(05 Feb 2016, 9:44 pm)ifm001 I'd rather the additional X21 stop had been Birtley Town Centre rather than Low Fell. Stopping at all the stops on the 21 between Birtley and Newcastle takes ages. Yes Arriva X12 provides the link but no good if using buzzfares and the smartzone card is yet to be introduced in Gateshead. Which to be honest proably never will as the only stagecoach and arriva services are x12 and x34 so no point in smartzone for Gateshead.
But faster expresses between Birtley and Newcastle please GNE
(05 Feb 2016, 9:44 pm)ifm001 I'd rather the additional X21 stop had been Birtley Town Centre rather than Low Fell. Stopping at all the stops on the 21 between Birtley and Newcastle takes ages. Yes Arriva X12 provides the link but no good if using buzzfares and the smartzone card is yet to be introduced in Gateshead. Which to be honest proably never will as the only stagecoach and arriva services are x12 and x34 so no point in smartzone for Gateshead.
But faster expresses between Birtley and Newcastle please GNE
(05 Feb 2016, 9:44 pm)ifm001 I'd rather the additional X21 stop had been Birtley Town Centre rather than Low Fell. Stopping at all the stops on the 21 between Birtley and Newcastle takes ages. Yes Arriva X12 provides the link but no good if using buzzfares and the smartzone card is yet to be introduced in Gateshead. Which to be honest proably never will as the only stagecoach and arriva services are x12 and x34 so no point in smartzone for Gateshead.
But faster expresses between Birtley and Newcastle please GNE
(05 Feb 2016, 9:44 pm)ifm001 I'd rather the additional X21 stop had been Birtley Town Centre rather than Low Fell. Stopping at all the stops on the 21 between Birtley and Newcastle takes ages. Yes Arriva X12 provides the link but no good if using buzzfares and the smartzone card is yet to be introduced in Gateshead. Which to be honest proably never will as the only stagecoach and arriva services are x12 and x34 so no point in smartzone for Gateshead.
But faster expresses between Birtley and Newcastle please GNE
OK I got it wrong in post #2322 when I speculated that 15 minutes would need to be added to the X21 running times so that Streetwrecks could cope - it's only 5 min northbound and 6 min southbound and I suppose 1 min of that will be for the new Low Fell stop; nothing wrong with stopping there, but it would make a mockery of the service to go through Birtley. Hopefully "Pronto" has gone, but I suppose it's too much to hope that my long suggested "OK Express" will take its place.
(05 Feb 2016, 10:31 pm)BusLoverMum Having no choice but to trundle through Birtley at 20mph would reduce reliability. Heck, you already have 10 buses an hour to Newcastle via Durham Road - and the 21 doesn't take much longer than the X12. I'd understand the want for more express buses if the time difference was 10-15 minutes, but it's not. It's half that.
(05 Feb 2016, 10:31 pm)BusLoverMum Having no choice but to trundle through Birtley at 20mph would reduce reliability. Heck, you already have 10 buses an hour to Newcastle via Durham Road - and the 21 doesn't take much longer than the X12. I'd understand the want for more express buses if the time difference was 10-15 minutes, but it's not. It's half that.
(05 Feb 2016, 4:10 pm)Jimmi Just me who doesn't really care that much what the branding looks like? So long as I can identify the routes they are branded for, I'm not really bothered what they look like so much, I'm like "there is a Pronto" not "there is a bus with crap branding that makes it look like a menu for a pizza shop"
(05 Feb 2016, 4:10 pm)Jimmi Just me who doesn't really care that much what the branding looks like? So long as I can identify the routes they are branded for, I'm not really bothered what they look like so much, I'm like "there is a Pronto" not "there is a bus with crap branding that makes it look like a menu for a pizza shop"
(05 Feb 2016, 12:51 pm)Michael Along with the changes GNE have relieved the new "Red Arrows" Branding.
Uploaded a pic but its blurry
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Interestingly the new X21 timetable is in the rubbish style.. keeping the new branding under wraps for the time being?
(05 Feb 2016, 12:51 pm)Michael Along with the changes GNE have relieved the new "Red Arrows" Branding.
Uploaded a pic but its blurry
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Interestingly the new X21 timetable is in the rubbish style.. keeping the new branding under wraps for the time being?
(06 Feb 2016, 5:58 pm)Andreos1 Nobody seems to have noticed the additional sticker next to the wifi symbol.
New buses such as the Streetlites have three stickers - wifi, usb charging and plug sockets...
(06 Feb 2016, 5:58 pm)Andreos1 Nobody seems to have noticed the additional sticker next to the wifi symbol.
