I noticed that a former colleague mentioned that Bensham is shutting and departments moving to Riverside.

Now, surely it would have made sense for this to happen before now when Riverside was built? From my visits to Riverside, there was definitely scope for more departments to be based there.

Dose anyone know what is tracking as SPRR it was on the 63 yesterday and also is today

The first of many E300 have started to arrive at Darlington depot in the shape of former Manchester example 2749 CX58 EWA

Nexus have a consultation for the 594 to basically retime it to 20 minutes later

So insted of it being 17.20 it would now be 17.40

I see Roger did a webinar about secrets of a successful bus operation this week and since I know there are loads on here who are fans of his, link is below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFL3DelnPp8

Having seen clips of old BBC & Sky Channel Idents on YT, i was wondering if there is any Ai video software that could create a custom Ident.

We all have a feelings about some of the 'improvements' so far but thought there's no where to discuss suggestions which actually would be useful with severe gaps.

Some suggestions, mostly in Durham, from me:

1: Crook terminator extended to Stanhope via 101 route, 101 scrapped
6: Extended to Barnard Castle from Cockfield hourly, 85 scrapped
25/725: Merged to restore old route.
56: Upped to 2 BPH throughout and Sunday / evening service restored
X46: Extended to Stanhope every hour via it's one a day extension.
X46: Extended to Newcastle every hour and combined with X12 for 2 BPH.
N/A: Sedgefield to Newton Aycliffe, unsure on this one.

New direct links formed:
Barnard Castle to Durham
Stanhope / Tow Law to Durham
Langley Park to Newcastle
Crook to Newcastle
Darlington / Shildon to Stanhope

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Have we got an estimated date when this usually happens. The result for the Q3/35 one still haven't been posted yet

Bit of a longshot, but does anyone know which was the last of 410/7410-420/7420 to be repained out of NMS livery into full Arriva livery?

Vaguely remember sometime early in 2001 riding a then newly repainted Palatine II in Arriva livery then days later, riding one still in NMS livery but fitted with a new Wayfarer 3 Ticket Machine.