North East Buses

My driving school, i paid for extra lessons two weeks ago. Now my instructor wants to move me to someone else.

Not impressed at all.

Charles

(14 Jan 2017, 4:11 pm)Jamie M wrote [ -> ]Knacked my bike.
Seat became loose and tyres became flat. Long push home, Hebburn to Derwentside...

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Oh dear

You could try a Petrol Station's tyre machine to inflate your tyres, Not sure on the Seat though, As it hasn't yet on my bike!

I should just give up attempting to be sociable and just lock myself away, at least then I can't annoy anyone.

Brilliant feeling to have when ive wasted my own time traveling all the way to Castleside and having to endure 3 hours of Streetlite's to get there to find the bus stop taken by a parked Suburu -
And that the driver parks the Streetlite just on a bend in the road, Enough to make the Sun shine right on the bus, And that half of the church which was to be in the photograph was obscured by the Suburu.

Did enjoy the rest of the day however but for the main reason I travelled all the way there to find that was a serious p*sstake

I'll find a way to photograph one soon

(14 Jan 2017, 9:27 pm)South Tyne Lad wrote [ -> ]Oh dear

You could try a Petrol Station's tyre machine to inflate your tyres, Not sure on the Seat though, As it hasn't yet on my bike!

I didn't want to waste time finding a petrol station and filling the tyre up. I was doing 30 and a few more down old durham road, I hit a pothole and the whole rear end just became loose. I have a comfort seat, so at least my backside didn't suffer 😛
I absolutely torture my bike, to be honest. I push it to its absolute limit. Feels rougher and rougher, every ride I do.

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(14 Jan 2017, 10:25 pm)Jimmi wrote [ -> ]I should just give up attempting to be sociable and just lock myself away, at least then I can't annoy anyone.

You've had your fair share of annoying events to deal with, but don't stop fighting - you've not pushed through the previous encouters in order to stop now!

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(14 Jan 2017, 10:33 pm)South Tyne Lad wrote [ -> ]Brilliant feeling to have when ive wasted my own time traveling all the way to Castleside and having to endure 3 hours of Streetlite's to get there to find the bus stop taken by a parked Suburu -
And that the driver parks the Streetlite just on a bend in the road, Enough to make the Sun shine right on the bus, And that half of the church which was to be in the photograph was obscured by the Suburu.

Did enjoy the rest of the day however but for the main reason I travelled all the way there to find that was a serious p*sstake

I'll find a way to photograph one soon

eeeeeeeeee, bad driver! 😛
In all fairness, it is annoying, but such is life. Quite a lot of the drivers at Stanley wore humbug hats at Christmas - they'd probably want the sun to spoil all of your fun!

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Heading to Birmingham but currently stuck just outside Northallerton on a VTEC service to York to catch my next train owing to overrunning engineering works. Well that's me missing our connecting train. [emoji35]

(15 Jan 2017, 9:09 am)Jimmi wrote [ -> ]Heading to Birmingham but currently stuck just outside Northallerton on a VTEC service to York to catch my next train owing to overrunning engineering works. Well that's me missing our connecting train. [emoji35]

Mind, you certainly get about 

(15 Jan 2017, 9:18 am)citaro5284 wrote [ -> ]Mind, you certainly get about  [emoji14]

50 minutes outside Northallerton wasn't quite what I had in mind like!

When I started these outings everything ran smoothly, now every trip I make is the biggest drama ever, such as the 4 and a half hour journey from Liverpool to Darlington with several diversions, various will I, won't I make connections and general late running.

Now moving! Someone is claiming they are going to miss their flight.

Freddo's going up to 30p... I remember when they were 10p!!

Looks to be happening in Spring.

(15 Jan 2017, 12:44 pm)Michael wrote [ -> ]Freddo's going up to 30p... I remember when they were 10p!!

Looks to be happening in Spring.

My hot chocolate from Atlas taxi rank, Consett remains 25 pence, has been since 2007!

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(15 Jan 2017, 12:53 am)Jamie M wrote [ -> ]eeeeeeeeee, bad driver! ?
In all fairness, it is annoying, but such is life. Quite a lot of the drivers at Stanley wore humbug hats at Christmas - they'd probably want the sun to spoil all of your fun!

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Funny enough when I asked the driver if I had time to photograph the bus, She said yes but only if I didn't get her in the photograph, Which was rather surprising considering she was a very friendly driver!

I'll see if I can get back up for next week!

(15 Jan 2017, 2:03 pm)South Tyne Lad wrote [ -> ]Funny enough when I asked the driver if I had time to photograph the bus, She said yes but only if I didn't get her in the photograph, Which was rather surprising considering she was a very friendly driver!

