Vehicle Details
Registration: LJ62 KYA
Chassis: Volvo B9TL
Bodywork: Wright Eclipse Gemini 2
Depot: Hexham
Livery: Elite Training Academy
Year new: 2012
Vehicle History
January 2024
Go North East
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The Wright Eclipse Gemini 2 bodied Volvo B9TLs which carry a wrap advertisement livery to promote the Elite Training Academy recruitment campaign have been dispersed from Riverside to the depots where the drivers shown on the livery are based. As such, this vehicle has transferred from Riverside Depot to Hexham.
December 2023
Go North East
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This vehicle has received a wrap advertisement livery to promote the Elite Training Academy recruitment campaign being launched in early 2024.
August 2020
Go North East
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Following the entry into service of new vehicles at Consett Depot, this vehicle has transferred from Consett Depot to Riverside. At Riverside, this vehicle will be temporarily allocated to "Crusader" services 26/27, to aid social distancing requirements. Once the former "Red Arrows" branded Volvo B9TL/Wright Eclipse Gemini 2 vehicles are displaced from service X1 and return from repaint and refurbishment at Bus & Coach World, Blackburn, this batch of Volvo B9s (6149 - 6161) will be cascaded to other routes.
June 2020
Go North East
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From Monday 1 June 2020, in line with guidance from the government, Go North East's bus services will start returning to what can be considered a 'normal' level of service on weekdays (albeit still reduced on weekends), also with some minor changes which had originally been planned to take place from 17 May 2020. As such, this vehicle has now been reinstated at Consett.
April 2020
Go North East
Following completion of all required vehicle re-allocations; this vehicle has been temporarily withdrawn from service due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and has been officially delicensed (SORN'd), enabling Go North East to obtain a tax refund.
December 2019
Go North East
In partnership with Gateshead Council; this vehicle has received exhaust modifications, increasing the Euro standard of this bus from Euro 5 to Euro 6.
April 2019
Go North East
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This vehicle has transferred from Stanley Depot to Hownsgill. After two and a half years of development, the region’s largest bus operator, Go North East opened the doors to its brand new £3.5 million, state-of-the-art Hownsgill Depot in Consett, County Durham, on Friday 15 March 2019. The high-tech operation replaces the company’s Stanley Depot, which it operated from for nearly 100 years. Therefore; most vehicles based at Stanley transferred to Hownsgill on Sunday 7 April, the date from which the new depot commenced operations.
April 2018
Go North East
This vehicle has entered service at Stanley Depot. Of the batch of thirteen former Go-Ahead London Volvo B9TL/Wright Eclipse Gemini 2 vehicles to be acquired by Go North East, six are to be branded for the "Toon Link" X70/X71 services, while the remaining seven are to carry Go North East's corporate livery. Three of the examples in Go North East's corporate livery are to be allocated to services 15/15A, and the remaining four act as spare vehicles for the double-deck services based at Stanley.
April 2018
Go North East
Prior to entering service at Go North East, this vehicle has received Go North East's corporate livery. This example has been fitted with the tagline, "Stay Connected | Many of our buses have free WiFi on board"
April 2018
Go North East
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This vehicle has been delivered to Go North East, following internal refurbishment and repaint into Go North East's corporate base livery at Bus & Coach World, Blackburn.
November 2017
Go North East
New in October 2012, this vehicle was previously with Go-Ahead London General as fleet number WVL498 at Putney Garage.It was recently displaced from Go-Ahead London's fleet and purchased by Go North East, in line with the contract for service 22 (Putney Common - Oxford Circus) being retained by London General with a new allocation of 22 Hybrid double-deck vehicles (a mixture of new Volvo B5LH/MCV EvoSeti plus existing examples already in the fleet), from 21st October 2017.Representing an investment of over £1.5 million, 13 of these buses (WVL496 - WVL508) have now been acquired by Go North East. They will be refurbished and repainted at Bus & Coach World, Blackburn, prior to assimilation into Go North East's fleet.As part of the refurbishment at Bus & Coach World, Blackburn, the entire batch will undergo exterior repaint, centre door conversion, fitment of an entrance door ramp, seats re-trimmed including extra padding, seat legs, hand grabs and hand poles repainted, buggy bay created, with free customer Wi-Fi and new white LED destination displays also fitted.Mechanically, this entire batch of buses have been fitted with a new Ecolife campaigned gearbox.
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May 2017
Go North East
Having incurred defects uneconomical to repair, this vehicle has been withdrawn from service at Chester-le-Street Depot. The Wi-Fi equipment fitted to this vehicle will be removed and fitted to another vehicle in the fleet.
May 2016
Go North East
Having previously carried "Prince Bishops" branding, this vehicle has been repainted into Go North East's corporate livery.
May 2015
Go North East
Following a number of publicity events to promote the investment into new vehicles for services 8 and 78, this vehicle has entered service at Chester-le-Street Depot on "Coast & Country" services 8/78.