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RE: Go North East: Upcoming Service Changes
Bet that VOSA website has been getting some hammer the past few days - Tom wins..!
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(10 Sep 2015, 2:52 pm)Tom wrote Looks like it wasn't a lie!
PB0003954/656 - GO NORTH EAST LIMITED, 117 QUEEN STREET, GATESHEAD, NE8 2UA
Registration Accepted
Starting Point: Durham Bus Station
Finish Point: Castleside, Church Street
Via:
Service Number: 16
Service Type: Normal Stopping
Effective Date: 25-OCT-2015
Other Details: Monday to Saturday (excluding public holidays) Sunday (and public holiday)
(10 Sep 2015, 3:08 pm)S813 FVK wrote I tend not to check full stop. With other operators included in the searches, some often go astray. I must leave the copying and pasting bit to the experts
(10 Sep 2015, 3:15 pm)Michael wrote Sounds like a fun route to do.
Was it the V8 and 43 which was rumoured to be merging to make the above route?, cant remember... my memory the last weeks...
(10 Sep 2015, 5:23 pm)S813 FVK wrote That would be the 766. The 765 went to Shotley Bridge.
(10 Sep 2015, 5:50 pm)MurdnunoC wrote It would be neither.
Services 765/766 were basically services 15/15A without the Castleside and Shotley Bridge Hospital extensions.
The new service 16 is more like the old 719 except, instead of terminating at Shotley Bridge Hospital, terminates at Castleside.
(10 Sep 2015, 5:46 pm)Tom wrote Just thinking here, if the 131 and 706/707 won't be replaced, I wonder if the Solos could be used on a variation of the 17?
So if it was split like has been rumoured, then Solos could be used from Rosehill/Wallsend to Cramlington as I don't think this service needs a full size bus so they could be used on there, and this would allow for dual door B10s to be withdrawn.
(10 Sep 2015, 5:55 pm)S813 FVK wrote I know that the 765/766 went the 15/15A - i was just saying that the 766 was the service that continued to Castleside from Consett, not the 765 which continued to Shotley Bridge.
It is indeed, as you say, more like the 719 which went via South Stanley (Avon Road) like the current 44. It used to be one of the many services that went via Hollyhill Gardens at one point to and was, until its withdrawl, allocated the Palatine 1s. The 718 (operated by Chester-le-Street using DAFs) interworked with the 720 and 729 and continued to Consett in place of the 719 in the evenings and Sundays before without the Shotley Bridge extension.
(10 Sep 2015, 6:04 pm)MurdnunoC wrote Once upon a time, the 718 used to extend beyond Stanley to terminate at Chopwell via the old 715 route to Rowlands Gill, then onto Chopwell via Hamsterley Mill and Blackhall Mill.
Would love to see that route again but I won't hold my breath...
(10 Sep 2015, 6:04 pm)MurdnunoC wrote Once upon a time, the 718 used to extend beyond Stanley to terminate at Chopwell via the old 715 route to Rowlands Gill, then onto Chopwell via Hamsterley Mill and Blackhall Mill.
Would love to see that route again but I won't hold my breath...
(10 Sep 2015, 6:24 pm)Jackamcardle wrote I wish the 715 still existed. It would be ideal for me on my days out! Optare Metroriders I think? I would even use it if Stanley Travel extended the R5, but that's never going to happen!
(10 Sep 2015, 5:46 pm)Tom wrote Just thinking here, if the 131 and 706/707 won't be replaced, I wonder if the Solos could be used on a variation of the 17?
So if it was split like has been rumoured, then Solos could be used from Rosehill/Wallsend to Cramlington as I don't think this service needs a full size bus so they could be used on there, and this would allow for dual door B10s to be withdrawn.
(10 Sep 2015, 6:24 pm)Jackamcardle wrote I wish the 715 still existed. It would be ideal for me on my days out! Optare Metroriders I think? I would even use it if Stanley Travel extended the R5, but that's never going to happen!
(10 Sep 2015, 6:29 pm)DanPicken wrote I wish the 57A/B still existed had a bus to Newcastle from mine.
(10 Sep 2015, 6:39 pm)aureolin wrote I wonder what the X66 and 8/8A changes are. It'd be nice to have an 8/8A Sunday service. I hope the X66 stopping point change is to remove the depot stop, rather than add an additional stop.
You've got the Metro!
(10 Sep 2015, 6:41 pm)Arcticrossy92 wrote So my days of having a direct bus from Lanchester to Newcastle are numbered, as just reading through, so far .... there aint a mention of a replacement service, early days I know!
(10 Sep 2015, 6:41 pm)Arcticrossy92 wrote So my days of having a direct bus from Lanchester to Newcastle are numbered, as just reading through, so far .... there aint a mention of a replacement service, early days I know!
(10 Sep 2015, 6:24 pm)Jackamcardle wrote I wish the 715 still existed. It would be ideal for me on my days out! Optare Metroriders I think? I would even use it if Stanley Travel extended the R5, but that's never going to happen!
(10 Sep 2015, 6:41 pm)Arcticrossy92 wrote So my days of having a direct bus from Lanchester to Newcastle are numbered, as just reading through, so far .... there aint a mention of a replacement service, early days I know!