Just curious after seeing photos.....but why did Arriva Northumbria / Durham County end up ripping out the original Proudmutual coach seats out of the 1989/1990 NMS batch of Optare Delta's and instead, replace with bench seating & repaint the handrails yellow / green? Did the coach seats get donated to other vehicles within Arriva Northumbria / Durham County?

Question, i was on the 307 yesterday bound from Battle Hill to North Shields, and we were following behind the 41 (6142 with its dodgy display for Howdon)
and the driver went clockwise around Hadrian Park then back towards Battle Hill, but when he got to the Jolly Bowman Roundabout he went full circle then back along Addington Drive towards Hadrian Park (still displaying Howdon), so my question is this, does it always do that, or had he made a mistake?

5404 is in Leeds - https://www.flickr.com/photos/199503625@...R6-2pByFzz

https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/2...6PpprpP1tA 

It's never ending! 

Hopefully Mr Mayor's pot doesn't run dry.

Durhams 1528 seems to be tracking on the 15 & 16's today. Anyone know why that is? I imagine its a day or 2 loan due to Stockton having a decent amount off the road or is it faulty tracking?

Saw this pop up last night on ITV news - an interesting concept featuring the Interchange at South Shields and tackling anti-social behaviour. A decent video to watch as well.

www.itv.com/news/tyne-tees/2024-02-26/the-trojan-bus-being-used-to-target-anti-social-behaviour

Bus featured seems to be SNE's 28026 on the E1. I wonder if this was used as a 'stunt bus' specifically for the police and the news report? Hasn't tracked on the evening Es for a while unless anyone knows better. 

If this is successful - we might see more of this especially in ASB hotspots.

Posted this, was wondering if the bus photos page has been taken down, as I can't open it up as it doesn't show on searches, anyone know why? ..... Thanks

1430 is only on loan to Stockton  its not a transfer before sertain people says it as its there till Durham get the x12 back then it returns to Durham

It's something I come across as a problem sometimes when making the odd thread and there's no real place to stick stuff like the ZEBRA 2 thread a few weeks back.

Could it something we could possibly have? Threads such relating to things as branding would be better placed in there rather than it being in one of the sepatate operators which usually just goes into a discussion whether Arriva or GNE is better anyway until the wannabe mods come along and moan.

Maybe it could be something like:

Vehicles and Allocations
Bygone Era and Bus Rallies

To replace the bottom two forums, both are pretty much unused anyway, would help for stuff like the Great North Run, Metro Replacements etc which are all over the place currently aswell. If the bus rallies was to be kept separate maybe have it as a sub forum under the Bygone.

I noticed that a former colleague mentioned that Bensham is shutting and departments moving to Riverside.

Now, surely it would have made sense for this to happen before now when Riverside was built? From my visits to Riverside, there was definitely scope for more departments to be based there.