Not yet noted as far as I have seen, is the return of 5236 from East Yorkshire.

It will be used as a Driver Training vehicle (alongside 5210), now that Go North East is recruiting for driving staff again.

Go North East: 5236 / NK56KHD by Daniel Graham, on Flickr

Go North East: 5236 / NK56KHD by Daniel Graham, on Flickr

Go North East: 5236 / NK56KHD by Daniel Graham, on Flickr

Temporary resurfacing works in Park Lane Interchange


From Sunday 14 February 2021, for around a week, there will be some road resurfacing works in Park Lane Interchange.



Only Stagecoach have post so far and it only effects their X1 service:

https://www.stagecoachbus.com/service-up...:17:55:248


When GNE/Arriva post - it'll go in this tread.

Just thought we could have a thread that records any 'wrong' tracking info and keep a log of what it actually is, until they get resolved.

One from me is Redcar's 1561 is currently tracking as 354 - it's on the X4 today

621 and 623 have returned to Yorkshire, transferring to Wakefield yesterday.
1429 and 1430 have returned north I believe they're at Redcar.

7410 and 7411 are currently on loan to Durham.
2822 has transferred from Jesmond to Darlington this week too.

Wonder why GNE have gained 671/674 from East Yorkshire?


East Yorkshire Enthusiasts


East Yorkshire fleet update...

Allocation changes effective from 1st February 2021:
671 from delicenced to Go North East (loan)
672 from delicenced to Bridlington
674 from delicenced to Go North East (loan)
678 from Bridlington  to delicenced
Transfered Go North East Gemini's, 6118 & 6119 both to delicenced.

For February 2021

For February 2021

Thread for February 2021

Appreciate that this thread may only get a few replies, but I was struggling to fit it in to one of the already existing threads so was left with no choice but to create a new thread entirely.

In essence, they've been fiddling around with the destination displays. Again.

This time it seems to be to make the route-varying letter smaller (see here: https://flic.kr/p/2kw3c9k). I've seen a couple of other photos this evening of a couple of 1As of which both had the smaller number so they must be seriously considering rolling this out.

What's the theory behind this one? Is there a small glimmer of evidence that suggests that passengers may find it easier to read the *full* route number when displayed in this way?

I've noticed a significant increase in vehicle failures at Ashington recently, particularly on the Alnwick routes.

Just today the following failed:
7512 made it only a few trips into its 35 this morning.
7529 on the X15 around Belford.
7553 on the X18 around Amble.
7555 on the X14 at Newcastle.
7556 on the X15 at Berwick.

7511/12 appear to be increasingly unreliable, when I was last on 7511 in the summer it was ghastly. 7514 has just returned from 2 weeks off the road, before that it was struggling to make it through a day of service - indeed on Monday 4th and Tuesday 5th it was taken out of service on the same board two days running. The 64 and 15 plates (the latter batch *still* had internal Yorkshire branding last I was on one late last year) are going the same way as the rest too, indeed 7555 was restricted to the 35 for a few months last year due to overheating on anything else. The Scanias are probably best ignored, all 3 are somehow out on MAX work today but that happens about once a week at best. 7445 has made it into service a whopping 5 times since Christmas Eve, though only actually completed a full board on 3 of those.

The near constant issues with the MAX deckers means that the 14-plate E400s are getting punted onto the X15/18 etc in their place as presumably they can cope better, leaving the MAX E400s to crawl through their day on the Sapphire routes instead. 

While new vehicles are desperately needed for those routes, I can't help but think engineering standards at Ashington are also falling. The same buses breaking constantly, something being kept on the 35s for months because of overheating (here's an idea, fix it?), 5-6 year old buses unable to perform on their branded routes, all this screams of a poor attitude by the engineering staff and a "that'll do" approach, rather than fixing stuff properly first time.

Then there's the appearance of their vehicles:

• https://flic.kr/p/2koADah. "Does that bumper fit Dave?" "Aye but its the wrong colour and shape" "It's fine man, lets go for lunch".
  
• https://flic.kr/p/DZiNTW. https://flic.kr/p/2kjBhcJ. That's the same vehicle 3 years apart, the same slice through the bodywork between the decks at the rear.
  
• https://flic.kr/p/2kqdeRL. Dented, discoloured, rusting panels all the way along one side.
  

Are depot management blind? Surely, even if they don't have a budget for full repaints, they can make stuff look half presentable.

The new MD being an "experienced engineering director" evidently means sod all. I see Whitby/Redcar had 2 Streetlites on the X93 today too due to a "shortage of serviceable deckers".