(13 Feb 2019, 7:30 pm)S813 FVK wrote 5390 has now gained the promotional livery for 'Poetry in Motion'

Go North East 5390 / NL63 YAY by kieron mathews, on Flickr

There is a slight typo on it though. It is buspoems.com not .co.uk.

(14 Feb 2019, 1:03 am)Rapidsnap wrote How long is 9079 expected to be around for?

(14 Feb 2019, 7:42 pm)Michael wrote Surprised the new coaches don't have WIFI.

(14 Feb 2019, 7:45 pm)Dan wrote National Express spec.

They offer Wi-Fi of sorts but it's not as good as Go North East's own buses.

Their main offering is VUER:
https://www.nationalexpress.com/en/vuer

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(14 Feb 2019, 7:45 pm)Dan wrote National Express spec.

They offer Wi-Fi of sorts but it's not as good as Go North East's own buses.

Their main offering is VUER:
https://www.nationalexpress.com/en/vuer

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(14 Feb 2019, 8:25 pm)GNE6312 wrote Do GNE have Sunday's metro replacements

(14 Feb 2019, 7:51 pm)streetdeckfan wrote To be honest, I've never found Go North East's WiFi to be that good, and that assumes it even works.
Especially on the longer services 100mb a day just doesn't cut it, I only use it as a backup for when my mobile data isn't working (like today, in fact I'm typing this on WiFi)
I get that 100mb per passenger per day quickly adds up, but I feel like it's only added to the bus just to say they have it

To be fair though, I think Arriva's daily limit is 70mb so it could be worse

(14 Feb 2019, 8:32 pm)citaro5284 wrote GNE are using around 8 Terabytes a month on passenger wifi, so it is working that is for sure.

100mb a day limit, if you travel for 5 days a week, that is around 2GB worth of data that someone is getting on top of their plan with the mobile provider.

(14 Feb 2019, 7:51 pm)streetdeckfan wrote To be honest, I've never found Go North East's WiFi to be that good, and that assumes it even works.
Especially on the longer services 100mb a day just doesn't cut it, I only use it as a backup for when my mobile data isn't working (like today, in fact I'm typing this on WiFi)
I get that 100mb per passenger per day quickly adds up, but I feel like it's only added to the bus just to say they have it

To be fair though, I think Arriva's daily limit is 70mb so it could be worse

(14 Feb 2019, 9:11 pm)Andreos1 wrote I gave up on it years ago after the shambles there was when it launched.
It worked; it didn't work; buses advertised it - but wouldn't connect; messages to say the limit was reached within seconds of logging on to fb... 
Wouldn't be surprised if the majority of those who use it are kids who have ran out of data and are Snapchatting their mates sat just a few foot on the other side of the bus.

(14 Feb 2019, 9:11 pm)Andreos1 wrote I gave up on it years ago after the shambles there was when it launched.
It worked; it didn't work; buses advertised it - but wouldn't connect; messages to say the limit was reached within seconds of logging on to fb... 
Wouldn't be surprised if the majority of those who use it are kids who have ran out of data and are Snapchatting their mates sat just a few foot on the other side of the bus.

(14 Feb 2019, 9:17 pm)Malarkey wrote Also when connected it disconnects you when another vehicle with a wifi connection passes by.

(14 Feb 2019, 8:39 pm)Jamie M wrote Getting a bit astray here, but the issue is normally when phones connect to wifi, background data processes normally drastically increase for updates and whatever else our devices do. So there's less time to actually use the your phone before reaching the cap, than if the device is being rather more conservative on mobile data.

I've used all the data within a matter of minutes by just browsing facebook. All the things start auto playing as well, which doesn't help. It would be nice if devices could recognise transport wifi as a separate entity and act a lot more conservatively. Those big bad evil multi million corporations want us to be using mobile data though, so that'll never happen!

(14 Feb 2019, 9:19 pm)Jamie M wrote I'm more confused by the scholar's who like to all be streaming memes off youtube for 45 minutes every morning I get given a wifi enabled bus. Bus wifi box must take a hammering on those'ns. When I was a scholars... last year.... I was too dead in the mornings to bother with that stuff.

(15 Feb 2019, 7:38 am)Panasonic44 wrote Does any1 know what time enviro200 timetable today from Heworth?

Thanks.

(15 Feb 2019, 9:06 am)enviro7501 wrote It should depart Heworth at around 10

(30 Jan 2019, 11:09 am)TEN 6083 wrote Go North East 9088 / OP07 ARE by kieron mathews, on Flickr

Go North East 9088 / OP07 ARE by kieron mathews, on Flickr

9088 is out today if anyone needs a photo


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(15 Feb 2019, 9:30 am)enviro7501 wrote It has been taken out of service at Washington.

(15 Feb 2019, 3:29 pm)Panasonic44 wrote Yeah, I went out for it and waited at Heworth. Got bored went to Washington then heard from driver swap that it got swapped because of capacity issue. Which is a shame because really wanted to try before it leaves GNE, cant because of work but I do like Stagecoachs @ 11.8m which would be a good replacement.

PS I do think because its smaller than except to compare against Mercedes, I think it should go on The 9, for last week so it can be tested without being taken out of service.

(15 Feb 2019, 5:21 pm)Dan wrote Fleet Update
Ahead of the impending entry into service of the new National Express coaches, 7113 has been withdrawn from service within the Coaching Fleet. It, alongside similar 7114, 7116 and 7117, are to be loaned to Go-Ahead London for use on a Rail Replacement contract operating between Brighton and Three Bridges for a week, from tomorrow.

(15 Feb 2019, 5:40 pm)Rapidsnap wrote A good the ones I need are still in service with GNE. Which for the record are as follows...

Levante 1 - 7107 / 7111
Levante 2 - 7122 / 7133
Levante 3 - 7138 / 7139 / 7140 / 7141 / 7142

• 7111 - 07:45 425 x Newcastle
  
• 7122 - 10:45 332 x Newcastle