(16 Jun 2021, 7:52 pm)Micheal Aaron I doubt 8335 will get repaint unless gne make another pride bus. Possibly a Streetlite or an OmniCity

(16 Jun 2021, 8:18 pm)JP6004 They already have one - 6050

(16 Jun 2021, 8:21 pm)GNE6312 And 5292 so make that another 2

(16 Jun 2021, 8:18 pm)JP6004 They already have one - 6050

(16 Jun 2021, 9:29 pm)Storx 6050 isn't a pride bus.

(16 Jun 2021, 4:24 pm)CookieMonster Hopefully the extra deckers at Consett will be referbished to FULL xlines standard and the fakelines ex angel and coperate streetdecks can be shifted off the xlines network.

To recap for those just joining:
Ex queylink versa to Washington for 2/2A
Streetlites of 2/2A to Riverside for Q1/Q2 and rebranded East Gateshead orbit (yes its still going to Quayside)
Streetlites of 16/16A from Consett to Percy Main for 1/1B possiably 19.
Coaster deckers of 1/1B to Consett for 16/16A
9 new yutong electrics on order
New electric deckers trial on 21.

Somehow in all of this the Mercs are to be withdrawn ASAP and the Scania omnicity taken off front line work and kept for spare.

Does anyone know what that little old white Dennis is doing at Riverside for, never yet seen it on the road?

If you mean the little old white Dennis with fleetnumber 9052, it has been used on service 29 recently. I saw it arriving at Gateshead Interchange on Monday evening and tonight at about 6.25pm finishing the service.

(16 Jun 2021, 4:24 pm)CookieMonster Hopefully the extra deckers at Consett will be referbished to FULL xlines standard and the fakelines ex angel and coperate streetdecks can be shifted off the xlines network.

To recap for those just joining:
Ex queylink versa to Washington for 2/2A
Streetlites of 2/2A to Riverside for Q1/Q2 and rebranded East Gateshead orbit (yes its still going to Quayside)
Streetlites of 16/16A from Consett to Percy Main for 1/1B possiably 19.
Coaster deckers of 1/1B to Consett for 16/16A
9 new yutong electrics on order
New electric deckers trial on 21.

Somehow in all of this the Mercs are to be withdrawn ASAP and the Scania omnicity taken off front line work and kept for spare.

Does anyone know what that little old white Dennis is doing at Riverside for, never yet seen it on the road?

(16 Jun 2021, 9:37 pm)JP6004 It's the One Tean GNE which encompasses LGBT. Surely it being in rainbow livery is more of a pride bus than the versa or citaro. It does have the same tagline as the old pride buses too

(16 Jun 2021, 9:45 pm)Storx It's still not a pride bus though there's too many colours on the flag for a start. Pride only has 6 whereas that one uses all 7. 

I know it's a bit trivial and all that but it's not a pride bus and it's not for that reason. I'm sure they'll do something no doubt for July if they do with something else when pride is on in Newcastle. Not sure what though.

(16 Jun 2021, 9:56 pm)JP6004 Your right but will still no doubt be used for pride. Amazing how many people dont know the difference.
 Newcastle been cancelled this year but be returning next year as far as I'm aware

(16 Jun 2021, 10:32 pm)Storx Yeah I know totally including some big companies using the 6 flag for the NHS last year, Plymouth (I think it was) rebranding it's pride bus for it went down like a lead balloon being the biggest cock up.

Aye it has been cancelled though, there's still an online event though so could do something for it around the time; the two now are getting a bit old now really and I believe GNE sponsor it, remember it being mentioned when I ranted about big companies using it as a marketing gimmick in the past.

(16 Jun 2021, 4:57 pm)Kuyoyo The 9 Yutong ‘Voltra’ vehicles will be delivered in mid 2022 - so plenty of time for all the speculation to take place

(19 Jun 2021, 11:12 am)Acky81 Is deptford losing the 2/2a altogether just with you saying Versas to Washington

(19 Jun 2021, 11:42 am)cbma06 I thought Washington depot did all the 2/2A allocation


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(15 Jun 2021, 2:30 pm)Storx Interested to see the rest of the changes as there's still a few things unaccounted for atm namely:

• The extra 5 Coaster deckers (the 16/16A only need 10 buses max).
  
• The 19 allocation as it doesn't really have anything atm and there's not enough Little Coaster Solos anymore and it can't use deckers (poss more Streetlites but seems a waste?)
  
• The 12/25/57/74/327 Euro 6 buses
  
• Plans for the ex Red Kite Streetlites who still don't have a home - used on the X20 until recently.
  
• The X20 Solos also don't have an allocation, possibly pushing out some of the Streetlites?
  

Don't think any of them have been mentioned.

(19 Jun 2021, 3:50 pm)Metroline1511 I thought the X20 Solos were now on the X6

(19 Jun 2021, 4:14 pm)Storx Not a clue what the X6 uses nowadays isn't the PVR only 2 now though since the X7 got cut so there's still a few not allocated to anything. They're going onto something at Sunderland though as they're in the new red/black livery.