Flooding in East Cleveland prevented this service going passed Saltburn. Waited for ages in Runswick Bay( thank god for the pub and my Mrs). No Twitter announcements from Arriva, or announcements from their website.

I like what has been done by co-ordinating the 306/7/8/9 on the coast road but was wondering if something similar should be implement in other areas. 

Given that the 5, 17 & 50 share sections between Boldon, Whiteleas, Chichester & Shields is seems like this could be good idea. The other one I had in mind was the 18 & 26.

So with the 39/39A/33 all being increased recently at Deptford any news on whether the X20 would return, or the 60 which i believe is the last service at Deptford to not have their frequency re-increased. 

As well Rainton Bridge needs a much better service, early 20A are needed, especially if the rumored X20 to only be from Sunderland to Durham limited Stop, Barnes, Lidl, Board Inn, Houghton and Durham. 

Any news on any of these?

Obviously you had the 53/54 which seems to be permanent, as with the 97

Anyone else got the new Bus Times update, its awful!

Hi everyone, first post on this forum.

I've been working on creating a full list of buses in the Northern General / Go Northern / Go North East (and associated sub-companies) since the current numbering system came into place in the mid-1970's.  I think I have the majority of the fleet in my list already, but there are still rather a lot of gaps - especially amongst older vehicles and minibuses, which I have found hard to research, so I thought it might be possible to post it on here, as I am sure a lot of you will be much more knowledgeable than me on the fleet.  Any comments or help with filling in the blanks would be much appreciated.  The list can be found here : https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1...sp=sharing
Thanks a lot!

Not sure where to post this so I'll make a new thread but something that's had me curious. If you're set on a board which is meant to be a minibus but instead it's ran by a full size bus, do you get the minibus wage as it's what it's rota'd for or do you get the full wage for that shift?

If so it's not exactly in the driver's best interest for the Solo's, which they don't like to drive anyway, to actually be on the road. I'm not suggesting they do it, but to break a bus and get a reward seems rather counter productive.

Great work by the Arriva team today running Park & Ride services for the ever popular food festival in Saltburn.

FF1 from Guisborough
Stockton - 1449, 1458, 1459, 1486, 1488 (PVR 4 but an extra bus 1449 brought in to help maintain the schedule)

FF2 from Brotton
Whitby - 1567

FF3 from Redcar
Redcar - 1430, 1570 (1566? did the first trip and replaced by 1430)


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Does the 520 driver change throughout the day or is it the same one all day?

https://www.northumberlandgazette.co.uk/...T3MwDAkcjI

New service introduced to link key locations in Alnwick. 
Started yesterday. Runs until the end of the summer holidays. 
Funded by local businesses, it will be free for passengers.

Now that fares are being substantially subsidised, should Nexus now take steps to protect bus revenue by utilising Metro Inspectors to check ticket compliance on buses too?