(10 Jul 2015, 5:06 pm)Dan wrote To reduce the effects caused by the Milburngate Bridge maintenance work in Durham, Go North East is making some alterations to "Prince Bishops" services 20/20A/X20 and "East Durham" services 204, 208 and 265 from this Sunday. Go North East has published details of these changes on their website here. Like Arriva; to allow for increased running / layover time, the PVR of each group of services has increased by one vehicle. As such, dual-door Volvo B10BLE/Wright Renowns 5161 (T811 CBW) and 5162 (T812 CBW) have transferred from Riverside to Deptford. No vehicles have been transferred to Riverside in exchange, as these were extra vehicles in the fleet following recent cascades. I'd imagine that Peterlee will gain an additional Dennis MPD from Deptford as a result (hopefully either 542 or 544 with these being yellow - but I would expect the allocation to remain fluid).
It's also worth noting that Volvo B12M/Plaxton Paragon 7087 (NA52 RMZ) was stripped of its Driver Training vinyls earlier in the week at Saltmeadows Road, with large Go North East vinyls applied instead. It also gained a front LED destination, although retained its flipdot side and its rear destination is still painted over. It entered service at Hexham a few days ago on scholars services.
That explains why I seen Scania L94 5218 in a convoy with 5162 on the A1 Western Bypass earlier. That explains 5162...it was moving from Riverside to Deptford though it showed 67 Winlaton on its front Destination Display. will 5218 have come from Deptford with 2 engineers and on arrival at Riverside 1 would switch to 5162 and drive that to Deptford and the other drive 5218 to Deptford?
