if they have it is anyone going (i know it's over a year away)

Stagecoach have today announced a £102million order for the 2014/2015 financial year, which follows below

UK REGIONAL OPERATIONS
· 69 ADL Enviro 400 Scania double-deckers
· 86 ADL Enviro 300 single-deckers
· 28 ADL Enviro 300 Scania single-deckers
· 23 ADL Enviro 300 Scania GAS single-deckers
· 26 Astromega Euro 6 double deck coaches (for Oxford Tube)
· 3 Astromega Euro 5 double-deck coaches
· 6 Van Hool Altano TDX 21 left-hand drive coaches
· 199 ADL Enviro 200 Dart 4 midibuses
· 2 ADL Enviro 200 Dart 4 Euro 6 midibuses
· 29 ADL Enviro400 Euro 6 double-deckers
· 13 Optare Solo Cummins minibuses
· 8 Plaxton Elite i Volvo B11R Euro 6 coaches
· 3 Van Hool Astromega double-deck sleepercoach vehicles

LONDON
· 32 Wrightbus Gemini Volvo B5LH Euro 6 hybrid double-deckers
· 40 ADL Enviro 400 Trident Euro 6 hybrid double-deckers
· 1 ADL Enviro 400 Trident Conventional Euro 6

It is the largest set of orders ever placed by Stagecoach and the biggest placed by any operator in Britain. It takes Stagecoach Group’s total orders of new buses and coaches for its regional bus operations in the UK to around £545m in last seven years.

More details below
http://www.stagecoachgroup.co.uk/media/n...03-03.aspx

Jesmond's 1411 was on Blyth's X4 earlier today

(28 Feb 2014, 8:56 pm)northtynelinks2 wrote Agreed. I was just wondering as now I would say the next major cascading process will begin with the new orders and service changers (if there are any) towards the back end of the year.

Also alot being withdrawn.

(25 Feb 2014, 6:01 pm)tyresmoke wrote Cheers that makes sense! Am I right in thinking the 24X's are on 57 boards? Passed 7464 in Shotton this morning with a decent load.

The 24X is actually on the X24A RTC.  Quite a waste of paper during term time.

Don't know how true this info is but it's from a reliable source. Enviro 400 10000 currently on Loan from Manchester could be spending 3 days on trial for service x34 to test engine and performance between boldon and felling bypass as it's a rare chance to have engine performing at maximum rpm. No Idea how much truth is in this and no doubt I will be corrected but he seemed to know what he was saying. Provisional date around April time. Again I can't verify or confirm but thought I would get the groups opinions see if there's any weight to it

Best wishes

Chris

(28 Feb 2014, 4:20 pm)brianr wrote 35191 and 36472 on the E routes today.

Probs due to 27725 and 27736 being on X34's. Spare Enviro400 for Shields depot please...

just found out my mate Mary has made it into the final 6 for King of the Road (North West) fingers crossed to her!

http://www.arrivabus.co.uk/knightoftheroadNW/

Does anyone know anyone whos won this before?

Some say they are grants, subsidies (others say they aren't) - but either way, the attached document is eye watering!

http://www.transportscotland.gov.uk/file...ublish.pdf

Who said deregulation would save taxpayer money?

Looks like Durham County Council have updated their website abit, saw the following extract from their site:


Find out when the next bus is due
Across the North East the most popular bus routes are tracked using satellite technology. Information is sent to electronic display boards at bus stops and websites to provide real time passenger information.

You can also get this information on your mobile or smart phone by using our journey planning services.

In County Durham this real time service will be available from July 2014.

Source: http://www.durham.gov.uk/Pages/Service.a...viceId=908

Does this mean that their will be a App on the mobile to see real time bus services for across the Northeast similar to the Arriva App from July 2014?.