(15 May 2015, 4:17 pm)Arcticrossy92 wrote Trident 3802 (I think) has had its advertisement holders removed on the outside leaving marks, and one side you can see what appears to be the old swoosh livery with yellow and blue where the holders were covering

Am assuming its set to be withdrawn.

(15 May 2015, 4:25 pm)Robert wrote 3801 has too, as has a majority of the Stanley based Lolynes. Obviously moving towards the inevitable withdrawl of the vehicles.

(15 May 2015, 5:04 pm)citaro5284 wrote The 4 B9's for the Red Kite 47 have now flown to their new nest...

(15 May 2015, 10:20 pm)park5354 wrote Black Omnicity 5237 is parked behind them at Riverside.

4901 & 4903 are at Riverside.

(16 May 2015, 8:18 am)Michael wrote Riverside getting a nice collection of B10's =P 

(16 May 2015, 8:31 am)Robert wrote More than i thought they would. Stanley only have 4897 left...surely they cant lose that one too.

single

volvo

single

(16 May 2015, 8:31 am)Robert wrote More than i thought they would. Stanley only have 4897 left...surely they cant lose that one too.

(16 May 2015, 8:56 am)Robert wrote It does really mean that the chances of a decker (red or olympian) is going to be more likely. Stanley will only have 5 (currently 4) red spare single deckers. I haven't included the omnicities because they are all required on services based at the depot.:
2x Streetlite
2x Mercedes Citaro
1x volvo B10BLE
One of those streetlites should be allocated to service X43 (Monday-Saturday) and another to service 128 on Saturdays taking the number down to 3. They could also be covering for vehicles on their respective services. That brings the number down to 3/4. Is 4 spare single deckers really enough for a depot which operates a majority of single decker services?

• 2x Mercedes Citaro
  
• 1x Scania OmniCity
  
• 1x Streetlite Micro-Hybrid
  
• 1x Volvo B10BLE
  

• 8/78 - PVR 6
  
• 43/44 - PVR 14
  
• 45/46 - PVR 9
  
• X30/X31/X70/X71 - PVR 3 (remainder of the PVR presently made up by Dennis Tridents)
  

(15 May 2015, 5:04 pm)citaro5284 wrote The 4 B9's for the Red Kite 47 have now flown to their new nest...

(16 May 2015, 6:24 pm)Simmy wrote During the GNE driver enrolment sessions at Sunderland and Gateshead, is there a requirement to drive a bus e.g. a clean driving license?

(16 May 2015, 6:24 pm)Simmy wrote During the GNE driver enrolment sessions at Sunderland and Gateshead, is there a requirement to drive a bus e.g. a clean driving license?

(17 May 2015, 6:30 am)citaro5284 wrote Stanley's Red Kites are spreading their wings today

(17 May 2015, 8:26 am)Arcticrossy92 wrote Currently on one of the new Red Kites, running 5minutes late, had a engineer attending at Consett bus station for abit, he seemed to be hammering something near the drivers cab ...

Love the seats! Looks very smart, and they seem very quick.

On another note what are the small long thin screens for near the door, are those for destinations, and will it just be the stop name that appears.

(17 May 2015, 8:13 am)Michael wrote Have all of the Red Kite Omnicities being transferred to Riverside or just the ones painted black?

as park5354 reported 5237 is now at Riverside. 

(17 May 2015, 8:29 am)Robert wrote I imagine the number of Rare/Odd workings reported yesterday was to allow Stanley to debrand all the buses that were branded and haven't been repainted for onward transfer to Riverside. It will take weeks for all of the buses to be repainted black.

(17 May 2015, 9:14 am)Michael wrote How many have being do so far 3?, with one currently at SM?

(17 May 2015, 9:18 am)Sidthebusbabe wrote The B9's are out on the 47, I've just got myself a photo

(17 May 2015, 9:26 am)Dan wrote Yes, three have been repainted black so far - Robert just managed to quote my post before I deleted it.

(17 May 2015, 9:26 am)citaro5284 wrote Yup, they were due out as well, but were still in bed when I checked earlier.