(28 Jan 2026, 4:50 pm)cbma06 wrote Couldn’t find an appropriate stagecoach thread for this:
Today at 14:40 there was a single deck stagecoach bus (no id and not electric bus)towed up by alpha along the A181 pass Wingate then on the A19 north , then turned off at Peterlee and entered the Peterlee industrial estate , it was followed along the way by a empty long bedded truck.
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Funnily enough, at about 12:30pm, I saw a single deck Stagecoach bus (E300) emerge from the former Hunters yard at Tantobie as I was driving by.
I thought this may have been the start of the long-rumoured Stagecoach Stanley operation.
Good luck to them, if it is. It's quite a saturated market in Derwentside at the moment, with Lothian of Derwentside, Transport for Derwentside, Transdev Sacriston, Stanley Taxis, GEM Travel, Northstar, and L&G Coaches - many of whom seemingly share the same base of operations.
Perhaps that's why it was so mistry up in Stanley today. The looming fog of the upcoming bus war.