(31 Oct 2017, 8:44 pm)Andreos1 wrote I am racking my brains to see what Reading do with theirs.

Without checking, I can't remember if they use any mention of the fuel type within the livery.

With checking, they have "gas power from Readingbuses... quieter, cleaner, greener" along the top of the pod v
The MMC deckers have a tag line on the back/side - "another gas powered bus for Reading"

With the infrastructure in place and push towards greener technology, why not tell the punters in my view.

(01 Nov 2017, 9:02 am)RBZ 5459 wrote With checking, they have "gas power from Readingbuses... quieter, cleaner, greener" along the top of the pod v
The MMC deckers have a tag line on the back/side - "another gas powered bus for Reading"

With the infrastructure in place and push towards greener technology, why not tell the punters in my view.

Thanks for checking

I will hold my hands up and say that I was totally oblivious to the tag lines they feature. Despite riding them and seeing them on a regular basis.

Green leaves, hot air balloons etc stand out. I can remember seeing those visual images. Ditto whatever funky livery they happen to be in.
I can't say a tag line does stand out. Certainly not for me anyway.

(01 Nov 2017, 10:30 am)Andreos1 wrote Thanks for checking

I will hold my hands up and say that I was totally oblivious to the tag lines they feature. Despite riding them and seeing them on a regular basis.

Green leaves, hot air balloons etc stand out. I can remember seeing those visual images. Ditto whatever funky livery they happen to be in.
I can't say a tag line does stand out. Certainly not for me anyway.

What's up with the emoji's?, they just seem to be writing....

No November threads up either!

Stagecoach North East: Latest News & Discussion - November 2017

27729 is back in service freshly repainted
19381 has just left Sunderland depot having been repainted

19432 now carrying a Megabus allover advert.

Any further gas buses been painted yet

Registration number PB0001987/299
Licence Number PB0001987
Variation number 1
Status Cancelled
Service number. X55DN, X55
Service type Limited Stop
Start point Dalton Park
Finish point Newcastle, Pilgrim Street
Date received 03 Nov 2017
Effective date 29 Dec 2017
End date

(03 Nov 2017, 3:43 pm)RBZ 5459 wrote Registration number PB0001987/299
Licence Number PB0001987
Variation number 1
Status Cancelled
Service number. X55DN, X55
Service type Limited Stop
Start point Dalton Park
Finish point Newcastle, Pilgrim Street
Date received 03 Nov 2017
Effective date 29 Dec 2017
End date

didn't take long dis it

(03 Nov 2017, 3:43 pm)RBZ 5459 wrote Registration number PB0001987/299
Licence Number PB0001987
Variation number 1
Status Cancelled
Service number. X55DN, X55
Service type Limited Stop
Start point Dalton Park
Finish point Newcastle, Pilgrim Street
Date received 03 Nov 2017
Effective date 29 Dec 2017
End date

Stockton High Street to Dalton Park is also canceled.... shame it didn't last, maybe more runs on the Saturday or even peak times throughout the week.

(03 Nov 2017, 3:43 pm)RBZ 5459 wrote Registration number PB0001987/299
Licence Number PB0001987
Variation number 1
Status Cancelled
Service number. X55DN, X55
Service type Limited Stop
Start point Dalton Park
Finish point Newcastle, Pilgrim Street
Date received 03 Nov 2017
Effective date 29 Dec 2017
End date

The irony being, that Christmas could see a rise in its popularity and in turn lead to it being worth running.

whats going to happen to 54045 though.

another experiment perhaps?

Might be the wrong place to post this.

Does anyone know when the 100 Metrocentre Shuttle was introduced? Why 100?, all other Stagecoach bus services are two digits and X for expresses. Stagecoach has no other 3-digit services and I don't think Busways ever has?

Currently 6, 7 and 100 serve the Metrocentre, what buses used to? I see that Stagecoach Busways had a 10A in 1999, interestingly a double rather than single decker bus, never allocated to 6, 7, or 100.

Thank you for any info.

(04 Nov 2017, 7:04 pm)OrangeArrow49 wrote Might be the wrong place to post this.

Does anyone know when the 100 Metrocentre Shuttle was introduced? Why 100?, all other Stagecoach bus services are two digits and X for expresses. Stagecoach has no other 3-digit services and I don't think Busways ever has?

Currently 6, 7 and 100 serve the Metrocentre, what buses used to? I see that Stagecoach Busways had a 10A in 1999, interestingly a double rather than single decker bus, never allocated to 6, 7, or 100.

Thank you for any info.

It's been 100 for as long as I remember and I first remember catching it in the early 90s

(04 Nov 2017, 7:46 pm)BusLoverMum wrote It's been 100 for as long as I remember and I first remember catching it in the early 90s

I remember busways using branded up mercs on the 100 (busways fleet 1400's) before there got the scanias 900 series


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(04 Nov 2017, 7:04 pm)OrangeArrow49 wrote Might be the wrong place to post this.

Does anyone know when the 100 Metrocentre Shuttle was introduced? Why 100?, all other Stagecoach bus services are two digits and X for expresses. Stagecoach has no other 3-digit services and I don't think Busways ever has?

Currently 6, 7 and 100 serve the Metrocentre, what buses used to? I see that Stagecoach Busways had a 10A in 1999, interestingly a double rather than single decker bus, never allocated to 6, 7, or 100.

Thank you for any info.

