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South Tyne Lad

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07 Mar 2016, 4:33 pm #241
(07 Mar 2016, 4:31 pm)BusLoverMum The castle's just next door!

It's a hard one to get a good shot of, though. Its most impressively photogenic side overlooks the river.

Oh, I think I need to improve my geography of the area!

Might take my Dads Camera because my IPhone wont cope with a night time shot.

EDIT I actually thought Durham Cathedral was the castle!
Edited 07 Mar 2016, 4:38 pm by South Tyne Lad.
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South Tyne Lad
07 Mar 2016, 4:33 pm #241

(07 Mar 2016, 4:31 pm)BusLoverMum The castle's just next door!

It's a hard one to get a good shot of, though. Its most impressively photogenic side overlooks the river.

Oh, I think I need to improve my geography of the area!

Might take my Dads Camera because my IPhone wont cope with a night time shot.

EDIT I actually thought Durham Cathedral was the castle!

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07 Mar 2016, 4:40 pm #242
(07 Mar 2016, 4:29 pm)BusLoverMum I'm guessing that the free year of travel will be not much use to anyone living in Arrivaland Smile
That's an annoying thing, I'd like to have one of my photos used but a years free GNE travel wouldn't be of much value to me. I'm guessing the answer will be no but, can I send a photo and give the years free travel to someone else?
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Jimmi
07 Mar 2016, 4:40 pm #242

(07 Mar 2016, 4:29 pm)BusLoverMum I'm guessing that the free year of travel will be not much use to anyone living in Arrivaland Smile
That's an annoying thing, I'd like to have one of my photos used but a years free GNE travel wouldn't be of much value to me. I'm guessing the answer will be no but, can I send a photo and give the years free travel to someone else?

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07 Mar 2016, 4:47 pm #243
(07 Mar 2016, 4:40 pm)Jimmi That's an annoying thing, I'd like to have one of my photos used but a years free GNE travel wouldn't be of much value to me. I'm guessing the answer will be no but, can I send a photo and give the years free travel to someone else?

I'll ask the question tomorrow and get back to you on that one.

The terms and conditions usually state that the prize will be added to the winner's key card but they don't say that on this occasion - could be that it's been missed off, but could mean that it'll be a separate key card issued with the prize on it.
Dan
07 Mar 2016, 4:47 pm #243

(07 Mar 2016, 4:40 pm)Jimmi That's an annoying thing, I'd like to have one of my photos used but a years free GNE travel wouldn't be of much value to me. I'm guessing the answer will be no but, can I send a photo and give the years free travel to someone else?

I'll ask the question tomorrow and get back to you on that one.

The terms and conditions usually state that the prize will be added to the winner's key card but they don't say that on this occasion - could be that it's been missed off, but could mean that it'll be a separate key card issued with the prize on it.

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07 Mar 2016, 5:03 pm #244
I think this is quite a good contender myself, certainly the best ive seen so far!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/127079988@...ateposted/

I think, had a train (preferably a VTEC) has been going over the bridge, it would have been even better.
S813 FVK
07 Mar 2016, 5:03 pm #244

I think this is quite a good contender myself, certainly the best ive seen so far!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/127079988@...ateposted/

I think, had a train (preferably a VTEC) has been going over the bridge, it would have been even better.

Dan

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07 Mar 2016, 5:05 pm #245
(07 Mar 2016, 5:03 pm)S813 FVK I think this is quite a good contender myself, certainly the best ive seen so far!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/127079988@...ateposted/

I think, had a train (preferably a VTEC) has been going over the bridge, it would have been even better.

I think Go North East are looking for photographs of the actual castles on the route of the X21 - Auckland, Durham, Lumley and Newcastle - as opposed to photographs of the buses!
Dan
07 Mar 2016, 5:05 pm #245

(07 Mar 2016, 5:03 pm)S813 FVK I think this is quite a good contender myself, certainly the best ive seen so far!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/127079988@...ateposted/

I think, had a train (preferably a VTEC) has been going over the bridge, it would have been even better.

