Posted by Fred on October 8, 2001, 9:04 pm
, in reply to "Private Hire" 193.61.159.18
1144 (LXI 7144) is allocated to Kilrea, so I expect it was a Kilrea driver using it. One of the Kilrea drivers told me something before about CL operating Belfast private hires. The driver said that at the minute they can't get Belfast drivers to do private hires for some reason and that Belfast Private hires were being sent up to Coleraine.
I know that Kilrea depot was given a private hire, not that long ago for a group travelling between Belfast and Newtownards. Hardly the most suitable depot to operate this private hire. The private hire may have only been between Belfast and NA but the CL drivers have to get paid for their journey between Belfast and Coleraine.
When Kilrea depot operate a private, 1144 normally gets a day out, makes a change of its normal workings between Ballymena and Limavady (service 115 / 175)