"A NORTH EAST bus company has been accused of "wasting thousands" on paint jobs in favour of a "suitable" pay rise, creating ill-feeling among employees, it has been claimed.
Go North East, which operates services across County Durham, Teesside and Tyne & Wear, has been criticised for rebranding buses instead of offering a four percent rise.
It has since been claimed that some services facing disruption are suffering problems due to a number of staff walking out over the level of pay in recent weeks."

Full story: https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/1...-pay-rise/

One worth following. Ballot is on Wednesday.

2809 has the number on the right, presume it's a replacement display as 7512 does.

Is anyone else having issues with the avatars when viewing the forum page, but not in the actual topics?

On the main page where it would normally have the latest post avatars no longer show, and in the 'Latest Threads' section on the right the avatars are incorrect
I'm having the issue on two laptops so I'm fairly sure it's not just me.

So what do we reckon, additional Toon Tour capacity? 

https://twitter.com/dan3942/status/14117...88034?s=21

Date has been confirmed by staff at Whitly Bay for Metrocentre to be held on the 25th July 

Other events are

Bishop Auckland Market Place is the 15th August and Seaburn being the 30th August

Martijn has mentioned in his latest live update, that changes are due in September 2021... I would imagine these are school service changes and any routes which interwork with them.


No further information at the minute!

I believe NSAs have been recorded for every service? Does that mean every service will have NSAs fitted in the near future? Little Coasters won't get new buses as they don't go into Newcastle, but not sure if the 74 is getting new buses or just emission mods?

For July 2021

For July 2021

For July 2021