the 122 as first thought as it seems it was used on the 33 prior to venturing onto this route. With the looks of it like Most TM buses it sees alot of derbyshire/south yorks/north nottinghamshire.

[lboyle]

this solo was on the 122 route again this morning also in the dashboard it had timetables for the 122 and the 43 in sheffield too, looks really smart.

[thrybergh]

the solo was on the 122 again this mornng, and got quite full, only 4 seats left empty, and today after school YN55 KMV was on the 122 adthere was 9 people on this bus, so it's definately proving to be more populer than the old powells 122 route, lets hope it keeps getting busier.

[22438]

Funny that it is in the red livery, I thought the had ditched the red in favour of the more common cream livery as their last few new buses were in those colours. Any idea why they seem to have two liveries? (3 if you count the plain white Solos and and full size bus, a Renown I think).

And does anyone know which bus operates the Evening/Sunday 3 in Sheffield as I haven't seen that bus yet. I'm pretty sure it only uses one bus and would have thought that a Solo would be sufficient.

[yorks06]

I thought that as well as it seems the latest livery is mostly cream with a red & brown wavey livery around the bottom part of the vehicle. In regards to the white livery i think the full size bus is a low floor alexander bodied dennis dart like those SEM used to run on the 50 & what occasionally are on the 19 in rotherham. As for the Number 3 in Sheffield id expect it could be anything like you said a Solo would be fine but id imagine on weeknights it depends on where the bus has operated previously.

Regarding the 122 comments & increased usage seeing as TM run the same route between malby - rotherham & same frequency i dont see why usage would increase due to the change of operator as from what i read about the old 122 on here people seemed to think it was ok & that the regular drivers were friendly & i doubt anybody would do dinnington - rotherham on it as it would take quite a while. Any increase usage id imagine would be coincidental & depend on whether a 37 or x78 is infront or behind on the more populated stretches.

[22438]

I thought that as well as it seems the latest livery is mostly cream with a red & brown wavey livery around the bottom part of the vehicle.

Indeed - as you've probably already seen here, TM Travel obviously haven't stopped painting buses in the cream-based livery.

[thrybergh]

This bus was on the 122 this morning again with 7 people on, and then the 15:6 from thrybergh was YN55 KMV as it as being for the last 2 days, also this got full earlier, with all the school kids catching this bus to dalton and eastwood.

Will keep an eye out tomorrow, allthough may catch this bus later to malby, but seems to be the solo on the malby runs nd the plaxton primo on the dinnington runs.