Just read this on the BBC www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-23974522

Does anyone if Snowdons still have the contract to run the Easington School bus services, just today I am almost certain I seen Pygalls flying banana in Murton, the same vehicle on the 230 this morning

Something I've noticed from the ECML over the past two weeks, and I noticed we didn't really have a place for such things, hence the new thread.

On Earlsway at the North End of team valley - near the Royal Mail depot - there's what looks like a red and pale yellow vertical stripe liveried Olympian parked up. Anyone know anything about this or what it actually is?

The title says it all...

Get submitting your pics

It just came to me when my eldest was asking earlier on, about the amount of journeys I have taken by train (work or pleasure). I started trying to visually map these journeys and wondered if it was something that could be tied into others on here - to see what sort of pattern or trends emerged.

Would anyone else be up for this?
Obviously we would need to share the trips we have had (business or pleasure) and use a network rail map to illustrate the journeys.

Just to get started (I'll start North and work my way South), trying no to repeat journeys or mention return journeys.

* Glasgow Central - Gourock
* Glasgow Central - Haymarket/Waverley via Shotts
* Glasgow Central - Haymarket/Waverley via Motherwell
* Glasgow Central Lower Level - Argyle Street
* Glasgow Queen Street - Haymarket/Waverley via Falkirk
* Haymarket/Waverley - Durham
* Dundee - Darlington

* Carlisle - Glasgow Central
* Durham - Glasgow Central
* Durham - Edinburgh
* Durham - Newcastle
* Chester le Street - Newcastle
* Chester le Street - Leeds
* Newcastle - Carlisle
* Newcastle - Darlington
* Newcastle - Saltburn
* Metrocentre - Sunderland
* Heworth - Middlesbrough
* Sunderland - Middlesbrough
* Sunderland - Stockton
* Seaham - Stockton
* Middlesbrough - Whitby
* Middlesbrough - Saltburn
* Redcar - Darlington
* Redcar - Manchester Airport
* Saltburn - Darlington
* Saltburn - Redcar East and Central
* Saltburn - Shildon
* Eaglescliffe - York
* Eaglescliffe - Sunderland
* Middlesbrough - Picc
* York - Durham
* York - Newcastle
* York - Chester le Street
* York - Malton
* York - Picc
* Doncaster - Leeds
* Doncaster - Retford
* Leeds - Selby
* Leeds - Carlisle
* Leeds - Apperley Bridge
* Apperley Bridge - Bradford


* Durham - Kings x
* Durham/Chester le Street - Sheffield (via Doncaster)
* Durham - Sheffield (via Leeds)
* Durham - Chesterfield
* Durham - Doncaster
* Durham - Grantham
* Durham - Peterborough
* Durham - Newark
* Durham - New Street (both XC routes and via Darnell on the 'Old Road')
* Durham - Reading
* Durham - Oxford
* Durham - Leeds
* Durham - Picc
* Durham - Vic
* Durham - Kirkaldy
* Kirkaldy - Newcastle
* Durham - Leuchars
* Durham - Alnmouth
* Leuchars - Newcastle

* Leeds - Kings x
* Doncaster - Kings x
* Leeds - Crossflats
* Chesterfield/Sheffield - Nottingham
* Nottingham - Grantham
* Lincoln - Skegness (via Sleaford)
* Peterborough - Kings x
* Newark - Lincoln
* Sleaford - Lincoln
* Metheringham - Lincoln
* Retford - Lincoln
* Lincoln - Sheffield
* Picc - Stoke

* Woking - Waterloo
* Woking - Clapham Junction/Vauxhall
* Hook - Waterloo
* Hook - Basingstoke
* Heathrow - Paddington
* Basingstoke - Andover
* Basingstoke - Reading
* Basingstoke - Durham
* Basingstoke - Winchfield
* Waterloo - Winchfield
* Paddington - Reading
* Paddington - Oxford
* Fenchurch St - Southend
* Liverpool St - Southend
* Didcot - Oxford
* Oxford - Cotswold Line (can't remember station)
* Oxford - Marylebone
* Oxford - New St (via Cov) 
* New St - Longbridge

Foreign train travel

Bergen - Voss - Flam

Schiphol - Centraal
Centraal - Zandvoort

Amsterdam Tram
Prague Metro
Berlin Underground
Berlin Tram
Dublin Tram
(haven't included native underground or trams)

Palma - Binisallem

Malaga - Airport

For those to young, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_James_Bulger

These 2 Scums should of being put down but no they got new Identity's, Jon Venables is now rumored to be living in the Sunderland Area...

I bloody hope not but if he is.. i hope he gets the **** kicked out of him


I was 2 year old when it happened and for some reason i remember it all, from the hunt for him to them getting jailed.

It's such a sad story =(

I have a interview with Sunderland Uni tomorrow doing Foundation Degree in Education and Care - really nervous.

Has anyone else here being or at Uni?

(02 Sep 2013, 11:07 pm)ADLEnviro wrote Just to add a bit more to the story........They were sold to an American company, the name of I just cant remember, when still stored at Stagecoach Walkergate depot, on the run up to the Olympics Walkergate needed the space for storing vehicles that would be prepped to go to London. The company was told that they would need to remove the vehicles asap. Alpha then towed them to there yard and basically the company never paid for the storage of the vehicles, they is a court case going on so I cant say anymore.

EDIT just for the record the purchase price of these vehicles cost £5,000 a week spread over the 5 years of the contract, not including the running costs. Total waste of money by Nexus.

Is the reason they were no use for other services that front entrance was too narrow for wheelchairs, necessitating the use of the middle doors, which stops weren't equipped for? I seem to remember that being debated when they were briefly used on the 18, though it seems bonkers to have scrapped 04/05 plates when we still have R-regs in regular service!

Although it isn't likely to be used by anyone currently registered, we have just installed a nice little feature so that guests can now register using their Facebook account. This avoids filling out a registration form, and the usual registration details will be passed over from your Facebook account to your North East Buses account.

Dan

Anything to do with the London Underground, Overground and DLR!

The DLR is brilliant in my opinion, however could be more frequent on some parts of the route! It is very clean, and punctual! Also, the views around the docks are brilliant! What does everyone else think?

On the Underground, my favorite line is the Jubilee line, very modern!