(20 Nov 2018, 6:31 pm)ifm001 wrote Christmas and New Year info now on the SNE website.

(20 Nov 2018, 8:25 pm)makem1 wrote Boxing day no x24  that could be  a big mistake depending on the sales in newcastle

(22 Nov 2018, 11:45 am)glen1234 wrote Has enymore man been withdrawn from stagecoach Newcastle when there got more ex man from stagecoach Yorkshire. And is Stockton getting anymore man to replace our 03 and 54 man.

(11 Nov 2018, 11:25 pm)RBZ 5459 wrote Nothing for Stockton.... you may get a random 54 plate if your lucky.

(20 Nov 2018, 6:31 pm)ifm001 wrote Christmas and New Year info now on the SNE website.

(23 Nov 2018, 9:06 am)markydh wrote Still no info for Newcastle... Out of interest, why are Newcastle getting MANs for increased PVR on E400 routes?

(23 Nov 2018, 11:00 am)RBZ 5459 wrote Because spare deckers are in short supply throughout the group, its a problem in a few regions now.

In other news, 22412 is back in service.

(23 Nov 2018, 8:41 pm)V514DFT wrote What was wrong with 22412

(23 Nov 2018, 9:06 pm)NewcastleOne wrote It was involved in crash

(23 Nov 2018, 9:58 pm)OrangeArrow49 wrote What crash? 

I haven't seen Kinetic 22512 on the 18 to Longbenton this week.

(23 Nov 2018, 11:13 pm)glen1234 wrote Do you think stagecoach north east will get second hand double decker or will they get second hand singles decker all the time it just a question

(20 Nov 2018, 10:51 pm)Michael wrote Ye shame, even if it was hourly.

(26 Nov 2018, 8:01 pm)Malarkey wrote Just going to put it out there, I used the 16:45 X24A this evening from Sunderland to Gateshead and I have to say compared to the X24 it was awful.

In terms of reliability the service shot straight away coming out of Sunderland where it hits peak traffic on Chester Road before turning left to along onto Durham Road, the routing around Doxford International is strange one by having it observe the stop outside of Greggs where all Sunderland bound services stop before having double back on it's self to come off the business park where again it hit traffic, note only 3 people got on this

Eventually after approximately 30 minutes on the service at this point we got onto the A19 and cruised down albeit running late, we then reached Heworth where the driver who was already running late then decided to go along Sunderland Road rather than straight down the bypass, the journey took 55 minutes in total for which felt like an eternity, gueninely think SNE need to go back to the drawing board in regards to a peak time service via Doxford International.

(26 Nov 2018, 8:01 pm)Malarkey wrote Just going to put it out there, I used the 16:45 X24A this evening from Sunderland to Gateshead and I have to say compared to the X24 it was awful.

In terms of reliability the service shot straight away coming out of Sunderland where it hits peak traffic on Chester Road before turning left to along onto Durham Road, the routing around Doxford International is strange one by having it observe the stop outside of Greggs where all Sunderland bound services stop before having double back on it's self to come off the business park where again it hit traffic, note only 3 people got on this

Eventually after approximately 30 minutes on the service at this point we got onto the A19 and cruised down albeit running late, we then reached Heworth where the driver who was already running late then decided to go along Sunderland Road rather than straight down the bypass, the journey took 55 minutes in total for which felt like an eternity, gueninely think SNE need to go back to the drawing board in regards to a peak time service via Doxford International.

(26 Nov 2018, 8:23 pm)Jimmi wrote I did the 16:12 journey off Sunderland fairly recently and my experiences sort of echo the above however, we only picked up a few passengers who wanted to head along Chester Road, think only me and one other person did the full journey, around 5 or 6 got on at Doxford International on my journey.

I personally think whilst it is annoying that the journey time from Sunderland City Centre to Newcastle is longer, I personally think the X24A going to Doxford isn't a bad call, some have suggested the bulk of the X24 loadings tend to be people from Sunderland heading into Newcastle in the morning / early afternoon who then come back in the afternoon / evening, so surely it's better to be picking up a few fare paying customers at Doxford rather than running straight along Chester Road as normal and picking up pretty much nobody, although perhaps a few alterations could be made to speed it up slightly but still serve Doxford although I don't think there is much you can do there.

(26 Nov 2018, 10:03 pm)glen1234 wrote Cumbria and north Lancashire bus operations pages p20 they could always give 2259 to slaryford for the 100 and some of 2146-24124 in the north east if this is true or is it rumour

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22599 and no 24116 24124.

(26 Nov 2018, 10:59 pm)glen1234 wrote It was something I was reading that all it could been nothing.

(27 Nov 2018, 5:11 pm)glen1234 wrote No 10