Recent content by darloscott

£300 a day is nothing for a bus that’s out all day. Assuming they keep the revenue on top of that which is probably somewhere around £100-150 a day if you’re lucky, and the school is presumably commercial? All in all around £600 a day which isn’t too bad - if they don’t keep the revenue (we...

And 1385 is on loan from Stockton to Darlington covering 2710. Three way swap. 3002 is there for driver familiarisation to start ahead of Stockton taking delivery of their own Enviros shortly. Most of the Kites that were stored at Stockton & Redcar have migrated over to Darlington suggesting...

Exactly this! Drivers won’t need to care about revenue any more, it’s exactly like that where I work in Queensland (Aus)… company tells us not to get involved as it’s not our revenue. They get paid as long as the bus runs…

Yes the 724 and 725 both have new Evoras on order, as do Luton with another batch there.

Should be Durham’s 14 BYDs

Yes my understanding is they’ve got them all sorted and should be up to full strength now

That’s what happens when you shove coach drivers on service work

The E200s were cascades from Heathrow when they got their new fleet of Evoras

Sprinters 20403 (BN17JFV) and 20405 (BV19YKA) have transferred to Esk Valley at Whitby and are in use on an extra summer P&R contract to the Abbey headland car park

The B9s are just loans for the weekend to operate Silverstone services. 8 BYDs have also gone down.

Mini Kites 3001 & 3002 have arrived at Redcar for storage. They’re all expected into service in Darlington in September.

Yes these two have always been with North East since they became trainers and (as far as I know) have never been to NW, unless it was a very short loan.

Displaced by Pulsars 1496 & 1502 moving south from Blyth along with E400s 7596/7, with 1503 to join at a later date as a replacement for withdrawn 1429.

Just two X4s are moving to Whitby, with everything else going to Stockton including the summer X94s. The X93, 95 and P1/P2 (& 323) contracts are all ran from Whitby, as well as 3 boards on the X4, the rest is at Redcar and will move to Stockton.

Not straight away but I am certain it will be remodelled to make more sense ran from Whitby. Yeah they currently share with Coastal & Country however they have invested a fair bit in facilities down there and I believe have made him an offer to buy it. C&C downsized a few years ago and now just...