North East Buses

East Yorkshire 677 / YY52 LCU by kieron mathews, on Flickr

As it hasn’t been posted on this thread, East Yorkshire 677 is currently on loan to Stanley Travel


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Rather new for Stanley 
https://twitter.com/stanley_travel/statu...45344?s=21

Stanley Travel’s Latest Acquisition Volvo B9TL Wright Eclipse Gemini II S3 STX ex First London and later Tower Transits VN36128 | BJ11 DVB entered service this morning working metro replacement service 900 on Behalf of Go North East.

High Resolution Image : https://flic.kr/p/2kDmk5g


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(20 Feb 2021, 1:21 pm)Xlines 6335 wrote [ -> ]Stanley Travel’s Latest Acquisition  Volvo B9TL Wright Eclipse Gemini II S3 STX ex First London and later Tower Transits VN36128 | BJ11 DVB entered service this morning working metro replacement service 900 on Behalf of Go North East.

Great to see the investment. That looks incredibly smart.

Stanley Travel HX69 OBM. by Guy Park-Royal, on Flickr

A new arrival at Stanley Travel is Ford Transit HX69 OBM.


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Are Stanley Travel likely to be awarded some Nexus contracts in September, or March next year? I believe the works services are up for renewal in September, 392, 792, 794, 941, 968 etc? Then 32A, 33A, 84/84A etc next March?

(06 Jun 2021, 8:46 pm)OrangeArrow49 wrote [ -> ]Are Stanley Travel likely to be awarded some Nexus contracts in September, or March next year? I believe the works services are up for renewal in September, 392, 792, 794, 941, 968 etc? Then 32A, 33A, 84/84A etc next March?

Don't say anything. Gct will get it all 

I have a feeling the 33 by gne (Newcastle) will go to gct. 

392 will stay with coppers I think 

792/794 will stay with A Line and Weardale 

32A 84/84A in fact all GCT contracts will be having a big think about it if they keep missing buses drivers and everything else

Stanley Travel taking over the H1 from 1st September 2021

(28 Jun 2021, 2:18 pm)Michael wrote [ -> ]Stanley Travel taking over the H1 from 1st September 2021

Interesting.
Of course, the H1 wouldn't need to be funded by Nexus, if it wasn't for commercial operators deciding links to places like hospitals, didn't need to exist.

Is that when the "12 week" period ends for the contracts on temporary loan to others while GCT sort stuff out

Anyone know what they've used on the H1 today

(28 Jun 2021, 2:44 pm)Micheal Aaron wrote [ -> ]Is that when the "12 week" period ends for the contracts on temporary loan to others while GCT sort stuff out

That is when that contract is due to be  awarded again

(28 Jun 2021, 3:40 pm)GNE6312 wrote [ -> ]Anyone know what they've used on the H1 today

GNE 639 was on today.

Well it's nice to see Stanley Travel have it. The solo is on temporary loan. Driver said possible just for today but wasn't sure https://flic.kr/p/2m874M9

(28 Jun 2021, 2:18 pm)Michael wrote [ -> ]Stanley Travel taking over the H1 from 1st September 2021

Stanley Travel have taken over the service from today on an emergency basis to cover for Gateshead Central Taxis who have a driver shortage. Go North East has loaned Solo 639 to Stanley Travel to allow them to do this.

Gateshead Central Taxis lost the contract to operate this service from the end of July anyway, with Go North East providing the winning bid as the cheapest tenderer.

(28 Jun 2021, 6:02 pm)Dan wrote [ -> ]Stanley Travel have taken over the service from today on an emergency basis to cover for Gateshead Central Taxis who have a driver shortage. Go North East has loaned Solo 639 to Stanley Travel to allow them to do this.

Gateshead Central Taxis lost the contract to operate this service from the end of July anyway, with Go North East providing the winning bid as the cheapest tenderer.

Ah right, Vosa is wrong then, as it says from 1st September 2021 for Stanley Travel to take over.


What other contracts have been won and lost?

Stanley Travel YX21 RPO by kieron mathews, on Flickr

Stanley Travel have ADL Enviro 200MMC YX21 RPO on loan for use on the H1, previously with GNE as fleet number 9053 but now has vinyls.


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It looked like Stanley Travel were running the Connector Shuttle from Concord this weekend, with a red 6 seater taxi.

I wasn't really out for buses so wasn't paying much attention, but there wasn't much to say what it was, other than it being stood at stand C repeatedly.

Was this the case, or is it purely a coincidence?

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To be fair they could allocate a Rickshaw and would still struggle to get a full load

(18 Jul 2021, 7:41 pm)Adrian wrote [ -> ]It looked like Stanley Travel were running the Connector Shuttle from Concord this weekend, with a red 6 seater taxi.

I wasn't really out for buses so wasn't paying much attention, but there wasn't much to say what it was, other than it being stood at stand C repeatedly.

Was this the case, or is it purely a coincidence?

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Due to very low passenger numbers (you never get more than two on one trip, sometimes goes all day without picking up a single passenger), Stanley Travel are now running this service on behalf of Go North East, allowing Go North East’s driver resource to be better utilised.

Go North East recently took over operation of a number of Gateshead Central Taxis contracts for Nexus on evenings and Sundays, and similar to this situation for the ConnectorShuttle, agreement was reached with Nexus to revise the Gateshead Central Taxis SNS contract to run on a lower frequency and interwork with the MetroShuttle, with Go North East’s service being withdrawn. This allowed the driver resource to be re-allocated to the Washington evening local services, which Gateshead Central Taxis were unable to cover.

An 8-seat taxi was used this weekend, with signage in the window for ConnectorShuttle: https://flic.kr/p/2mbTQrj

I believe a 16-seat minibus will be used from Monday.

In an ideal world the MetroShuttle would be diverted via Concord (following the same route as service 4 from Heworth) allowing the ConnectorShuttle to be withdrawn completely…

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