I made this so everyone can have fun on the website

Everyday a bus will be eliminated

Try pick a niche once because the easy ones will be out first

Wear Bus Preservation Group have this evening announced yet another Ex Go North East into Preservation in Optare V1110 Optare Versa 8307 (NK09 FVG) which has came back to the North East following the collapse of independent operator C4TN. 

8307 joins other group current fleet members:
- First York 11113 / BG58 OMJ
- Go North East 5264 / NK56 KJZ
- Go North East 4950 / NK51 OLR
- Go North East 3942 / NK05 GZP (part owned)
- Arriva North East 4718 / YJ10 DFU
- Go North East 3895 / NK51 UCY

Does anyone know what's going on with Ashington tonight, there's some nasty gaps floating around especially the 2.5 hour gap on the X21 leaving Newcastle and the 35 is every 2 hours, as of writing?

Assume it's not fleet related at this time of night. I know there was talk of other depots bailing out the Stockton mess but they can't be stupid enough to cause massive issues elsewhere to bail out another depot?

25 Oct 2026:

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Variation GO NORTH EAST LIMITED X10 Newcastle Peterlee

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Variation GO NORTH EAST LIMITED X10 Peterlee Middlesbrough

Does anyone know or realise that at Villette Road / Ryhope Road junction, (in Sunderland) it still has the original bus shelter concrete cannopy where Sunderland Corporation used to terminate (Villette Road Terminus) , Pre 1970s

Looks like Arriva are going to be conducting a UK wide survey regarding there services within there operational areas over the coming months.

Arriva Buses Wales new Wright Streetdeck Ultroliners (BN76 CPU) has received vinyl's for the campaign.

https://flickr.com/photos/cymrucoastline...1819684594

Wear Bus Preservation Group has confirmed it has planning a running day in Chester-Le-Street on 18th October 2026 between 10am-4pm.

Since it has been 5 years since the year Go North East decided to a rebrand/New Look of most of their brands, I thought i'd post most changes that occured during this intresting period. Also a lot of re-allocations alongside it.

Would love to know what people thought of this time, what their favourite rebrand was, what their new brand was their favourite and more.

We've decided to create a new forum for everything related to the North East Mayoral Strategic Authority (NEMSA for short). 

What should go here?
The idea is that any NEMSA project, such as franchising, Metro extension and Shields ferry landing replacement, would go in here. We're also expecting a ramp up in public activity relating to franchising, so in the future, this will also serve as a home to any discussion around future service tenders for the Angel Network.

What doesn't fit?
At present, any Nexus business as usual (BAU) content should remain in the respective sections, e.g. Metro in the railways forum, Nexus tenders in the Infrastructure & Management forum.

Don't worry if you post something in the wrong place, the mod team will move to the best fit.

Hopefully this makes it easier for members to find what they're looking for, and also prevents NEMSA stuff dominating the operator forums.

Kim and Nexus are pushing the Metro to Washington project again over the last couple of days. The Nexus website has a new and updated project page for it: https://nexus.org.uk/who-we-are/projects...ashington/

It has a timeline of what has been taking place up until now, but the key take is that a second round of engagement sessions across Washington and Sunderland will take place during September, which will also coincide with the public announcement of where the proposed station locations and route will be.

Date Time Venue
Tuesday 1 September 4pm – 6pm Washington Millennium Centre, Concord
Saturday 5 September 1.30pm – 4pm Washington Arts Centre, Biddick Lane
Monday 7 September 12.30pm – 4.30pm Fitzgeralds Wardley
Wednesday 9 September 1.30pm – 4pm Tansy Centre, South Hylton
Friday 11 September 12.30pm – 4.30pm Teal Farm Pub, Washington
Saturday 12 September 11am – 2pm North East Land, Sea, Air Museum, Washington
Tuesday 15 September 5.30pm – 7pm Sunderland College, City Campus
Wednesday 16 September 10am – 1pm Washington Arts Centre, Biddick Lane
Saturday 19 September 10.30am – 1.30pm The Galleries, Washington
Tuesday 22 September 5.30pm – 7pm Columbia Village Community Centre, Washington
Wednesday 23 September 10am – 12pm Tansy Centre, South Hylton
Friday 25 September 8.30am – 10.30am Pelaw Metro Station
Friday 25 September 5pm – 7pm Pelaw Metro Station
Saturday 26 September 10.30am – 1.30pm The Bridges Shopping Centre, Sunderland