I've had good reason for being so quiet this evening and tonight... I'm unsure if it will work, but I'm trying to create a sort of "interactive online fleet list" for Go North East. This will be an exclusive feature for the North East Buses community.

To do this, the best way I could think of doing it was by making a collection on Flickr which could hold together all of the buses by brand. Above, I did say it was an 'exclusive feature', but as we all know, collections can be accessed publicly. Judging my my account's statistics alone, I can confirm that very few people actually rake through sets and collections, so yeah... At the moment, it contains every branded bus (excluding "Crusader", "Northern", "Yellow Bus", plain vehicles and "Pulse" - though Pulse does have a Northern vehicle in it at the moment) by set, and those sets contain one of the best photos I have of the vehicles within that brand. Some of them are from my early days of photography, and so they are not idealistic photos and will be replaced eventually. In composing these sets, I realised how I was short of so many vehicles for particular sets...

So, my plan:

For the remaining days of my half term break, I'm going to try and find at least 50% of the vehicles I have on my list to find. Given that I have 223 on my list, this will prove to be quite a difficult task... It could be easily achieved by sitting around in a bus station all day taking photos of every bus that goes by, but I really do dislike bus station shots as they do get really repetetive and boring - so I'm going to try and vary all of the shots.

I really do feel that I should be trying to achieve some of the older vehicles rather than the newly allocated vehicles. These stand a chance of being replaced soon, so it'd be nice to have them all as a set so they can be archived for the future. With that in mind, the brands below should be coming first:
- North Tyne Links
- Washington Street Shuttle
- Lime
- The OK Way
- SoccerBus (The Prestige in this set that I need to try and find is already meant to be withdrawn, so I need to find this one urgently)
- East Durham
- Fab Fifty Seven
- Pulse
- Tynedale Links
- Venture

My plans for the future:

Complete 100% of the list. On all of my trips out, I'll try and carry around this piece of paper with me to try and jog my memory with what I need to find at a particular place. Of course, I'm bound to forget this piece of paper I have printed out, so I'll miss out on some photos some days. I suspect 100% completion won't be done until the summer holidays at the very earliest.

Replace the not-so-good photos. There are quite a few in there, and they do need replacing. When I've completed the list, I'll work on replacing those photos with much better photos, in much more imaginative places than they're at at present.

Replace the odd allocation photos with the vehicles on. I really do hope to get this done swiftly. I had no intention of including these, but I realised I had to given that I'd be way too many short and it'd be stupid to even propose the idea.



If you have any questions, do feel free to ask them below and I'll try and explain in more detail what I've probably already tried to go through... It's 00:35am, I shouldn't be writing this stuff at this time, I swear!


Sneak Peak:

Collection
Doxford Clipper - a completed set
Sunderland Connect - a completed set

EDIT: Now doesn't contain Red Kite either - just deleted it by accident :L Hahh, oh dear.