Emergency timetables being introduced some Ashington services from 14th April to combat driver shortages
4th May 2024:
PB0003954/1433
New GO NORTH EAST LIMITED X75 (X75) Newcastle Wallington Hall
12th May 2024:
PB0003954/1383
Variation GO NORTH EAST LIMITED 82 (82) Queen Elizabeth Hospital Waterview Park
PB0003954/1219
Variation GO NORTH EAST LIMITED X1 (X1A) Newcastle Peterlee
PB0003954/1280
Variation GO NORTH EAST LIMITED 81 (81) Sunderland Gateshead
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Looks like our Dan has gone all out... explains the blue E400 spotted elsewhere!
I have a valid CPC going unused if you need drivers
(26 Mar 2024, 9:28 pm)L469 YVK Rather than throwing money at all these secured Micky Mouse services, some of which only turn up once an hour and are off no use unless dependant.......is better bus / metro integration with local and major routes not the way forward? Seamless ticketing and guaranteed connections. Obviously would never work under the existing private / secured service model.....but bigger picture needs looked at.
Fine example.....308 / 309 in North Tyneside.......passengers ride through to Northumberland Park instead and straight onto Metro....route lengths cut down, more connections and useful links created rather than just another bus along the Coast Road to Newcastle running late as **** some days and sitting in all that traffic. Not saying to scrap them by any means yeah? But just a prime example
(26 Mar 2024, 9:28 pm)L469 YVK Rather than throwing money at all these secured Micky Mouse services, some of which only turn up once an hour and are off no use unless dependant.......is better bus / metro integration with local and major routes not the way forward? Seamless ticketing and guaranteed connections. Obviously would never work under the existing private / secured service model.....but bigger picture needs looked at.
Fine example.....308 / 309 in North Tyneside.......passengers ride through to Northumberland Park instead and straight onto Metro....route lengths cut down, more connections and useful links created rather than just another bus along the Coast Road to Newcastle running late as **** some days and sitting in all that traffic. Not saying to scrap them by any means yeah? But just a prime example
https://www.tt2.co.uk/northbound-works/
As if things couldn't get worse, now there's this to add into the mix, absolutely embarrassing that this and the Tyne Bridge are being done at the same time. One lane through the Tunnel, one lane through Newcastle and roadworks on the Western Bypass.
'Excellent planning', as an understatement.
Believe Blyth and Ashington drivers and engineers have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action in their dispute over pay.
Likelydates will be early to mid April
7578 is currently tracking as SPRR on the x93
Just curious after seeing photos.....but why did Arriva Northumbria / Durham County end up ripping out the original Proudmutual coach seats out of the 1989/1990 NMS batch of Optare Delta's and instead, replace with bench seating & repaint the handrails yellow / green? Did the coach seats get donated to other vehicles within Arriva Northumbria / Durham County?
Question, i was on the 307 yesterday bound from Battle Hill to North Shields, and we were following behind the 41 (6142 with its dodgy display for Howdon)
and the driver went clockwise around Hadrian Park then back towards Battle Hill, but when he got to the Jolly Bowman Roundabout he went full circle then back along Addington Drive towards Hadrian Park (still displaying Howdon), so my question is this, does it always do that, or had he made a mistake?
5404 is in Leeds - https://www.flickr.com/photos/199503625@...R6-2pByFzz
