(27 Mar 2023, 12:59 pm)Aaron21 wrote Well that's a lie to start with considering I was on that service & it had 6 people on. Idk why rerouting the 307 into there would be any sort of a great idea. That just screws the coast road agreement up. It would add more journey time to the 307 (bar the time it has already to do Hadrian Park) so no. The 307 serving there wouldn't work

(27 Mar 2023, 2:28 pm)Unber43 wrote Wow they all run dead to Percy Main, what about the 309

(25 Mar 2023, 9:12 pm)Michael wrote Seen this tweet by Adam Coyne

Today being the last day before service changes sees 6357 operating a X10 to Newcastle. These are all due for Riverside to upgrade the 'X-Lines X21' from 26/03/23

https://twitter.com/AdamsNEphotos/status/1639701903121567744

(27 Mar 2023, 4:18 pm)Unber43 wrote You're acting like that doesn't happen all the time on the X21 with the junk they get on there

(27 Mar 2023, 6:24 pm)Gonorth91 wrote Are they still continuing tye 2 pound fare after march

(27 Mar 2023, 4:12 pm)BusLoverMum wrote Does that batch include 6359 because that has spent at least 90 minutes of this afternoon stuck in Fram with the driver looking increasingly sick of life. Such a fine upgrade.

(27 Mar 2023, 6:46 pm)NL62WVW wrote Wouldn't believe the reason why either, absolutely laughable

(27 Mar 2023, 2:59 pm)Unber43 wrote The 1 is really struggling with reliability.

It should have an extra 10 mins either end

(27 Mar 2023, 6:53 pm)DeltaMan wrote I counted 24 schools it passes on the length of route, and it only has a couple of extra minutes during school kick out time, and those schools will have staggered finishes.

(27 Mar 2023, 6:46 pm)NL62WVW wrote Wouldn't believe the reason why either, absolutely laughable

(27 Mar 2023, 9:28 pm)Unber43 wrote With the 307 every 20 mins could it not be worth putting the north shields to Whitely Bay at every 10 mins (just to trial it to see what most people use it)

(27 Mar 2023, 9:51 pm)L469 YVK wrote Whole point of extending the 307 would be to improve reliability on the 1. Definitely wouldn't need a 10 minute frequency.

(27 Mar 2023, 7:37 pm)BusLoverMum wrote The reason being?

(27 Mar 2023, 8:59 pm)L469 YVK wrote Just thought this.....but if reliability of the 1 is poor.....could the 307 not effectively become a deja vu of the old 315/316 with the 1 curtailed in North Shields?

(28 Mar 2023, 7:26 am)NL62WVW wrote Ran out of fuel

(28 Mar 2023, 10:55 am)Rob44 wrote Do GNE still have the monitor that tracks the drivers driving style? May they should check in case he/she was bombing down the road at 55MPH then breaking, then accelerating which cause the fuel to run out prematurely?

(28 Mar 2023, 10:55 am)Rob44 wrote Do GNE still have the monitor that tracks the drivers driving style?  May they should check in case he/she was bombing down the road at 55MPH then breaking, then accelerating which cause the fuel to run out prematurely?

(28 Mar 2023, 11:54 am)NL62WVW wrote One thing I've noticed is that 6358-6360 are slightly worse on fuel than the Angel batch

(28 Mar 2023, 11:54 am)NL62WVW wrote It's a streetdeck, limited to 50MPH, even booting it for 10 hours between West Auckland and Newcastle it should still have at least half a tank of fuel left.

As long as the driver informed control that they are low on fuel and they've authorised them to continue, there's no comeback on the driver as they've done everything they can.

One thing I've noticed is that 6358-6360 are slightly worse on fuel than the Angel batch

(28 Mar 2023, 4:26 pm)xpm wrote That’s assuming the gauges are working or course.  I once had a scania start to run rough on me coming into Newcastle And then it conked out on me coming into Eldon square, would have probably made it down to the drop off stand if the bus in front didn’t have to stop because someone walked out in front of him.   as it was it stopped just before the m&s drop off point, the nexus guys tried to get me to roll it down.  Knew it wouldn’t work but they insisted, so I ended up halfway across the mini roundabout in rush hour - joyful!