(03 Mar 2016, 10:03 pm)citaro5284 wrote Now a branded Streetdeck!

Excellent

(04 Mar 2016, 10:36 pm)pdiddy wrote Excellent

Somebody could get a good photo opportunity outside Chester depot or up the A167 around 8:15am this Sunday when I pick the 6 streetdeckers up and drop the Prontos off   

(04 Mar 2016, 10:43 pm)pdiddy wrote Somebody could get a good photo opportunity outside Chester depot or up the A167 around 8:15am this Sunday when I pick the 6 streetdeckers up and drop the Prontos off   

I wish you would call them their proper name.....Streetdeck 

(04 Mar 2016, 10:16 pm)G-CPTN wrote When you get significantly different liveries running the same route (Arriva, Stagecoach, GNE orange and GNE red and GNE Tynedale links yellow on the '85' route to Newcastle from Hexham) the average passenger doesn't consider that they represent different operators.
It's only when they try to board with a return ticket issued by a different operator (and get refused) that they get confused.

Oh! and the confusion was there when Arriva and Stagecoach were the sole operators of the 685 - back then the tickets weren't transferable (I believe that they are now).

Passengers stand at a stop and look at the destination blind - if it reads what they expect to see then it's 'their bus'.

We had that problem in Low fell, back in the late 90s/early noughties, between Arriva and Go ahead northern.

(04 Mar 2016, 9:16 pm)Malarkey wrote There is a Weekly Saver on the Angel, It costs £17.30, and is valid on the 21/X21 between Newcastle and Durham.

http://www.simplygo.com/route-savers/

It was a day saver that would I'm after. My work expenses won't allow me to purchase a weekly ticket hence I take the train

(04 Mar 2016, 10:45 pm)citaro5284 wrote I wish you would call them their proper name.....Streetdeck 

Sorry S T R E E T D E C K

Wright Streetdeck

(04 Mar 2016, 10:43 pm)pdiddy wrote Somebody could get a good photo opportunity outside Chester depot or up the A167 around 8:15am this Sunday when I pick the 6 streetdeckers up and drop the Prontos off   

Made a rod for your own back there like pdiddy

It will be like the paparazzi hanging around a Mayfair nightclub!

4896 seems to have expired in sunniside. Just went past on the X30 with passengers waiting for another bus. We stopped but everyone seemed to be going to Gateshead.

5337 NIS looking a bit forlorn at Durham bus station.

(05 Mar 2016, 9:08 am)Andreos1 wrote Made a rod for your own back there like pdiddy

It will be like the paparazzi hanging around a Mayfair nightclub!

Shouldn't be too bad. Very few buses into Chester for that time. 

(05 Mar 2016, 10:46 am)Adrian wrote Shouldn't be too bad. Very few buses into Chester for that time. 

They'll be camping overnight, in that case

(05 Mar 2016, 10:48 am)BusLoverMum wrote They'll be camping overnight, in that case

haha yeah. There'll only be one place I'll be at that time on a Sunday, and that's in bed.

(05 Mar 2016, 10:50 am)Adrian wrote haha yeah. There'll only be one place I'll be at that time on a Sunday, and that's in bed.

Not the only one, i don't see why people have to go and get a photo on the first day.

Same as everyone wanting to ride them on Monday?, why you have the weeks ahead to do that!

(05 Mar 2016, 10:54 am)Michael wrote Not the only one, i don't see why people have to go and get a photo on the first day.

Same as everyone wanting to ride them on Monday?, why you have the weeks ahead to do that!

Beats me. It's more logical to go and get photos of stuff that won't be around forever.

(05 Mar 2016, 10:54 am)Michael wrote Not the only one, i don't see why people have to go and get a photo on the first day.

Same as everyone wanting to ride them on Monday?, why you have the weeks ahead to do that!

I will be on Monday but it's about the only day I'm really free to do so next week.

Think part of the fascination is you tend to get more people viewing your photos if you get them when they first enter service. I will admit that's part the reason why I'm doing Monday.

(05 Mar 2016, 10:54 am)Michael wrote Not the only one, i don't see why people have to go and get a photo on the first day.

Same as everyone wanting to ride them on Monday?, why you have the weeks ahead to do that!

I need to be in Newcastle on Friday so will probably try one out, then, if the 22 runs on time.

6040 somehow displaying the correct destinations (have seen it leaving bishop and now on its way back) but only showing the number 1

Any word if the X21 is still going to accept the POP payg cards?

Currently on 6002 and I've noticed that the red arrows logo on the top left of the screen has been cut short to d arrows because the whole thing has shifted to the left about 2".

I'll post a pic when I get home if necessary.

6065 with a rare Gateshead destination display.

We've stopped at every stop with people asking for Newcastle. Brand indoctrination working!

(05 Mar 2016, 3:14 pm)BusLoverMum wrote Currently on 6002 and I've noticed that the red arrows logo on the top left of the screen has been cut short to d arrows because the whole thing has shifted to the left about 2".

I'll post a pic when I get home if necessary.

Aye, the image will not calibrate into the centre, so the Hanover engineer has had to order a new part.

(05 Mar 2016, 3:18 pm)Ambassador wrote 6065 with a rare Gateshead destination display.

We've stopped at every stop with people asking for Newcastle. Brand indoctrination working!

At least it's running. Half the angels we've seen today have been nis due to bad traffic, roadworks etc.

(05 Mar 2016, 3:23 pm)citaro5284 wrote Aye, the image will not calibrate into the centre, so the Hanover engineer has had to order a new part.

Nice, clear format, mind!

(05 Mar 2016, 3:30 pm)BusLoverMum wrote Nice, clear format, mind!

I must admit, I do like the Line Plan design.  I like the image of the bus moving along between the stops...haha (little things please little minds)

(05 Mar 2016, 3:25 pm)BusLoverMum wrote At least it's running. Half the angels we've seen today have been nis due to bad traffic, roadworks etc.

There was 4 in a queue in Low Fell earlier including a Solar!

The Tynedale Express (Solars?) have interior roof panels that vibrate - breaking the fixings.

(05 Mar 2016, 4:34 pm)G-CPTN wrote The Tynedale Express (Solars?) have interior roof panels that vibrate - breaking the fixings.

5210.

(05 Mar 2016, 5:15 pm)Davie wrote 5210.

He said Tynedale Express so 5230-5233 (could include 5229 with it being from the same batch).

(05 Mar 2016, 5:18 pm)S813 FVK wrote He said Tynedale Express so 5230-5233 (could include 5229 with it being from the same batch).

My bad! I thought he said Tynedale Express. Sorry for the confusion.

I cannot imagine that it is confined to the Tynedale Express solars, but does the roof panel problem also include the Eclipses?