Go North East: Latest News & Discussion - May 2016
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24 May 2016, 8:49 pm,
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RE: Go North East: Latest News & Discussion - May 2016
Cracking advert by the Methodist Church at the Shipcote junction in Low Fell.
Picture of an Angel Hybrid with 'Angels visit our church regularly...why don't you?' Made me laugh!!
Wistfully stuck in the 90s
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24 May 2016, 9:31 pm,
Post: #622
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RE: Go North East: Latest News & Discussion - May 2016
I visited the Family Fun day at Riverside on Sunday! I thought GNE did a great job. I enjoyed driving the Vykings at the coach park and the depot tour... During the tour we visited a training room and then had a little talk from a depot mentor.... Now he said once a New driver has done his training and passed his test, you go out with a mentor and you learn the 4 new starter/training routes.... Where you stay for approx 6 months.
I believe that the Q3 is one route, but does Dan or anyone know what the other 3 routes are? I'm just curious. i think he said a lot of depots but not all, have the same system in place where new drivers only drive certain routes for the first 6 months or so. |
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24 May 2016, 9:53 pm,
Post: #623
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Go North East: Latest News & Discussion - May 2016
A few weeks ago I was in Stanley and got the V7 to the MetroCentre and a new driver got on it with a Depot Mentor when they done a driver changeover, guess this may be a starter route for Stanley based drivers.
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24 May 2016, 9:54 pm,
Post: #624
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RE: Go North East: Latest News & Discussion - May 2016
I was speaking with a Hexham driver recently, he recommended Hexham depot as a good starter depot for new drivers, due to its size and routes that it covers.
He said all drivers initially work all routes excluding the 10 as this a different rota that you progress too through time. He also said that at Hexham apart from the 10 which is on a different rota, you don't work any Sunday's or Bank Holidays, latest finish is usually around 8 pm apart from one late night, every 14 weeks - I think he said, which I presume is for the weekend evening 74. But what about the Roman Wall AD122 - what drivers cover that route, I know this is just a summer season route, but it runs 7 days a week including bank holidays!! So do they have separate drivers for this route? How do they staff the School contract runs in Hexham, especially those that use the coaches, are those specific drivers or just from normal duties? |
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24 May 2016, 10:04 pm,
Post: #625
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RE: Go North East: Latest News & Discussion - May 2016
(24 May 2016, 6:30 pm)Malarkey wrote Still at Washington Depot this evening and on the 85. Cheers for that, got it at Concord at around 1825 this evening.
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24 May 2016, 10:32 pm,
Post: #626
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Go North East: Latest News & Discussion - May 2016
Something I've noticed on Google Maps is that for Go North East, the bus stops now list the brand most services carry rather than the route number.
I think this is a bit confusing for just about every branded service, especially the brands which has more than one service number, such as the 28/28A or the 93/94. I know it's been doing this for Arriva North East for a little while but there's list the brand and service number eg. Sapphire 7 and MAX X66. |
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25 May 2016, 7:35 am,
Post: #627
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RE: Go North East: Latest News & Discussion - May 2016
Will via Sunderland City Centre be removed for the 61 versas?
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25 May 2016, 7:54 am,
Post: #628
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25 May 2016, 3:29 pm,
Post: #629
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RE: Go North East: Latest News & Discussion - May 2016
(24 May 2016, 9:31 pm)thetravelman wrote I visited the Family Fun day at Riverside on Sunday! I thought GNE did a great job. I enjoyed driving the Vykings at the coach park and the depot tour... During the tour we visited a training room and then had a little talk from a depot mentor.... Now he said once a New driver has done his training and passed his test, you go out with a mentor and you learn the 4 new starter/training routes.... Where you stay for approx 6 months. Another Riverside starter route is the South Tyne 88/88A, Regularly see Mentors accompanying drivers on here.
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25 May 2016, 3:52 pm,
Post: #630
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RE: Go North East: Latest News & Discussion - May 2016
Customer got annoyed on 6034 as he thought someone stole the plug sockets
Driver explained it was a old bus
4842
Best bus ever |
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25 May 2016, 3:58 pm,
Post: #631
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Go North East: Latest News & Discussion - May 2016
(25 May 2016, 3:52 pm)biglugs@yahoo.com wrote Customer got annoyed on 6034 as he thought someone stole the plug sockets [emoji1] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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25 May 2016, 6:37 pm,
Post: #632
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RE: Go North East: Latest News & Discussion - May 2016
Looking at the R&O Workings thread, I think that it's a wise choice to abandon the GKN mods for the Fab 56 and Cobalt Clipper. Given the nature of the 2x routes, if the need for deckers arose somewhere (Red Kite becoming a fully double deck operation etc), then the mentioned routes would be ideal candidates for StreetDecks due to the stop / start nature plus the potential fuel savings that could be acquired without any expensive modifications or downtime.
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25 May 2016, 6:59 pm,
Post: #633
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25 May 2016, 8:47 pm,
Post: #634
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RE: Go North East: Latest News & Discussion - May 2016
Has 4974 been in service at Percy Main yet?
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25 May 2016, 8:58 pm,
Post: #635
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25 May 2016, 9:52 pm,
Post: #636
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25 May 2016, 10:31 pm,
Post: #637
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RE: Go North East: Latest News & Discussion - May 2016
(Dan), this green arrow's rear display is messed up.
Looks like displaying bus reversing, badly, whilst moving. https://flic.kr/p/Ht6EJu |
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25 May 2016, 10:58 pm,
Post: #638
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Go North East: Latest News & Discussion - May 2016
Was on 6096 today and NSA's sometimes were cutting off before completing the sentence of the next stop.
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26 May 2016, 3:38 am,
Post: #639
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RE: Go North East: Latest News & Discussion - May 2016
(25 May 2016, 10:31 pm)Jamie M wrote (Dan), this green arrow's rear display is messed up. Cheers. One for Hanover's attention! (25 May 2016, 10:58 pm)TEN 6083 wrote Was on 6096 today and NSA's sometimes were cutting off before completing the sentence of the next stop. Cheers. Based on the route testing I undertook, I think this is likely to be down to the fact that there's some stops on the 56 route which are very close together. If the bus is travelling quite fast between those two stops, it won't have enough time to announce the full thing. |
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26 May 2016, 11:45 am,
Post: #640
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RE: Go North East: Latest News & Discussion - May 2016
(24 May 2016, 10:32 pm)Jimmi wrote Something I've noticed on Google Maps is that for Go North East, the bus stops now list the brand most services carry rather than the route number. The list has been updated to show brand and number such as Citylink 57, Citylink 58 etc |
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