Sunderland busways had the 104,106,107,110,115,139 and 140


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(04 Nov 2017, 8:13 pm)cbma06 wrote I remember busways using branded up mercs on the 100 (busways fleet 1400's) before there got the scanias 900 series


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Sunderland busways had the 104,106,107,110,115,139 and 140


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Thanks for the information. Any idea why the 100 isn't an X as it technically is an express service?

I have found some old pictures of the Busways 100. Seems odd it has such a big number for such an early service.

The 100 must have started when the Metrocentre (then MetroCentre) opened.

Any idea why the bus timetables are blue instead of red at the Metrocentre? Not sure where to post this.

Probably 100 is a good numbered service to remember, I remember for awhile that the 100 on Sundays used to operate as a 133 and used to start from jesmond then Newcastle to metrocentre . I have alook at some of my old service 100 timetables to see if I got one from when it was introduced or close enough.


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(04 Nov 2017, 8:28 pm)OrangeArrow49 wrote Thanks for the information. Any idea why the 100 isn't an X as it technically is an express service?

I have found some old pictures of the Busways 100. Seems odd it has such a big number for such an early service.

The 100 must have started when the Metrocentre (then MetroCentre) opened.

I know years and years ago that service 100 stopped at 4 bus stops in Newcastle and you could board or alight at any of those bus stops then non stop to metro centre by the dual carriageway so there's no really any bus stops in between so there's no real need for it to be an express number prefixed, I remember with the GNE x66 that it used to be service 66 only.


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(04 Nov 2017, 9:00 pm)cbma06 wrote Probably 100 is a good numbered service to remember, I remember for awhile that the 100 on Sundays used to operate as a 133 and used to start from jesmond then Newcastle to metrocentre . I have alook at some of my old service 100 timetables to see if I got one from when it was introduced or close enough.


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Yes, that makes sense.

Thank you. I guess it was introduced when the metrocentre opened. Old timetables are very interesting, please send me a copy if you can, it would be much appreciated.

(04 Nov 2017, 9:07 pm)OrangeArrow49 wrote Yes, that makes sense.

Thank you. I guess it was introduced when the metrocentre opened. Old timetables are very interesting, please send me a copy if you can, it would be much appreciated.

There's a high percentage of timetables that I have scanned over the past year or so of timetables from the 80's and 90's which have been loaded onto the NEB site, but once the bygone era/archive section has been sorted and active as there is quite a volume of literature.


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if I am right the 100 started in 1987 not long after the Metrocentre opened. But there was also a 101 and 102 if I remember correctly. The 101/2 possibly 103 and 104 also got changed to at least the 54 and were operated by Blue Bus/Armstrong Galley and operated to the outskirts of Heddon on the Wall etc. So the 100 was part of the original batch of Metrocentee 1xx services

the minibuses were replaced by scanias in 1989, ive enclosed timetable for service 100 which also shows the other busways services which served metrocentre at the time.

(05 Nov 2017, 8:28 am)cbma06 wrote the minibuses were replaced by scanias in 1989, ive enclosed timetable for service 100 which also shows the other busways services which served metrocentre at the time.

Thanks, cbma06. I can't find the enclosed timetable?

(05 Nov 2017, 11:18 am)OrangeArrow49 wrote Thanks, cbma06. I can't find the enclosed timetable?

I noticed, tried several times to upload the timetable and the circle just keeps spinning round and around and around, I try again later on


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There's a good piece on the history, and numbering, of the 100 in Peter Nash's excellent book "Push Once".

It was deliberately designed to stand out as a 3-digit number against the standard Newcastle busways backdrop of 2-digit services.

Passed a white Enviro300 (looked like the MANviro variety - presumably one of the ones which recently migrated north from Stockton) on the A1 around 15:20, not in service.

It was in an advertising livery of some kind - and I'm sure I saw "#benice" or "#behappy" (words to that effect), with yellow smiley faces on it.

Any ideas?

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(07 Nov 2017, 4:05 pm)Dan wrote Passed a white Enviro300 (looked like the MANviro variety - presumably one of the ones which recently migrated north from Stockton) on the A1 around 15:20, not in service.

It was in an advertising livery of some kind - and I'm sure I saw "#benice" or "#behappy" (words to that effect), with yellow smiley faces on it.

Any ideas?

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MAN/Enivro 24136. It's in use as an Exhibition/Information vehicle which will tour UK Bus operating areas. It is nominally part of the Stagecoach Merseyside & South Lancashire fleet. The livery as you say features yellow 'emoji' smiley faces and the hashtag #BeNiceBus

(07 Nov 2017, 4:23 pm)peter wrote MAN/Enivro 24136. It's in use as an Exhibition/Information vehicle which will tour UK Bus operating areas. It is nominally part of the Stagecoach Merseyside & South Lancashire fleet. The livery as you say features yellow 'emoji' smiley faces and the hashtag #BeNiceBus

Thanks, Peter! Not strictly North East related, then. Had never seen that one before!

I wasn't able to catch the fleet number of it, because it seemingly doesn't have one! Have just looked on Flickr and can't spot one on the front, side nor rear...

(07 Nov 2017, 4:23 pm)peter wrote MAN/Enivro 24136. It's in use as an Exhibition/Information vehicle which will tour UK Bus operating areas. It is nominally part of the Stagecoach Merseyside & South Lancashire fleet. The livery as you say features yellow 'emoji' smiley faces and the hashtag #BeNiceBus

It's been done up inside with huge screens together with an on-board generator too. On loan to UK Bus from Merseyside.