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Arriva Belmont consolidated the previous operations of Durham, Peterlee and Bishop Auckland depots.

Today I caught the 16:45 EMR service from Derby to Stoke and wonder if anyone can shed some light on this odd service. It doesn’t appear on the pdf timetables from EMR’s website but is on journey planners. On the face of it, it fills in a gap in the otherwise hourly timetable at what should be...

Maybe Seaton Carew? A lovely 1930s Art Deco design which looks lovely but also architecturally significant as the first use of curved concrete. Thankfully listed and protected. Very grand for a solitary Middlesbrough bound only Stagecoach service 1 every 30 minutes. The plastic shelter...

First changes now listed. As reported above, Kingfisher, 72(A) & Saturday 8 withdrawals proceed, 3/4/25 service uplift proceed, other service reductions cancelled. I wonder if it was a ‘who blinks first’ scenario with the Local Authorities who may have finally stepped in? No reference to the...

I wonder at what point the PVR from Adderley Green becomes so low it can no longer sustain itself? Each cut requires each remaining bus to contribute a greater portion of overheads. Regarding the 99. I could be mistaken but I read the new timetable to suggest it becomes a Newcastle - Tunstall...

Whether not the Streetlite refurb programme is going to plan within First or not is not really relevant. What is important is that, to the customer, the project looks bungled. Way back in February the buses starting hitting the road and they looked striking. That was the moment to be noticed...

At the same times, duplicating the 40 from Longton to Newstead. When one or the other is inevitably withdrawn, let’s not say D&G did all they could to make it work. Can’t help but think that the bus on the 50 would be better utilised completing a Longton - Saxonfields - Meir Hay circular rather...

Makes sense. Shame they haven’t updated their website with the 50’s cancellation, just the 40 & 24 changes. All of the Pool Dole, Saxonfields & Meir Hay area to have no service is a vast urban bus desert.

Changes to D&G Stoke services 24 & 40. 24 will generally terminate at Newstead. 40 extended on each end to Hanley and Newstead. Up to 3 buses an hour leave Newstead for Hanley on services 24, 40 & 50. Departing at xx:58, xx:58 & xx:00 respectively. 40 & 50 duplicate each other exactly from...

Reminds me of a situation in Hartlepool in around 2010 where a specific journey on service 7 was commercial by Stagecoach for the northern half and run by Arriva for the southern half. The two buses would meet at the same time at York Road and through passengers would need to transfer - tickets...

Is there an increasing rare fourth category of the same route being operated in competition? Two operators operating with the same number in an uncoordinated, competitive fashion. The Manchester 42 would have been the typical example a few years ago. The Wolverhampton to Walsall 529 would fit...

I spent a few hours on Saturday riding the Winsford to Northwich and Crewe services. Sadly of the 8 journeys I made, none carried passengers numbers that a Mellor couldn’t handle. Indeed, one of them was allocated to the 31W/37W.

It’s The fleet movements and service changes have already been set in motion as far as I’m aware. Service X9 to be withdrawn with the X10 to cover both routes hourly. Vehicles will be Enviro 400 MMCs coming from Hexham’s X84/X85, services themselves downgraded to just an hourly ‘684’ operated...

Considering their cost, unreliability and now this, those Elites seem to be a cursed acquisition for Go North East. After less than a year they’re in the process of withdrawing them.

Staffordshire’s BSIP referenced two pilot projects, one being branded as ‘Silver Service’ on a Biddulph - Hanley - Newcastle - Keele route. Not sure how they’d pair up the existing services 7A & 25 as their frequencies are 30 and 12 minutes respectively. The sceptic in me would suggest it’s an...

Rode the X57 today as it’ll be Christmas & maybe withdrawn before we know it. 3 passengers making the full journey from Manchester, 2 joining in Glossop, 1 hardy walker from the Pass and 2 local journeys in Sheffield. Not tumbleweed numbers for a midday November trip but certainly not paying the...

Is there a standardised location that local authorities have published Bus Service Improvement Plans? I ask as I can’t seem to find the actual document for Stoke-on-Trent, just the PR guff accompanying it. Even what the press release suggests is mind blowing, suggesting the authority with the...

Quite. Stoke is particularly guilty of granting far too many small retail parks on former industrial sites around the city. Dozens of identical parades of B&Ms, Home Bargains, Icelands, Aldis with huge car parks, which one can use for a perfectly functional shopping experience, no leisure or joy...

When you think that the population of the Potteries area (Stoke & Newcastle) is roughly equal to that of Nottingham, then compare their public transport provision, it's in a woeful state.

Station Town, County Durham.