(10 Mar 2024, 1:22 pm)TEN 6083 Prince Bishops as well. I’ve been in Durham the past couple of days photographing rail replacements and a few of them are missing vinyls.


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(10 Mar 2024, 6:07 pm)Retro Nero Both Prince Bishops and Drifters ARE getting a refresh next

(10 Mar 2024, 6:07 pm)Retro Nero Both Prince Bishops and Drifters ARE getting a refresh next

(10 Mar 2024, 8:59 pm)Michael About time, still sticking to the same Streetlites on the 60?, hopefully they might get a seat upgrade with USB's.

(24 Mar 2024, 10:15 am)Aaron21 317 is going great.

660 got taken off and replaced by a Cobalt cause of a break down and now 5463 has also died on its first journey taking 20 minutes to get from Percy Main to Royal Quays

(24 Mar 2024, 11:24 am)nova347 GCT 351 from Newcastle - Whitley Bay didn't even start at Haymarket, it started in Jesmond and is running 8 minutes early.

(24 Mar 2024, 10:15 am)Aaron21 317 is going great.

660 got taken off and replaced by a Cobalt cause of a break down and now 5463 has also died on its first journey taking 20 minutes to get from Percy Main to Royal Quays

(24 Mar 2024, 1:59 pm)Thomas12 All of the buses seem to be running very late too, unusual as it was very reliable when Stagecoach operated it.

Hopefully it’s just some teething issues.

(24 Mar 2024, 5:12 pm)Storx I know this might be a controversal opinion but I really don't understand why the 19 and 317 are both every 30 minutes on an evening and Sunday.

The councils are completely cash strapped and they're subsidising buses which are as frequent as buses from Ashington to Newcastle. It's a complete waste of tax payers money. Those 3 buses could be much better utilised, even if they ran the long 19 route on Sundays - at least the thing might actually have a purpose considering East Cramlington is busless.

It's even more baffling that the 57A runs at the same time, so North Shields to Whitley Bay via North Tyneside Hospital is more frequent on an evening and Sunday than during the week...

(24 Mar 2024, 5:23 pm)Thomas12 I've never understood why the 57A from Whitley Bay to North Shields exists - any idea what the purpose of the service was/is?

(24 Mar 2024, 5:27 pm)Storx Legacy route, the 57A used to be Cramlington to North Shields but I'm clueless why it still exists nowadays if I had to be honest. The subsidy has just never changed from when it was cancelled nearly 10 year ago now, why - god knows, incompetence more than likely.

It's the same as that circular route, who's number has bolted from my head in Sunderland which still existed until reletively recently.

(24 Mar 2024, 5:33 pm)Thomas12 Oh yeah, the 135/136 - that was another waste of money that could've been better spent elsewhere.

I agree with your original post though, surely the 317 would be sufficient on a Sunday. I'm not sure what the benefit of the 19 is considering Cobalt is dead on weekends, and most 19s I see are completely dead on Sundays.