The 67/69 is moving supost to be moving their, that might be y?
But other than that i have no idea

Watching with interest the earlier speculation about the MPD's at Peterlee and the X7 buses.
Rumors going around is that there are going to be versas heading to Peterlee, but how they'd get around the 209 I don't know, especially at Alder Road. Just to throw another spanner into the mix, there are now 7 spare drivers in the depot. Are they getting extra services, or increasing frequencies of something? Any ideas?

Edited my smelling mistook...

(25 Aug 2013, 11:45 pm)Michael wrote The 67/69 is moving supost to be moving their, that might be y?
But other than that i have no idea

Nothing to do with that, look at what's happening to the Omnicities, they are being moved around into a more regular fleet order as before it was pretty messed up! 5251-5252, 5262-5272 are Coasters. So 5151-5159 will stay put, while 5160-2 transfer to Percy Main (5160/1 for the 17, 5162 Northern), 5164-5166 then transfer to Saltmeadows for the 67/69.

Basically:
5151-5161 for 17
5162 Northern
5163-5166 Pulse

(26 Aug 2013, 9:02 am)citaro5284 wrote Are you sure about 7, as of week ending the 16 August, it was only 3.2. And before anyone asks about how do you get 0.2 of a person, it is based on part timers and full time equivalents (ie a part timer works 1 day a week it is 0.2, 2 days 0.4 etc)

Overheard a conversation between drivers saying there's 7 drivers on the spares rota, and they've never known it before...

Tbh GNE should just keep whats branded untill they change the buses... once again we find buses being painted and changed around few months after their done...they should of thought of that before they branded them

(26 Aug 2013, 8:45 am)pcvdriver wrote Watching with interest the earlier speculation about the MPD's at Peterlee and the X7 buses.
Rumors going around is that there are going to be versas heading to Peterlee, but how they'd get around the 209 I don't know, especially at Alder Road. Just to throw another spanner into the mix, there are now 7 spare drivers in the depot. Are they getting extra services, or increasing frequencies of something? Any ideas?

Edited my smelling mistook...

Could be drifter ones? I think pretty much confirmed that Washington are getting the Saltwell park ones. I think out of all the MPD's allocations Peterlee (and Percy main) is probably the two that would be more suitable for Versa's with solos been more ideal for Hexham & Consett. The numbers for the solos would fit Into them been for Venture or another possibility is that they are for TyneDale Links & the remaining Washington Street Shuttle (W5/W6).

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(26 Aug 2013, 9:07 am)W179SCU wrote Nothing to do with that, look at what's happening to the Omnicities, they are being moved around into a more regular fleet order as before it was pretty messed up! 5251-5252, 5262-5272 are Coasters. So 5151-5159 will stay put, while 5160-2 transfer to Percy Main (5160/1 for the 17, 5162 Northern), 5164-5166 then transfer to Saltmeadows for the 67/69.

Basically:
5151-5161 for 17
5162 Northern
5163-5166 Pulse

Thats the daftest thing ive herd- repainting 6 busses (3 which were only done earlier in the year) just so that the fleet numbers match up, i cant see that happening.

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Imagine my shock (-:

DAFs in the heat... not a good outcome

(26 Aug 2013, 12:46 pm)dans_bus_photos wrote Thats the daftest thing ive herd- repainting 6 busses (3 which were only done earlier in the year) just so that the fleet numbers match up, i cant see that happening.

It is happening with the Omnis at Percy - nobody has complained about those?
Don't really think having a uniformed and orderly fleet is a bad thing at all.

(26 Aug 2013, 2:14 pm)Daniel wrote It is happening with the Omnis at Percy - nobody has complained about those?
Don't really think having a uniformed and orderly fleet is a bad thing at all.

Maybe not but it is pointless, whats gonna happen if they increase the 1 (for example) and they need a extra 3 buses.. are they gonna paint everything again so its in order?

Known GNE they would.. its stupid, just keep it the way they are.

How is it happening with the omnicities? are 5260/5273 getting painted blue so the coasters have the same numbers? and 5251/2 going cobalt clipper??

It'll be the Solars they do next. There all over the place. But I'm not sure it really matters.

On the whole branding thing (sorry it's not in the branding thread) but Go Ahead are hardly a little local company anymore.

I really wish they'd go with a generic corporate Go logo a la Stagecoach and Arriva.

They could still have branding if they needed it but it'd be so much easier (highly dull for enthusiasts mind)

I just dont see how it matters whether 5164 is centurion branded or 5160 they are the same vehicle from the same batch, i think it is just rumours because if they were going to do that they wouldnt have painted 5164-6 up in the first place when they withdrew the 69A

(26 Aug 2013, 2:23 pm)dans_bus_photos wrote How is it happening with the omnicities? are 5260/5273 getting painted blue so the coasters have the same numbers? and 5251/2 going cobalt clipper??

