(20 Oct 2015, 2:47 pm)NK53 TKT wrote Ah, but that is harder to get to and SLOWER, and the NSAs never work
Every vehicle with Next Stop Announcements was checked at the end of August - the system worked on every vehicle. The volume is a little too quiet on the Fab56 double deckers now: the volume setting is very deceiving at night, when there's no other noise, compared to when it's out in service with a large amount of passengers on-board. What's more, the same volume setting is used on the Angel double-deckers, and these sound much louder.
Heading into Sunderland after the Wearmouth Bridge, the announcement for the Londonderry is still used. This knocks the system out for the last few minutes of the journey. This will be changed in the near future, though I'm not sure at present if there will be a voice announcement for it.
(20 Oct 2015, 4:19 pm)Michael wrote Closure of Chowdene Bridge from 26 October 2015
http://www.simplygo.com/news/closure-of-...tober-2015
Go North East will be operating the shuttle bus using MPD 542.
It's still currently off the road, and MPD 544 was towed into Riverside Depot close by MPD 542 today (the yellow truck looked incredibly impressive - appeared to be an Alpha one without any blue stickers), so quite possible that it is donating parts to 542.