(14 Mar 2025, 4:01 am)ReDemPTiion wrote Should do 27180 is normally alright. 27181 only came back out yesterday so that must have been having some issues

(15 Mar 2025, 9:04 am)Teessider2014 wrote 27181 had been MOT prep according to the fitter at Slatyford, no changes happened last night as 26281 is due it’s 6 month major service and engineering where unable to get it off the road to do it , expected to swap tonight

(15 Mar 2025, 9:04 am)Teessider2014 wrote 27181 had been MOT prep according to the fitter at Slatyford, no changes happened last night as 26281 is due it’s 6 month major service and engineering where unable to get it off the road to do it , expected to swap tonight

(16 Mar 2025, 12:31 am)ReDemPTiion wrote Not sure if it’s came up tonight couldn’t see it in the depot when I finished my late shift tonight.

(16 Mar 2025, 12:48 am)busesofthenortheast wrote 27181 is at Stockton, someone caught it at Middlesbrough today

(17 Mar 2025, 1:42 pm)ReDemPTiion wrote It seems 27180 has gone to Stockton and 26289 has came to Slatyford so I think 27254 will be going to Stockton for 26281. Have to wait and see what happens

(18 Mar 2025, 4:10 pm)bob22222 wrote 11776 has been out in service at sunderland

A public meeting has focused on improving a town's bus service
Residents of Haltwhistle gathered at the library's Community Hub on Friday, March 14 to discuss the future of the 685 bus service.
The meeting was organised as a follow-up to a public transport consultation held on January 17.
Councillor Martin Gannon, Deputy Mayor and Cabinet Member for Transport of the North East Combined Authority (NECA), attended in an official capacity.
The event was hosted by Rachel Mathieson, Labour candidate for the upcoming council elections.
Cllr Gannon highlighted that the 685 bus service is currently a private enterprise, limiting NECA's influence.
However, he noted that this would change in the coming years as the Mayor, Kim McGuinness, and NECA are set to take some control over bus services.
The meeting concluded with the decision to establish a Public Transport Action Group. 

The group aims to 'maintain momentum' and exert pressure on Stagecoach and Northumberland County Council for immediate changes.

These changes include real-time bus arrival times at stops, an easier payment system, a review of the 685 service timetable, and ensuring enough capacity for schoolchildren during peak hours.
Rachel Mathieson will lead the Public Transport Action Group, and will organise a follow-up meeting with representatives from Stagecoach and Northumberland County Council.

(20 Mar 2025, 4:24 am)Glen1974 wrote Please someone tell me update about Stockton depot on new Electric yutongs and when the rest of enter  well enter  service  there no more. Deliveries of know more about new Electric yutongs  come Stockton depot  I say  more after this ok

(19 Mar 2025, 7:23 pm)ReDemPTiion wrote 27729 is now at Slatyford does anyone know anything about the E200MMC’s were due to get from other depots to replace the 277’s we’ve got on loan from Sunderland?

(20 Mar 2025, 12:39 pm)Storx wrote Surely they'll be the buses, can't see why they'd go back to Sunderland? They've been displaced by the electrics.

(20 Mar 2025, 6:24 pm)ReDemPTiion wrote Were the Yutongs not to displace some of the gas buses or have they changed the plans? It makes sense to leave them at Slatyford but at this point with the amount of buses moving around who knows. 

They’ve still got 27728 and 27738 whenever that re-enters service. 

27727/29/30/36/37 are at Slatyford but I’m sure once 24115 comes back out, 26068 potentially 19386/19388 there wouldn’t be a need for them?  And with us losing the 35 very soon we’re going to have too many buses.

(20 Mar 2025, 6:35 pm)Storx wrote Not too sure, I've always assumed, and admit there's nothing to back this up, that the 64/65 Plates from Stockton will eventually end up at Sunderland. Noticed that Walkergate swapped 5 of them for the 11 Plates, in recent weeks, which would hint that's where they're going. It would also kind of make sense aswell since it's an upgrade even known it's only a year or so over the gas buses which are going. Seems the Yutongs have knocked out the 11 Plates and bizarrely some E200's, with the remaining there all over the shop, so who knows tbh.

Can't see who else would want them since Hartlepool is a no go, both the Newcastle depots have the Euro 6 issues and I'm not sure South Shields needs anything bar the Darts but unsure a full size saloon is the answer for them either.

(20 Mar 2025, 7:54 pm)ReDemPTiion wrote For some reason one of the buses that Sunderland’s 277’s replaced is 27254 and that is at Slatyford. Not sure why or for how long. Stocktons 26281 is still to come up. Apparently 19385 and 19389 are heading from Slatyford to Walkergate soon to replace the last 2 hybrids so not sure what we’ll get for them.

(20 Mar 2025, 9:21 pm)Storx wrote Aye it's definitely confusing picking out what's going where to be honest. Don't think there will be a replacement for them though will there? I'd assume the MMC's from Manchester might be the replacement, don't think 8 vehicles ever left from them and they were always meant to be up here for the Hybrids to go.

(20 Mar 2025, 10:01 pm)ReDemPTiion wrote We got 8 from Manchester yes but it went like 
10467-19430
10484-19431
10485-19432
10486-19433
10535-19434
10578-19435
10579-19436
10580-19679

And they had 8 hybrids to replace 12071/80/81/82/83/84/85/86 so I’m confused as to how they’re needing 19385 and 19389 for them as well. So I can only imagine Slatyford will receive something else, maybe the E200mmc’s that have been mentioned by people in the depot from other depots in the country.

(20 Mar 2025, 6:35 pm)Storx wrote Not too sure, I've always assumed, and admit there's nothing to back this up, that the 64/65 Plates from Stockton will eventually end up at Sunderland. Noticed that Walkergate swapped 5 of them for the 11 Plates, in recent weeks, which would hint that's where they're going. It would also kind of make sense aswell since it's an upgrade even known it's only a year or so over the gas buses which are going. Seems the Yutongs have knocked out the 11 Plates and bizarrely some E200's, with the remaining there all over the shop, so who knows tbh.

Can't see who else would want them since Hartlepool is a no go, both the Newcastle depots have the Euro 6 issues and I'm not sure South Shields needs anything bar the Darts but unsure a full size saloon is the answer for them either.

(21 Mar 2025, 12:41 am)col87 wrote Stagecoach management told the Hartlepool Public Transport Forum over a year ago that the plan was that Stocktons fleet would move to Hartlepool ( yes I know some on here will mention the pits) but that is what management planned so it will be a massive let down if it don’t happen, as Hartlepool is in desperate need of newer buses as the fleet is completely unreliable now. I mean even if they don’t fit over the pits at Hartlepool they could very easily sort that out as they is plenty of space to build a new engineering area and Stockton could continue to do any work that would need a pit anyway so they are Solutions to the whole pit issue.