12070 was on X63 on Friday. Two hybrid X63's I've now travelled on recently.

(31 Aug 2014, 10:40 pm)Acky81 wrote Result!! I've noticed a few deckers on the route lately

School holidays - the B7s are used on anything and everything.

When the OmniCities go for their MAX refurb for the X66, what busses are to be used for replacements on the route until the Omni's return?

Hi everyone,

Soon, I'm planning on starting taking photographs of transport (hopefully a nice mixture of railways and buses), and intend to start a Flickr account etc.

Just looking for some advice, I'm fine on the part of the railways, I train-spot at CLS regularly and see many guys taking photos without any hastle, I'm just a bit concerned about the buses.....

I've always been a relatively well-behaved kid, and on the rare occasion that I get told off, I really do get annoyed about it, especially if it's for something as simple and innocent as snapping a few shots of a bus on it's first day in service. I reckon I'll be fine in Chester-Le-Street, but in terms of wanting to add a bit of variety to my photos, in places like Newcastle and Gateshead, I don't really like the idea of a policeman coming along and asking to view all of your photos.

Can anyone give me any advice on the best places in the 'notorious' zones on where to take photographs of buses. Thanks in advance and any advice is appreciated.

Marcus

(26 Aug 2014, 8:01 pm)Andreos Constantopolous wrote Aye, x90, x3, x4 and if I remember right, the x5 all served the estate at one point or another - missing the stops out.
A lot of people gave up waiting because of it. Whether complaints were made, is another thing.

This bloke did seem apologetic - will see if it happens again.
It is out in the public domain now, Nexus insiders could see the comments on here. Will make it official next time.

On a slightly different note, does anyone know why the 37 doesn't call at the same stand as the 4/x1?
Never been able to work out, why it calls at the stand it does.

Imagine it's because the stands are quite busy as it is? The X1 can often have waiting time there, and the 4 likewise.
Adding another bus to the mix would mean buses going onto the stand behind possibly.

Just a suggestion for a bit later in the year, a NEB annual award ceremony, like what used to be on Jeff's Bus Lane. Maybe there could be a poll where members voted for a number of different awards??
http://www.jeffsbuslane.co.uk/features/awa11.htm

I have waited till I told people close to me, but guess what?

I'm going to Scotland, got the word on Wednesday, starting September 9th, looking likely I may be away for 2 year, though I may get home in 12 months, depending on my progress.

I have put everything into getting this and my effort has paid off, I even give my best friends wedding a miss to put all I could into getting this placement and I can justify letting my friend down, because I achieved what I set out to do.

So, I have just over a fortnight left, and it may not be till Spring 2016 before I find my way back home full time, in that time I intend to completely drop off the radar, isolate myself only keeping in touch with a couple of people, to most people it will be like I have simply disappeared...

I want to take a moment to thank you all for your support, it means a lot not only to me, but my family as well, I love this place and the mad little world of bus enthusiasm, some of you I know, some I don't, some of you I like, some who do my head in.

I enjoy NEB for all it's little faults, backbiting, bitching and moaning at times, it is a good place to be...

As I asked a while ago, can I ask that the mods do not delete my account, it is going to be quite inactive for up to 2 years, but I am coming back and I will be intending to use it again in the future...

So, this is it, now or never and I have a real good feeling about this and if I can come home fit and well and twice the person I am no, then there are some exciting times coming up.

The first few months will be hell for me, will have to pack in smoking and go through a cold turkey to get off pain and sleep pills and I ain't looking forward to that, but if I don't do it now, I will probably die before I'm 40, I'm 32 now and some people actually told me once they were surprised to see me hit 30 [SMILING FACE WITH SMILING EYES]

So once again, thanks, keep me in your thoughts, pray for me, whatever...I will say my last goodbye in a couple of weeks before I go 😀

So after reading and replying about school stuff in the annoying thread, I thought I would start this thread for our school memories

At Choristers

1. At an end of year tutor group party, I walked in with 40 quids worth of sweets and chocolate what I had stole and stashed away for weeks

2. One morning I was bored, one of my mates suggested we ring another lads mother and tell her what we wanted to do with her, there was hell on about it, and the funny thing about it was the lad whose mam we rang was stood right behind me

3. Bored one day, I decided to see if I could get literally everyone talking, so I thought it would be funny to tell write a suicide note...ok, I lied, it was close to 50 suicide notes and put them in 50 changing room lockers, I certainly got attention, I was made to stand in front of the whole school and apologise
4. When Tony Blair first became Labour Leader, a Telegraph or Guardian hack came to the shool looking for a photo as Tony Blair had gone to school there, me and 2 mates volunteered to have our picture, the photographer asked us to get permission from our tutor or headmaster, we didn't of course and get hauled over the coals for that
5. Broke someone's hand after he took the piss out of me, nearly got permanent exclusion for that

I held a couple of records there, worst choir audition and worst student in the schools house system, we be given a + or -, merit/demerit whatever you want to call it, and for 2 years my points were always in the red, leaving -50 at one point over a month

At Easington...

Had only been there about 10 days when someone badgered me to fight someone for taking the piss out my sister, I kicked the crap out of him

Having a snowball fight with a friends and I accidently hit the deputy heads canister...splattered all over his bald fat head, lol
Led a strike

Set fire to my school uniform in protest at how I was being treated

When I was in Middlestone Moor Children's Home me and my mate decided were going to play truant for as long as we could...What did we get up to, went to Peterlee Library for about a week

And time I wanted to kill someone, a kid tortured me for ages, one day he came up behind me and dug his knee up my arse, so I picked up half a brick and chased him knowing I would seriously hurt him or even murder him

The time someone said 'poke the teacher in the back with a compass' I did and the kid said do it was the one who grassed me up...

Another teacher(Business Studies)who hated me said something to me one day, so I said 'By the way Dave, do you use Mr Sheen to get your head so shiny' I got doubly wrong for that, for calling him by his first name and being cheeky

http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/nort...le-7639310

Thought it may come in useful if we had a thread to record comings and goings at Thornton Brothers, Ashington. They do bus refurbishments on behalf of most of the big groups...

Arrived today were
DW23 LJ53BFX
DW24 LJ53BFY
DW26 LJ53BGF
DW27 LJ53BGK
All DAF DB250/Wright Gemini ex Arriva London. They are to be converted to single door and refurbished for Arriva's Yorkshire Tiger subsidiary.