Must have changed it during the day as this morning it still had the private plate on. Never took a second glance at the trainer coaches this afternoon whilst getting more photos of the Citaro K.

We have a football thread and a wrestling thread, now is boxing's turn...

Does anyone else here watch it, which boxers do you enjoy watching...

Can't wait for Froch v Groves II tonight, probably the biggest all British fight since Niger Benn and Chris Eubank fought it out in the 90's...

Used to be a fan when I was younger, enjoying Naz and Tyson in the early/mid 90's and stopped watching it when I was in care and got back into it about 10 years ago when I was convinced to watch Ricky Hatton v Kostya Tsyzu and since then I watched every Ricky Hatton and Joe Calzaghe fight, I loved Hatton and I don't believe there is a fighter in Britain as popular as Hatton was...

I have not seen many new threads on this board lately so thought I would start a new one

As we all know, Scotland go to the polls for the Independence Referendum, what is you guys opinions on this, will they vote Yes or No...

I personally think the result will be for the status quo(not Francis Rossi and his pals silly) to stay I place, but it will be quite close I reckon possibly only a few % in it , but let's say they do vote to go it alone, what does it mean to the rest of the UK, the main issues are

1. Membership of the EU, Alex Salmond seems to think that being part of the UK right now means Scotland will get automatic membership into the EU, I don't understand that, because Scotland has never been an independent member of the EU, they are there as the United Kingdom, if Scotland had to apply to the EU, Spain would resist it as they believe it would add momentum for a Basque and Catalonian breakaway from Spain l

2. Currency, they want to enter a monetary union with the Pound, Westminster says no, not a chance, could they not just form a currency, there banks already print there own Bank Notes, why not use that, call it the Scottish Pound and have it on par with Pound Sterling...Reminds me of a Michael McIntyre joke, along the lines of "do you think business news in Scotland has ever said today's exchange rate is one pound..........to the pound" would they eventually be forced into the Eurozone

3. Defence, what will happen with the military, would any potential Scottish Armed Forces inherit bases, garrisons and regiments from the British Armed Forces, there is a high possibility of them wanting Faslane closed and nukes removed, an Independent Scotland also would be interested in joining NATO, but apparently told removing our Nuclear Deterrent could hinder there application for NATO

4. Borders, while I can never see it happening on a big scale, it has been mentioned because of the Anglo-Irish opt-out of the Schengen Area, Scotland would have to negotiate an opt-out to prevent border controls going up, it has been said they would probably join the Common Travel Area with UK and R.Ireland, they would need similar immigration policies than us and Theresa May has said if Scotland adopting a looser immigration policy than Westminster then Passport Controls would be put in place...How would a border control work if it came to that, especially for Public Transport, would trains be subject be stopped at the Border, say Berwick on the ECML and Carlisle on the WCML...

Oh Well, what do you guys think...

There are so many differing opinions on this, that the whole debate could turn itself into a Chinese Parliament ?

As most of you will know from a similar thread in the Go North East section of the forum, we are currently trying to put together a history for each of the vehicles in the Arriva North East, Go North East and Stagecoach North East fleets.

If you can contribute towards this for Stagecoach North East, do post below. I'd prefer it if you had dates in terms of month and year in which these movements have taken place.

Ta!

As most of you will know from a similar thread in the Go North East section of the forum, we are currently trying to put together a history for each of the vehicles in the Arriva North East, Go North East and Stagecoach North East fleets.

If you can contribute towards this for Arriva North East, do post below. I'd prefer it if you had dates in terms of month and year in which these movements have taken place.

Ta!

Anyone got any records for buses running late but haven't been taken out of service. I looked at the Arriva app tonight and an X21 was running 39 minutes late. I don't know if there was an error but blimey!

Here's one for starters. One cold and rainy night back in November, Newcastle was gridlocked and none of the Coast Road services showed up for a short while from either GNE or Arriva. The 1623 308 didn't show up neither did the 1635 306. The queue for stand L was more like a match night and just before 1645, the 1623 showed and left a couple of minutes later looking like a can of sardines! I knew not to get on that one and waited in good faith for the 1643 to show which it did and left at 1655. At about 1730, I was on the 1643 and passed the 1623 service at the Silverlink. We eventually got to Rake Lane at 1740 and as I was walking from there, the 1623 showed up 50 minutes later than scheduled.

I am in my fifties and thinking of applying to GNE to be a bus driver.

My question is....would anyone recommend it?

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scot...s-27599963

Scotrail have lost the Caledonian Sleeper franchise to Serco.

...been given a one fingered salute by a bus driver and managed to catch the bugger?

This thread gives you the opportunity to share these photos... Just to get your own back.

I'll start off with one I took in Darlington of a National Holidays coach:

Although I appreciate that some on here may not be able to vote, but for those who do have the vote, did you exercise your to right in the European and Local elections yesterday?

I voted Green in the European elections and, rather begrudgingly, voted Labour in the local council elections.