The panel inside the 56 is loose, 1 side hanging down, Health & Safety isnt a concern then since the driver has radioed and being told just to continue to newcastle

Just been on the Nexus website and went into journey planner, put a date of 5/11/13 between Houghton and Bournmoor, and it comes up with service number 4.

Looks like it has a journey time of 1 hour between Houghton and Heworth, at present the M1 takes 50 minutes between Houghton and Heworth. unless the service 4 has been giving extra running time.

Just past 8309 drifter destination blind is flashing like mad how are passengers meant to read it. Sort it out go north east

Least traveline is ahead for changes still nothing on the GNE site about changes to the M1... think people would like to know because this could be quite confusing.
Changes are planned for the M1 in less than a month

(25 Sep 2013, 1:02 pm)Acky81 wrote Just past 8309 drifter destination blind is flashing like mad how are passengers meant to read it. Sort it out go north east

If, in future, you want things like the above to be 'sorted', all you have to do is make a note of the vehicle in question which is having problems, without sounding so rude about it?
One of our Go North East representatives can read it, and pass it on to the appropriate person at the depot where the vehicle is based to deal with it.

Two more Citaros on their way. Just overtaken them on A1 (reg ending Y and O).
They turned off at Durham services if anyone is in area and wanting photo.

Got one as I passed them

(25 Sep 2013, 1:08 pm)Andreos1 wrote Two more Citaros on their way. Just overtaken them on A1 (reg ending Y and O).
They turned off at Durham services if anyone is in area and wanting photo.

Got one as I passed them

I think you're a little lost, A1...
You're meant to be spotting these Mercs in Doncaster, not in Durham!

(25 Sep 2013, 1:02 pm)Acky81 wrote Just past 8309 drifter destination blind is flashing like mad how are passengers meant to read it. Sort it out go north east

Looks like its the same drifter that was on the route yesterday, destination was doing overtime with the flashing.

(25 Sep 2013, 12:56 pm)cbma06 wrote Just been on the Nexus website and went into journey planner, put a date of 5/11/13 between Houghton and Bournmoor, and it comes up with service number 4.

Looks like it has a journey time of 1 hour between Houghton and Heworth, at present the M1 takes 50 minutes between Houghton and Heworth. unless the service 4 has been giving extra running time.

Slight change of route?

(25 Sep 2013, 1:11 pm)Daniel wrote I think you're a little lost, A1...
You're meant to be spotting these Mercs in Doncaster, not in Durham!

Aye, normally Doncaster - aint been that far south this week though.

(25 Sep 2013, 1:08 pm)Andreos1 wrote Two more Citaros on their way. Just overtaken them on A1 (reg ending Y and O).
They turned off at Durham services if anyone is in area and wanting photo.

Got one as I passed them

Currently on the loudest Vyking in the world on the 26 heading towards Park Lane.. currently at Castletown

Just from reading the info on here, there has been 6 Citaros already Delivered, I think all 11 will be here by Friday with ease.

The other Citaro that Andreos1 Mentioned ending in "O" I believe is BX63 BDO, Just from looking at the other Reg Plates so far. While the other as you can see from the photo is BX63 BCY.

I think we maybe seeing a little pattern developing here regarding the Reg Plates

(25 Sep 2013, 2:37 pm)Adam Malarkey wrote Just from reading the info on here, there has been 6 Citaros already Delivered, I think all 11 will be here by Friday with ease.

The other Citaro that Andreos1 Mentioned ending in "O" I believe is BX63 BDO, Just from looking at the other Reg Plates so far. While the other as you can see from the photo is BX63 BCY.

I think we maybe seeing a little pattern developing here regarding the Reg Plates

Forgive me, but what pattern is emerging?

BX63 BCU and BX63 BCO
BX63 BDU and BX63 BDE
BX63 BDO and BX63 BDY

I agree wouldnt be suprised to see all 11 here by Friday.
Any idea what fleet numbers they will be?
cant renember seen a post about it.

(25 Sep 2013, 2:46 pm)Michael wrote I agree wouldnt be suprised to see all 11 here by Friday.
Any idea what fleet numbers they will be?
cant renember seen a post about it.