New buses such as the Streetlites have three stickers - wifi, usb charging and plug sockets...
PB0003954/538 - GO NORTH EAST LIMITED, 117 QUEEN STREET, GATESHEAD, NE8 2UA
Variation Accepted by SN: Operating between Ashington Bus Station and North Shields, Town Centre given service number 19 effective from 22-Feb-2016. To amend Route.
PB0003954/658 - GO NORTH EAST LIMITED, 117 QUEEN STREET, GATESHEAD, NE8 2UA
Variation Accepted by SN: Operating between Bedlington Station, Clayton Arms and Linton, First Row given service number 434 effective from 22-Feb-2016. To amend Route.
(08 Feb 2016, 6:51 pm)Michael PB0003954/538 - GO NORTH EAST LIMITED, 117 QUEEN STREET, GATESHEAD, NE8 2UA
Variation Accepted by SN: Operating between Ashington Bus Station and North Shields, Town Centre given service number 19 effective from 22-Feb-2016. To amend Route.
PB0003954/658 - GO NORTH EAST LIMITED, 117 QUEEN STREET, GATESHEAD, NE8 2UA
Variation Accepted by SN: Operating between Bedlington Station, Clayton Arms and Linton, First Row given service number 434 effective from 22-Feb-2016. To amend Route.
(08 Feb 2016, 6:51 pm)Michael PB0003954/538 - GO NORTH EAST LIMITED, 117 QUEEN STREET, GATESHEAD, NE8 2UA
Variation Accepted by SN: Operating between Ashington Bus Station and North Shields, Town Centre given service number 19 effective from 22-Feb-2016. To amend Route.
PB0003954/658 - GO NORTH EAST LIMITED, 117 QUEEN STREET, GATESHEAD, NE8 2UA
Variation Accepted by SN: Operating between Bedlington Station, Clayton Arms and Linton, First Row given service number 434 effective from 22-Feb-2016. To amend Route.
The 128 timetable has been uploaded to the GNE site: http://www.simplygo.com/download/publication/75982.92 - it starts on 19th March and runs to the 29th October 2016.
(09 Feb 2016, 11:53 am)Michael PB0002400/480 - GO NORTHERN LTD T/A GO NORTH EAST, 117 QUEEN STREET, GATESHEAD, NE8 2UA
Cancellation Accepted: Operating between CASSOP, DEAN VIEW and ARNISON CENTRE given service number 59 effective from 02-Apr-2016.
(09 Feb 2016, 11:53 am)Michael PB0002400/480 - GO NORTHERN LTD T/A GO NORTH EAST, 117 QUEEN STREET, GATESHEAD, NE8 2UA
Cancellation Accepted: Operating between CASSOP, DEAN VIEW and ARNISON CENTRE given service number 59 effective from 02-Apr-2016.
(09 Feb 2016, 11:58 am)Jimmi Wonder if GNE have lost the contract to another operator or if the contract has been dropped entirely?
(09 Feb 2016, 12:17 pm)Michael Not sure Jimmi, i'm not from the area so i have no idea what the passenger numbers are like.
Maybe council cuts?.
(09 Feb 2016, 12:17 pm)Michael Not sure Jimmi, i'm not from the area so i have no idea what the passenger numbers are like.
Maybe council cuts?.
.....like most other rural communities in County Durham who lost weekday services after 8pm and all Sunday services from April 2011. The Sunday 59 and GNE 15 were exceptions, paid for in other ways.
(09 Feb 2016, 11:53 am)Michael PB0002400/480 - GO NORTHERN LTD T/A GO NORTH EAST, 117 QUEEN STREET, GATESHEAD, NE8 2UA
Cancellation Accepted: Operating between CASSOP, DEAN VIEW and ARNISON CENTRE given service number 59 effective from 02-Apr-2016.
(09 Feb 2016, 11:53 am)Michael PB0002400/480 - GO NORTHERN LTD T/A GO NORTH EAST, 117 QUEEN STREET, GATESHEAD, NE8 2UA
Cancellation Accepted: Operating between CASSOP, DEAN VIEW and ARNISON CENTRE given service number 59 effective from 02-Apr-2016.
(09 Feb 2016, 11:05 pm)BusLoverMum Is the cassop - thornley/wheatley hill section the secured bit, then? Wonder what will happen to that.By the sounds of things, some of those areas are going to be left with no Sunday bus service.
(09 Feb 2016, 11:05 pm)BusLoverMum Is the cassop - thornley/wheatley hill section the secured bit, then? Wonder what will happen to that.By the sounds of things, some of those areas are going to be left with no Sunday bus service.
