(18 Apr 2023, 10:00 pm)Storx wrote In fairness the contracts are only Euro 5 and they've been around since 2009 now.
If some operator can't get a bus past 2009 then there's something seriously wrong and they probably shouldn't be anywhere near running them.
Any which are Euro 6, bar a few exceptions, are because of the LEZ and even those have been around since 2015 now, it's just the issue NE operators haven't bothered to invest lately and for Stagecoach and Arriva it was well before Covid.
Thanks for this as I thought it was Euro 6. It just seems that a lot of the independent operators are buying new or fairly new buses when they get awarded a contract. The likes of GCT for example always seem to be buying new/nearly new buses for their Nexus contracts. Now you've mentioned it though I've just remembered JH Coaches use a few 09 plates for their Nexus routes but they seem to be the exception.
Another thing I can't understand is how come some operators are required to paint their vehicles into Nexus livery while others are allowed to use their normal fleet livery?
(20 Apr 2023, 11:04 am)cbma06 wrote Yea well before dereg, does anybody know when Washington galleries was built, maybe the x4 was rerouted when the galleries opened maybe, as Washington Concord bus station was the main town centre a place to go in that era [emoji23]
I think the same as the originally X6 from Sunderland to Consett, used to take an hour from end to end, can’t do that these days even though it went straight along Chester road between Sunderland and Chester-le-street and later diverted to Washington galleries then diverted upto Langley park from Chester
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Yea, used to get it a lot from Grindon Mill to Newcastle as when it only stopped at Hastings Hill then Concord then Gateshead then 2 stops in Newcastle , from Park Lane only took about 45 minutes, I think the x96 was similar time aswell, X4 took an hour.
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The Galleries opened in July 1974