(08 Feb 2020, 10:03 pm)stagecoachbusdepot wrote Principally shared between 1, 12, 22 and 38 but could turn up anywhere.

(08 Feb 2020, 11:27 pm)S830OFT wrote Let's not forget 34611 is also seeing regular service.

(08 Feb 2020, 11:16 pm)Acky81 wrote How many gas buses left to paint now? Seems like they’ve wasted there time putting into corporate colours as the new colour scheme has launched. 

How long will 35189 and 34605 last in Sunderland keep seeing them regularly on flagship routes! I guess they will be here a while if all vehicles need repainting.

Instead of having a 3 to gilley law and a 3 to Farringdon. Just renumber them 2 and 3
Or 3G 3F

(08 Feb 2020, 11:56 pm)RBZ 5459 wrote Hardly a wasted exercise when the fleet still needs maintained and the paintshop staff still need paid.

(08 Feb 2020, 11:16 pm)Acky81 wrote How many gas buses left to paint now? Seems like they’ve wasted there time putting into corporate colours as the new colour scheme has launched. 

How long will 35189 and 34605 last in Sunderland keep seeing them regularly on flagship routes! I guess they will be here a while if all vehicles need repainting.

Instead of having a 3 to gilley law and a 3 to Farringdon. Just renumber them 2 and 3
Or 3G 3F

(09 Feb 2020, 6:47 am)Dan wrote Spotted 35189 on the 4 on Friday afternoon and it was full and standing - these little Darts aren’t the best for the work in Sunderland any more.

Anyone heard any rumours about service changes in Sunderland to come in May? Heard some suggestion that the core city routes in Sunderland will be reduced in frequency from every 10 to every 12. The resultant surplus buses have been mooted for a number of options, including a new route to be introduced, and also the gas buses displacing the Omnilinks on the X24.

The latter would certainly be sensible and you’d expect it to be three of the later Euro 6 batch, in readiness for the Newcastle CAZ coming into effect. This could also see Stagecoach introduce the new orange livery for the first time in the region.


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(09 Feb 2020, 6:47 am)Dan wrote Spotted 35189 on the 4 on Friday afternoon and it was full and standing - these little Darts aren’t the best for the work in Sunderland any more.

Anyone heard any rumours about service changes in Sunderland to come in May? Heard some suggestion that the core city routes in Sunderland will be reduced in frequency from every 10 to every 12. The resultant surplus buses have been mooted for a number of options, including a new route to be introduced, and also the gas buses displacing the Omnilinks on the X24.

The latter would certainly be sensible and you’d expect it to be three of the later Euro 6 batch, in readiness for the Newcastle CAZ coming into effect. This could also see Stagecoach introduce the new orange livery for the first time in the region.


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(08 Feb 2020, 11:16 pm)Acky81 wrote How many gas buses left to paint now? Seems like they’ve wasted there time putting into corporate colours as the new colour scheme has launched. 

How long will 35189 and 34605 last in Sunderland keep seeing them regularly on flagship routes! I guess they will be here a while if all vehicles need repainting.

Instead of having a 3 to gilley law and a 3 to Farringdon. Just renumber them 2 and 3
Or 3G 3F

(10 Feb 2020, 3:14 pm)glen wrote 2 of Stockton E300 27164'66 have lost it old stagecoach logo are going for repaint in to new livery?

(08 Feb 2020, 11:16 pm)Acky81 wrote How many gas buses left to paint now? Seems like they’ve wasted there time putting into corporate colours as the new colour scheme has launched. 

(10 Feb 2020, 11:19 pm)S830OFT wrote Today I observed a variety of journeys on service 18, aswell as service 18A to monitor passenger numbers.

13:38 #18A Sunderland to Grangetown
Quite a few passengers boarded in Seaburn, aswell three other passengers at Southwick. Atleast 10 disembarked at the Royal Hospital, with only myself and another lady remaining on-board. Several stops up Hylton Road we picked up three passengers all using the service to Pennywell Shops (this journey would have been possible on service 20).

After Gilley Law only myself and another lady remained on-board, although a regular passenger boarded on Durham Road who appears to use the service to access employment at Leechmere, having seen him on previous journeys using the service...

16:45 #18 Seaburn to Sunderland
Service E2 just infront of service 18 was empty, then service 18 was also unsurprisingly empty. This remained like this for the entire journey to Sunderland, although with the bad weather down at the seaside it's perfectly understandable.

17:52 #18 at Seaburn Morrisons
I decided not to board this journey, although the bus arrived and departed empty, alike most afternoon journeys on service 18.

Reflecting on my previous suggestion, the main customers on this route seems to be school passengers on the Grangetown journeys, aswell as several passengers going to the Royal Hospital who could go via Sunderland as an alternative.

Most passengers I have observed over atleast 12 journeys seem to only use the service because the more frequency routes haven't arrived on-time or they just boarded the first bus that turns up.

I am much more in favour of revising service 8 and 18 to both be circular routes, one clockwise, the other anti-clockwise. This will offer more direct buses to the Royal Hospital from Seaburn and Roker, aswell as reduce the PVR by 1, but by keeping the necessary resources.

(12 Feb 2020, 2:36 pm)Malarkey wrote The new corporate livery was starting to grow on me until I seen this - https://www.flickr.com/photos/royalmailman/49524422536/

(12 Feb 2020, 2:36 pm)Malarkey wrote The new corporate livery was starting to grow on me until I seen this - https://www.flickr.com/photos/royalmailman/49524422536/

(12 Feb 2020, 12:56 pm)Michael wrote I used to be a regular on the first 18 of the day until my shifts changed at work, i can't remember the last time i got on the 18, but once it went hourly and the route was dramatically changed, i think we all knew it could be ending, which maybe in the next few months

I can't see any other way they could get the 18 to be busy again, shame to lose it, if it does go though.

(13 Feb 2020, 1:19 pm)Acky81 wrote Sunderland and South Shields interchanges are both run by nexus. So how come stagecoach are running in South Shields but not allowed in Sunderland. I know they have to pay a fee in Sunderland but does this not apply in South Shields. Makes no sense at all.

(13 Feb 2020, 1:40 pm)Kuyoyo wrote Probably because South Shields Interchange replaced the town centre stops so there's very little choice other than the stops by Asda for Stagecoach to use. It's also more or less central to where the buses previously stopped prior to the Interchange opening.