I'll see if I can get back up for next week!

I know most of them up there by name. Quite a lot of them just want to have a bit of privacy. There are quite a lot of quiet drivers up there who just rather get on with it and don't want their face all over the internet. Given it's a new bus, you can appreciate why they ask that.

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(15 Jan 2017, 2:33 pm)Jamie M wrote [ -> ]I know most of them up there by name. Quite a lot of them just want to have a bit of privacy. There are quite a lot of quiet drivers up there who just rather get on with it and don't want their face all over the internet. Given it's a new bus, you can appreciate why they ask that.

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Aye, I didn't mind it. Atleast she wasn't shouting swear words or pulling her sun visor down over her face like some miserable ones do.

(15 Jan 2017, 2:48 pm)South Tyne Lad wrote [ -> ]Aye, I didn't mind it. Atleast she wasn't shouting swear words or pulling her sun visor down over her face like some miserable ones do.

I thunk you got to embrace it because it's a public service role - you're working with the public, not excluding the members of public who are doing something you don't like, even if the public are well within their rights to do what they're doing.

*written horribly*

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Everytime the bus speeds up my seat tilts back and every time the drive breaks it throws me forward

(15 Jan 2017, 4:33 pm)Ds1197 wrote [ -> ]Everytime the bus speeds up my seat tilts back and every time the drive breaks it throws me forward

You can pay about £2.50 at a fairground for that and you're getting it for free! Bargain.

(15 Jan 2017, 9:09 am)Jimmi wrote [ -> ]Heading to Birmingham but currently stuck just outside Northallerton on a VTEC service to York to catch my next train owing to overrunning engineering works. Well that's me missing our connecting train. [emoji35]

Delay repay Jimmi. There's always a silver lining to these things.

(15 Jan 2017, 5:13 pm)Andreos1 wrote [ -> ]Delay repay Jimmi. There's always a silver lining to these things.

I either bus or I drive where bus don't go. You do have to pay for a night's in and fuel, but you are sure to end up in the right place and not end up throwing money down the loo for missing trains etc. Both ways have their pros and cons.

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(15 Jan 2017, 5:17 pm)Jamie M wrote [ -> ]I either bus or I drive where bus don't go. You do have to pay for a night's in and fuel, but you are sure to end up in the right place and not end up throwing money down the loo for missing trains etc. Both ways have their pros and cons.

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That's the thing though. Miss a bus through a late connection and you're potentially screwed - especially if it's the last one. Thats money thrown down the loo.
Miss a train through a late connection and you're looking at a refund (at least partial) and potentially a free taxi for the last leg if it was the last train of the night.

I get fed up of driving at times. Done it long enough and after a long day (or longer) working in another part of the country, the last thing I want to do is drive home.

(15 Jan 2017, 5:26 pm)Andreos1 wrote [ -> ]That's the thing though. Miss a bus through a late connection and you're potentially screwed - especially if it's the last one. Thats money thrown down the loo.
Miss a train through a late connection and you're looking at a refund (at least partial) and potentially a free taxi for the last leg if it was the last train of the night.

I get fed up of driving at times. Done it long enough and after a long day (or longer) working in another part of the country, the last thing I want to do is drive home.

Is true, but I still find refunds to be a carry on. Rather just get there and know there's no payments to worry about as they've already been made in terms of fuel or hotel etc.

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(15 Jan 2017, 5:17 pm)Jamie M wrote [ -> ]I either bus or I drive where bus don't go. You do have to pay for a night's in and fuel, but you are sure to end up in the right place and not end up throwing money down the loo for missing trains etc. Both ways have their pros and cons.

(15 Jan 2017, 5:26 pm)Andreos1 wrote [ -> ]That's the thing though. Miss a bus through a late connection and you're potentially screwed - especially if it's the last one. Thats money thrown down the loo.
Miss a train through a late connection and you're looking at a refund (at least partial) and potentially a free taxi for the last leg if it was the last train of the night.

I unfortunately cannot drive (would actually like to learn) so I don't have this option.

I personally tend to find the train the most comfortable way to travel, I can usually manage to walk fine when I get off a long train journey (often fast walking/running due to the fact the train always seems to arrive just before the Aycliffe buses depart in Darlington). I find car journeys quite painful, anymore than two hours is painful for me. Not been totally comfortable on National Express between Middlesbrough and Manchester, especially as two out of the three trips I made I got Go North East Volvo B12B/Plaxton Panther's with worn down seats with metal sticking in your arse for three hours was in no way pleasant.

