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GNE Questions about fleet withdrawals/buses VOR/fleet questions

GNE Questions about fleet withdrawals/buses VOR/fleet questions

RE: Off Road Buses
Kind of reminds me of an Arriva MetroRider I travelled on from Barnard Castle to Richmond. The windows were so caked in mud you couldn't see outside from the passenger saloon, and at one point the ride got so bumpy I was convinced the driver took a shortcut across a field.
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RE: Off Road Buses
Seems to be 3 X20's off Today
3x Hybrids off, with 2-3 Spares ones one. (So 5 Hybrids are off)
3x Drifters (they have had good reliability recently)

X20's with the 10' Plates are really struggling to be reliable. It might be too earlier for a younger bus to replace the citaros but in a new years it probably will be needed.

6064 hasn't been in service for 4 months
RE: Off Road Buses
(21 Apr 2022, 10:09 am)Jack Gill wrote The hybrids seem to be struggling at Consett seeing as they're always off road.
Im not surprised the Journey between Durham and Stanley have quite a lot of hills
RE: Off Road Buses
(21 Apr 2022, 11:41 am)KingSlayerRBLX wrote we've never had them before so i think the engineering team is not fully used to sorting these easy.
Isn't the engineering done by Volvo its self, the buses are a decade old not a few months
RE: Off Road Buses
I didn't really know where to put this

but a Crusader X10 has broke down at Dalton Park, would Riverside or Deptford come for it. 

As Deptford is a lot closer, but Riverside is that buses depot. Does anyone know?
Off Road Buses
(11 May 2022, 6:00 pm)Unber43 wrote I didn't really know where to put this

but a Crusader X10 has broke down at Dalton Park, would Riverside or Deptford come for it. 

As Deptford is a lot closer, but Riverside is that buses depot. Does anyone know?


In sure I read somewhere that a crusader replaced 6099 on the x10 earlier




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RE: Off Road Buses
(11 May 2022, 6:28 pm)cbma06 wrote In sure I read somewhere that a crusader replaced 6099 on the x10 earlier


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Yeah it replaced 6100 for that to go onto the 27. 

A Loop replaced the Crusader at Eldon Square or Gateshead.
Off Road Buses
(11 May 2022, 6:34 pm)Unber43 wrote Yeah it replaced 6100 for that to go onto the 27. 

A Loop replaced the Crusader at Eldon Square or Gateshead.


Looks like 2 crusaders got took off the 27 to go on the x10 today, 6099 went off the x10 for a couple of hours this afternoon but went back on the x10 after 3pm


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RE: Off Road Buses
(11 May 2022, 6:36 pm)cbma06 wrote Looks like 2 crusaders got took off the 27 to go on the x10 today, 6099 went off the x10 for a couple of hours this afternoon but went back on the x10 after 3pm


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Purely from witnessing them myself, 6099 and 6100 have spent quite a bit of time on the X10 over the last few weeks. 6099 in particular.
Haven't checked BusTimes to see how regularly though.

Saying that, I saw both on the X10 last night.
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RE: Off Road Buses
(11 May 2022, 7:04 pm)Andreos1 wrote Purely from witnessing them myself, 6099 and 6100 have spent quite a bit of time on the X10 over the last few weeks. 6099 in particular.
Haven't checked BusTimes to see how regularly though.

Saying that, I saw both on the X10 last night.
6099 has been on the X10 for either the full day and partially for 8 days of the past 11. 

6100 has been on 3 times. 

The last time all 4 were on all day was 3rd.
RE: Off Road Buses
Does anyone knows what happened to:
5393 (East Durham Explorer) - It hasn't been on since the 20th of April.
5330 (X20) - March 23rd
5289 (Corporate) - 26th March
6333 - 28th March
6377 - 22nd April
RE: Off Road Buses
(22 May 2022, 10:48 pm)Unber43 wrote 5392 got hit at Murton & 92/94 got hit yesterday with rocks

I’m told 5392, 5394 and 5422 all got hit on Saturday at the Mill Inn area of Seaham. Two 65 services in the afternoon, and a 60 in the early evening, I believe.
RE: Off Road Buses
(23 May 2022, 12:05 am)Drifter60 wrote I’m told 5392, 5394 and 5422 all got hit on Saturday at the Mill Inn area of Seaham. Two 65 services in the afternoon, and a 60 in the early evening, I believe.
I heard about 92/94. 

Honeslty its ridiculous.
Off Road Buses
(22 May 2022, 8:52 pm)nova347 wrote Does anyone knows what happened to:
5393 (East Durham Explorer) - It hasn't been on since the 20th of April.
5330 (X20) - March 23rd
5289 (Corporate) - 26th March
6333 - 28th March
6377 - 22nd April

5330 was parked in the dead corner at Deptford last week and had been in the garage for some time prior. I believe it has engine defects.
RE: Off Road Buses
(23 May 2022, 3:39 pm)morritt89 wrote 5330 was parked in the dead corner at Deptford last week and had been in the garage for some time prior. I believe it has engine defects.
5289 is withdrawn along with 5293