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Boom! Part 2 to the 252 poor experiences that I have had!
4. Frequency at the end of 2023 - this is definitely the worst experience I have had with 252 out of all mentioned!
First of all, I had to wait an HOUR AND A HALF just for the bus at Hornchurch Town Centre, but I gave up after 30 minutes and got home with the car instead! Yes that was true!
Second of all, there has been frequent times that the 252 hasn’t bothered to turn up to the point I had to walk home for at least 45 minutes more than getting the bus last year, and even having to get the 248 instead due to a lack of 252’s arriving at Hornchurch!
Third of all, whenever the 252 has turned up, loads of them got curtailed last year, most to Romford Market, to the point I also had to get off and walk home! But the times if all 252’s were going Romford Market instead of Collier Row, I just took 248 or 370 instead last year as they were quicker to get there!
5. MMC’s not tracking - when they first arrived to do 252 from NS (10346/7), they were not tracking at times to the point it was difficult for 252 passengers to know when the bus was arriving! Sometimes it said 20 minutes but in reality it was 5 minutes with one of them coming!
6. Frequency issues once again- there has been times that I had to wait at Romford Market for a 252 for at least 15-30 minutes, at Hornchurch or at Elm Park Station - this was before the Scanias left btw, although some of these issues was after the changes!
When the route is supposed to be every 10 minutes during rush hour!
That’s it for problems I have experienced (the cons) on the 252, being local to this route, although tomorrow I will plan on doing the pros/ some good things of being local to the route!
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Out of the whole time since the channel started, I have barely talked about my local bus (252), done loads of videos on it but barely talking on here about it!
So today’s community post is gonna be about my poor experiences I have had being local to 252!
1. In about the end of 2022 until about March 2023, there has been an ongoing confusion back then regarding the buses that did this route and the 248, which there actually had been a few passengers that have hopped on the wrong bus because of not reading the blinds! This issue was more common on the Scanias than the Enviro400’s!
Btw, this was after the 248’s type change to LT’s, although there was confusion before the changes as well as both routes typically used the same thing back then!
2. Black Friday 2022 - 15001 had broken down near a school in Mawney Road (school name not revealed due to privacy reasons), which led to traffic, with cars being stuck there for over 45 minutes just to get to the other side of Mawney Road!
3. 15001’s announcements - I was on that bus, the driver was trying to do an announcement but unfortunately the announcement just was glitching and we couldn’t hear anything, just a broken mic sound! So the driver had to come and shout at passengers to move down the bus all because of a broken announcement!
This happened a month before the Scanias left - so February 2023!
4. Had a driver that shut the doors on me, and one that skipped me as well on there, especially if I had a long wait for that route!
I will do a part 2 of this as I have an awful lot over the times I have taken the 252!
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Last day of 217 with Arriva today!
Ngl despite I never had the chance to do this route! Gonna miss the variety this route had, if I was doing it I would have skipped the DW’s! 🤣🤣🤣
As I personally don’t like them as much as other bus types on this route, although I haven’t got a HA or a HV!
It will still be missed under Arriva, tbh I wish they had the route longer but good luck Go Ahead with it!
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Good afternoon, welcome back to LVF glitches part 2!
252 to Lakeside?
10346, was actually meant for 372 not the 252, that got subbed off 252 to do a 372 duty!
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Welcome to Lakeside!
Where today I’m not actually talking about the shopping centre but instead I’m talking about their main 2 bus routes, 370 and 372!
So first of all is it just me or does both 370 and 372 look so cursed with Enviro400’s next to each other!
Ngl as much as they suit both routes, both routes using E400’s gives me a cursed reaction!
I kinda miss the DW’s on 370, kinda don’t, personally prefer the T’s on there tbh, don’t understand the hate for them, they are nice and fun buses to ride personally!
But on the other hand, E400’s give a nice touch to 372 but I do prefer it being fully MMC! Half of the time I like when RM puts E400’s on 372, but recently ever since the rival Lakeside route, 370 started using E400’s, I kinda don’t like seeing E400’s on 372 anymore due to this change!
I got so used to 370 and 372 seeing different types of buses, it actually feels odd seeing the same type of bus doing both routes tbh, very cursed too!
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Yesterday, I was on 19789 on route 252 and unfortunately I have experienced a minor crash - wasn’t too severe!
The bus hit the van’s doors; but both vehicles are still drivable! So the van went and parked in front of the bus and both are easily repairable!
‘BUS IS BACK IN SERVICE TODAY ON ROUTE 256!!’
I do have a video on that so go check it out!
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Why are ENN’s tracking on the 66 atm?