Unfortunately some of my recent train journeys have been quite chaotic, irritatingly today I arrived in Birmingham 58 minutes late, two minutes short of full refund for delay repay due to train arriving early. The thing is though, any form of transport can go wrong, on one trip to Liverpool a accident put an extra hour onto our journey which was already painful enough. Nothing particularly bad has happened on National Express but I have feared about getting home on normal service buses, once thought I was going to have some one terribly long expensive journey home from Ripon one night as there was no sign of the Dales & District 70, fortunately it did turn up 20 minutes late in the end which of course made me miss the train at Northallerton to reach Darlington.

This prick appeared on my Facebook news feed:

Child killer Ian Huntley wants a sex change at the taxpayers’ expense so that he can spend the rest of his life in a female prison.

The vile Soham murderer, who killed best friends Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells, believes it will be cushier than his current sentence at tough HMP Frankland.

He has told fellow lags he will start wearing women’s clothes, underwear and make-up to convince doctors he harbours desires to change his sex.

If given the go-ahead, the £100,000 operation will be paid for by the taxpayer on the NHS.

The double killer is planning on joining Transgender Pathway, which will begin to prepare him for his new life as a woman.

But offenders must pass rigorous psychological tests to show they genuinely want to change sex and are not just looking for special treatment.

Huntley is yet to make a formal request to the governor of Frankland Prison, one of the toughest jails in England, where he is serving a 40-year sentence.

Huntley has discussed his plans with a few close lags, including his new best friend Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe.

One inmate said that the killer is desperate to be removed from the all-male prison after facing years of death threats and assaults.

He has already survived one murder attempt after having his throat slashed by armed robber Damien Fowkes in 2010.

One former inmate said: “Huntley and Sutcliffe are always in and out of each others’ cells. They are both hated by the majority of the inmates because they have showed no remorse for what they have done.

“There are a lot of bad people in Frankland Prison but Huntley is one of the worst. He knows he’s a marked man while he’s in Frankland and he believes his only hope of a cushy life is to become a woman.”

Huntley was given a double life sentence, with a minimum term of 40 years, for the murder of schoolgirls Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells in 2002.

The last picture of best friends Holly and Jessica in their red Man Utd football shirts became a haunting symbol of Huntley’s evil.

The snap was taken by Holly’s mum at a barbecue just over an hour before they were brutally murdered.

The matching tops – with United star David’s Beckham’s name and his number 7 on the back – were stripped from the girls’ bodies and found burned and dumped in a bin.

It later emerged the youngsters had stopped to speak to Huntley outside the house he shared with partner Maxine Carr. He invited them in and murdered them.

Huntley claimed in court that Holly suffered a nose bleed and fell into a bath, banging her head and drowning. He said Jessica screamed so he put his hand on her mouth until she stopped.

Their bodies were found six miles from Soham 13 days later. They had been dumped in a ditch near RAF Lakenheath, Suffolk.

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I'll give him a sex change, cut it off with a Stanley knife and then leave him like that!

(16 Jan 2017, 3:07 pm)Michael wrote [ -> ]This prick appeared on my Facebook news feed:

Child killer Ian Huntley wants a sex change at the taxpayers’ expense so that he can spend the rest of his life in a female prison.

The vile Soham murderer, who killed best friends Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells, believes it will be cushier than his current sentence at tough HMP Frankland.

He has told fellow lags he will start wearing women’s clothes, underwear and make-up to convince doctors he harbours desires to change his sex.

If given the go-ahead, the £100,000 operation will be paid for by the taxpayer on the NHS.

The double killer is planning on joining Transgender Pathway, which will begin to prepare him for his new life as a woman.

But offenders must pass rigorous psychological tests to show they genuinely want to change sex and are not just looking for special treatment.

Huntley is yet to make a formal request to the governor of Frankland Prison, one of the toughest jails in England, where he is serving a 40-year sentence.

Huntley has discussed his plans with a few close lags, including his new best friend Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe.

One inmate said that the killer is desperate to be removed from the all-male prison after facing years of death threats and assaults.

He has already survived one murder attempt after having his throat slashed by armed robber Damien Fowkes in 2010.

One former inmate said: “Huntley and Sutcliffe are always in and out of each others’ cells. They are both hated by the majority of the inmates because they have showed no remorse for what they have done.

“There are a lot of bad people in Frankland Prison but Huntley is one of the worst. He knows he’s a marked man while he’s in Frankland and he believes his only hope of a cushy life is to become a woman.”

Huntley was given a double life sentence, with a minimum term of 40 years, for the murder of schoolgirls Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells in 2002.

The last picture of best friends Holly and Jessica in their red Man Utd football shirts became a haunting symbol of Huntley’s evil.

The snap was taken by Holly’s mum at a barbecue just over an hour before they were brutally murdered.

