Full Route Visual | Arriva Leicester X84 - Rugby to Leicester | 4014 (UUI 2906)

[@gabrielstravels]

Does the X84 still use double deckers? I'm doing X84 next weekend but looking on bustimes it appears to have been downgraded to E200MMC & Pulsar 2 single deckers...

[@leicestertravels4705]

I think they have stopped using deckers, as the last few weeks have seen all of Hinckley’s on the 158. Maybe you could do that instead since I never got to from one. Probably low trees on the route. The 153 and X3 have had the same treatment.

[@gabrielstravels]

@@leicestertravels4705 How funny - I'm doing the 158 after the X84! And I'm also planning do to NX Coventry routes 20 and 25/85, wonder if you've done these ones too

[@leicestertravels4705]

@gabrielstravels-discoverin7368 I haven’t done any NX Coventry routes, and since my visualling days are long over, I probably never will. When I was doing visuals, NX Coventry never reached Nuneaton or Rugby. The 20 didn’t go that far yet, while the 85 was still the 585 with De Courcey.

[@gabrielstravels]

@@leicestertravels4705 Although I'm not doing them this weekend (but still have plans to do them eventually), do the 5/5A, 29 and 127 still use double deckers? Ah yes, I remember the 20 Nuneaton extension being fairly recent. My guess is that it was designed to give some competition to Stagecoach's 148 (previously 48C back then)

[@leicestertravels4705]

@@gabrielstravels The 5/5A and the 127 yes, while the 29/29A get some (usually the remaining YX16 MMCs, but they’re leaving soon). It’ll be interesting to see how the 127’s changed with the new entrance into Rothley. I haven’t even drove there for ages. I never bothered with the 29 again after Arriva decided against reinstating it to Burton, but I know the route in Ashby’s changed a bit since I did it.

[@powernetworker6526]

Out of interest, I remember when a similar route used to run under the number x44, do you know why that changed?

[@leicestertravels4705]

The X44 is pretty much the same as this route, the main difference that it went via Littlethorpe and Cosby. It was diverted to Huncote and Croft to replace another service, the 50A. It also went straight to Rugby from Lutterworth via Cotesbach, rather than around Magna Park.

[@powernetworker6526]

@@leicestertravels4705ah right, that also explains why the 50A seemed to just pop out of existence one day 😂

[@annmikehodson9467]

Both Hinckley and Thurmaston operate this.

[@CS_22]

God this is old. I spotted 35174, which as we know has been destroyed by crashing into a bridge. Any news on what’s happening with that? Is it being replaced, is it coming back or what

[@leicestertravels4705]

Nothing as far as I’m aware

[@CS_22]

leicesterbusadventurer Shame.

[@leicestertravels4705]

Ik but I thought that was why the B9TL from Leeds came down.

[@CS_22]

leicesterbusadventurer 36221 and 63007/8/11/38/70/71 haven't seen service. It's also not noted as moved on any fleetlists either.

[@leicestertravels4705]

I’d imagine we’ll only find out when more of the Metros are gone. Speaking of which, 66305 and 66309 have started to be stripped.

[@jonathonbusspottingvlogs8865]

Can you try X6 From Leicester to Coventry and 48 to Coventry and X7