I think its about time we went cashless in North East! Or at least no change!

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While the order hasn't officially been confirmed, the first Enviro400s are in the process of delivery. Thanks to Steve Mutly on the 'Stagecoach Enthusiasts' Facebook Group, they are:
10941 SN18KNE

10942 SN18KNF
10943 SN18KNG
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10945 SN18KNJ
10946 SN18KNK
10947 SN18KNL
10948 SN18KNM
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10955 SN18KNW
10956 SN18KNX
10957 SN18KNY
10958 SN18KNZ
10959 SN18KOA
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10961 SN18KOD
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10964 SN18KOJ
10965 SN18KOU
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10967 SN18KOW
10968 SN18KOX
10969 SN18KPA
10970 SN18KPE

They are Worthing Depot to replace Scania E400s on 'Coastliner' 700. They aren't due into service until July so are going into store until then.

Most of the 'behind the scenes' work on a number of the site's features is now complete, leaving us with content to add/update as and when we have time, so we're looking at a couple of things that we can do to improve NEB.

Instead of us debating on what we think would most likely to be found useful by the site's users, we thought it'd be worth asking you all directly. That's more likely to give us a good range of different things people would like to see on the site, and also see if there's a big interest in one particular idea.

So, please, give us your suggestions. We look forward to reading them!

KMB's B8L MCV EvoSeti - https://www.flickr.com/photos/76345166@N...67/in/feed

This long established taxi operator is now running local services in North Northumberland. They have an evening town service in Berwick to replace journeys withdrawn by Perrymans.

They've just started a shuttle from Haggerston Castle to Lindisfarne. There's also a local service running on the island.

They are using a special restricted operator licence to run the services. Normally 8 seater LDV Maxus minibuses running on taxi plates. Their depot is a short walk from Perrymans at Berwick. They also have Berwick's only party bus.

Well worth a look I recon.

Charles

Does anyone know the former registrations of the Wilkinsons Coach T12MCU that attended Kirkby Stephen on Easter Sunday?

(31 Mar 2018, 5:34 am)Coastliner700 wrote Sadly I believe Arriva didn’t want it they seemed to miss journeys out the last ones because they were late. Often missing parts of the journey. And the end was soon after.

That is a shame. Hopefully one day Arriva or Go North East will run a reasonably frequent service along Ponteland Road or Stamfordham Road around Kenton or Cowgate and compete with Stagecoach. The GNE 32A gets a fair number of passengers when it operates on a Sunday and on evenings. Stagecoach offers various express services, if Arriva or GNE did so they  would have a good chance of taking Stagecoach on, particularly running to Central Station which Stagecoach only does with the 8 on an early morning, other than getting a bus around the Haymarket area to Central Station. They could at least trial it.

From Newcastle, what is the best service to and from Wallsend? I can get the Stagecoach 12 or 40 or I can get the GNE 11 or Q3, I think the Coaster 1/1A takes longer. I don't know where is best to post this.

19209 & an unidentified ALX300 on the 39 yesterday.