The matching tops – with United star David’s Beckham’s name and his number 7 on the back – were stripped from the girls’ bodies and found burned and dumped in a bin.

It later emerged the youngsters had stopped to speak to Huntley outside the house he shared with partner Maxine Carr. He invited them in and murdered them.

Huntley claimed in court that Holly suffered a nose bleed and fell into a bath, banging her head and drowning. He said Jessica screamed so he put his hand on her mouth until she stopped.

Their bodies were found six miles from Soham 13 days later. They had been dumped in a ditch near RAF Lakenheath, Suffolk.

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I'll give a sex change, cut it off with a Stanley knife and then leave him like that!

This is the negative side to freedom - some people really don't deserve it. It's horrible to think that millions of people are indirectly working extrememy hard for excuses of people like Huntley without much say. This kinda stuff shouldn't even be able to be joked about, makes me sick.

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(16 Jan 2017, 3:07 pm)Michael wrote [ -> ]This prick appeared on my Facebook news feed:

Child killer Ian Huntley wants a sex change at the taxpayers’ expense so that he can spend the rest of his life in a female prison.

The vile Soham murderer, who killed best friends Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells, believes it will be cushier than his current sentence at tough HMP Frankland.

He has told fellow lags he will start wearing women’s clothes, underwear and make-up to convince doctors he harbours desires to change his sex.

If given the go-ahead, the £100,000 operation will be paid for by the taxpayer on the NHS.

The double killer is planning on joining Transgender Pathway, which will begin to prepare him for his new life as a woman.

But offenders must pass rigorous psychological tests to show they genuinely want to change sex and are not just looking for special treatment.

Huntley is yet to make a formal request to the governor of Frankland Prison, one of the toughest jails in England, where he is serving a 40-year sentence.

Huntley has discussed his plans with a few close lags, including his new best friend Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe.

One inmate said that the killer is desperate to be removed from the all-male prison after facing years of death threats and assaults.

He has already survived one murder attempt after having his throat slashed by armed robber Damien Fowkes in 2010.

One former inmate said: “Huntley and Sutcliffe are always in and out of each others’ cells. They are both hated by the majority of the inmates because they have showed no remorse for what they have done.

“There are a lot of bad people in Frankland Prison but Huntley is one of the worst. He knows he’s a marked man while he’s in Frankland and he believes his only hope of a cushy life is to become a woman.”

Huntley was given a double life sentence, with a minimum term of 40 years, for the murder of schoolgirls Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells in 2002.

The last picture of best friends Holly and Jessica in their red Man Utd football shirts became a haunting symbol of Huntley’s evil.

The snap was taken by Holly’s mum at a barbecue just over an hour before they were brutally murdered.

The matching tops – with United star David’s Beckham’s name and his number 7 on the back – were stripped from the girls’ bodies and found burned and dumped in a bin.

It later emerged the youngsters had stopped to speak to Huntley outside the house he shared with partner Maxine Carr. He invited them in and murdered them.

Huntley claimed in court that Holly suffered a nose bleed and fell into a bath, banging her head and drowning. He said Jessica screamed so he put his hand on her mouth until she stopped.

Their bodies were found six miles from Soham 13 days later. They had been dumped in a ditch near RAF Lakenheath, Suffolk.

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I'll give him a sex change, cut it off with a Stanley knife and then leave him like that!

Does he really think that women would be any more sympathetically disposed towards him, no matter how he dresses or what hormones he swallows?

Earlier today I witnessed a Nightingale B7 fail to give way to a Police van responding on blue lights! How the driver did not see it emerging from the junction I do not know.

Depression is a bummer.

Bunch of kids on the 7 being so antisocial that they've ended up with the top deck to themselves. Some people decided against even getting on the bus because of the way they barged to the front of the queue and demonstrated their impending failure of both biology and English GCSE in the dirt on the windows.

(21 Jan 2017, 3:35 pm)BusLoverMum wrote [ -> ]Bunch of kids on the 7 being so antisocial that they've ended up with the top deck to themselves. Some people decided against even getting on the bus because of the way they barged to the front of the queue and demonstrated their impending failure of both biology and English GCSE in the dirt on the windows.

Sounds about right for the 7 in fairness, believe me.

My annoyance for day is the fact I've got a cold. Decided the best thing to do would be just to relax at home in the hope of getting better, was working well until the woman over the road started mercifully beating her rugs in the garden for about half an hour with force, thanks for that, now got a headache again [emoji19]

Cheeky so and sos have made it to Aycliffe on Darlington tickets. Driver's stopped the bus and made them pay the difference.

If they fanny on too long we're going to miss our connection home. One of them is claiming to be dyslexic so they don't know where Darlington is.