(28 Jun 2020, 2:17 pm)Dan wrote Announced internally to Go North East colleagues earlier this week by a team briefing was the award of the Miscellaneous Works contracts for the 2020 academic year.

Subject (but unlikely) to change during the ‘cooling off’ period, Go North East has been awarded 31/61 of the contracts it operates currently.

The 30 lost by Go North East have been awarded predominantly to Stagecoach (x9), and also to other operators, including Gateshead Central Taxis, Stanley Travel, A-line Coaches, and Weardale Motor Services, L&G Coaches, amongst others.


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(28 Jun 2020, 2:40 pm)Michael wrote That's not good, but i would imagine this will allow a chunk of the older buses withdrawn, amd along with service changes which interwork with school services?...hopefully no job losses either!

Wonder if Stagecoach Sunderland will operate any of these buses?

(28 Jun 2020, 2:45 pm)Dan wrote As these contracts are all just one-year contracts, employees are always protected under TUPE. If the employee spends 50% or more of their time on that contract, then they are able to transfer across to the new operator of that contract. So no job losses!


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(28 Jun 2020, 2:17 pm)Dan wrote Announced internally to Go North East colleagues earlier this week by a team briefing was the award of the Miscellaneous Works contracts for the 2020 academic year.

Subject (but unlikely) to change during the ‘cooling off’ period, Go North East has been awarded 31/61 of the contracts it operates currently.

The 30 lost by Go North East have been awarded predominantly to Stagecoach (x9), and also to other operators, including Gateshead Central Taxis, Stanley Travel, A-line Coaches, and Weardale Motor Services, L&G Coaches, amongst others.


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(28 Jun 2020, 6:45 pm)AIG20 wrote What miscellaneous works have Stagecoach won? Are these some scholars services and metro replacements?

(28 Jun 2020, 6:46 pm)Dan wrote Scholars, yes.

(28 Jun 2020, 6:57 pm)AIG20 wrote It will be interesting to see which scholars services they have won. I read somewhere else that the ADL E400s at Stockton may soon be no longer required there due to losing the scholars contracts to another operator?

(29 Jun 2020, 8:30 am)tyresmoke wrote Yes Coatham have won the three routes Stagecoach were operating so in a few weeks most of the E400s st Stockton will be redundant bar the one used on a school route in Durham. Likely these will find their way back North for contracts won up there again.

(29 Jun 2020, 8:33 am)Dan wrote And arguably if the Durham one needs to be DD for capacity, then this won't be able to be operated by Stockton any more (unless they hold a dedicated spare bus for it) - would imagine it'll transfer to Sunderland, as they can always rob from the X34, should they have one off service.

(11 Jul 2020, 9:04 am)Wybus wrote These contracts seem to flip flop between GNE winning the vast majority, and then the next year independents winning loads. There was the year when GNE lost loads, withdrew loads of buses and put the Vykings into a special events fleet, the next year they were all back in use and they had to draft in the 69xx fleet. They’ll probably get them all back again next time.

Must be funny if you are a user of a misc works service, one year it could be a full sized double deck, the next year it could be a GCT van.