When will 5275 and 5459 re-enter service?

The Optare Metrocity EV demonstrator, 9070 (YJ19 HUV), has returned to Go North East, for further evaluation after recent use at Arriva Midlands.

Noticed that there's been a transforming fund won to widen this to two lanes so buses can use the route which is supposedly being done now but I was wondering if anyone has heard of anything about this.

https://goo.gl/maps/2PW1z7W3AcDDPk6M6 - This is Follingsby Lane for those non-local.

Seen it mentions though, 'This re-routing provides new sustainable travel opportunities by bus from Newcastle, Middlesbrough and Sunderland, which will reduce car trips to these places,' so is there longer terms to redirect the X9 and X10 down here, seems a bit strange though as it'll slow them down quite a bit. Not sure what bus from Sunderland could go down there; X24 maybe?

https://northeastca.gov.uk/wp-content/up...ackage.pdf

Just thought it would be a good chance to have a tracker of the current National Express workings operated by GNE from the restart as the network is likely to be changed in future.
The network restarted on 01 July 2020 with a very limited service running.

Go North East are currently running the following diagrams
From 01 July 2020
905 1120 Newcastle - London VCS 1955
905 2200 London VCS - Newcastle 0525
910 0820 Newcastle - Birmingham 1400
910 1500 Birmingham - Newcastle 2040

At least 2 Crusaders on the TEN's

Russ Petty has noted on the Arriva North East and Yorkshire Enthusiasts Facebook group that 1429 & 1430 have transferred to Arriva Yorkshire's Heckmondwike Depot on temporary loan.

Photo attached.

Martjin also confirmed last night that 6050 will be moving around the depots every 2 weeks.

(02 Jul 2020, 1:03 pm)Kuyoyo wrote Regular for the time being - X3/X3a now interworks with 64/64a in Middlesbrough so pending the resumption of refurbishments and repaints, Temsas will remain regulars on there. Rumour was, pre-Covid, that a handful of Pulsars were to be refurbished for the X4 allowing all X3 boards to become Streetlite operated but we'll have to wait and see on that front.

Are the potential Pulsar refurbishments in place of the original plan which was for Stockton's Streetlites to swap with Redcar's Pulsars? To me the swap seemed like the most appropriate solution to avoid mixed allocations!

1559 working in and around redcar today currently looks like training
Avenue on the x3/a

Announced internally to Go North East colleagues earlier this week by a team briefing was the award of the Miscellaneous Works contracts for the 2020 academic year.

Subject (but unlikely) to change during the ‘cooling off’ period, Go North East has been awarded 31/61 of the contracts it operates currently.

The 30 lost by Go North East have been awarded predominantly to Stagecoach (x9), and also to other operators, including Gateshead Central Taxis, Stanley Travel, A-line Coaches, and Weardale Motor Services, L&G Coaches, amongst others.


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