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(27 Mar 2020, 7:59 pm)6049 wrote Yep! Very close. I've not studied the timetables in detail, but the times of Washington's minibuses look broadly the same as Sunday service barring the 23 and earlier journeys so the PVRs listed are based on that. So I stand to be corrected
(27 Mar 2020, 8:58 pm)Michael wrote See this on twitter:
Jeff Hodgson
Day 10 at work since this awful Covid -19 took hold today was a hard 1 shutting my Depot Temporarily and transferring all drivers and buses to Deptford my team have been excellent 2 weeks work done in 24 hrs I think I deserve this thank you team Washington
https://t.co/W3eB3tBi6M
Looks like Washington's work has moved over to Deptford for the time-being.
(27 Mar 2020, 9:23 pm)streetdeckfan wrote MG said during one of his Facebook Lives that they were going to be running from Deptford, Consett and Riverside with the rest being temporarily closed.
(27 Mar 2020, 9:43 pm)Dan wrote The outstations at Hexham and Peterlee are also remaining open, so just Chester-le-Street, Percy Main and Washington being closed for the time being.
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(27 Mar 2020, 10:32 pm)Michael wrote Which Washington buses have moved to Deptford?MG said that the Red Arrows were already over, however the app shows 6050 and 6006 remaining as the last two standing on this evenings X1s. I'd imagine, they'll be transferred across by the spare drivers who are operating from Washington tomorrow. 5364 is still out on the 4 and will probably get the same treatment along with the majority of Solo's which are allocated to all remaining routes from the depot atm - unless Deptford has sufficient Solos to operate our routes with.
(27 Mar 2020, 10:59 pm)6049 wrote MG said that the Red Arrows were already over, however the app shows 6050 and 6006 remaining as the last two standing on this evenings X1s. I'd imagine, they'll be transferred across by the spare drivers who are operating from Washington tomorrow. 5364 is still out on the 4 and will probably get the same treatment along with the majority of Solo's which are allocated to all remaining routes from the depot atm - unless Deptford has sufficient Solos to operate our routes with.
There looked to be a significant number of Mercs sitting in the depot tonight and only one was a Connections 4 - which was moving so may well have been getting transferred.
(27 Mar 2020, 11:14 pm)Rob44 wrote You beat me to it. My Mrs got bus from Newcastle. Was only one on at 5pm. Got talking to driver as he pulled in to wrong stand at Gateshead. He said....Changes were planned for middle of May, Shifts vary from 6 hours to 10 ( and a bit) hours. Lazy reporting by the chronicle, headlines sell papers!!!
Chester is shutting and drivers going to either Sunderland or riverside
100 plus drivers off on 12 week thing
From April 29 to be taken off perminatkey leaving kibblesworth with only 28a/28b
1 to not continue to wreckenton. 25 to drop down to Harlow green to cover some of route before return to old Durham road at qe hospital
Drivers used to do 7/7,5 hours shifts now doing 12 hours
And finally. Go north east are weeks away from going under.
Not saying this is gospel but it's just what she told me
(27 Mar 2020, 11:14 pm)Rob44 wrote You beat me to it. My Mrs got bus from Newcastle. Was only one on at 5pm. Got talking to driver as he pulled in to wrong stand at Gateshead. He said....
Chester is shutting and drivers going to either Sunderland or riverside
100 plus drivers off on 12 week thing
From April 29 to be taken off perminatkey leaving kibblesworth with only 28a/28b
1 to not continue to wreckenton. 25 to drop down to Harlow green to cover some of route before return to old Durham road at qe hospital
Drivers used to do 7/7,5 hours shifts now doing 12 hours
And finally. Go north east are weeks away from going under.
Not saying this is gospel but it's just what she told me
(27 Mar 2020, 11:25 pm)streetdeckfan wrote If GNE are weeks away from going under, then Arriva are already long gone!Although I'm not Arriva's biggest fan, I certainly wouldn't want them to go under. Ok, maybe a new investor or buyer and hopefully turn the business around for the better but certainly wouldn't want them to go under. Would hope that at least Nexus & NECA would step in and the same goes for any operator.
(27 Mar 2020, 11:39 pm)L469 YVK wrote Although I'm not Arriva's biggest fan, I certainly wouldn't want them to go under. Ok, maybe a new investor or buyer and hopefully turn the business around for the better but certainly wouldn't want them to go under. Would hope that at least Nexus & NECA would step in and the same goes for any operator.
(27 Mar 2020, 11:44 pm)streetdeckfan wrote I was saying it more to make the point of how unlikely it is for GNE to go under. Arriva is arguably in a worse financial situation, so if GNE are having issues, then Arriva have no hope!Yeah, of course I know where you were coming from
. But obviously just as a general point, I certainly wouldn't want any NE operator to go under.
(27 Mar 2020, 11:44 pm)streetdeckfan wrote I was saying it more to make the point of how unlikely it is for GNE to go under. Arriva is arguably in a worse financial situation, so if GNE are having issues, then Arriva have no hope!
Rob 44
also arriva is owned by the germans, yes?
(27 Mar 2020, 11:02 pm)Dan wrote 4/X20 to be operated by Prince Bishops Streetlite, no Citaro or OmniCity to be used across GNE.
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(28 Mar 2020, 12:05 pm)Michael wrote If that's the case, why are Citaro's been used on the X84/X85 (according to the app) :pThey seem to be in the process of being swapped over for Deptford's X-lines Solos if bustimes.org is to be believed.
(28 Mar 2020, 12:08 pm)missedbus wrote They seem to be in the process of being swapped over for Deptford's X-lines Solos if bustimes.org is to be believed.
Same source suggests Riverside is using a fair number of Citaros, may just be temporary whilst other buses are prepared.
It's a massive undertaking moving buses around etc and it may be a few days before we get the full picture.
(28 Mar 2020, 12:15 pm)Storx wrote Why is there certain people on here who bring everything negative back to Arriva it's getting beyond boring now. Arriva is owned by the German Government so if anything they're in the strongest place out of them all and also are an international business with trains and buses running across all of Europe.
GoAhead's share price is currently £7.50 per share so no-where near trouble with the traders.
Stagecoach is 75p which is a much much worse position that GoAhead so as it stands if anyone is going to get into trouble it's Stagecoach but it's still no-where near trouble yet either which is shame as Souter is an #### anyway so wouldn't be arsed if they went under deep down. (The routes and drivers etc will be safe up here anyway).
Arriva NE, Stagecoach NE and GNE are irrelevant as no way will their parent groups force them into administration as they're nowhere near their worst divisions.
(28 Mar 2020, 12:41 pm)cbma06 wrote Since DB bought Arriva, why don’t there invest there money into the bus division, it’s because there only invest from uk paying customers into there own transport system into there own country and then asking for handouts from the uk government to improve buses and infrastructure in the uk, don’t forget originally there were only interested in the train side of Arriva and not the bus services, and now there can’t even give the bus side division away, stagecoach and Go Ahead have improved over the years rather than Arriva.
I prefer it when it was just United, even though there standards weren’t high but at least the standards were a lot better than it is today in the form of Arriva.
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