(15 Feb 2015, 6:01 pm)stagecoachbusdepot Service 3 stopped serving Thornholme Road in May 2005, coinciding with simplification of the Sunderland network.  This saw the withdrawal of Service 2, with all journeys operating as Service 3 along a new more direct route via New Durham Road, Plains Farm and Atlantis Road - omitting Thornholme Road (replaced by Services 22/23/24) and Gilley Law (replaced by Service 13).

(16 Feb 2015, 10:34 am)Acky81 Was deffo may 2005 Sunderland changes and yes it was 3 before thorney close services. Now what served thorn hill prior to that in old Sunderland busways days

(21 Feb 2015, 10:15 pm)glen1234 HI are the rest of old man alx 300 buses at Stockton going to get repainted then want left.

(21 Feb 2015, 10:17 pm)Dan Probably not.

They're not DDA-compliant, so they should be getting carted off to a scrap yard when their replacements arrive. It would be a waste of money to repaint a bus which was going straight to the scrap yard, unless there was a reason for repainting it. There must have been a reason for 22471 being repainted then being withdrawn soon after.

(22 Feb 2015, 10:03 am)Cock Robin 22471 was repainted end of last year about same time as 22469.

• All of the latest transfers have been noted, as per all of the fleet news recorded this month, minus the ALX300s for disposal which Kuyoyo noted the other day (I'll do these when the movements from the fleet cards are posted on this thread).
  
• All of the ALX300s new in 2003 onwards have had their bodywork amended to read "Transbus ALX300", opposed to "Alexander ALX300". I've been meaning to do this for quite some time now. If nothing else, it allows users to quickly differentiate between the DDA-compliant examples and the ones which aren't!
  
• Spotted a couple of errors with regards to the ALX300 registrations - these have all now been corrected.

(22 Feb 2015, 1:12 pm)Dan Quick note to say that, following the news update earlier today, the fleet lists have been updated... I hadn't updated them in a while, so had quite a bit to catch up on.

• All of the latest transfers have been noted, as per all of the fleet news recorded this month, minus the ALX300s for disposal which Kuyoyo noted the other day (I'll do these when the movements from the fleet cards are posted on this thread).
  
• All of the ALX300s new in 2003 onwards have had their bodywork amended to read "Transbus ALX300", opposed to "Alexander ALX300". I've been meaning to do this for quite some time now. If nothing else, it allows users to quickly differentiate between the DDA-compliant examples and the ones which aren't!
  
• Spotted a couple of errors with regards to the ALX300 registrations - these have all now been corrected.
  

(22 Feb 2015, 1:27 pm)Kuyoyo BIB: 22341-8 and 22408-13 should be 'Alexander Dennis ALX300' as Transbus collapsed in late 2004 (after 22061-82 had been completed) and Alexander Dennis came into existence in 2005.

(23 Feb 2015, 6:02 pm)AIG20 They should trial an open-top South Shields to Sunderland coastal service.