Newcastle 18/32/32A

https://travelnortheast.uk/ways-to-trave...9FzSROaprQ

Given the Merseyside franchising order for Cummins powered Ultroliners, have Volvo not missed a trick building a standard Bi-Axile B8TL decker?

Electrification despite it being the way forward is still out of reach for many services.

Unless operators go tri-axile, there isn't a truly heavy duty decker currently on the market.

F1 - Gateshead Stadium Fireworks Shuttle on 7th November: https://www.gonortheast.co.uk/heading-ga...-money-gne

With Boxing Day on a Saturday plus an NUFC home match at 8pm, I wonder if operators will cash in with something akin to Sunday service on a fair chunk of routes.

I guess Arriva has cut the marketing budget and hired the level of experience of City Transport staff these days. 

The latest fireworks social media post looks like something I'd think is bad for a local pub, never mind an international transport company trading across the whole of Europe.

This, as I expect it'll be deleted before long so it can have a permanent existence:


It's not the first post in recent weeks with the embarrassing Bobby Robson post and another with a Halloween post either. If you're going to go down the AI slop route, least make it look like Stockton...

Hello everyone this is my last thread as I am leaving this forum.


I am simply making this because I have lots of withdrawn route leaflets.

I have the 97 one
I used to have the leaflet with all the routes on during the pandemic but I lost

https://realisetraining.com/courses/nort...nnhb5o8dc8

Came across this on Facebook today. Seems to be funded my Kim but aint seen or heard of it till today

Can someone please tell me how many miles the route is 1 way? Struggling to find online.

Just thought I'd start a thread on this as it's something which has come up once in awhile and is continued to be promised to be improved but nothing is changing.

Haymarket Bus Station tonight (at around 7pm) was an absolute disgrace; drunks shouting abuse at people outside the Junction, homeless people sleeping in the doorway of M&S, drunks just wandering around causing issues between the stands (no doubt begging again) and it's not even late. 

Absolutely disgusting for a major city centre bus station with absolutely zero security - I'm convinced this place used to have management on 24/7 even if he sat in the booth at the Eldon Square end.

First time I've left, and jumped on the Metro for a few stops and waited at South Gosforth instead as I couldn't be chewed with the hassle for 20 minutes (mistimed it) and I'm not a vulnerable pensioner, young or a woman who imo are more at risk - Kim McGuinness likes to tell everyone at every chance, at least anyway.

It's not a unique scenario as I know Stanley is a war zone, Blakelaw currently hasn't zero buses, Meadowell is regularly having buses pulled, the Metro is as bad as it's ever been and I'm sure that list could go on. 

Surely something has been done now? Not with franchising in god knows whenever it is. It's a complete mess and worse than I can ever remember. There's no excuse for zero visible staff in either Haymarket Metro or Haymarket Bus Station imo.

Just thought about this......but why did Arriva specify the Dennis Trident instead of the DAF DB250 for regional ALX400 orders in 2000 including 7340-35 for the 602 out of Hexham?

I know Northumbria trialed the DAF DB250 Optare Spectra (as they already had Deltas) before choosing the Cummins engined Volvo Olympian Palatine II's.

Surely the DAF DB250 chassis for regionals would've been better than the Dennis Trident chassis given that Hexham's batch needed to be replaced by B10BLE's.

Ironically a year later despite the Lowlander bodywork, Arriva did switch to the DAF DB250 chassis for regional orders which included the Darlington batch for the 723.