Liking the Market Street / Eldon Square thing. Can see it being useful to those bording at Gateshead Interchange / Hills Street
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(13 Aug 2018, 10:35 am)Jamie M Liking the Market Street / Eldon Square thing. Can see it being useful to those bording at Gateshead Interchange / Hills Street
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(13 Aug 2018, 11:38 am)Andreos1 Not much cop for those boarding for the previous 99% of the route though.Don't think it's especially helpful. Market Streets are everywhere. Maybe can get away with 'Eldon Square' but that's about it.
(13 Aug 2018, 11:38 am)Andreos1 Not much cop for those boarding for the previous 99% of the route though.Don't think it's especially helpful. Market Streets are everywhere. Maybe can get away with 'Eldon Square' but that's about it.
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Go North East Quaylink 5387 / NL63 YAV by kieron mathews, on FlickrGo North East Quaylink 5387 / NL63 YAV by kieron mathews, on Flickr
anyone know what has happened with 5387, photographed it at Saltmeadows today with missing branding and a broken destination screen?
(13 Aug 2018, 7:25 pm)TEN 6083
anyone know what has happened with 5387, photographed it at Saltmeadows today with missing branding and a broken destination screen?
(13 Aug 2018, 7:25 pm)TEN 6083
anyone know what has happened with 5387, photographed it at Saltmeadows today with missing branding and a broken destination screen?
Noticed a Crusader with the new 'Market Street' destination this morning heading towards Newcastle, however this evening I saw a Crusader travelling over the High Level (Gateshead bound obviously) & it still had 'Market Street' on.
I wondered if it should have updated itself ready for the return leg or had the driver forgot to change it?
Also noticed a Citaro on the 97 and it had the large final stop only destination on it, (well, 'Newcastle'), so hopefully we'll see the new style appear on the Solars soon.
I like how the streetlites nsa now refers to 6A with the new program. Seems like somebody's been hard at work..
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Optare Solo SR YA13AAE was parked in Saltmeadows Depot this afternoon. Ex Courtney.
(14 Aug 2018, 6:15 pm)ne14ne1 Noticed a Crusader with the new 'Market Street' destination this morning heading towards Newcastle, however this evening I saw a Crusader travelling over the High Level (Gateshead bound obviously) & it still had 'Market Street' on.
I wondered if it should have updated itself ready for the return leg or had the driver forgot to change it?
Also noticed a Citaro on the 97 and it had the large final stop only destination on it, (well, 'Newcastle'), so hopefully we'll see the new style appear on the Solars soon.
(15 Aug 2018, 4:28 pm)ne14ne1 ..And today I saw the Angels with 'Eldon Square' displayed.
Onboard do the NSAs change from Gateshead Interchange to say "This is the Angel 21 service to Eldon Square" too, or do they still say Newcastle?
(15 Aug 2018, 7:30 pm)Jamie M I like how the streetlites nsa now refers to 6A with the new program. Seems like somebody's been hard at work..
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(14 Aug 2018, 6:15 pm)ne14ne1 Noticed a Crusader with the new 'Market Street' destination this morning heading towards Newcastle, however this evening I saw a Crusader travelling over the High Level (Gateshead bound obviously) & it still had 'Market Street' on.
I wondered if it should have updated itself ready for the return leg or had the driver forgot to change it?
Also noticed a Citaro on the 97 and it had the large final stop only destination on it, (well, 'Newcastle'), so hopefully we'll see the new style appear on the Solars soon.
(15 Aug 2018, 4:28 pm)ne14ne1 ..And today I saw the Angels with 'Eldon Square' displayed.
Onboard do the NSAs change from Gateshead Interchange to say "This is the Angel 21 service to Eldon Square" too, or do they still say Newcastle?
(15 Aug 2018, 7:30 pm)Jamie M I like how the streetlites nsa now refers to 6A with the new program. Seems like somebody's been hard at work..
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(17 Aug 2018, 6:26 am)Dan There was a glitch within the first few hours of it being rolled out on the 26/27 that if the driver tried to change the destination any earlier than the Market Street West stop, it would change the display back to 'Market Street'. This has since been corrected though, so any you saw at this point would have been drivers forgetting to change their destination.To be fair on my part, they were just on red kites for the past few weeks
At this stage it's impossible to set the destination for the return journey towards South Shields, as there's so many possibilities an inbound 26 or 27 can then go out as... A 26 to South Shields via Morrisons, omitting Morrisons, a short-terminating 26 to Jarrow or Gateshead, etc... So that responsibility currently remains with the driver. I believe Hanover and Ticketer are in discussions for their hardware to be linked so that a driver can input a trip number on his/her ticket machine which can automatically control the destination, but this has been an idea discussed for years so probably still a long way off yet.
Every service such have the large destination font from September, all being well, as every bus should be updated in line with the schools going back.
A rather quick trial given it worked with few issues on the 26/27, so yes, promptly rolled out to everything else afterwards!
