North East Buses

28035 is the latest gas bus to be repainted

36087 was parked up at the back of the Wheatsheaf this morning so is presumably there for repaint

(25 Sep 2019, 11:20 am)glen1234 wrote [ -> ]When will New enviro 200 MMCs at Stockton start to doning the road test and enter service do you think.

(25 Sep 2019, 12:59 pm)tyresmoke wrote [ -> ]They were out on Sunday testing the next stop announcements etc

For the benefit:

SN69 ZHD (for which we currently have two conflicting fleet numbers for - Steven Knight Media's Fleet Rambling has suggested it is 26279 while the second source has stated it is 26280) was the example used on Sunday for Next Stop Announcement testing - being sighted on Stockton High Street early in the afternoon as well as being sighted at the Parkway Centre (while they are intended for the 36/37/38, various boards on those routes during the week additionally work a number of early morning trips on 39s as well as evening trips on 12s - likewise they'll likely be used on most routes on Sundays).

SN69 ZHB is currently being used for driver familiarisation mainly in the Stockton area

buslistsontheweb lists 26276-93 as SN69ZHA-H/J-M/O/P/R/T-V in order which would make ZHD 26279 (and ZHB 26277)

(27 Sep 2019, 8:37 am)Kuyoyo wrote [ -> ]

For the benefit:

SN69 ZHD (for which we currently have two conflicting fleet numbers for - Steven Knight Media's Fleet Rambling has suggested it is 26279 while the second source has stated it is 26280) was the example used on Sunday for Next Stop Announcement testing - being sighted on Stockton High Street early in the afternoon as well as being sighted at the Parkway Centre (while they are intended for the 36/37/38, various boards on those routes during the week additionally work a number of early morning trips on 39s as well as evening trips on 12s - likewise they'll likely be used on most routes on Sundays).

SN69 ZHB is currently being used for driver familiarisation mainly in the Stockton area

(28 Sep 2019, 11:50 am)V514DFT wrote [ -> ]It'll get here when it gets here

Should be 26285 when it arrives. Cheers.

The Stockton examples are currently awaiting route branding before entering service, so they'll be a little bit interesting on the eye than being in plain swoops at least! Been a lot of toing and froing with the new livery in recent weeks, the Manchester half-baked E400MMCs with different interiors evident of that.

One to note is that Cambridge's new E400XLBs are in production and painted in the new 'green' livery, so hopefully the new brand roll out isn't too far away. Paint shops are still swooping away (22413 returned last week done), and suppose painters still need to be paid at the end of the day. But agreed, think the uncertainty has slowed the NE down - surprising it didn't have the opposite effect, get them all through asap in swoops.