North East Buses

Mods: bit work for you.
The existing thread in the Northumberland part of the forum needs to be moved to the Tyne & Wear part of the forum and merging with this one. 
Think we all need to read up on County Council border areas in the mean time so that lessons are learned and we don't make the mistake again.

(04 Jul 2021, 11:15 am)Andreos1 wrote [ -> ]Mods: bit work for you.
The existing thread in the Northumberland part of the forum needs to be moved to the Tyne & Wear part of the forum and merging with this one. 
Think we all need to read up on County Council border areas in the mean time so that lessons are learned and we don't make the mistake again.

Done! I had thought it was in Northumberland, but looking at the County boundaries, it falls just inside of Tyne and Wear 

Henry Coppers might be based in Northumberland though.

Henry Coopers operated the Connector Shuttle between Concord and the Nightingale for most (if not all) of the day today, using OBR297


Henry Cooper Coaches / OBR297 by Buses&Beyond, on Flickr

Looks like they only cover services during the weekend as I'm yet to see them during the week

(10 Jul 2021, 8:15 pm)Adrian wrote [ -> ]Henry Coopers operated the Connector Shuttle between Concord and the Nightingale for most (if not all) of the day today, using OBR297


Henry Cooper Coaches / OBR297 by Buses&Beyond, on Flickr

Coopers or Coppers?

(10 Jul 2021, 8:20 pm)Micheal Aaron wrote [ -> ]Looks like they only cover services during the weekend as I'm yet to see them during the week

They provided two ‘hot spare’ vehicles at Gateshead on Wednesday evening for Go North East while the match was on.


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Ah I see. So possibly just tomorrow. God tomorrow is going to be hell

(10 Jul 2021, 9:12 pm)Micheal Aaron wrote [ -> ]Ah I see. So possibly just tomorrow. God tomorrow is going to be hell 

Sunday mate.
Tomorrow is going to be Sunday.

Immaculate Volvo B7RLE/Wright Eclipse Urban II 3515HX out on the Connector Shuttles today.

Henry Cooper Coaches 3515HX | Henry Cooper Coaches Volvo B7R… | Flickr

A Brucie bonus on Saturday was RM931, one of Henry Cooper's Routemaster restorations, found after Wedding duties on the Scotswood Road

London Transport RM931 | London Transport AEC Routemaster MF… | Flickr

(19 Jul 2021, 7:54 am)54APhotography wrote [ -> ]A Brucie bonus on Saturday was RM931, one of Henry Cooper's Routemaster restorations, found after Wedding duties on the Scotswood Road

London Transport RM931 | London Transport AEC Routemaster MF… | Flickr

It will have been nice to see the vehicle, to see it, Nice 

Perhaps Henry Cooper would bid for the 74 or 808 when they are up for renewal. GNE will probably be keeping the Hexham contracts but maybe the electric buses could transfer over to Henry Cooper and they could run the services? Be nice to see them operated by a Northumberland operator.

I've never actually been to Hexham depot.

(24 Jan 2022, 8:53 am)OrangeArrow49 wrote [ -> ]Perhaps Henry Cooper would bid for the 74 or 808 when they are up for renewal. GNE will probably be keeping the Hexham contracts but maybe the electric buses could transfer over to Henry Cooper and they could run the services? Be nice to see them operated by a Northumberland operator.

I've never actually been to Hexham depot.

Highly doubt they will. They seem to be more for School work and a contractor service work (that being the 392)

Last day of Henry Cooper Coaches operating the 392 today. No services will now be operated by them.

Past few weeks Henry Coopers have been operating the 436 service in Morpeth, which is Green Mountain Travel

Ive spotted it a few times when I've got back and forth.

That will explain why i saw a Henry cooper's volvo eclipse in morpeth bus station. i thought it was a school trip or something

Eclipse OBR297 has been reregistered NL60AAY seen on rail replacement yesterday. Wonder if it is due replacement soon


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(01 Jan 2023, 1:19 pm)tyresmoke wrote [ -> ]Eclipse OBR297 has been reregistered NL60AAY seen on rail replacement yesterday. Wonder if it is due replacement soon


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Apparently already sold to Greenmountain Travel

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Can't find the Green Mountain Travel thread so it's here

Ex Henry Cooper Coaches Volvo B7RLE Wright Eclipse 2 OBR 297 now NL60 AAY now has been debranded of all Henry Cooper Coaches logos and the Green Mountain Travel ones applied. I have a photo but don't know how to upload

(21 Oct 2023, 6:03 pm)Aaron21 wrote [ -> ]Can't find the Green Mountain Travel thread so it's here

Ex Henry Cooper Coaches Volvo B7RLE Wright Eclipse 2 OBR 297 now NL60 AAY now has been debranded of all Henry Cooper Coaches logos and the Green Mountain Travel ones applied. I have a photo but don't know how to upload

Have you posted the picture anywhere? Interested to see it.

(26 Oct 2023, 8:31 pm)OrangeArrow49 wrote [ -> ]Have you posted the picture anywhere? Interested to see it.

I've not got the best photo. I'll upload to Flickr now then post the link

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Not the best but here's NL60 AAY now with the green mountain travel logo
https://flic.kr/p/2pbUsrK

(26 Oct 2023, 8:37 pm)Aaron21 wrote [ -> ]I've not got the best photo. I'll upload to Flickr now then post the link

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Not the best but here's NL60 AAY now with the green mountain travel logo
https://flic.kr/p/2pbUsrK

Thank you.

Are you planning to get another photo?

(26 Oct 2023, 8:50 pm)OrangeArrow49 wrote [ -> ]Thank you.

Are you planning to get another photo?

I am. Hopefully Tuesday

(26 Oct 2023, 9:11 pm)Aaron21 wrote [ -> ]I am. Hopefully Tuesday

Strange they've kept the Henry Cooper livery. Doesn't look too bad actually. Difficult to catch because the services are infrequent.

As requested last week. Here is the updated version of NL60 AAY https://flic.kr/p/2pcXEjs

Henry Cooper have purchased a Volvo 9700 with the registered of ex B7RLE OBR 297

Fleet list Here https://busncoachfleetlists.fandom.com/w...nry_Cooper also new acquisition is ESU110 Volvo B8R Plaxton Leopard

Seen someone mention these before and I've always wondered are James Cooper and Sons and Henry Cooper owned by the same people or are they two different (assuming family members) companies operating effectively from the same place

Also is the third Coopers based at Bedlington related to the Cooper family above in the past (in the 50's), or is it just a fluke that there's two families with the same name operating nearby?

Anyone know? Always been curious.

Henry Cooper is operated by the Grieves family (think a Grieves married Henry Coopers daughter - https://www.henrycoopercoaches.com/history/). But all 3 companies are indeed seperate. Cooper is a common name, it's just co-incidence there is 3 operators using the Coopers names.

(26 May 2024, 8:32 pm)Rapidsnap wrote [ -> ]Henry Cooper is operated by the Grieves family (think a Grieves married Henry Coopers daughter - https://www.henrycoopercoaches.com/history/). But all 3 companies are indeed seperate. Cooper is a common name, it's just co-incidence there is 3 operators using the Coopers names.

Thanks for that was pretty sure the one in Bedlington was seperate, just thought it might have been one of those companies formed by an angry son or whatever.

Mind never knew that about the other two, always assumed they were connected since they basically operate from the same site. James Cooper and Son is basically missing online.