(26 Mar 2022, 9:09 pm)Dan wrote Northumberland County Council are currently tendering this service, as well as Rural Link’s town services in Morpeth.

From memory the 58 starts on 10 April (or thereabouts) with contract award next week, and the Morpeth services towards the end of April.

All require contactless-enabled ticket machines. One of the Morpeth services required a bus with 44 seats, which likely rules Rural Link out of providing that one - imagine Arriva will be keen to win it.


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I would assume the 44 seater contract is the Stannington service, remember seeing it at school finishing time one afternoon a while back and it was a 24 seater MPD with kids standing much of the way down the bus.

Would be great if the 44 could be extended again but don't know how it would work considering the route has changed a bit at that end since PCL Travel won it.