Vehicle Details
Registration: NK18 EDX
Chassis: Optare Solo SR M790SE
Bodywork: Optare
Depot: Go North West
Livery: Adapted 2019 fleet livery
Year new: 2018
Vehicle History
June 2020
Go North East
Photograph by
From Monday 1 June 2020, in line with guidance from the government, Go North East's bus services will start returning to what can be considered a 'normal' level of service on weekdays (albeit still reduced on weekends), also with some minor changes which had originally been planned to take place from 17 May 2020. As such, this vehicle has transferred from Peterlee Depot to Consett.
March 2020
Go North East
Photograph by
Due to the current Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, there is falling customer demand and available resources. Therefore, to combat this during these unprecedented times, Go North East has reduced its service levels from Monday 23 March to run enhanced Sunday timetables rather than the full normal weekday output (Sunday service levels, plus some extra morning journeys for key workers, and a small number of contracted school/works services). As such - due to the lower number of vehicles being required at the moment - a number of transfers have taken place to ensure services are operated by the most fuel-efficient, economic and reliable buses. One such transfer is of this vehicle from Consett Depot to Peterlee, in order to operate Nexus-secured service 168.
April 2019
Go North East
Photograph by
This vehicle has transferred from Stanley Depot to Hownsgill. After two and a half years of development, the region’s largest bus operator, Go North East opened the doors to its brand new £3.5 million, state-of-the-art Hownsgill Depot in Consett, County Durham, on Friday 15 March 2019. The high-tech operation replaces the company’s Stanley Depot, which it operated from for nearly 100 years. Therefore; most vehicles based at Stanley transferred to Hownsgill on Sunday 7 April, the date from which the new depot commenced operations.
October 2018
Go North East
Photograph by
Due to capacity constraints within Chester-le-Street Depot, the operation of all of the depot's minibus contracts are transferring elsewhere. The operation of the Chester-le-Street Town Service has transferred from Chester-le-Street Depot to Stanley and as such this vehicle has transferred similarly to operate these services.
September 2018
Go North East
Photograph by
This vehicle has entered service at Chester-le-Street Depot. Seeing primary allocation to Chester-le-Street Town Services 700/701/702/703 and scholars service 876, this vehicle will also act as a dedicated spare vehicle for the Cathedral Bus services 40/40A/40B, in the event that one of the two white Optare Solos is unfit for service.
September 2018
Go North East
Photograph by
Prior to entering service, this vehicle has been fitted with the tagline "Stay Connected | Many of our buses have free WiFi on board".
September 2018
Go North East
Photograph by
This vehicle, which carries a red and blue base livery, has arrived into the Go North East fleet. It is currently being prepared for service at Saltmeadows Road Depot. It will be transferred to Chester-le-Street Depot in due course. These brand new buses feature Esteban Civic V3 seating albeit with blue ‘Go’ fabric seat moquette opposed to the now-standard leather; two-colour Tarabus 'Wood Effect' flooring; and blue accent lighting, which is fitted underneath seats, to provide extra light on the gangway. They are also fitted with free passenger Wi-Fi, but not Next Stop Announcements as is now considered to be the standard specification of Go North East’s new vehicles. The discrepancies in the specification of these vehicles compared to the standard specification relates to the fact that they have been purchased for specific low-cost Durham County Council contracts.
link Related
April 2016
Go North East
Prior to the service changes taking place on Sunday 17th April 2016, this vehicle has transferred from Chester-le-Street Depot to Washington, allowing a period of driver familiarisation on the Scania OmniCity vehicle type.
April 2017
Go North East
This vehicle has received minor modifications to its special promotional livery for radio station Sun FM, including new logos for both Go North East and Sun FM.
April 2016
Go North East
Having previously carried "Fast Cats" branding, this vehicle has been repainted into a plain blue base livery.