(23 Sep 2014, 1:14 pm)NEBCD Malarkey wrote Which Service are talking about here QEH Shuttle or the X40, To be fair they could probably both be ran Commercially in some form.
Sorry - the NPower service.
If NPower have signed a contract that means GNE can afford to send a decker back and forth all day, then brilliant.
Even if it was a partial contribution, that enabled GNE to divert a commercial run around there - even better. GNE win twice then, with conc passes, ticket sales AND NPower's contribution, ensuring it calls into The Chilton Country Pub.
The x22 would have been ideal!
One thought I have just had, is the state of Black Boy Road in the winter and DCC's apparent reluctance in gritting their portion.
Although it has just recently been 'dressed', it wasn't too long ago that Busman101 was complaining about the state of road.
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The subtlety is that HGVs can be 38 tonne artics (or even trucks with drawbar trailers).
Corbridge bridge has a 7.5 tonne weight limit (apart from buses). The actual 'limit' is 18 tonnes, but if they allowed 'HGVs' over 7.5 tonnes then some would chance it with 38 tonners.
In the case of the Black Boy bridge (road), I suspect that they don't want two (or more) 38 tonners trying to pass each other on a regular basis - thus they 'dissuade' HGVs with the signs.
It is interesting the signs are on the Sunderland/T&W side of the bridge and is about the DCC portion.
DCC don't have any signs on their side of the bridge.