The Red Kites will start to receive new destination controllers from this Sunday, so these will also follow suit shortly with an 'Eldon Square' destination on approach to Newcastle too.
No, the announcements still say Newcastle at the moment. Bit more work involved to have the announcement changed too as it'd have to be set up differently and those announcements would have to be recorded... but it's on the list to do at some point!
Haha, yes. They've been doing that for a few weeks now, so you're slacking if you've only just noticed!
Most of the services regularly operated by buses with Next Stop Announcements (with LED screen) are now in the program. A bit of a stop-gap just until the announcements are actually programmed. The likes of the 28, 34, X22 at Chester-le-Street, and the 6, X30/X31, X70/X71 etc at Stanley.
(17 Aug 2018, 6:26 am)Dan There was a glitch within the first few hours of it being rolled out on the 26/27 that if the driver tried to change the destination any earlier than the Market Street West stop, it would change the display back to 'Market Street'. This has since been corrected though, so any you saw at this point would have been drivers forgetting to change their destination.To be fair on my part, they were just on red kites for the past few weeks
At this stage it's impossible to set the destination for the return journey towards South Shields, as there's so many possibilities an inbound 26 or 27 can then go out as... A 26 to South Shields via Morrisons, omitting Morrisons, a short-terminating 26 to Jarrow or Gateshead, etc... So that responsibility currently remains with the driver. I believe Hanover and Ticketer are in discussions for their hardware to be linked so that a driver can input a trip number on his/her ticket machine which can automatically control the destination, but this has been an idea discussed for years so probably still a long way off yet.
Every service such have the large destination font from September, all being well, as every bus should be updated in line with the schools going back.
A rather quick trial given it worked with few issues on the 26/27, so yes, promptly rolled out to everything else afterwards!
The Red Kites will start to receive new destination controllers from this Sunday, so these will also follow suit shortly with an 'Eldon Square' destination on approach to Newcastle too.
No, the announcements still say Newcastle at the moment. Bit more work involved to have the announcement changed too as it'd have to be set up differently and those announcements would have to be recorded... but it's on the list to do at some point!
Haha, yes. They've been doing that for a few weeks now, so you're slacking if you've only just noticed!
Most of the services regularly operated by buses with Next Stop Announcements (with LED screen) are now in the program. A bit of a stop-gap just until the announcements are actually programmed. The likes of the 28, 34, X22 at Chester-le-Street, and the 6, X30/X31, X70/X71 etc at Stanley.
Hexham Bus Station has a large paper chart in a cabinet at the east end with 'all' destinations with details of which services serve those destinations and the stands that they leave from.
There are some 'howlers' - such as 74 to Bellingham, 687 to Corbridge and 682 to Beaumont Park . . .
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Go North East 725 / YA13 AAE by kieron mathews, on FlickrGo North East 725 / YA13 AAE by kieron mathews, on Flickr
photo of 725 parked at Saltmeadows
Seems like somebody has been busy with displays at Stanley today.
Red Kites all upgraded.
Going to get a reply saying this was actually done 3 weeks ago, I guarantee
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(19 Aug 2018, 11:25 am)Jamie M Seems like somebody has been busy with displays at Stanley today.
Red Kites all upgraded.
Going to get a reply saying this was actually done 3 weeks ago, I guarantee
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NK15EOG / 5416 - Wright Streetlite by Jamie MP, on Flickr(19 Aug 2018, 11:25 am)Jamie M Seems like somebody has been busy with displays at Stanley today.
Red Kites all upgraded.
Going to get a reply saying this was actually done 3 weeks ago, I guarantee
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NK15EOG / 5416 - Wright Streetlite by Jamie MP, on Flickr
(19 Aug 2018, 11:25 am)Jamie M Seems like somebody has been busy with displays at Stanley today.
Red Kites all upgraded.
Going to get a reply saying this was actually done 3 weeks ago, I guarantee
(19 Aug 2018, 11:25 am)Jamie M Seems like somebody has been busy with displays at Stanley today.
Red Kites all upgraded.
Going to get a reply saying this was actually done 3 weeks ago, I guarantee
(19 Aug 2018, 12:38 pm)S813 FVK Admittedly a couple did appear to have been updated a few weeks ago (5414 being one I believe), but all, including the aforementioned ones, will have been updated again today with the new controllers being fitted.
What is the basic criteria that needs to be met in order to have the new controllers fitted? I'd probably guess WiFi given the connection that is needed but apart from that, I wouldn't be able to make any logical assumptions.
(19 Aug 2018, 12:38 pm)S813 FVK Admittedly a couple did appear to have been updated a few weeks ago (5414 being one I believe), but all, including the aforementioned ones, will have been updated again today with the new controllers being fitted.
What is the basic criteria that needs to be met in order to have the new controllers fitted? I'd probably guess WiFi given the connection that is needed but apart from that, I wouldn't be able to make any logical assumptions.