5358 upwards, I believe.
We've already had a 5357 (the Merc that was bought for spares).

We'll hopefully be able to match registrations to their fleet numbers soon.

Daniel gne should know about the destination blind it's been like this for weeks but they are choosing to ignore it

(25 Sep 2013, 2:40 pm)Daniel wrote Forgive me, but what pattern is emerging?

BX63 BCU and BX63 BCO
BX63 BDU and BX63 BDE
BX63 BDO and BX63 BDY

If you look closely you notice it, but I will explain anyway.

BX63 BCU and BX63 BDU - Then you have BX63 BCO and BX13 BDO, So from that the difference in the Reg Plates is one Letter in the Middle being Different and the End Letter being the same.

So from that you can probably predict what the other reg plates are going to be before they even arrive.

(25 Sep 2013, 2:49 pm)Acky81 wrote Daniel gne should know about the destination blind it's been like this for weeks but they are choosing to ignore it

Tbh Acky81 has a point slightly aggressively put, however, I'm sure Deptford will know about 8309 & 8306 (I think there's two drifter Versa's with dodgy blinds, 8309 is worse) they are just choosing to ignore it for now. Probably waiting till repaints of the Versa's when StreetLites arrive.

I apologise if my point was aggressive just poor standards guys

(25 Sep 2013, 2:49 pm)Acky81 wrote Daniel gne should know about the destination blind it's been like this for weeks but they are choosing to ignore it

If it isn't noted on the defect log, how are the engineering department at the depot supposed to know about it?

(25 Sep 2013, 2:49 pm)Adam Malarkey wrote If you look closely you notice it, but I will explain anyway.

BX63 BCU and BX63 BDU - Then you have BX63 BCO and BX13 BDO, So from that the difference in the Reg Plates is one Letter in the Middle being Different and the End Letter being the same.

So from that you can probably predict what the other reg plates are going to be before they even arrive.

I think that's completely coincidental. It's not a private registration plate, so Go North East haven't chosen what the registration number will be. Take GNE's "TEN" branded B9s for example - 6071 is registered NK62 FAA and 6072 is registered NK62 FBA, the rest of the batch doesn't follow this pattern at all.

(25 Sep 2013, 3:08 pm)Daniel wrote I think that's completely coincidental. It's not a private registration plate, so Go North East haven't chosen what the registration number will be. Take GNE's "TEN" branded B9s for example - 6071 is registered NK62 FAA and 6072 is registered NK62 FBA, the rest of the batch doesn't follow this pattern at all.

Yeah it is probably just coincidence, but nevertheless a good spot by myself which would of went unnoticed otherwise, as for the "Ten" 6074 NK62 FDM and 6075 NK62 FDN also follow this little pattern.

The ''Coaster'' service 1 reliability is starting to become awful, which isn't surprising really. The Gateshead ones are perfect, but the ones extending to Wrekenton/Kibblesworth are always late.

They have been running together today, which is really annoying. For example, the 08:15 service from Churchill Street didn't turn up until just before 08:30, and it was packed, then the 08:30 came spot on time, empty I always knew extending the 1 to Wrekenton would be a bad idea, why didn't they just extend the 24 to Newcastle again?

And those Citaros for the M1 look nice I do agree with Daniel on this one though about the registration plates!

(25 Sep 2013, 3:08 pm)Daniel wrote I think that's completely coincidental. It's not a private registration plate, so Go North East haven't chosen what the registration number will be. Take GNE's "TEN" branded B9s for example - 6071 is registered NK62 FAA and 6072 is registered NK62 FBA, the rest of the batch doesn't follow this pattern at all.

When buying a new car, the purchaser is given a list of available number plates.
Obviously that list isn't unlimited and is specific to that dealer/manufacturer.

I am not 100& sure, but I am pretty certain there are no specifics about whether a registration is car, bike, truck or bus.
For example, I am aware of a number of cars with the registration Vxxx DNL.
Arriva still have a few MPD's (I think) in this series and passed on some to GNE a few years back, which didn't last long.

