(14 Aug 2026, 4:40 pm)NEtransport wrote I’ve just been on 1480 on the 306 and it’s probably one of the worst buses I’ve been on in a long time. Sounds absolutely dreadful and it’s scruffy inside.
Go North East/Stagecoach have some issues, but I’ve never been on a bus as bad as that for a while.
I just had 1480 on the 23:16 X7 to Seghill Chester Grove and it's interior seemed OK by Blyth standards (a very low standard I know, but I'd say 1499 is the worst by far, its absolutely hideous).
The back of the saloon of 1480 was making a persistent rattling noise when the bus was stationary, but that screaming sound from the transmission when moving is something else. It was so loud that I could still hear it from Chester Grove street when the bus would have been at the Annitsford A189/A180 roundabout out of service.