Thanks to Ben Beaver for these shots:
Seen travelling Northbound on the M5 at Sampford Peverell this morning, presumably heading to Bristol on driver training duties was this pair of Plaxton Elite bodied Volvo B11RT's from the Stagecoach South West fleet. The pair will be used on the new 'South West Falcon' route which starts operations on February 14th.
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It is expected that some of these will be on display in Plymouth this morning outside the Guildhall alongside the launch of the new bus fleet for Plymouth. Hopefully if the weather improves just a bit I will have pictures tomorrow!
I like that even the destination blinds say coming soon! Very Stagecoach and very Un-First like.Good luck to Falcon though I do wonder if at a quid the first two weeks whether they'll be enough seats as it would not be good to leave people behind.
ReplyDeleteSaw the nice new Stagecoach buses outside the Gildhall, very nice I must say, also been fortunate to catch new decker on the 1 today, lovely and great WIFI that actually works.
ReplyDeleteHave to say I think these buses look great in Stagecoach colurs, much better than the mono-tone 'flash' citybus colours.
What next for Stagecoach??.. I reckon there is a fair bit more to come in the city after the Falcon has launched!
I want to really support this service, but really disappointed that with a little over 2 weeks to launch date, there is no timetable, details on fares (other than £1 launch fare) and no other marketing than one page on their website. Obviously SC are committed to the new service, but unless people know about the Falcon, no one will fly it!
ReplyDeleteTo View falcon timetables go on stagecoach Plymouth website and type in search FLCN and there they are!!
DeleteThe timetable is on the website but boy is it hard to read
DeleteStill 2weeks to go .Patience will be rewarded.
DeleteFor timetable. Go on Stagecoach Plymouth website. Timetables... type in FLCN and hey presto there it is. Fares I believe will be from £7.50 single but typically around £20 single £25 return! Confirmation early next week.
DeleteShame that normal passengers won't know to search FLCN to find the timetable though :-/
DeleteAbout time the rest of Citybuses new buses turned up,thought they would have been here by now, surprised that stagecoaches all arrived first
ReplyDeleteI get the impression that ADL are running behind at the moment. SC have not received all of theirs yet either. Citybus have all their single deckers which should hit the road shortly, just waiting on paperwork to be sorted. The double deckers are now due in February so may well wait till 1st March and get 16 reg
Deleteafter looking through the Stagecoach journey planner this morning managed to find the below link to the SWFalcon Timetable
ReplyDeletehttps://tis-kml-stagecoach.s3.amazonaws.com/PdfTimetables/XDAFLCN0.pdf
better looking one at https://tiscon-maps-stagecoachbus.s3.amazonaws.com/Timetables/South%20West/falcon%20web%20tt%20140216.pdf
Delete(links from Falcon page at https://www.stagecoachbus.com/promos-and-offers/south-west/fly-the-south-west-falcon)
what are stage coach gone to do with there others buses like the solo buses and deackers 04 plate ,buses cost money if sat in depot and not out on the road
ReplyDeleteGoing else where or reserve fleet.You know Chesterfield has got about 10 56plate buses parked at the back of the yard.
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