Not sure if anyone else was listening this morning, but there was a big boss from Northern Rail in the 'hotseat' from 9am on Radio Newcastle.

Apart from the usual, he also announced 40 additional trains will call at Blaydon with extra services calling at Dunston - all from December this year.

It isn't an area I go to that often, but I am aware of how many buses to/from Newcastle and the Metrocentre from Blaydon. It will be interesting to see how GNE react to this, or whether the new deckers for the 10 was their pre-emptive move.
40 trains a day seems a massive number considering it is single figures at the moment.

39729 crashed this morning near the OAK tree farm pub in doxford park around 8:30.

Van pulled out in front of him.

Friend was driving bus.... Cant post link from echo on phone

Almost forgot I saw two East Coast trains on the Durham Coast Line through Sunderland this afternoon, one in each direction. Don't think I've ever seen it happen myself before but I guess it might happen more times than I've realised!

Photos by Graeme Phillips - http://www.flickr.com/photos/66289212@N07/8522131000/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/66289212@N07/8521931968/

Diversion is in place until tomorrow -

http://www.eastcoast.co.uk/

"Engineering work between Darlington and Newcastle from 13:30 on Saturday 2 until 12:30 on Sunday 3 March 2013"

"An hourly diverted train service will run between York and Newcastle, not calling at Darlington and Durham"

There's also some travel information for trains by other operators.

Since we have all discussed GNE on here, can i make a suggestion for stagecoach Sunderland?

I would merge the 8 and 20 together to make it one full route... New 20 route.


Pennywell, Prestbury Road, City Centre, Fawcett Street - Royal Hospital - South Hylton

Not many people use the 8 (well when ive seen it its being empty or very few on) but it may get used more if new links are opened.

All discussion of The Shields Ferry is to be placed here.

Hello everyone. March 1st has been quite an eventful day indeed! As many of you will know, March 1st is the day that marks both Saint David's Day for the Welsh communities and Self Harm Awareness Day which I do believe is a national event. In addition to that, North East Buses are using this date to mark a very special occasion indeed: the introduction of the "All Things Water" sub-forum!

Admittedly, this sub-forum had previously existed in the opening stages of the site, but was removed due to the inactivity of it. Having discussed the matter with the administration team, we have come to a joint decision to reinstate this sub-forum - starting completely fresh (hence why we are saying that "All Things Water" was founded in March 2013)!

We believe at this early stage that the primary thread that will see active use in this sub-forum will be the "Shields Ferry" thread, but we hope that this will develop over time as we attract several other transport enthusiasts to the group and more opportunities for discussion of boats will arise. As the site's main focus is buses, they may be discouraged against joining, but only time will tell!

I now hand over the sub-forum to you guys! Enjoy.

(28 Feb 2013, 9:54 pm)tyresmoke wrote Wow Nexus are way behind Connect Tees Valley have had new timetables up for weeks!
The only change to the X2 is withdrawing the schoolday journey around 1445 from Durham to CLS presumably to improve reliability on schools.

Can see why Nexus didn't rush through the news of the X2 change since any change is well outside of their patch!

After yet another regular Waggonway breakdown I stuck my concerns into GNE about the reliability of the service whilst DAF's remain in service.

Received a very nice reply, usual customer service schtick but added on

'We are monitoring this service as we have incurred an above average number of correspondence from passengers using this service. There are plans to update the vehicles on this service but I cannot confirm vehicle type or dates for this change. We do realise there is an issue and we are working hard to resolve this'

Added was a voucher for £2 off a Buzzfare...jeez, all out generosity

A personal message from North East Buses -

It is with deep regret that we have lost a valued contributor to The Bygone Era today.

Yesterday evening, it became apparent that the photos we were hosting in The Bygone Era belonged to other bus enthusiasts. Our member who donated the photos insisted that they were from a bought collection he has owned for many years.

This put the Forum Team in a very difficult situation, and eventually we chose to remove all photos from the site. Our member who donated these photos was not pleased with this decision, which we can appreciate; and he subsequently asked us to remove all of his content from the site, with which we duly complied. As such, The Bygone Era has now been hidden until a time when his content can be removed. When the section goes live again, all of the original timetable PDF’s that were supplied by myself will continue to be available.

It is very unfortunate that there are people out there who take utmost delight in taking peoples photos without permission and sell them on to innocent people. We are saddened that we have lost such a valued member today because of people who steal.

We hope you can appreciate the difficult situation that this put us in yesterday; and we apologise for any inconvenience caused.

At this time, we’d like to thank all members for their continued support of North East Buses. We’ll always strive to rise above challenges such as these and continue to provide members with the site that they want and the ability to express themselves in forums they can feel a valued part of.

Best regards,

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As some of you may know already... Rail Replacement coaches are currently being used between Newcastle and Darlington on the ECML on Saturday afternoons and Sunday mornings.

In use yesterday were

Abbotts - YN07LJZ
Alan Madrell - A15AVT
Colborns - B489UNB DIG2797
Compass Royston - M40CRT N30CRT P996JBC R459BAY FL02ZXF FL02ZXG DSU313 GSU230 HDZ2615 YIL1224 YIL1226
Croft - JIG3668
Durham City - N256THO FJ03AAF
Enterprise Travel - GIL2163 RJI2714
Garnetts - W229JBN YR02ZKU FJ06BSZ YN06OPY
Jim Hughes - BX06UMJ VNP893 YSV815
M&D Travel - LUI9950 RJI8609
Rowell - V501EJR W157SUP

Scott
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