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    Northumberland Line reopening: progress updates

    Doesn't seem to be mentioned there but the Seaton Delaval works have stalled due to Great Crested Newts been found hibernating on the site and they can't do anything until they've come out of hibernation. The site compound is being removed in January 2023, assuming for security reasons. I live...
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    TfGM Bus franchising

    Thank you for that, makes more sense in their reasoning.
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    TfGM Bus franchising

    Yeah some fair points but I'd assume that most of them were moving from a public system rather than private. I just think it's a bit unfair to effectively give a private company the boot from an area they've had for years for someone who's never operated there especially when they have the...
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    TfGM Bus franchising

    But surely you should be more interested in the current operators. Other operators have had ample chance to come into Manchester if they wanted to, why should the tax payer be funding an expansion as it's basically what it is since there's no risk. But surely that makes the franchising hard to...
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    TfGM Bus franchising

    Someone really needs to explain this to me as really baffles me at the reasons for it but why on earth are TfGM buying all the buses and depots and then giving them to another party. It just seems totally illogical and takes the point out of tendering as what exactly can you tender on bar...
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    Go North East

    Sorry haven't been honestly can't disagree with any of that. It's all just the best of the worst up if I had to honest. Until 2019 or so I'd say GNE was probably the best but they've just gone off the rails lately. The cuts just don't seem logical and it's more just taking chunks out of it and...
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    Go North East

    Not sure whether your local but GoNorthEast is by far the worst of the three operators up here. Arriva might not have the best fleet presentation but what it does have is a stable network which has barely changed similar to Stagecoach. On the other hand GNE changes it network every other week...
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    Arriva Buses (including Greenline)

    Arriva North East / Yorkshire is the same management guessing why it's near identical. Not sure if you knew.
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    TRIVIA: The biggest settlement with a passenger line but no station

    Jarrow - 27,526 South Shields - 75,377 The Durham Coast Line skirts the bottom of the towns. Depends on whether it's National Rail only or any station otherwise they won't count.

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