Ideally, GNE will want a batch of vehicles to have a sequence, but this won't always be possible.
You just need to look at the fleet list to spot the odd random plate or missing letter.

(25 Sep 2013, 2:48 pm)Daniel wrote 5358 upwards, I believe.
We've already had a 5357 (the Merc that was bought for spares).

We'll hopefully be able to match registrations to their fleet numbers soon.

Cheer's

Versa's will be 8339+?
What about the Streetlites? - what fleet number will they have?

(25 Sep 2013, 3:16 pm)Adam Malarkey wrote Yeah it is probably just coincidence, but nevertheless a good spot by myself which would of went unnoticed otherwise, as for the "Ten" 6074 NK62 FDM and 6075 NK62 FDN also follow this little pattern.

A good spot? There's no pattern here or with the Ten. As Daniel said its just a coincidence that the batch includes BCO and BDO etc. There must be countless examples of buses in a batch carrying matching final characters in their registrations without following a prescribed sequence and this certainly doesn't enable prediction of the rest of the series to be allocated. Often it seems they just take/receive the registrations that are available in order based on the first five characters - so in this case BX63B--. There were presumably no other BX63BC- available, so they're being allocated from BX63BD- and when they run out will move on to BX63BE-. The only reason we'd see, for example, BX63BEO would be if all of the available ones in sequence before that were unavailable.

Incidentally, does anyone know why these lot have BX registrations? Have they been diverted from another intended allocation or are all of GNE new deliveries registered through Birmingham now?

(25 Sep 2013, 3:26 pm)Andreos1 wrote When buying a new car, the purchaser is given a list of available number plates.
Obviously that list isn't unlimited and is specific to that dealer/manufacturer.

I am not 100& sure, but I am pretty certain there are no specifics about whether a registration is car, bike, truck or bus.
For example, I am aware of a number of cars with the registration Vxxx DNL.
Arriva still have a few MPD's (I think) in this series and passed on some to GNE a few years back, which didn't last long.

Ideally, GNE will want a batch of vehicles to have a sequence, but this won't always be possible.
You just need to look at the fleet list to spot the odd random plate or missing letter.

There is alot of examples on the GNE Fleetlist which I have spotted, Best example being the "Blaydon Racers" Citaros as there are all in one group with only the Last Letter being Different E.g. 5275 to 5283 are all NK07 KP* .

Another Example again is Citaros but this time the Diamond Examples which are Half and Half, E.g. 5284 to 5288 are all NK08 CF* and 5289 to 5297 are all NK08 CG*. I think maybe from I noted in my previous post that the New Citaros will be Reg Plated Half and Half just like the Diamond examples are.

So that'll mean Half will be BX63 BC* and Half BX63 BD* which is basically what I was trying to point out in my original post.

(25 Sep 2013, 3:36 pm)stagecoachbusdepot wrote A good spot? There's no pattern here or with the Ten. As Daniel said its just a coincidence that the batch includes BCO and BDO etc. There must be countless examples of buses in a batch carrying matching final characters in their registrations without following a prescribed sequence and this certainly doesn't enable prediction of the rest of the series to be allocated. Often it seems they just take/receive the registrations that are available in order based on the first five characters - so in this case BX63B--. There were presumably no other BX63BC- available, so they're being allocated from BX63BD- and when they run out will move on to BX63BE-. The only reason we'd see, for example, BX63BEO would be if all of the available ones in sequence before that were unavailable.

Incidentally, does anyone know why these lot have BX registrations? Have they been diverted from another intended allocation or are all of GNE new deliveries registered through Birmingham now?

No idea - does Coventry have its own code or is Birmingham the nearest? The Gemini's were 'North'

(25 Sep 2013, 3:41 pm)Andreos1 wrote No idea - does Coventry have its own code or is Birmingham the nearest? The Gemini's were 'North'

Coventry doesn't have its own - Birmingham looks to be the nearest, followed by Northampton.

The Local DVLA Offices are closing over the next few months, as such most operators have moved to having new vehicles registered by the manfactors or dealer - Evobus the Mecredes-Benz dealer is based in Coventry hence the 'BX' regs on the Citaros.