(19 Apr 2018, 1:15 am)omnicity4659 wrote No, 7475 is now officially allocated to the moon. It was on the 35 between Craterpeth and Craterhorn yesterday.

Makes sense.

There's a rumour going around that Arriva Lunar aren't receiving any new vehicles this year due to a proposed take over by Go Moon.

(15 Apr 2018, 5:14 pm)cbma06 wrote So have all the 23 branded streetlites departed Durham for jesmond?.


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No. One was on the 64, yesterday.

(19 Apr 2018, 8:14 am)MurdnunoC wrote Makes sense.

There's a rumour going around that Arriva Lunar aren't receiving any new vehicles this year due to a proposed take over by Go Moon.

If a takeover was (NOT saying it is going) to happen to the Northumbria depots (Ashington, Jesmond, Blyth), I could see the following happen taking competition rules into account with all depots keeping most of their routes:

Blyth Depot= Stagecoach
Ashington Depot= Go North East
Jesmond Depot= Go North East and split between Percy Main and Riverside (Most to Riverside)

Vehicle changes:
- Blyth VDL Geminis swapped with Ashington E400s / E400MMCs. This would maintain a common fleet with Stagecoach and GNE could use some of the VDL Geminis to convert the X30/X31 to double deck due to the low bridge in Dunston.

Route depot changes:
- Full 19 to Ashington
- 306/51/52/53/54 to Percy Main
- 1/2 to GNE and transferred to Ashington
- 685 scrapped and X84/X85 extended to Carlisle

Does anyone know if you can use a £28 North East weekly on the new 95 service round Whitby? I wanted to use it to go to grosmont

(19 Apr 2018, 11:57 pm)Stuartphin1639 wrote Does anyone know if you can use a £28 North East weekly on the new 95 service round Whitby? I wanted to use it to go to grosmont

Yes, according to the 95 leaflet, the regionwide tickets are valid throughout.

Anyone in the North of Newcastle area in the next few days. TWO new training buses are up at Thorntons getting converted. Can someone go and find out what they are. It's believed one is a Commander and one's a Cadet.

Commander might be ex Yorkshire 499

Does anyone know why 2841 has transferred to Whitby/Redcar

(20 Apr 2018, 7:53 pm)Stuartphin1639 wrote Does anyone know why 2841 has transferred to Whitby/Redcar

Apparently, it's a loan whilst 2862 gets fixed.

4706 has been repainted

(22 Apr 2018, 8:00 pm)NewcastleOne wrote 4706 has been repainted

Has been repainted for weeks

2841 back at Darlington.

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(15 Apr 2018, 8:03 am)Dan wrote If anyone wants to clarify what has happened (compared to what's been put on paper), I'll try and update our fleet lists... But it's a bit of a struggle at the moment when things are here, there and everywhere.

Not sure if people missed this post - but was anyone able to clarify which of these transfers happened in reality?

(24 Apr 2018, 8:37 am)Dan wrote Not sure if people missed this post - but was anyone able to clarify which of these transfers happened in reality?

1424/98 yet to be released from Darlington - believe it was mentioned on here last week that 1424 will moved to Stockton once 4813 is back in service.

1416 remains at Darlington (having been returned by Stockton). As the NSA equipment was removed from 1511 last week, it looks like 1511 will remain at Stockton.

Should be some more moves in the next few weeks

(24 Apr 2018, 10:20 am)Kuyoyo wrote 1424/98 yet to be released from Darlington - believe it was mentioned on here last week that 1424 will moved to Stockton once 4813 is back in service.

1416 remains at Darlington (having been returned by Stockton). As the NSA equipment was removed from 1511 last week, it looks like 1511 will remain at Stockton.

Should be some more moves in the next few weeks

Thanks.

It was mentioned elsewhere that 1498 transferred from Darlington to Durham on Sunday, and 1577 has been released to Jesmond as a consequence today.

(24 Apr 2018, 12:09 pm)Dan wrote Thanks.

It was mentioned elsewhere that 1498 transferred from Darlington to Durham on Sunday, and 1577 has been released to Jesmond as a consequence today.

Does anyone know when the pulsars/streetlites will be redone into the new sapphire livery for 22/24 and also the pulsars for the 23 to be in the new sapphire livery ?.


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(15 Apr 2018, 5:14 pm)cbma06 wrote So have all the 23 branded streetlites departed Durham for jesmond?.


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Two on the 23 yesterday.

Volvo B7 trainer 9995 has transferred to Stockton today, replacing 9991 IIRC

(24 Apr 2018, 6:19 pm)Smarty93 wrote Volvo B7 trainer 9995 has transferred to Stockton today, replacing 9991 IIRC

Has that gone to Ashington?

4813 is now back in service at Darlington depot, was out on service 2 this afternoon.
Arriva North East: 4813 / WX61HSL by Matthew Jimmison, on Flickr

No omnicities have been on the 685 today only 1419 and 1513 which are much better and sounded much nicer.

OmniCitys don't get used on Sundays.

Arriva Darlington 1609 now has working next stop announcements for all services

(30 Apr 2018, 9:19 am)omnicity4659 wrote OmniCitys don't get used on Sundays.

Same goes for pretty much during the week to be fair, Sapphire 1513 and 1479 today's offering.

Next stop announcements are now finally up and running on Darlington's Sapphire StreetLite's, or at least they are on 1608. Destinations were updated yesterday to include this summer's DalesBus & Moorsbus offerings.

(30 Apr 2018, 3:12 pm)Jimmi wrote Next stop announcements are now finally up and running on Darlington's Sapphire StreetLite's, or at least they are on 1608. Destinations were updated yesterday to include this summer's DalesBus & Moorsbus offerings.

1609 was as well as posted above