I think Go North East are looking for photographs of the actual castles on the route of the X21 - Auckland, Durham, Lumley and Newcastle - as opposed to photographs of the buses!

S813 FVK



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07 Mar 2016, 5:07 pm #246
(07 Mar 2016, 5:05 pm)Dan I think Go North East are looking for photographs of the actual castles on the route of the X21 - Auckland, Durham, Lumley and Newcastle - as opposed to photographs of the buses!

Well, in that case, its not Tongue

Still a nice photo nevertheless, though.
S813 FVK
07 Mar 2016, 5:07 pm #246

(07 Mar 2016, 5:05 pm)Dan I think Go North East are looking for photographs of the actual castles on the route of the X21 - Auckland, Durham, Lumley and Newcastle - as opposed to photographs of the buses!

Well, in that case, its not Tongue

Still a nice photo nevertheless, though.

kieronmathews32

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07 Mar 2016, 5:34 pm #247
(07 Mar 2016, 3:59 pm)Dan Go North East are also holding a photography competition to complement the investment into new vehicles for service X21.

For a chance to win a year's free travel and your photograph to feature in a Castles Express bus, check out the competition on the link below:
http://www.simplygo.com/castlescomp

Their using my photo I sent to them last week on the comp page

https://www.flickr.com/photos/mrchanbong...ed-public/
Edited 07 Mar 2016, 5:35 pm by kieronmathews32.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mrchanbong/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkohRQX...m_4hSpqLLg
kieronmathews32
07 Mar 2016, 5:34 pm #247

(07 Mar 2016, 3:59 pm)Dan Go North East are also holding a photography competition to complement the investment into new vehicles for service X21.

For a chance to win a year's free travel and your photograph to feature in a Castles Express bus, check out the competition on the link below:
http://www.simplygo.com/castlescomp

Their using my photo I sent to them last week on the comp page

https://www.flickr.com/photos/mrchanbong...ed-public/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/mrchanbong/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkohRQX...m_4hSpqLLg

Jimmi

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07 Mar 2016, 5:41 pm #248
(07 Mar 2016, 5:03 pm)S813 FVK I think this is quite a good contender myself, certainly the best ive seen so far!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/127079988@...ateposted/

I think, had a train (preferably a VTEC) has been going over the bridge, it would have been even better.

Cheers Robert! Smile

Surely if I was to send this in to Go North East, they would not want a train in the shot considering the X21 competes with the train between Durham and Newcastle.
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Jimmi
07 Mar 2016, 5:41 pm #248

(07 Mar 2016, 5:03 pm)S813 FVK I think this is quite a good contender myself, certainly the best ive seen so far!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/127079988@...ateposted/

I think, had a train (preferably a VTEC) has been going over the bridge, it would have been even better.

Cheers Robert! Smile

Surely if I was to send this in to Go North East, they would not want a train in the shot considering the X21 competes with the train between Durham and Newcastle.

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07 Mar 2016, 5:42 pm #249
(07 Mar 2016, 3:42 pm)Michael

http://www.simplygo.com/news/x21-goes-up...-new-buses
Oh dear:-

The X21 has went up in the world . . .
G-CPTN
07 Mar 2016, 5:42 pm #249

(07 Mar 2016, 3:42 pm)Michael

http://www.simplygo.com/news/x21-goes-up...-new-buses
Oh dear:-

The X21 has went up in the world . . .

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07 Mar 2016, 6:05 pm #250
I thought I'd try the Castles today with coinciding with work in Durham

As I have absolutely no luck and a terrible sense of timing, I ended up on a Solar and a Trident...
Wistfully stuck in the 90s
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07 Mar 2016, 6:05 pm #250

I thought I'd try the Castles today with coinciding with work in Durham

As I have absolutely no luck and a terrible sense of timing, I ended up on a Solar and a Trident...

Wistfully stuck in the 90s

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07 Mar 2016, 6:14 pm #251
5205 is on X35 screen not working on front or the back only the side
JMoss
jaimzm
07 Mar 2016, 6:14 pm #251

5205 is on X35 screen not working on front or the back only the side

JMoss

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07 Mar 2016, 6:39 pm #252
(07 Mar 2016, 5:42 pm)G-CPTN Oh dear:-

The X21 has went up in the world . . .

