Stagecoach North East: Upcoming Service Changes
Stagecoach North East: Upcoming Service Changes
Route Suggestions South Shields & Newcastle:
1: This service will be withdrawn between Cobalt and Coach Lane. This service will be replaced by service X21.
10/11: These services will be reduced to hourly, with journeys to Cobalt withdrawn.
22: This service will be reduced to operate every 12 minutes.
22X: This service will be withdrawn, and replaced by service X22.
X20: This service will additionaly serve Low Simonside estate on Evenings & Sundays to offer residents more direct links to and from South Shields.
X21: This new service will create brand new direct links between South Shields and Killingworth via Jarrow, Cobalt, Four Lane Ends and Quorum. This service will also call into Low Simonside estate to offer direct links to areas North of the Tyne, or South Shields.
This service will operate hourly between 07:00 and 19:00 Monday to Saturday.
Route Map: South Shields - Chichester - Tyne Dock - Low Simonside - Primrose - Jarrow - Tyne Tunnel - Silverlink - Cobalt - Benton Asda - Four Lane Ends - Quorum - Killingworth.
X22: This new service will see service 22X & X82 merged together to form one long route. Then will extend to Northumberland Park, and onwards to Whitley Bay via Monkseaton. Operating via Monkseaton will open up new direct express links to Cobalt, Newcastle and Throckley.
Service X22 will operate up to every 30 minutes daily.
Route Map: Throckley - Lemington Road Ends - West Road - General Hospital - Westgate Road - Central Station - Monument - Non-Stop - Cobalt Business Park - Northumberland Park - Earsdon - West Monkseaton - Monkseaton - Whitley Bay.
X82: This service will be withdrawn and replaced by service X22. The service will pick up and drop off at Monument & Central Station. Eldon Square will continue to be serviced by Route 685.
More information from a friend on the new Sunderland PVR's:
3 drops from 9 PVR to 7 PVR
16 drops from 10 PVR to 8 PVR
Other changes:
New service 4: 7 PVR, a drop from 10 PVR (every 12 minutes)
New service 22: 7 PVR a drop from 8 PVR (every 12 minutes)
Apparently 8 buses saved with the new PVR's:
3 Euro 6 Gas buses to replace the Omnilinks
I would imagine 3 will replace the MAN Enviro's so they can replace the 3 remaining darts and 2 more MAN's removed from Sunderland.
Withdrawn:
3 Omnilinks
3 Darts
2 Man Enviro's - but moved elsewhere.
The new Sunderland 22 timetable has appeared on the Stagecoach site:
https://tis-kml-stagecoach.s3.amazonaws....MBO022.pdf - PVR 6
Others aren't currently on bit this might indicate, that the rest will follow in the next couple of days, when full changes appear.
The Stagecoach Sunderland planner on the Stagecoach site now goes up to the 5th April, the day of changes, so now its showing the new Sunday times:
4: every 20 minutes - Downhill to Thorney Close - increase from every 30 minutes on the Sunderland to Thorney Close section.
22: every 20 minutes - Dene Estate to Doxford Park - increase from every 30 minutes on the Dene Estate section.
3, 13, 16 all remain every 20 minutes
Looks like Sunderland's PVR will increase on a Sunday now.... fully Gas operated?
New Sunday PVRs: (alongside services not changing, not including the 30 and X20)
3: 4 PVR
4: 4 PVR
10/11: 5 PVR
13: 5 PVR
16: 5 PVR
20: 3 PVR
22: 4 PVR
E1/E2/E6: 9 PVR
= 34
Monday - Saturday timetables should appear tomorrow.
PB0002404/351 Cancelled (Short notice)
BUSWAYS TRAVEL SERVICES LTD
Route: North Shields to Whitley Bay
Service number: Seasider (Seasider)
Service type: Normal Stopping
Effective date: 04 Apr 2020
As well as the obvious, staff resources are required elsewhere.
Stagecoach on Teesside and Hartlepool will operating Saturday service levels from Monday - with minor modification to the 12 as well as normal school service operation
https://tiscon-maps-stagecoachbus.s3.ama....03.20.pdf
Busways - https://www.stagecoachbus.com/service-up...:05:44:117
Whereas Arriva say they are reducing services as the schools are off!
So that's the start of the 19 postponed then.
(21 Mar 2020, 12:21 am)IAcky81 I’m guessing the Sunderland service changes won’t be happening as stagecoach haven’t issued nothing on the website withe a Fortnight to goThey would have to raise the cancellation of change notice via VOSA I think?
(21 Mar 2020, 12:21 am)IAcky81 I’m guessing the Sunderland service changes won’t be happening as stagecoach haven’t issued nothing on the website withe a Fortnight to goThey would have to raise the cancellation of change notice via VOSA I think?
(21 Mar 2020, 12:21 am)Acky81 I’m guessing the Sunderland service changes won’t be happening as stagecoach haven’t issued nothing on the website withe a Fortnight to go
(21 Mar 2020, 12:21 am)Acky81 I’m guessing the Sunderland service changes won’t be happening as stagecoach haven’t issued nothing on the website withe a Fortnight to go
Finally found service 18 changes and it is more cuts which will see only the following journeys operate from Gilley Law to Sunderland:
07:09(Weekday only)/09:33/10:33/11:33/12:33/13:33/15:01 (Saturday only). The later journeys are all withdrawn, although will extend to Durham Road Shops and terminate there. The 18A will continue to operate with no changes.
It seems the 16:08/17:22/18:34 journeys from Sunderland all use the same bus with the bus running to Gilley Law then returning to Sunderland Not In Service to start the next journey.
Stagecoach have stated on Twitter that the first X34 on a Monday to Friday at 0608 from Harton Nook to Newcastle will operate on the Saturday timetable.
As the X24/X24A is running normal service they may as well do that with the X34 also. Or was the X34 just missed off the list of services accidentally.
(22 Mar 2020, 3:02 am)S830OFT Finally found service 18 changes and it is more cuts which will see only the following journeys operate from Gilley Law to Sunderland:
07:09(Weekday only)/09:33/10:33/11:33/12:33/13:33/15:01 (Saturday only). The later journeys are all withdrawn, although will extend to Durham Road Shops and terminate there. The 18A will continue to operate with no changes.
It seems the 16:08/17:22/18:34 journeys from Sunderland all use the same bus with the bus running to Gilley Law then returning to Sunderland Not In Service to start the next journey.
(22 Mar 2020, 3:02 am)S830OFT Finally found service 18 changes and it is more cuts which will see only the following journeys operate from Gilley Law to Sunderland:
07:09(Weekday only)/09:33/10:33/11:33/12:33/13:33/15:01 (Saturday only). The later journeys are all withdrawn, although will extend to Durham Road Shops and terminate there. The 18A will continue to operate with no changes.
It seems the 16:08/17:22/18:34 journeys from Sunderland all use the same bus with the bus running to Gilley Law then returning to Sunderland Not In Service to start the next journey.
According to Stagecoach on Twitter the changes on the 5th April aren't going ahead because of the Coronavirus.
Edit:
Hi Michael. With the emerging CovID19 issue, the changes scheduled for 5 April 2020, will now not be going ahead. RS
