Anyone know who's won the Mouth Of tyne festival shuttle bus this year. Can't seem to find anything

8803 pos saying BENSHAM COURT and BENSHAM jockey then winlaton 10.51

Does anyone know which way the 2 and 78 are going next week, when the BBC radio bigweek is on, as the road in front of Penshaw is closed.

It might have been the weather discouraging exhibitors from travelling but it's notable that this had less space in the Sally Army hall than in previous years. Normally they have the big hall for models and the small hall for books but only the big hall was in use for exhibits and stalls, this year. The small hall was used as a dining room. 

All the same, Eldest and I found some nice new models for his collection and I picked up some ideas for Husband for their stand at Highways UK, this year.

The new station at Bishop Auckland is set to open on Monday 11th with Weardale already confirming they will be using the site from the first bus.

Just having a remember moment !
When each Northern General / Go ahead Northern, depot had their own service number batch -----
Chester le st depot were 700s (721,22 etc)
Gateshead (Sunderland Rd) were double numbers (20s and 50s)
Winlaton and High Spen Depots...600s
Wallsend and Percy Main Depots...300s
Park Lane , Murton,and Philadelphia Depots were 100s
South Shields and Jarrow Depots....500s
Washington Depot were also 100s and the mini links were colours, Orange Route etc.
Anybody correct me or add to this.... thanks

I am in the middle of designing a concept to improve TaxiBuses and add more services. I have a few ideas already (Ai-Generated image attached), but would be interested in any other ideas from the floor.

Anyone know when the broken bygone era will be fixed? been trying to view timetables from the 90s and keep getting error messages.

I can't see this posted anywhere else, but I've noticed on the NECA delegated decision report from 22nd April 2026, there's a 'Rural
Optimised User-centred Transport EcoSystem (ROUTES) trial' worth £900k been approved, funded under the North East BSIP. The initial suggested area is the initial suggested area is around the three-way Northumberland/Gateshead/County Durham border near Blackhall Mill.

It looks to be a 12-month pilot scheme to improve transport in rural areas with poor connectivity, but using a combination of DRT and some fixed-route services. The idea is to connect people to the existing networks, rather than replace, and there's a claim it'll provide up to an extra 95 hours of public transport per week.

Where this seems to differ from other DRT schemes, is that it's ran as a Community Transport service by a consortium made up of Weardale
Community Transport, Edge Innovation, Connected Places Catapult, Rural Design Centre and Derwent Valley Car Club, rather than a tender award as a service contract.

Within the award is funding for the purchase of 5 vehicles (minibuses + wheelchair-accessible vehicles)

I think this links with some of the concerns that Northumberland in particular raised around the BSIP, and areas within that county being left behind, so I'm not at all surprised to see a trial like this take place. There's not a fixed date for this starting yet, as there's some consultation and further research to be had before that, according to the report.

Came with some livery concepts for the Angel Network using ChatGPT, quite impressed with these.