please empty your brain below
As you can see, I didn't go out on Saturday evening either.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 15.12.13 - 7:04 a.m. | #

There is no sign of the 588 on the London Vehicle Finder today. I suspect you witnessed a very rare glitch whereby there was an overlap of routes when there should not have been. I can only think of one other similar glitch but that involved a night route not starting on the Fri night / Sat morning as part of a new contract for route 10 / N10.

PC | 15.12.13 - 10:58 a.m. | #

I wonder if the 'stationery's' error is due to a spellcheck somewhere.

My logic: 'stationerys' is incorrect as 'stationery' is plural anyway, so it was flagged up with the squiggley red line of doom... "Oh look, it's saying 'stationery's' is right, that must be what I want".

RG | 15.12.13 - 1:05 p.m. | #

I seem to recall you reported another switchover where there was an overlap - the shuttle bus between Stratford Unintentional and Stratford Main continued in operation for some time after the DLR extension opened - apparently because the contract required it - some contingency time having been factored in, in case the DLR opened late, which turned out to be innecessary.

timbo | 15.12.13 - 2:52 p.m. | #

.....actually, now I've found the relevant date (1 Sept 2011), I see that it was mentioned in the comments for that date, rather than the blog itself.
.....the comment was made by someone calling himself Timbo............

timbo | 15.12.13 - 3:26 p.m. | #

The 588 is not running today, if you're interested.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 15.12.13 - 3:55 p.m. | #

I like the sound of Stratford Unintentional.

The 388 gets an interesting hotchpotch of buses running on it - some of them a little old, like in your pictures, but occasionally a shiny new Scania turns up. The extension looks like it'll be quite handy for people in South Hackney wanting to get to Eastfield - taking the 425 (particularly westbound) can take aeons.

martin | 15.12.13 - 4:17 p.m. | #

Companies do specify bus types in their tenders (I found the tendered bus types on a website once - can't find it now.) Certainly there's routes near my house that have a single uniform fleet of new buses, and other bus routes that have a random hotchpotch seemingly of whatever they found at the back of the depot. About a year ago or so I ended up on a single doored Abelio V reg single decker. Goodness knows where they'd dragged that one from as the route it was on had been twin door for donkeys.

Andrew Bowden | Homepage | 15.12.13 - 5:51 p.m. | #

I have read elsewhere that TfL requested that the 588 ran on Saturday so it was a scheduled operation and not a glitch as I had suggested. The source for this info is very reliable!

PC | 16.12.13 - 3:20 p.m. | #

That very long gap between the Trowbridge Estate and the Copper Box? They're working on it.

martin | 07.01.14 - 2:29 p.m. | #











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