A list today has been posted on Facebook of 3 months of major line closure for metro. These are listed below. Copied from Facebook and shorted down to the dates

13th to 14th January-South Gosforth to Haymarket 

20th to 21st January Airport to South Gosforth 

27th January Pelaw to South Shields 

10th to 11th February South Gosforth to Wallsend 

17th to 25th February (9days) Airport to Regent Centre 

16th to 17th March Heworth to South Gosforth 

29th March to 1st April (4days) Heworth to South Gosforth

North East are in the process of taking 7 ADL Enviro 300s made surplus from Wythenshawe depot recently.

The first one - 2740 CX58EVL - arrived yesterday afternoon and another (2745) is due later today. They wear the old Sapphire livery and still branded for route 263 that they used to run on.
They’re additional spare vehicles as I think someone has realised the spares % is looking a little low across the southern depots.


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Good morning all and compliments of the season.

I love the new site layout, but would offer a small suggestion. Could a new post on the menu page be highlighted a little clearer, like in the individual threads, a blue dot.

Best wishes

NUFC have confirmed they have received an allocation of 6000 tickets for the Cup Game on January 6th at the SOL.

A condition of this is it will be a bubble trip which means supporters must board a bus at St James's Park and then travel to Sunderland on official transport.

This has happened before (but it was that long ago that Classic and Moor Dale held the line!) and will require a lot of resource (circa 60-70 vehicles)

I would imagine this could possibly include pretty much every operator out there  -  the GNE Voyager fleet, JH Coaches, Phoenix, Henry Cooper, LG Coaches et al.

There was quite a bit of damage as a result of Sunderland fans throwing objects at windows last time around (the sight of the combustion engine presumably a new thing to them at the time) so bring out your old London tat!

Changes for 28th January 2024


PB0003954/1209
Variation GO NORTH EAST LIMITED 47 (47) Consett Newcastle

PB0003954/649
Variation GO NORTH EAST LIMITED 12 (12) Winlaton Newcastle

PB0003954/1102
Variation GO NORTH EAST LIMITED X30 (X31, X30) Stanley Newcastle

PB0003954/364
Variation GO NORTH EAST LIMITED X71 (X71, X72) Stanley Newcastle

PB0003954/1251
Variation GO NORTH EAST LIMITED 6 (6) Lanchester Newcastle

PB0003954/367
Variation GO NORTH EAST LIMITED X45 (X45) Newcastle Consett

PB0003954/689
Variation GO NORTH EAST LIMITED 74 (74) Hexham Newcastle
PB0000328/560

Wasn;t sure where to put this so feel free to move.

As i mentioned in a previous thread I've been using the bus a lot recently to get to work.   In the past when i was a young un I obviously saw different types of fraud like jumping the metro, two lads getting on the bus and passing the bus pass backward so getting 2 on with same pass but what ive seen for the last few days...

A teenager in school uniform ( school in Gateshead )  gets on the 93 i get to Old Durham Road and every time her card is not working. The machine just make that Nosie like a (errrr). Every time the driver has just waved her on but this morning she get a stern talking too as i think the driver must have remembered her.  He still let her on after she said she had no cash wan something about having to walk.... and she had quite a grin on her face as she went upstairs.


Thoughts?

Changes for 28th January 2024.

PB0002404/16
Variation BUSWAYS TRAVEL SERVICES LTD 1011su (11, 10, 10) Pennywell Grangetown

PB0002404/20
Variation BUSWAYS TRAVEL SERVICES LTD 313 (13, 3) Town End Farm, Hylton Castle Doxford Park, Farringdon

PB0002404/40
Variation BUSWAYS TRAVEL SERVICES LTD 71728788 (71, 72A, 87, 72) Grainger Street North Walbottle, Chapel House or Newbiggin Hall

PB0002404/57
Variation BUSWAYS TRAVEL SERVICES LTD E1E2 (E2, E6, E1) Sunderland
South Shields

PB0002404/60
Variation BUSWAYS TRAVEL SERVICES LTD 4su (4) Downhill Doxford Park

PB0002404/19
Variation BUSWAYS TRAVEL SERVICES LTD 20 (20) Sunderland Fawcett Street Pennywell

PB0002404/18
Variation BUSWAYS TRAVEL SERVICES LTD 1819 (18A, 18) Sunderland City Centre Grangetown or Gilley Law

PB0002404/12
Variation BUSWAYS TRAVEL SERVICES LTD X63 (X63) Newcastle City Centre Killingworth

PB0002404/17
Variation BUSWAYS TRAVEL SERVICES LTD 16 (16) Red House Estate Hastings Hill

PB0002404/48
Variation BUSWAYS TRAVEL SERVICES LTD 23 (23) Dene Estate Thorney Close

Just looking through FB, and the UK Railways have a tonne of problems, 

TFW Overcrowding 
XC not enough trains/overcrowding 
EMR Norwich to Liverpool overcrowding
GC 180's reliability
Replacement for TPE Class 69
Northern's 156/153 replacements (apparently Northern want 185 for that)
Avanti as a whole 
Appauling state of the Class 800 on LNER/GWR (seats, relability etc)

I think the only good train company really is East Anglia 


An absolute dumpster fire

been mention on fb that 1560 73 are transferring to Stockton

what's the SPRR ON THE x3 and it was tracking on the 63 yesterday