I've just been trying to use Google Earth to find Houghton Primary Care Centre with absolutely no luck at all.

Much of the north east is between 2005 and 2009, but there is a small area from March 2012.

The area inside this square if you can picture it -



Northern edge - Just south of Darras Hall, Newbiggin Hall Estate, Gosforth, south of Coast Road, mouth of Tyne.

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Area inside includes Throckley, Newcastle City Centre, Jesmond, Blaydon, Whickham, Gateshead, South Tyneside.

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Southern edge - Seaburn, Witherwack, Town End Farm, just south of Follingsby, just north of Wrekenton, Team Valley (not south end), northern half of Sunniside, northern half of Rowlands Gill, up to boundary of Crawcrook/Ryton, and over the Tyne and north to just south of Darras Hall.



I managed to find Houghton Care Centre on Bing Maps - something I've never really thought of using before. Not sure about rest of Tyne and Wear/North East, but the whole of the Greater Sunderland area is from the last 18 months because I can see the purple Versas on the 36 route which only started in July 2011.

http://www.bing.com/maps/

Only Bing's aerial imagery has been updated, not Bing's funky birds eye view camera mode - those images are well old. Again not sure about rest of Tyne and Wear, but the Sunderland images are from 2007 because the Redby buses running the rather short lived Sunderland circular can be seen. L608WWK and ex-Go North East Sigma L482CFT can be seen at the Clacton Road terminus at Hylton Castle!

Working in collaboration with Nexus and the local bus operators, Gateshead Council is trialling the use of "plastic bollards" to protect bus lanes on the A184 Felling Bypass and A167 Durham Road.

They cost £75 each!!! Anything that could help combat bus-lane misuse must be a positive though

http://www.nexus.org.uk/news/2013/bus-la...-gateshead

Might be worth noting that Arriva were running Metro replacement services 900 and 901 today! Managed to get a few photos, I shall edit this post when they're up on Flickr.

Tyne Valley Travel now have W247PAU, from Nottingham. A photo can be seen here

Go North East Wright Gemini 2 / Volvo B5L Hybrid - 6061 (NK62CJE)
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Couldn't be bothered to add any blinds to it. I can give anyone the individual parts if you want to make a better version or the B7 version, just let me know.

Hi guys.

Can anyone confirm whether the vehicle pictured below is owned by GCT or not? Thanks in advance...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/danielgrahamm/8438356655/

Any other GCT related stuff can be put here aswell - it seems we were missing this thread!

South Shields based MAN 22049 has been repainted into normal fleet livery (ex X34 blue).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pla...5F3CSZcCFs

Don't know if anyone has seen this yet, but I thought it was rather funny indeed! Can anyone imagine a Stagecoach/Go North East/Arriva ad like this?

(31 Jan 2013, 9:53 pm)citaro5284 wrote

(31 Jan 2013, 9:41 pm)Adam Malarkey wrote weren't they supposed to start like 7 months ago, but due to adverse weather conditions they didn't

No

Work was meant to start a while back, looking at original articles from the time planning permission was granted:
http://www.nebusiness.co.uk/business-new...-31070465/
They suggest the depot would be open by late Summer 2013. Considering that land works have just begun, it is unlikely to be complete until Winter 2013/2014 at the earliest.

Some pictures of London companies (Stratford Bus Station)