(24 Apr 2026, 11:14 am)OrangeArrow49 wrote Good points. School holidays would only make Northstar available temporarily of course, unless they acquire more buses or lose contracts by September. 

It would be good to see Northstar run it from a passenger and enthusiast point of view, Stagecoach from an enthusiast point of view. Probably end up being GCT, everything is always GCT!

Can't confirm 100% but think both end in September, but guess if Northstar had the Sunderland services for longer they could just not take the school work which is up for tender instead. I'd assume they'd rather have the Sunderland work (I know I would at least).

tbh it would make sense to get the Sunderland Connect services tendered in July anyway so it's with the rest of the Sunderland work rather than dealing with a seperate tender (like now).