(28 Feb 2018, 9:55 am)Andreos1 wrote How many are trying to get up? I would have thought control would have put the word about the bank... Maybe to send them a different way perhaps or consolidate loads to ensure vehicles were still operating on other sections of the route.

There was about 10 to 15 buses together.
Poor 6004 was there from 07:34 to 10ish.

(28 Feb 2018, 11:39 pm)Olympian3521 wrote https://www.facebook.com/groups/10667755...329670173/

An omnidekka being towed up Blackhill bank by a Land Rover defender today!

Is it not Tantobie Bank, X70?

Whats it like buses wise today

(01 Mar 2018, 11:58 am)V514DFT wrote Whats it like buses wise today

Latest information for 1 March - updated at 12:00

• Service 1 is unable to serve Waverley Road. The service is operating via Harlow Green Primary School in both directions.
  
  
• Services 2 and 2A are unable to serve Penshaw Bank Top. 
  
  
• Service 4 is unable to serve Penshaw Bank Top, operating with some delays. Omitting Fatfield, Biddick and Glebe, via Washington Highway direct to the Galleries.
  
  
• Service 5 is operating normal route with some delays.
  
  
• Service 6 is operating with delays, omitting Flint Hill but Sunniside Kingsway OK.
  
  
• Service 8 is operating Stanley and Chester-le-Street via the A693 only.
  
  
• Service 9 is unable to serve Crawley Avenue and Burn Heads Road. Now able to serve Murton.
  
  
• Service 10 is operating normal route with some delays. Now service all stops through Teams.
  
  
• Service 10A is terminating at Crawcrook due to adverse road conditions. Now service all stops through Teams.
  
  
• Service 10B is operating normal route with some delays. Now service all stops through Teams. 
  
  
• Service 11 operating normal route with some delays.
  
  
• Services 12 and 12A are unable to serve Hazel Road, Parkhead and Hannover Estate, operating via Blaydon Bank to Winlaton in both directions.
  
  
• Service 13 is now back to serving its normal route.
  
  
• Service 14 and operating normal route with some delays.
  
  
• Service 15 is operating normal route with delays.
  
  
• Service 15A is unable to serve Delves Lane.
  
  
• Services 16 and 16A - is now operating normal route between Durham and Sacriston, then diverting via Witton Gilbert, Lanchester, Maiden Law Bank, A693 Kyo Bypass, Stanley Bus Station. Towards Consett via Anfield Plain, Greencroft, A693, Broomschurch, Leadgate Front St, Leadgate Post Office then normal route to Consett, where it's terminating. Services are unable to serve Tyne Avenue, Dipton, Flinthill, Harelaw, Cathgate, South Stanley, Craghead, Blackhouse, Edmondsley and Daisy Hill.
  
  
• Service 18 is unable to serve Coundon. Terminating at Sportsmans Arms on Durham Road.
  
  
• Service 19 is operating normal route with some delays.
  
  
• Services 20 and 20A are operating normal route with some delays. 
  
  
• Service 21 is operating normal route with some delays.
  
  
• Services 26 and 27 are operating normal route with some delays. 
  
  
• Services 28 and 28A are operating normal route with the exception of estates.
  
  
• Service 29 is operating normal route with the exception of estates.
  
  
• Service 30 is only able to run between Lanchester and Stanley. It is unable to serve Burnhope and Quaking Houses.
  
  
• Services 33 and 33A (Sunderland) are operating normal route with the exception of estates and Dene Street.
  
  
• Service 33 (Nexus) is terminating at Gosforth Regent Centre, omitting Hollywood Avenue, with some delays.
  
  
• Services 34 and 34A are omitting Waldridge Park and Pelaw Bank Estate, and other estates.
  
  
• Services 35 and 35A are unable to serve Boldon Bank and are operating Ferryboat Lane and A19.
  
  
• Service 36 is operating normal route with some delays.
  
  
• Service 38 is operating normal route, sticking to main roads in Murton but with some delays.
  