Has gone, for the grammar pedants among us.  Wink

(07 Mar 2016, 6:05 pm)Ambassador I thought I'd try the Castles today with coinciding with work in Durham

As I have absolutely no luck and a terrible sense of timing, I ended up on a Solar and a Trident...

The following departures are all scheduled to be a corporate liveried single or double deck:
- 0640 X21 Chester-le-Street to Durham
- 0710 X21 Chester-le-Street to Durham
- 0758 Spennymoor Precinct to Framwellgate Moor Salutation 
- 0706 X21 Durham to Newcastle
- 0736 X21 Durham to Newcastle
- 1620 X21 Newcastle to Durham
- 1650 X21 Newcastle to Durham
- 1720 X21 Newcastle to Durham

Those are the journeys you ought to avoid, on top of the evening journeys from Bishop Auckland which connect in Durham Bus Station as a 21 through to Newcastle, if you're hunting one of the new Castles. There is a mention of some of these workings on the timetable (admittedly on the wrong pages), to advise customers that the standard features offered on the Castles Express won't be available.
Dan
07 Mar 2016, 6:39 pm #252

(07 Mar 2016, 5:42 pm)G-CPTN Oh dear:-

The X21 has went up in the world . . .

Has gone, for the grammar pedants among us.  Wink

(07 Mar 2016, 6:05 pm)Ambassador I thought I'd try the Castles today with coinciding with work in Durham

As I have absolutely no luck and a terrible sense of timing, I ended up on a Solar and a Trident...

The following departures are all scheduled to be a corporate liveried single or double deck:
- 0640 X21 Chester-le-Street to Durham
- 0710 X21 Chester-le-Street to Durham
- 0758 Spennymoor Precinct to Framwellgate Moor Salutation 
- 0706 X21 Durham to Newcastle
- 0736 X21 Durham to Newcastle
- 1620 X21 Newcastle to Durham
- 1650 X21 Newcastle to Durham
- 1720 X21 Newcastle to Durham

Those are the journeys you ought to avoid, on top of the evening journeys from Bishop Auckland which connect in Durham Bus Station as a 21 through to Newcastle, if you're hunting one of the new Castles. There is a mention of some of these workings on the timetable (admittedly on the wrong pages), to advise customers that the standard features offered on the Castles Express won't be available.

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07 Mar 2016, 7:37 pm #253
(07 Mar 2016, 5:05 pm)Dan I think Go North East are looking for photographs of the actual castles on the route of the X21 - Auckland, Durham, Lumley and Newcastle - as opposed to photographs of the buses!

X46 is also part of the Castle's express routes. 

But nobody has even mentioned Brancepeth Castle!

Ps The drivers tell me the next stop anouncments are spot on , on all 7 vehicles (cheers Dan + Citaro5284)
pdiddy
07 Mar 2016, 7:37 pm #253

(07 Mar 2016, 5:05 pm)Dan I think Go North East are looking for photographs of the actual castles on the route of the X21 - Auckland, Durham, Lumley and Newcastle - as opposed to photographs of the buses!

X46 is also part of the Castle's express routes. 

But nobody has even mentioned Brancepeth Castle!

Ps The drivers tell me the next stop anouncments are spot on , on all 7 vehicles (cheers Dan + Citaro5284)

BusLoverMum



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07 Mar 2016, 7:47 pm #254
(07 Mar 2016, 5:42 pm)G-CPTN Oh dear:-

The X21 has went up in the world . . .

Ouch.

I can forgive that from someone chatting on a forum. When someone is paid to promote a brand via social media, though... :s
BusLoverMum
07 Mar 2016, 7:47 pm #254

(07 Mar 2016, 5:42 pm)G-CPTN Oh dear:-

The X21 has went up in the world . . .

Ouch.

