Tayway

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Tayway
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A New Routemaster bus operating Tayway route 73
Overview
Area served Tayside, Scotland
Locale Dundee, Broughty Ferry, Monifieth, Carnoustie, Arbroath
Transit typeBus, Rail (until 1986)
Website Stagecoach Bus
Operation
Began operationNovember 1980
Operator(s) Tayside Regional Council (1980–86)
Northern Scottish (1980–86)
British Rail (1980–86)
Strathtay Scottish (1986–2005)
Stagecoach Strathtay (2005–present)

Tayway is a bus (and previously rail) service between Dundee and Arbroath in Scotland. The service started in November 1980 and was operated jointly by Tayside Regional Council, Northern Scottish and British Rail. It included an integrated timetable and fare system, meaning that tickets could be used on all three operators. The brand is now used for Stagecoach Strathtay's route 73.

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Original service

A partnership was formed in 1980 between Tayside Regional Council, Northern Scottish and British Rail whereby fares would be standardised and details of all services would be published in a shared timetable. The buses and trains operating on the route were given Tayway branding, including British Rail's fleet of 5 Class 122s and Tayside Regional Council's fleet of 26 Daimler Fleetlines. The arrangement came to an end in 1986 due to bus deregulation in the United Kingdom and the bus services were taken over by Strathtay Scottish, who used a fleet of AEC Routemasters on the route. [1]

Current use

Strathtay Scottish were bought by Stagecoach Group in 2005, [2] who continued to use the Tayway brand for their route 73 between Ninewells Hospital [lower-alpha 1] , Dundee, Broughty Ferry, Monifieth [lower-alpha 2] , Carnoustie [lower-alpha 3] , and Arbroath [lower-alpha 4] . The 73, combined with the 73A, 73B and 73C runs every 15 minutes on weekdays. The service runs to a very similar timetable on Saturdays and runs half-hourly on Sundays. [lower-alpha 7] [3] The route was notable for being the only bus route in the UK (outside of London) to retain bus conductors, [4] known locally as clippies. Conductors were found on most bus services in the area until the 1980s, when most buses became pay-on-entry, minimising the need for a second staff member on board. Conductors speed up journey times, minimising dwell time at bus stops en-route as the driver does not need to issue fares. [5] However, conductor-operation on the route was stopped in March 2020 as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic, and it was later announced that conductors would not return to the route. [6]

In November 2014, Stagecoach announced a three-month trial of two New Routemaster buses. The trial was unsuccessful, with buses frequently breaking down, causing substantial delays. [7]

The route is now operated with 18 hybrid double-decker buses built by Alexander Dennis in Falkirk and Volvo in Sweden. [8]

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References

  1. ↑ Reilly, Paul (31 October 2011). "A original Tayway bus survivor". Dundee Museum of Transport . Archived from the original on 16 June 2020. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
  2. ↑ Devoy, David (15 June 2019). Strathtay Scottish Buses. Amberley Publishing Limited. ISBN   9781445691282.
  3. ↑ "Service 73" (PDF). stagecoachbus.com.
  4. ↑ "Route 73 Tayway Bus Timetables | Dundee to Arbroath | Stagecoach". www.stagecoachbus.com. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
  5. ↑ Eighteen, Stephen. "LONG READ: How Tayside conductors on the 73 found true love on 'UK's only clippie bus outside London'". The Courier. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
  6. ↑ Amery, Rachel. "Conductors on Arbroath to Ninewells Hospital bus service to be made redundant". Evening Telegraph. Retrieved 16 September 2020.
  7. ↑ Dinnie, Steven (4 November 2014). "All aboard! Stagecoach's new Routemaster buses take to the road between Dundee and Arbroath". The Courier. Retrieved 2 August 2020.; Wilson, Alan (21 November 2014). "Stagecoach's Routemaster bus trial runs into some trouble". The Courier . Retrieved 2 August 2020.
  8. ↑ "Family fun at bus launch". www.stagecoachbus.com. Retrieved 2 August 2020.


Notes

  1. ↑ Service 73A on Saturdays and service 73B don't serve Ninewells Hospital.
  2. ↑ Services 73A and 73B serve Ashludie instead of Carnoustie and Arbroath. Additionally, the 73A serves Ethiebeaton Park too.
  3. ↑ Service 73C ends at Carnoustie Westhaven Park on weekdays and Saturdays, but continues to Arbroath via Westhaven Park on Sundays, while services 73A and 73B don't serve Carnoustie and Arbroath.
  4. ↑ Service 73 only serves Arbroath mainly, but occasionally and all day on Sundays, service 73C serves Arbroath too.
  5. ↑ Monifieth Ashludie on Sundays
  6. ↑ Hourly service on Sundays
  7. ↑ However not every service serves Carnoustie and Arbroath. The 73A ends in Monifieth (Ethiebeaton Park) [lower-alpha 5] and the 73B ends in Monifieth (Ashludie), meaning daily, there is only a half-hourly service [lower-alpha 6] to Carnoustie and an hourly service to Arbroath.
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