  
• Service 39 is operating normal route other than omitting Pennywell.
  
  
• Services 40 and 41 are unable to serve Holy Cross. 
  
  
• Services 42 and 42A are operating normal route with some delays.
  
  
• Service 45 - Blackhill bank and Shotley Bridge Village impassable, service unable to operate. Temporary service to operate from Consett via X70 route to Sunniside, then Sunniside Road to Whickham, then Whickham/Swalwell Bank to Metrocentre and Newcastle.
  
  
• Service 46 - Bridgehill and Shotley Bridge Village impassable, so the service is unable to operate. 
  
  
• Service 47 - Shuttle service to operate between Chopwell Bus Station, Blackhall Mill, Hamsterley Mill, Lintzford, Rowlands Gill and Metrocentre only.
  
  
• Services 49, 49A, 49B and 49C are unable to serve Parkhead and Hannover Estate, operating via Blaydon Bank to Winlaton in both directions.
  
  
• Service 50 is omitting Downhill Lane, operating via the A19.
  
  
• Services 53 and 54 are operating normal route with some delays.
  
  
• Service 56 is operating normal route with some delays.
  
  
• Service 57 is unable to serve Leam Lane, The Green, Wardley Keir Hardie Estate; diverting via A194 and A184 back to Heworth Interchange.
  
  
• Service 58 is operating normal route with some delays.
  
  
• Service 60 can now serve Parkside. 
  
  
• Service 67 is operating with delays.
  
  
• Service 69 is operating with delays.  
  
  
• Service 74 is unable to operate.
  
  
• Service 78 is now operating normal route, with delays.
  
  
• Services 81, 82, 83, 84, 85 and 86 - service 84 omitting Fell Bank, service 85/86 omitting Oxclose due to road conditions.
  
  
• Services 93 and 94 are operating Heworth to Gateshead via Sunderland Road, sticking to main roads.
  
  
• Service 97 is unable to serve Parkway, Whickham. Services will be running up Fellside Road and Oakfield Road.
  
  
• Service 168 is unable to serve Pearsons Estate.
  
  
• Service 201 is operating normal route with delays.
  
  
• Service 202 is now able to serve Murton.
  
  
• Service 204 is operating normal route with delays.
  
  
• Service 206 is unable to serve Micklehill Road or Blackhall, diverting via A19. Operating between Peterlee and Hesleden only.
  
  
• Service 208 is operating normal route with delays.
  
  
• Service 209 is operating normal route with delays.
  
  
• Service 210 is unable to serve Manor Way, Eastfield, Cotsford Lane. Normal route from Horden Victory Club to Thorpe Road but omitting the estate.
  
  
• Service 238 - towards Tunstall Bank omitting Strawberry Bank and Leechmere Road, operating to Grangetown via Queen Alexandra Road.
  
  
• Service 265 is now able to serve Murton.
  
  
• Service 309 is operating normal route with some delays.
  
  
• Service 310 is operating normal route with some delays.
  
  
• Service 516 is unable to serve South Shields Coast Road.
  
  
• Services 680, 683, 684 and 688 are unable to run.
  
  
• Services M6, M7 and M8 are only operating between Stanley Bus Station and Metrocentre. Fellside road closed - operating via Whickham Front Street, left onto Rectory Lane/Whaggs Lane to Sunniside, then towards Marley Hill and normal route from Crookgate.
  
  
• Services Q1 and Q2 is unable to serve Springwell estate.
  
  
• Service Q3 is operating normal route with some delays.
  
  
• Services V1, V2, V3, V4, V5 and V9 – only V1 able to operate due to adverse road conditions, Blackhill impassable, not operating to timetable.
  
  
• Service X1 is operating normal route with some delays.
  
  
• Services X5, X6 and X7 are operating normal route with some delays.
  
  
• Service X9 is only able to operate between Newcastle and Peterlee.
  
  
• Service X10 is only able to operate between Newcastle and Peterlee.
  
