Can anyone remind the last Arriva ran Metro replacement contract. Its been a while. Id love to see Arriva do more Metro replacement

I see from Dan's Twitter account that GNE have acquired a number of vehicles from various sources within the Go-Ahead Group.

So far it looks to be:
2x Volvo B7RLE / Wright Eclipse 2 from EYMS (prob 4 altogether given what I mentioned the other week).
1x Scania N94UB / ELC Esteem and 1x Scania N94UB Omnicity from Metrobus, Crawley. Worth noting that the Omnicity that has been brought up was one of the first of the type to enter service in the UK.
1x Volvo B7TL / ADL President from Go-Ahead London.

No doubt we be informed of the fleetnumber of these soon.

Collection of Lothian B9TLs by Because Buses, on Flickr

Looks there’s about 6 of them at Saltmeadows on this photo


Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

So one of the drifter has lost some of its branding 
https://flic.kr/p/2kNJVfd

Just seen this whlist googling:
https://www.cityam.com/torsus-coming-to-uk-interview/

So apparently the Explorer ticket is allowed on the 685 between Newcastle and Carlisle but then says "Valid stagecoach buses within Carlisle" does anyone actually know which buses the ticket is valid on

https://twitter.com/dan3942/status/13740...05959?s=21


Sent from my iPhone XS using Tapatalk

Ex MetroBus London’s Scania OmniCity 561 has arrived at Riverside Depot

https://flic.kr/p/2kMVbSM


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Tees Flex will operate the free vaccination shuttle in Middlesbrough starting tomorrow, linking the Bus Station and Railway Station to the newly opened Vaccination Centre at the Riverside Stadium. It will run every 20 minutes from Stand 15 7 days a week - marking the first use of a Tees Flex vehicle on Passenger duties on Sundays from next week.

TeesFlexVaccinationShuttleMiddlesbrough.pdf (tiscon-maps-stagecoachbus.s3.amazonaws.com)

Bustimes.org have the NX times for all the routes scheduled to return up to August and I've noticed none of GNE's contracts up there have GNE dropped out of their NX contracts? If so Why?