North East Buses

27252 on X34 today, loan or permanent move to Shields?

(28 Oct 2024, 12:52 pm)Michael wrote [ -> ]Wheatsheaf depot now down, Looks like they're drilling now.

Also spotted a Yutong parked up in the depot.





(Won't let me add more than 1 picture and won't let upload the pic on another post)....

2 more Yutongs photographed today at Stockton are 73071 and 73074 (NL74FVH/M).

Brings my personal total to 8 of Sunderland's 20 that I've photographed!

(30 Oct 2024, 7:47 pm)stagecoachfan wrote [ -> ]2 more Yutongs photographed today at Stockton are 73071 and 73074 (NL74FVH/M).

Brings my personal total to 8 of Sunderland's 20 that I've photographed!

Looks like all 20 will be here before the new year, hopefully they'll be in service just before the new year but I'd imagine, it'll be January 2025... New year, news buses kinda thing.


Hopefully they'll put a post out about them and put something in the Sunderland Echo


Not bad, you'll probs be the first person to complete the set!

Driver training has started yesterday, ramps up next week.

(30 Oct 2024, 8:35 pm)F114TML wrote [ -> ]Driver training has started yesterday, ramps up next week.

Any specific routes they doing or is it just anywhere in Sunderland?

From SNE Twitter

No service after 1700hrs to Hardwick Estate, 57, 58 and 59 diverted due to vandalism yesterday.

https://x.com/StagecoachNE/status/1851957444617875541

(31 Oct 2024, 10:51 am)Michael wrote [ -> ]Any specific routes they doing or is it just anywhere in Sunderland?

No idea.

(30 Oct 2024, 12:22 pm)LVK 404L wrote [ -> ]27252 on X34 today, loan or permanent move to Shields?

I believe this was just borrowed due to 10633 breaking down in the city centre. This was repaired and sent back out on the X34 and 27252 went back to Walkergate has been on the 22’s today.

(31 Oct 2024, 10:02 pm)ReDemPTiion wrote [ -> ]I believe this was just borrowed due to 10633 breaking down in the city centre. This was repaired and sent back out on the X34 and 27252 went back to Walkergate has been on the 22’s today.

Yeah, i seen that it was back at Walkergate.  Thanks for info.

(30 Oct 2024, 7:59 pm)Michael wrote [ -> ]Looks like all 20 will be here before the new year, hopefully they'll be in service just before the new year but I'd imagine, it'll be January 2025... New year, news buses kinda thing.


Hopefully they'll put a post out about them and put something in the Sunderland Echo


Not bad, you'll probs be the first person to complete the set!

9th one photographed today, 73075 (FVN) also now at Stockton!

Ex West Scotland E300s 27717 and 27771 appear to be 2 more transfers to the NE. Both are parked at the back of the Wheatsheaf.

Are them 27717 and 27771 are for Sunderland depot?

Some of the Sunderland Yutongs stored at Stockton have gained branding above the windows, as seen on 73075 (which like at least some of the others also now carries its fleetnumber)

The zeros in "0%" and "100%" are Stagecoach logos.

(06 Nov 2024, 2:20 pm)stagecoachfan wrote [ -> ]Some of the Sunderland Yutongs stored at Stockton have gained branding above the windows, as seen on 73075 (which like at least some of the others also now carries its fleetnumber)

The zeros in "0%" and "100%" are Stagecoach logos.

It’s not ‘branding’.
Nevertheless, good somethings been added to point out they’re zero emissions, at least ‘at the tailpipe’.

(06 Nov 2024, 2:20 pm)stagecoachfan wrote [ -> ]Some of the Sunderland Yutongs stored at Stockton have gained branding above the windows, as seen on 73075 (which like at least some of the others also now carries its fleetnumber)

The zeros in "0%" and "100%" are Stagecoach logos.

Shame, they haven't got a "Electric" based livery.

I still think it's a missed oppotunity to go down the ECOnomic route branding idea.

I thought there would have at least been some kind of branding for the E1/2/6 considering those are the routes they were bought for afaik. Although stagecoach haven’t really been big on branding since the local livery came about.