  
• Services X21 is operating normal route with some delays. 
  
  
• Service X22 is operating normal route with some delays.
  
  
• Service X25 - Mill House and Eighton Banks closed, diverting via Long Bank with some delays.
  
  
• Services X30 and X31 are operating normal route with delays. 
  
  
• Service X66 is unable to serve IKEA due to closure. 
  
  
• Service X70 is operating at increased frequency due to loss of 45, 46 and X71.
  
  
• Service X71 – service suspended, operating as X70 instead.
  
  
• Service X84 is operating old route to Corbridge, and is unable to serve Ovingham and Wylam.
  
  
• Service X85 is unable to serve Newbrough or Fourstones. Only running between Hexham and Newcastle.
  

Website link for the information to save copying and pasting it over all the time:
https://www.gonortheast.co.uk/bad-weathe...ce-update/

Iow, mostly main roads, avoiding estates and rural areas and steep hills. Just announced that they're likely to knock off early again tonight.

Knackered is what it is,to answer my own question

there's a 56 B9 stuck at Nissan in a ditch a van and tow truck on the scene at the moment, my mam has sent me picture of it

An update:

Buses on Thursday 1 March
We’d like to thank everyone for their patience over the last couple of days. Most of our services have been running, on main roads at least. Due to the continuing bad weather and this evening's forecasts it is highly likely that we will be finishing our services earlier than usual again today, for the safety of our customers and our staff.

(01 Mar 2018, 1:51 pm)Citaro5326 wrote there's a 56 B9 stuck at Nissan in a ditch a van and tow truck on the scene at the moment, my mam has sent me picture of it

(01 Mar 2018, 2:08 pm)Michael wrote An update:

Buses on Thursday 1 March
We’d like to thank everyone for their patience over the last couple of days. Most of our services have been running, on main roads at least. Due to the continuing bad weather and this evening's forecasts it is highly likely that we will be finishing our services earlier than usual again today, for the safety of our customers and our staff.

Now confirmed that services will be terminating early again tonight.

(21 Feb 2018, 7:31 am)Dan wrote They'll gradually be drip-fed into service from now until the end of March - the displaced OmniDekkas will not allow for any withdrawals until after next weekend at the earliest, as Go North East have been awarded with the contract to operate the Metro Replacement bus service next weekend.

Metro's Facebook page confirmed cancellation of this weekend's work

5360 was stuck at usworth college at 6:32am on opposite side of the road

6157 has now entered service at Stanley.

(02 Mar 2018, 1:40 pm)Dan wrote 6157 has now entered service at Stanley.

6161 also in service. About to leave Newcastle on X71.

(02 Mar 2018, 2:57 pm)Pulsar wrote 6161 also in service. About to leave Newcastle on X71.

It was 6161 I meant, not 6157. 

Has Omnidekka 6124 been out lately.

5213 looked expired as I passed it earlier. Just off the roundabout off the A1231 on the galleries access road.

Service update: We're currently operating a good service.

