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Because one of the depots that operates the X12 does not have any double deckers. There’s also the fact that Newcastle is a Clean Air Zone meaning the major of the double deckers in the Durham County fleet cannot be used. 1697525734 The X12 (X1/X2) was upgraded to a mixed allocation of mainly...

Go North East’s National Express unit is not part of the strike action.

65 is indeed now branded 'Prince Bishops' due to it interworking with the 20A in Durham - resolving both the remote changeover issue on the 65 since the closure of Peterlee depot as well as avoiding the long layover the 20As had in Durham from last September until the introduction of said...

Jesmond was already earmarked for closure before Covid - the site was sold years ago for redevelopment. Percy Main didn’t want any extra work 2 they’d already taken enough on with the merged 1/97 due to Riverside’s never-ending shortages.

The 36 is still every 15 minutes Monday to Saturday daytime - full frequency on a Saturday isn't reached until late morning.

I believe the whole reason Durham operate that particular X12 is down to timings - the return working to Middlesbrough that trip could work onto starts in Chester-Le-Street at 0712. Stockton depot have only been working the majority of the X12 trips since last summer (prior to that Durham still...

In full summary, the Durham County Council tenders from Sunday appear to be as followed: 9 Bishop Auckland to Woodhouse Close - Weardale (retained) 35A Bishop Auckland to Ferryhill and Spennymoor via Chilton- Hodgsons 40/40A/41 Durham Cathedral links (41 peak time only to Durham University...

Jesmond depot was sold by Arriva back in 2016 - the lease expires this year.

The reason for the lack of headrests fitted to the new stock is down to the amount of damage to them within the fleet. Of course, if the ADL Smart Seats had been fitted instead of Civics they'd have been headrests but a bit too late for that now.

Except that is now the X12 throughout - although the Durham to Newcastle section is now hourly due to the various driver-related shortages in the last two years.

Can't interwork the 685 and X12 - the majority of the X12 is presently operated by Stockton depot which means a Newcastle trips is half a driving shift (Durham depot currently only operate 2 early morning weekday trips - the first journey from Coxhoe to Durham and the first departure from...

Because that is the North East Combined Authority’s plan. The Tees Valley Combined Authority have made their plans public today https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/tees-valley-transformed-310m-investment-21948068

As mentioned on North East Buses Forum, all Deptford routes presently operated under either ‘Black Cats’ or no brand will be part of the ‘Sunderland District’ brand with the descriptor at the end describing the colour used at the front (‘Berries’ for the pinky-purple used on the 2/2A, which...

The Peak Timetable on the X93/X94 starts on Sunday 11th April - with the X94 re-introduced every hour to complement the X93 between Whitby and Scarborough during the main daytime and out of Middlesbrough on a morning and out of Scarborough on an afternoon/evening.

The Streetdecks are already a year or so late and reduced by 9 (originally, apart from a pair for Chester-le-Street depot for the X21 and the 6cl example, all for Consett for the X31/X45/X46/X47/X70/X71) so plans changed rapidly. Indeed, they've changed again since the first examples entered...

Other way round Arriva are now back to normal and have been since Sunday. While Go North East do not return to their 'new' normal until Saturday - indeed, some of their services are very much changed since the reductions at the end of March with some services now looking very different...

2 of Arriva’s Temsas here in the North East had very short working lives - one was completely destroyed by fire in November 2011, about 19-21 months after first entering service in the region, while a sister was written off in March 2012 from a fire that gutted the engine bay but the vehicle...

Nope, been allocated a Pulsar since they split that end from the 46 - as requested by Newcastle NHS Trust. The morning peak extra turns are on the front of a 43 board (both at present with the Sunday style timetables and normally) so can throw up anything. As for social distancing, they're using...

Since somewhat returned Until July 2014, the 3 Newcastle Hospitals (General, RVI and Freeman) were linked by a shuttle bus operated by Classic of Annfield Plain (then part of the TGM Group). In early 2014, Classic was wound down and a small amount of the operation moved to the main Arriva fleet...

They haven’t done that since early last year - when the revised destination style was rolled out and they now show ‘Hartlepool Town Centre’ on all Hartlepool services. While on the subject of Stagecoach services, all Teesside services which have journeys that terminate in Stockton have 3 or 4...