(07 Nov 2024, 1:21 am)Rapidsnap wrote [ -> ]I still think it's a missed oppotunity to go down the ECOnomic route branding idea.

But why? For a little bit of nostalgia for a shrinking group of people and some spotters?

We need to be aiming to get buses in one identity region wide, not making them worse by other operators going down the same path as GNE.

(07 Nov 2024, 2:17 am)ALavery wrote [ -> ]I thought there would have at least been some kind of branding for the E1/2/6 considering those are the routes they were bought for afaik. Although stagecoach haven’t really been big on branding since the local livery came about.

I think they just want the flexibility. Unless they're upping the frequency of the Ecos, there's too many buses coming. Everyone is being familiarised on them, including drivers that don't do the Ecos.

(07 Nov 2024, 8:43 am)F114TML wrote [ -> ]I think they just want the flexibility. Unless they're upping the frequency of the Ecos, there's too many buses coming. Everyone is being familiarised on them, including drivers that don't do the Ecos.

To be honest knowing the north east and their love for allocating buses to the wrong routes, that doesn’t seem too far fetched. They’ll be running around southwick whilst the E300s are trundling up the coast road. I wonder if there will be some kind of mandatory route allocation like they do with the voltra routes in Newcastle.

Does anyone know if preparations have started for Stockton's electrification, as an area in the compound near the fence has been coned off and the parked vehicles (including the Sunderland Yutongs) have been moved forwards away from the fence.

(73074, 73071 and 73075 shown)

27615 is to replace 24122. Just seen on buses time today.

(03 Nov 2024, 12:56 pm)Dans_bus_photos wrote [ -> ]Ex West Scotland E300s 27717 and 27771 appear to be 2 more transfers to the NE. Both are parked at the back of the Wheatsheaf.

27715 is there too now.

Ok mate

(11 Nov 2024, 10:34 am)stagecoachfan wrote [ -> ]27615 is still in service in Ayr

It's parked in Stockton depot yard.

Ex London 36341 is currently in the paint shop at Sunderland

(11 Nov 2024, 10:43 am)Kuyoyo wrote [ -> ]It's parked in Stockton depot yard.

It's in service if it's the one I think I just saw in Stockton. It's not tracking, at least not as itself, if it was that one. (It had the black window surround painted in body colour and a Stagecoach West Scotland type remembrance poppy on the front - 4 petals unlike the 2 petal Stagecoach North East ones)

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(09 Nov 2024, 5:15 pm)stagecoachfan wrote [ -> ]Does anyone know if preparations have started for Stockton's electrification, as an area in the compound near the fence has been coned off and the parked vehicles (including the Sunderland Yutongs) have been moved forwards away from the fence.

(73074, 73071 and 73075 shown)

To answer myself, the yard at Stockton is currently being dug up along the fence.

I wonder what the chances of Hartlepool getting anything decent soon are. They is currently at least 4 buses off the road and last night 36086 decided to completely give up as well. The electrics decided to completely go so it went completely dead. This is after 36405 failed it’s MOT and 34611 seemingly don’t want to work anymore either so they seem almost certain to get completely withdrawn now. It looks like on bus times two more buses have giving up today as well although that could just be a problem with the tracking. Either way though Hartlepool has buses breaking down almost every day which is really not good that’s on top of the services becoming completely unreliable.

(11 Nov 2024, 7:53 pm)col87 wrote [ -> ]I wonder what the chances of Hartlepool getting anything decent soon are.  They is currently at least 4 buses off the road and last night 36086 decided to completely give up as well.  The electrics decided to completely go so it went completely dead.  This is after 36405 failed it’s MOT and 34611 seemingly don’t want to work anymore either so they seem almost certain to get completely withdrawn now.  It looks like on bus times two more buses have giving up today as well although that could just be a problem with the tracking.  Either way though Hartlepool has buses breaking down almost every day which is really not good that’s on top of the services becoming completely unreliable.

If you mean 34605 this is showing as having a valid MOT until Aug 2025.

27615 has indeed entered service today although not tracking properly.

The electric work in the yard is now underway - around 25 charging points have been delivered so far, electric work has started.