Various stories are circulating in regards to how the Omnis will be numbered because of the issues with one or two of them.
Look at 3964 - it is essentially being used as a "cash cow". I could be wrong, but unless its engine issues have not been sorted, it is terribly unreliable and can't last a full day out in service. In the event of it being utilised on the "Tyne Tees Xpress" X9/X10, it has had a tendency of being removed after one run.
That said, providing original plans are to go ahead and those vehicles that need to stay local are fixed properly instead of the shoddy job usually done, the fleet should be as follows:
5243-46: Cobalt Connect
5247-50: Northern
5251-60: Cobalt Clipper
5261-74: New Coaster

5250 is repainted from "Cobalt Clipper" to "Northern".
5251/2 are repainted from "Coaster" to "Cobalt Clipper".
5261 is repainted from red to "Coaster" and transferred from Stanley to Percy Main.
5273/4 are repainted from "Northern" to "Coaster".

Regarding the reliability of Omnicitys -
At the back end of May, a "Cobalt Connect" Omnicity made it onto "Coaster" 1 on a Sunday. Whilst it is not uncommon to see these on the 9 on Sundays, it certainly doesn't happen on the 1 too frequently.
This is reported to be as a result of nine Omnicity VORs. Nine.
Percy Main struggles for a reason - the chronic unreliability of their fleet is dreadful.

This may be me being overly simplistic, but instead of repainting the Omnicities or whatever else, so they are in fleet order and allocated numerically, why don't they just re-number the vehicles?

Edit: re 3964, whether it is true or not - I heard the Real Radio advert was basically (their words - they shall remain anonymous - not mine) "blagged"

I know i read the same post on facebook- but how will what your saying about re-painting all these omnicities into numerical order improve reliability of them?

(26 Aug 2013, 3:18 pm)dans_bus_photos wrote I know i read the same post on facebook- but how will what your saying about re-painting all these omnicities into numerical order improve reliability of them?

When did I suggest Go North East were repainting the Omnicitys to improve the reliability of them? I brought that up as another factor to add to the mix of possible things happening to them, using 3964 as a current "cash cow" example and the reasons for that.
They are being repainted so that they will be in a normal allocated set, thereby standardising the fleet. If any movements were to occur in the future, the Omnicitys should still be in similar groups and they could all move together as one. This was confirmed at the start of this month by one of our Go North East representatives. I now cannot find the post - though I can find my posts made in response to Michael who questioned why it was happening, and me quoting the words of the source of the information.

Perhaps they're using 3964 as a cash cow, with all proceeds going into a piggy bank for a new engine?

(26 Aug 2013, 3:38 pm)Rob wrote I don't believe I confirmed standardisation of the fleet, someone else may have, but I certainly did not. The reliability of the Omnicity is becoming a problem, and a number are allocated to local service primarily. The Coaster is hardly a local service, its a long haul local link.

http://northeastbuses.co.uk/forum/showth...hp?tid=567&pid=9230#pid9230

I seem to have quoted the words of you, though I can no longer see your post in which I originally quoted these from.
Not sure what happened. :s

In no way am I suggesting it's going to happen universally, I was just pointing out that it does appear to be happening with the Omnicitys at Percy Main so it wasn't too much of an irrational suggestion from Tom that the dual door B10BLEs were having the same thing done.

PB0003954/561 - GO NORTH EAST LIMITED, 117 QUEEN STREET, GATESHEAD, NE8 2UA
Variation Accepted: Operating between GREAT PARK VILLAGE and NEWCASTLE CITY CENTRE given service number X40/40A effective from 20-Oct-2013. To amend Timetable.

Changing on the 1st September and again on the 20th October....


Fleet news: The remaining 4 Scania L94s, 5230 - 5233, have now been transferred to Hexham. - thought id post it - even if we all knew

Can any1 confirm if the Pulse buses are being ran by saltmeadows today?

5166 has been de branded and is now just yellow, just seen it heading towards Wallsend on 17

Going back to a conversation a few weeks ago, but 'South Tyne 5' 8242 still has internal Crusader branding.

The new Brand has being reveled for the X84/X85... Tynedale express - uploaded on the timetable =).

http://www.simplygo.com/download/publication/55974.36

http://www.simplygo.com/news/new-tynedalexpress/

Looks canny

And its got WIFI



Also the 687 timetable has being uploaded and its just yellow.

the new 71 timetable has yet to be uploaded..

Very limited Sunday service as expected (2 runs each way) as we've obviously not got commuter traffic

£21.80 for 7 days travel (though you'd probably not use Sunday/Saturday if your working or 5 out of 7)

Journey time an hour which isn't too bad but that's going to massively increase due to the congestion on West Road (which is horrific) and the a69

The train is £30 and certain journeys take just 30 minutes

Under these words in the following link:

New Tynedalexpress giving fast routes and value fares

its has a date of Date: 22 Dec 2012

http://www.simplygo.com/news/new-tynedalexpress/

(28 Aug 2013, 12:29 pm)cbma06 wrote Under these words in the following link:

New Tynedalexpress giving fast routes and value fares

its has a date of Date: 22 Dec 2012

http://www.simplygo.com/news/new-tynedalexpress/

haha typical GNE

I want wifi for the X7! Good to see GNE going all out for a new service, it's very good. Hope it works out.