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Did another Tender predictions today:
Tranche 954-964:
207/N207 - Retained by Transport UK with existing hybrid DD’s (4 years)
SL8 - Retained by Metroline with new electrics
463 - Retained by GAL with existing diesel SD’s (3 years)
633 - Retained by GAL with existing hybrid DD’s (3 years)
54 - Retained by Stagecoach with new electric DD’s
75 - Retained by Stagecoach with new electric DD’s
124 - Retained by Stagecoach with new electric SD’s
136 - Retained by Stagecoach with new electric DD’s
240 - Retained by Metroline with new electrics DD’s
69/N69 - Awarded to Stagecoach (LI) with new electric DD’s
687 - Awarded to Stagecoach (RM) with existing hybrid DD’s from 54/75 (4 years)
200 - Retained by Go Ahead with new electric DD’s
315 - Retained by Transport UK with existing diesel SD’s (3 years)
E9 - Retained by Metroline with existing hybrid DD’s from SL8 (4 years)
E10 - Retained by Transport UK with existing diesel MMC’s (4 years)
104 - Retained by Go Ahead with existing electric DD’s from 69
300 - Retained by Go Ahead with new electric SD’s
7/N7 - Retained by Metroline with existing hydrogen DD’s
227 - Retained by Go Ahead with existing DD’s (4 years)
8/N8 - Retained by Stagecoach with existing New Routemasters (4 years)
375 - Awarded to Stagecoach (NS) with an existing diesel SD (4 years)
Tranche 965-976:
208 - Awarded to Stagecoach (TB) with existing hybrid DD’s from 54/75 (4 years)
286 - Retained by Go Ahead with existing hybrid DD’s
301 - Awarded to Stagecoach (PD) with existing hybrid DD’s from 54/75 (4 years)
81 - Awarded to RATP Group (AV) with new electric DD’s
112 - Retained by Metroline with existing diesel SD’s (4 years)
232 - Retained by Go Ahead (NP) with
existing electric SD’s
209/378/533 - Retained by Go Ahead with existing diesel SD’s
205 - Retained by Stagecoach with existing New Routemasters (4 years)
214/N214 - awarded to Metroline (AC) with new electric SD’s
467 - retained by Transport UK with new electric SD’s
490 - retained by Transport UK with new electric SD’s
146- retained by Stagecoach with existing diesel SD’s (4 years)
336- retained by Stagecoach with existing diesel SD’s (4 years)
156 - retained by Transport UK with existing hybrid DD’s (3 years)
344 - retained by Transport UK with existing hybrid DD’s (3 years)
690 - Awarded to Arriva (N) with an existing hybrid DD (4 years)
140/N140 - Awarded to RATP (SO) with new electric DD’s
182 - Awarded to RATP (SO) with existing electric DD’s (from SL9)
183/N183 - Retained by RATP with existing electric DD’s
698 - Retained by RATP with existing hybrid DD’s (4 years)
SL9 - Retained by RATP with new electric DD’s
197 - Awarded to Arriva (N) with new electric DD’s
608 - Awarded to Stagecoach (NS) with existing hybrid DD’s from 136 (4 years)
646 - Awarded to Stagecoach (RM) with existing diesel SD’s (4 years)
652 - Awarded to Stagecoach (RM) with existing hybrid DD’s from 136 (4 years)
656 - Awarded to Stagecoach (RM) with existing hybrid DD’s from 136 (4 years)
679 - Retained by Go Ahead with existing hybrid DD’s (4 years)
686 - Awarded to Stagecoach (NS) with existing hybrid DD’s from 136 (4 years)
132/N132 - Retained by Go Ahead with existing electric DD’s
Plus another prediction for these tenders:
Rest of 54/75/136 MMC’s that I haven’t predicted on a route to move to city sightseeing to replace Scanias on there!
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Today I’m gonna give my real opinion of the DW’s as a person who’s local to the oldest batch with Arriva!
Ngl, I feel like that sometimes the DB300’s where I am get overlooked and they get too much hype from bus enthusiasts for what they really are, I understand that they are going soon but I feel like they get more attention than the newer buses!
For me, I don’t mind them DW’s personally although I don’t really enjoy getting them a lot anymore as much as before personally, I don’t feel like they are worth the hype myself! especially with how they are performing and their reliability plus with newer buses arriving!
I don’t really hate them but I don’t fully like them, they are just ok buses imo!
Like lately I skipped more of them than riding them, other than DW231 (the bus I have filmed), DW201 on 370 and DW237 on 375, other than that I only got 3 DW’s in October as I usually skipped them for other types, as they have become breakdown prone over the last couple months!
Although what I do like about the DW’s is that they can be fun buses to ride at times, when they aren’t very problematic, I have enjoyed getting loads of DW’s back earlier in the year and I personally liked them more back then but now, they are just not it for me atm!
So Yh I am cutting down the amount of DW videos for now, I will still do some but not as much!
Evening!
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You may be wondering why I haven’t put a gaming video for nearly a year now…
It’s mostly because I lost passion for gaming, I don’t like to game anymore!
Making these gaming videos that I did I felt like I wasn’t the person I am! I felt like I was forced to make them! I never really enjoyed making a gaming video plus my phone kept crashing when playing a game! Although I have changed phones since the last gaming video I did of the 97!
I prefer making other types of content over gaming anyday!
So Yh I won’t be doing any more gaming videos for my channel permanently unless if you guys want me to bring them back soon then idm!
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Hi everyone, I’m Romford Transport_Enthusiast (formerly known as London Transport.Central or LondonBuses252) and welcome along to my channel!
On my channel, you will mainly see me posting YouTube shorts and sometimes there will be longer videos posted. I may post something between Bus and Train Visuals, Observations, Journeys and sometimes, on rare occasions gaming videos and Edits!