(10 Mar 2015, 2:01 pm)Tommy_1581 wrote It's just a case of re routing the 10.

500 people? Like all them people are going to use said service. 

Look at the 34 (Arriva), they petition it to call at Cambois; every 90 minutes and then hourly. No soul uses that bus to go to Cambois and North Blyth. Waste of money.

(10 Mar 2015, 2:01 pm)Tommy_1581 wrote It's just a case of re routing the 10.

(10 Mar 2015, 1:36 pm)Andreos1 wrote http://www.hexhamcourant.co.uk/news/prudhoe-hundreds-sign-petition-to-reinstate-604-bus-service-1.1196244#

More than 500 people sign petition, calling on the return of the 604.

(10 Mar 2015, 2:37 pm)Malarkey wrote From looking at Google Maps, Passengers wanting to catch a 10 to Newcastle from Moor Road for example have to walk either to South Road an catch the 686 which runs on an Hourly basis through the area at "15 Minutes Past Each Hour" to Stonyflat Bank where they can catch the 10/10B and 11A or continue on walking down to South Road and getting on the 10 on Prudoe Front Street, or they can walk even further along front street and catch the 10B/11A also.

Far from ideal for the residents who live in that area at all, surely it cant be that hard for a Single Decker or a Double Decker to go along Redwell Road/South Road, looking at Google Maps it looks pretty similar to the Toonlink 31/32 and the Blaydon Racers going around the Housing Estates in Winlaton, could also put money on a Scholar Service or two using Deckers going around this area of Prudoe, would also put money on 5210 or one the Tynedale Express branded Solars having appeared on the 686 on a few occasions in the past also.

(10 Mar 2015, 4:00 pm)Andreos1 wrote In the article, it mentioned the local circular service wasn't popular.
It begs the question as to whether NCC and GNE asked passengers if they wanted to faff on changing buses or if the choice was made for them.

The streamlined model, with buses following the same core route, has benefits, but in this case a whole estate, on a hill is missed out.

Rather than divert or extend an existing service, is it worth creating a new service, which complements the existing offer?
Or, because the fleet and workforce is a lot smaller than in years gone by - maybe this isn't possible?

(10 Mar 2015, 5:34 pm)Dan wrote Also worth noting that white route numbers are returning to the streets of Sunderland and Newcastle - courtesy of citaro5284 and yours truly! As depicted by 6096 below:
Go North East: 6096 / NL63YHZ by danielgrahamm, on Flickr

(10 Mar 2015, 7:03 pm)RM2186 wrote Just like the X1 

(10 Mar 2015, 7:10 pm)Dan wrote Fingers crossed hopefully like a few more - if citaro5284 lets me change a few of the current destinations with coloured route numbers!  
If we manage to get the via points removed as the bus gets past that location, would be a perfect opportunity to change the route number colour at the same time.

Think it works really well with certain bus colours. Don't think it'd work on the really light colours, but the white destinations look brilliant on the darker coloured buses. Don't think it'd work so well on the silver Mercs on the 61, as an example, as you need the darker coloured square to make the number stand out.

(10 Mar 2015, 8:07 pm)citaro5284 wrote Anyone notice that the GNE fleet list now shows vehicles fitted with Next Stop Announcements

(10 Mar 2015, 8:07 pm)citaro5284 wrote Anyone notice that the GNE fleet list now shows vehicles fitted with Next Stop Announcements

(11 Mar 2015, 10:47 am)Davie wrote Does anyone know if the 40 changes to the 80?

(11 Mar 2015, 12:42 pm)Wellsey18 wrote I don't know the ins and outs but yeah the 40 inter works with the 41 and the 80

(11 Mar 2015, 10:47 am)Davie wrote Does anyone know if the 40 changes to the 80?

(11 Mar 2015, 3:50 pm)Tom wrote Works something like:

80 - North Shields-Wallsend
41 - Wallsend-Hadrian Park-Wallsend
40 - Wallsend-Hadrian Park
41 - Hadrian Park-Wallsend
40 - Wallsend-Hadrian Park-Wallsend
80 - Wallsend - North Shields 

(11 Mar 2015, 4:51 pm)Robert wrote May be worth arranging somebody to have a look on the floor downstairs of 3832 - some idiots cracked an egg by throwing it and it went everywhere. The poor things did try to clean it up with tissues (and then throwing them out the window) but i doubt they would have done a brilliant job. It's up at Consett now i believe though.

(11 Mar 2015, 6:03 pm)Davie wrote Whatever happened to service 307, I haven't seen that service for months. Did it get withdrawn?

(11 Mar 2015, 6:07 pm)Tom wrote Aye, the Arriva service 51 took all of the passengers.

(12 Mar 2015, 12:44 pm)Malarkey wrote Is 3814 still on loan to Washington Depot, if so what route is it on, or has another Vehicle been transferred over instead.