1 – Normal route. 
2/2A – Normal route. 
 4 – Normal route.
5 – Normal route.
6 – Normal route. 
8 – Normal route. 
9 – Normal Route.
10 – Normal route. 
10A – Normal route.
10B – Normal route. 
11 – Normal route. 
12 /12A – Omitting Hazel Road at Blaydon, operating via Blaydon Bank to Winlaton in both directions.
13 – Normal route. 
14  – Normal route. 
15 – Normal route. 
15A – Diverted via Delves Lane NOT serving Castledene Road etc. 
16/16A – Operating normal route except Castleside to Consett section. 
18 – Normal route.
19 – Normal route.
20/20A/X20 – Normal route - will be diverted westbound via Newbottle and Graswell due to closure of A690. 
21 – Normal route. 
26 & 27 – Normal route. 
28 – Normal route except Beamish Museum. 
28A – Normal route except Beamish Museum.  
29 – Normal route omitting estates. 
30 – Omitting Burnhope and Quaking Houses 
33/33A – Normal route. 
34/34A – Normal route at present, but operating into Pelaw Estate FROM Chester only as single track, as people returning home (reverse of earlier).
35/35A –  Unable to serve Low Moorsley, terminating at Hetton Interchange. Unable to operate via Hetton Downs or Eppleton, remaining on Hetton Road. Boldon Bank closed, operating via Downhill Lane
36 – Normal route. 
38 – Unable to serve Esdale Estate. 
39 – Unable to serve Pennywell Estate, turning on Chester Road at Grindon Mill. 
40/41 – Normal route.
42/42A – Normal route.
45 – Omitting Benfieldside Road and Snows Green Road, diverting via Cutlers Hall Road. 
46 – Omitting Bridgehill and Pemberton Road Estate, diverting via Blackhill Bank and Cutlers Hall Road.
47 – Normal route. 
49– 49’S Unable to operate Black Road, Services to divert Blaydon Bank.  
49A- Normal Route
50 – Normal route.
53/54 – Normal route.
56 – Normal route.  
57 – Normal route. 
58 – Normal route. 
60 – Normal route. 
67 – Normal route. 
69 – Normal route.  
74 – Service not operating. 
78 – Normal route.
81/82/83/84/85/86 – Normal route, except for 85 omitting B&Q. 
93/94 – Normal route. 
97/97A – Normal route. 
168 – Service omitting Eppleton and Hetton Downs.
201 – Normal routes, except estates. 
202 –Normal route.
204 – Normal route.
206 – Normal route except estates.
208 – Normal route.
209 – Not serving Horden Hall Estate, but now serving Alder Road, Third Street and Cotsford Lane at Horden.
210 – Not serving Horden Hall Estate, but now serving Alder Road, Third Street and Cotsford Lane at Horden.
238 – Not serving The Lames/New Penshaw, Windermere Crescent,  Fountains Crescent, Elizabeth Street, or Hall Lane Estate. Normal route.
265 – Not serving Low Moorsley or Pittington and diverting via A690 to East Rainton and Hetton.
309 – Normal route.
310 – Normal route.
680 – Service operating to Wark only. 
681/683/688 – Services not operating .
516 – Normal route.
X 1 – Normal route. 
X5 –  diverted westbound via Newbottle and Graswell due to closure of A690.
X6/X7 – normal route except between Ryhope and Seaham due to high winds and damaged lighting columns. Diverted via Ryhope Road and Stockton Road in both directions.
X9/X10 – Normal route.
X21 – Normal route. 
X22 – Normal route. 
X25 – Normal route.
X30/X31 – Causey Bank & Tanfield closed, diverting via Pickering Nook Road Ends, Hobson and Marley Hill to Sunniside. 
X66 – Normal route.
X70 – Normal route.
X71 – Normal route.
X84 – omitting Ovingham and Wylam. 
X85 – Normal route.  
M6/M7/M8 – Fellside road closed. Operating via Whickham Front Street, left onto Rectory Lane/Waggs Lane to Sunniside, then towards Marley Hill and normal route from there.  Terminating at Stanley Bus Station. M6 & M7 not serving Lintz Estate. M8 not operating via Sleepy Valley.
V1/V2  – Not operating.  
V3 - operating double frequency, but V4 unable to operate V3 now omitting Pemberton Road and Bridgehill. 
V5 – is operating Consett to Leadgate, Ebchester Road, Hat & Feather, Medomsley Fines Road and Broomhill Terrace back to Leadgate. Omitting The Dene or Pont Lane.
V9 –Operating via Blackhill Bank and Cutlers Hall Road omitting Shotley Bridge Hospital and Kings Road. 
Q1/Q2 – Normal route.
Q3 – Normal route.

(02 Mar 2018, 4:00 pm)Dan wrote It was 6161 I meant, not 6157. 

