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Go North East: Latest News & Discussion - November 2016 - TEN 6083 - 11 Nov 2016

TENs seemed to be running late earlier today or at least some of them were as a couple of times there were 2 that came together into MetroCentre Bus Station coming from Newcastle


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RE: Go North East: Latest News & Discussion - November 2016 - South Tyne Lad - 11 Nov 2016

(11 Nov 2016, 6:50 pm)Andreos1 Have there been issues with the X9/10 today?

Saw an X9 following an X10 heading north earlier tonight. 
Prior to that, this morning I saw an unidentified branded B9 NIS on the A1 heading south. It had a driver at the wheel, rather than a fitter.
It came on at the Angel and continued south.


Sounds like its running light to Teeside via the A1 and A66/A689 instead of its normal route.

The accident must've been pretty bad for that to happen.



(11 Nov 2016, 7:25 pm)Ds1197 Thanks so the early running 5  should of parked in one of those areas.

5s very rarely run early! Tongue

Throughtout the day, The Majority of 5s arrive/layover/depart before the next 11 is scheduled to Arrive and do the same thing. So drivers can get away without having to move to the spare stand to have there layover.
Conflicting movements only happen when the one of them is running late however, So there's a chance the 5/11 will have to use the layover bay if the other is on stand running late.

RE: Go North East: Latest News & Discussion - November 2016 - Ds1197 - 11 Nov 2016

5s very rarely run early!  Tongue  

Throughtout the day, The Majority of 5s arrive/layover/depart before the next 11 is scheduled to Arrive and do the same thing. So drivers can get away without having to move to the spare stand to have there layover.
Conflicting movements only happen when the one of them is running late however, So there's a chance the 5/11 will have to use the layover bay if the other is on stand running late.

The 5 now uses stand C the sameone as the 88/88A

RE: Go North East: Latest News & Discussion - November 2016 - South Tyne Lad - 11 Nov 2016

(11 Nov 2016, 10:09 pm)Ds1197 The 5 now uses stand C the sameone as the 88/88A

Does it? How longs that been happening?

Well that used to be the case when the 5 used the same stand as the 11.

RE: Go North East: Latest News & Discussion - November 2016 - Ds1197 - 11 Nov 2016

(11 Nov 2016, 10:11 pm)South Tyne Lad Does it? How longs that been happening?

Well that used to be the case when the 5 used the same stand as the 11.

Since the Sunday timetable changes the 5 and 9 towards Sunderland swapped stands

RE: x7 parked wingate today 1pm- November 2016 - johnwingate - 11 Nov 2016

i see there was a x7 parked in the layby robinsons bus stop / jobcentre at 1 pm today it had not in service on and the hazard lights were on so i assume it had broken down anyone else know anything

RE: Go North East: Latest News & Discussion - November 2016 - South Tyne Lad - 11 Nov 2016

(11 Nov 2016, 10:13 pm)Ds1197 Since the Sunday timetable changes the 5 and 9 towards Sunderland swapped stands

Ah right

Cant see the point of it tbh, 88/88As regularly run late and Driver Changes also occur in the Bus Station too, So if the 88/88A is late and having a driver change, Its going to bugger the 5.

Old system of 2 terminators on one stand and two passing services on the other worked fine, Apart from the odd delay to one service or two.

RE: Go North East: Latest News & Discussion - November 2016 - Ds1197 - 11 Nov 2016

(11 Nov 2016, 10:19 pm)South Tyne Lad Ah right

Cant see the point of it tbh, 88/88As regularly run late and Driver Changes also occur in the Bus Station too, So if the 88/88A is late and having a driver change, Its going to bugger the 5.  

Old system of 2 terminators on one stand and two passing services on the other worked fine, Apart from the odd delay to one service or two.

Well that kinda of happened today a late running 88 got stuck by a overlaying 5 and also the 9 got stuck behind that 88.

RE: Go North East: Latest News & Discussion - November 2016 - Gnebuspro91 - 11 Nov 2016

Worse bus ive been on is the 5 goes all over the place if i miss the 50 to shields i tend to get 9 to jarrrow then the 27 beacuse i dont wajt to board the 5

RE: Go North East: Latest News & Discussion - November 2016 - BusLoverMum - 12 Nov 2016

Yeah, lucky that our local waypoint is the stop before ours, rather than the one after, now
Arrivadid seem to pick up on that. No use timing your buses by the last stop in a village!

RE: Go North East: Latest News & Discussion - November 2016 - Swiny1 - 12 Nov 2016

I agree the 5s very rarely run early. On a night 5s sometimes have up to 13 mins at Jarrow lie back. Just in case that causes any confusion.