I can forgive that from someone chatting on a forum. When someone is paid to promote a brand via social media, though... :s

BusLoverMum



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07 Mar 2016, 7:48 pm #255
(07 Mar 2016, 7:37 pm)pdiddy X46 is also part of the Castle's express routes. 

But nobody has even mentioned Brancepeth Castle!

Ps The drivers tell me the next stop anouncments are spot on , on all 7 vehicles (cheers Dan + Citaro5284)

It doesn't pass Brancepeth Castle or even Brancepeth, itself!
BusLoverMum
07 Mar 2016, 7:48 pm #255

(07 Mar 2016, 7:37 pm)pdiddy X46 is also part of the Castle's express routes. 

But nobody has even mentioned Brancepeth Castle!

Ps The drivers tell me the next stop anouncments are spot on , on all 7 vehicles (cheers Dan + Citaro5284)

It doesn't pass Brancepeth Castle or even Brancepeth, itself!

S813 FVK



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07 Mar 2016, 8:12 pm #256
(07 Mar 2016, 7:48 pm)BusLoverMum It doesn't pass Brancepeth Castle or even Brancepeth, itself!

The X46 goes through Brancepeth.
S813 FVK
07 Mar 2016, 8:12 pm #256

(07 Mar 2016, 7:48 pm)BusLoverMum It doesn't pass Brancepeth Castle or even Brancepeth, itself!

The X46 goes through Brancepeth.

BusLoverMum



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07 Mar 2016, 9:00 pm #257
(07 Mar 2016, 8:12 pm)S813 FVK The X46 goes through Brancepeth.

I sit corrected Wink
BusLoverMum
07 Mar 2016, 9:00 pm #257

(07 Mar 2016, 8:12 pm)S813 FVK The X46 goes through Brancepeth.

I sit corrected Wink

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07 Mar 2016, 9:04 pm #258
(07 Mar 2016, 6:39 pm)Dan The following departures are all scheduled to be a corporate liveried single or double deck:
-

Ah, I knew some of the runs were scheduled non table bus, my bad luck that the times I need happen to be it. 

Back to the X12 tomorrow (no lowlander please)
Wistfully stuck in the 90s
Ambassador
07 Mar 2016, 9:04 pm #258

(07 Mar 2016, 6:39 pm)Dan The following departures are all scheduled to be a corporate liveried single or double deck:
-

Ah, I knew some of the runs were scheduled non table bus, my bad luck that the times I need happen to be it. 

Back to the X12 tomorrow (no lowlander please)

Wistfully stuck in the 90s

JP6004



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08 Mar 2016, 12:06 am #259
(07 Mar 2016, 3:42 pm)Michael X21 goes up in the world thanks to £2m investment in new buses.

Also:

Further investment...

Other services will also benefit from the £10.5m investment in the coming months, so make sure you keep your eyes peeled and regularly check our Social Media pages for the latest information.


http://www.simplygo.com/news/x21-goes-up...-new-buses

Nice to see more money getting spent this time.

7 Streetdeck
22 Streetlite
14 Solo
Total 43

What are the remaining 4......?
JP6004
08 Mar 2016, 12:06 am #259

(07 Mar 2016, 3:42 pm)Michael X21 goes up in the world thanks to £2m investment in new buses.

Also:

Further investment...

Other services will also benefit from the £10.5m investment in the coming months, so make sure you keep your eyes peeled and regularly check our Social Media pages for the latest information.


http://www.simplygo.com/news/x21-goes-up...-new-buses

Nice to see more money getting spent this time.

7 Streetdeck
22 Streetlite
14 Solo
Total 43

What are the remaining 4......?

Michael



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08 Mar 2016, 12:09 am #260
(08 Mar 2016, 12:06 am)JP6004 7 Streetdeck
22 Streetlite
14 Solo
Total 43

What are the remaining 4......?

Probables be the coaches.
Ooo Friend, Bus Friend.
Michael
08 Mar 2016, 12:09 am #260

(08 Mar 2016, 12:06 am)JP6004 7 Streetdeck
22 Streetlite
14 Solo
Total 43

What are the remaining 4......?

Probables be the coaches.

Ooo Friend, Bus Friend.

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