Go North East: 6161 / LJ62KZP by Daniel Graham, on Flickr

(02 Mar 2018, 7:05 pm)Dan wrote Go North East: 6161 / LJ62KZP by Daniel Graham, on Flickr

Do Saltmeadows not stock 'Journeys taken care of' stickers ?

Not yet.

Will do in a few weeks time...

Sent from my SM-G935F using Tapatalk

NK53UNT / 4967 has sadly caught fire today , people saying it's not that bad.

(17 Feb 2018, 1:44 pm)V514DFT wrote Fair enough

(02 Mar 2018, 7:05 pm)Dan wrote Go North East: 6161 / LJ62KZP by Daniel Graham, on Flickr

Did I not read somewhere that these  B9TL's have had their gearboxes replaced with a different ZF gearbox since leaving London.

(02 Mar 2018, 8:57 pm)Citaro5326 wrote NK53UNT / 4967 has sadly caught fire today , people saying it's not that bad.

A sad loss to mirth.

It was being towed away from the Metrocentre at about 6pm on Friday, all in one piece and I didn't notice any damage (didn't know there'd been a fire at the time) so can't have been that bad

Information from the monthly incoming and outgoings at Ensign courtesy of Ross Newman

The following ex Go North East vehicles have been acquired by the First Group for use in the South West (Kernow), some have been on loan to them already, but now have been permanently acquired.

(GNE Fleetnumber - Registration - First Fleetnumber)
3966 - PN02XCF - TBC
3978 - PJ02PZE - TBC
3982 - PJ02PZK - 32118
6008 - V308LGC - 32048
6011 - V311LGC - 32029
6012 - V312LGC - 32030
6013 - V313LGC - TBC
6029 - V329LGC - 32049
6032 - V332LGC - TBC
6036 - V336LGC - 32051
6038 - V338LGC - 32050
6042 - V306LGC - 32047

Other ex GNE vehicles moving through Ensign...
3888 - NK51UCR - Shelton Motors for Scrap
3972 - PJ02PYY - Shelton Motors for Scrap
4970 - NK53UNW - Galleon Travel - Roydon, Essex
4972 - NK53UNY - Galleon Travel - Roydon, Essex

(02 Mar 2018, 8:57 pm)Citaro5326 wrote NK53UNT / 4967 has sadly caught fire today , people saying it's not that bad.

Probables be withdrawn now, the Euro 5 engine will probables go in to another Scania if its savable, loads of buses have had fires lately, surprised VOSA aren't looking in to it.

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(03 Mar 2018, 3:29 am)Rapidsnap wrote Information from the monthly incoming and outgoings at Ensign courtesy of Ross Newman

The following ex Go North East vehicles have been acquired by the First Group for use in the South West (Kernow), some have been on loan to them already, but now have been permanently acquired.

(GNE Fleetnumber - Registration - First Fleetnumber)
3966 - PN02XCF - TBC
3978 - PJ02PZE - TBC
3982 - PJ02PZK - 32118
6008 - V308LGC - 32048
6011 - V311LGC - 32029
6012 - V312LGC - 32030
6013 - V313LGC - TBC
6029 - V329LGC - 32049
6032 - V332LGC - TBC
6036 - V336LGC - 32051
6038 - V338LGC - 32050
6042 - V306LGC - 32047

Other ex GNE vehicles moving through Ensign...
3888 - NK51UCR - Shelton Motors for Scrap
3972 - PJ02PYY - Shelton Motors for Scrap
4970 - NK53UNW - Galleon Travel - Roydon, Essex
4972 - NK53UNY - Galleon Travel - Roydon, Essex

Thanks for the update


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Has SM been open this week with the weather, if so has any repaints happened?

Citylink 57 Citaro 5295 at Mercedes Benz, Whitley Rd, Wallsend.

Citylink 57 at Mercedes Benz, Whitley Rd, North Tyneside by ne14ne1, on Flickr

5444 has been on the 45/46s today displaying the number plate off 5442!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/16042610@N...ateposted/