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RE: Go North East: Latest News & Discussion - November 2016 - NK53 TKT - 12 Nov 2016

I like the new Q3 NSAs, my first experience was Thursday morning on 5389, 5388 didn't have them working today though.

I was on 6078 on the 10A today and the NSA screens just had a screen saying WINDOWS XP IS PREPARING FOR UPDATE

RE: Go North East: Latest News & Discussion - November 2016 - Jamie M - 12 Nov 2016

(12 Nov 2016, 11:55 am)NK53 TKT I like the new Q3 NSAs, my first experience was Thursday morning on 5389, 5388 didn't have them working today though.

I was on 6078 on the 10A today and the NSA screens just had a screen saying WINDOWS XP IS PREPARING FOR UPDATE
They all sit on XP from what I've seen. Def on solos at stanley. Just a shame there havent been security updates with XP for a few years now.
Gotta get that security, Dan 😛

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RE: Go North East: Latest News & Discussion - November 2016 - ne14ne1 - 12 Nov 2016

So are all Quaylink, Citylink58 and TEN, NSAs almost ready to be rolled out?

RE: Go North East: Latest News & Discussion - November 2016 - Dan - 13 Nov 2016

(12 Nov 2016, 11:55 am)NK53 TKT I like the new Q3 NSAs, my first experience was Thursday morning on 5389, 5388 didn't have them working today though.

I was on 6078 on the 10A today and the NSA screens just had a screen saying WINDOWS XP IS PREPARING FOR UPDATE

(12 Nov 2016, 2:33 pm)ne14ne1 So are all Quaylink, Citylink58 and TEN, NSAs almost ready to be rolled out?

The new Next Stop Announcements for the Quaylink and Citylink 58 are almost ready to be rolled out, yes. 5389 and 5390 were the two buses used for testing across two days, hence why these two buses have the media loaded.

There's some amendments to be made, but nothing is 'wrong' so to speak hence why the media was left in 5389 and 5390.

The TEN is quite a while off yet. Keen to get it finished though so all of Gateshead's Next Stop Announcements are done and dusted.

RE: Go North East: Latest News & Discussion - November 2016 - Tom - 13 Nov 2016

(13 Nov 2016, 10:55 am)Dan The new Next Stop Announcements for the Quaylink and Citylink 58 are almost ready to be rolled out, yes. 5389 and 5390 were the two buses used for testing across two days, hence why these two buses have the media loaded.

There's some amendments to be made, but nothing is 'wrong' so to speak hence why the media was left in 5389 and 5390.

The TEN is quite a while off yet. Keen to get it finished though so all of Gateshead's Next Stop Announcements are done and dusted.

Any idea on the 40/41/42?

RE: Go North East: Latest News & Discussion - November 2016 - Adrian - 13 Nov 2016

5332 has been 'Cinderella' branded...

[Image: 15032086_10153868977686573_8024401462806...e=58D38100]

Credit: 'The Northern Road Transport Trust' on Facebook.

RE: Go North East: Latest News & Discussion - November 2016 - Andreos1 - 13 Nov 2016

(13 Nov 2016, 11:51 am)Adrian 5332 has been 'Cinderella' branded...

[Image: 15032086_10153868977686573_8024401462806...e=58D38100]

Credit: 'The Northern Road Transport Trust' on Facebook.

Can I be the first to publicly crack the joke about it needing to be home before midnight?

RE: Go North East: Latest News & Discussion - November 2016 - Rapidsnap - 13 Nov 2016

It does look awesome like

RE: Go North East: Latest News & Discussion - November 2016 - Dan - 13 Nov 2016

(11 Nov 2016, 1:50 pm)Dan I stand corrected.

699 and 700 have both been repainted, as has 6143.

700 should be ready to go to Deptford at the start of next week.

Photos below:

[Image: 30653957060_c453145422.jpg]Go North East: 699 / YJ10MFP by Daniel Graham, on Flickr

[Image: 30654582140_2174657b0b.jpg]Go North East: 0700 / YJ10MFU by Daniel Graham, on Flickr

[Image: 22777867708_d5fa0541fe.jpg]Go North East: 6143 / YN04GKA by Daniel Graham, on Flickr

(13 Nov 2016, 11:14 am)Tom Any idea on the 40/41/42?

Not sure on those!

(13 Nov 2016, 11:51 am)Adrian 5332 has been 'Cinderella' branded...

[Image: 15032086_10153868977686573_8024401462806...e=58D38100]

Credit: 'The Northern Road Transport Trust' on Facebook.

It was still being branded when that photograph was taken - a photo of the finished product is below. Note that 5332 is the first bus in the fleet to gain the new company logos:

[Image: 22777879668_3fa9b5af03.jpg]Go North East: 5332 / BJ10VUS by Daniel Graham, on Flickr