Stagecoach North East

[kuyoyo]

RE: Stagecoach North East
The entry into service of the Enviro300s has seen MAN ALX300s 22455 (S455 OFT), 22472/7/87/8 (T472/7/87/8 BNL) and 22667/70 (V667/70 DDC) withdrawn - 22455/77/87/667/70 are being stored at Hartlepool depot to free up operational room at Stockton.

[Metroline1511]

RE: Stagecoach North East

(16/10/2014 17:03)kuyoyo Wrote:  News from opposite ends of the age scale:

Olympian 16839 has now been moved from Busways Reserve (Sunderland) to Disposal due to Chassis Corrosion.

Meanwhile, further Enviro300s into service are:

14th October 2014: 27159
15th October 2014: 27163
16th October 2014: 27161/2/4/5

The first branded examples have been delivered in the form of 27166/7 (SN64 OJR/S) which carry the orange 'Time Zone' 'The Zone' branding presently being rolled out.

Which routes or area will be included in the Time Zone/ The Zone branding?

[kuyoyo]

RE: Stagecoach North East

(18/10/2014 19:18)Metroline1511 Wrote:  Which routes or area will be included in the Time Zone/ The Zone branding?

All the new Enviros are for 36 (Hartlepool-Middlesbrough), 37 (North Tees Hospital-Middlesbrough) and 38 (Norton Glebe Estate-Middlesbrough). 24101-15 will be moving onto 12 (Middlesbrough-Coulby Newham Parkway Centre) and new service 39 (Middlesbrough-Park End).

[kuyoyo]

RE: Stagecoach North East
Delivered to Stockton depot last week were:

27166 (SN64 OJR): 'The Zone - Time Zone' branding (orange) - presently the only branded examples to have fleetnumbers applied
27167 (SN64 OJS): 'The Zone - Time Zone' branding (orange)
27168 (SN64 OJT): 'The Zone - Time Zone' branding (orange)
27169 (SN64 OJU): 'The Zone - Time Zone' branding (orange)
27170 (SN64 OJV): 'The Zone - Zone Out' branding (light blue)

The branding appears to have been ordered prior to the registration of the December timetable changes - as the 'Time Zone' and 'Zone Out' branding have route details for a Hartlepool to North Tees Hospital service on one side (27166-9 on the offside, 27170 on the nearside) which isn't part of the changes (Also, image mock-ups on a history and fleet profile from the Open Day also includes route detailings of a 15 minutely Roseworth to James Cook Hospital service which is also not part of the plan as it would have seen the 37/38 merged into a single 37 service).

[kuyoyo]

RE: Stagecoach North East
Branded Enviro300 deliveries now starts as followed:

27166 (SN64 OJR): 'The Zone - Time Zone' branding (orange)
27167 (SN64 OJS): 'The Zone - Time Zone' branding (orange)
27168 (SN64 OJT): 'The Zone - Time Zone' branding (orange)
27169 (SN64 OJU): 'The Zone - Time Zone' branding (orange)
27170 (SN64 OJV): 'The Zone - Zone Out' branding (light blue)
27171 (SN64 OJW): 'The Zone - Zone Out' branding (light blue)
27172 (SN64 OJX): 'The Zone - Zone Out' branding (light blue)
27173 (SN64 OJY): 'The Zone - O-Zone' branding (Green)
27174 (SN64 OJZ): 'The Zone - Zone Out' branding (light blue)

This leaves 27175-81 to be delivered, and these 'should' be branded as followed (if the pattern of 'Time Zone' is followed):
27175-7: 'The Zone - O-Zone' branding (Green)
27178-81: 'The Zone - Comfort Zone' branding (Purple)

If the delivery pattern remains the same, 27175-9 should be delivered over this coming week with 27180/1 delivered early the following week ready for the entire batch to enter service on Friday 7th November.

[kuyoyo]

RE: Stagecoach North East
Delivery is confirmed to have reached 27179 (SN64 OKE), which arrived on Wednesday evening. This leaves just 27180/1 (SN64 OKF/G) as awaiting delivery or delivered but not yet been registered with the DVLA.

The arrival this week also confirmed the final branding list, which is as followed:

27166 (SN64 OJR): 'The Zone - Time Zone' branding (orange)
27167 (SN64 OJS): 'The Zone - Time Zone' branding (orange)
27168 (SN64 OJT): 'The Zone - Time Zone' branding (orange)
27169 (SN64 OJU): 'The Zone - Time Zone' branding (orange)
27170 (SN64 OJV): 'The Zone - Zone Out' branding (light blue)
27171 (SN64 OJW): 'The Zone - Zone Out' branding (light blue)
27172 (SN64 OJX): 'The Zone - Zone Out' branding (light blue)
27173 (SN64 OJY): 'The Zone - O-Zone' branding (Green)
27174 (SN64 OJZ): 'The Zone - Zone Out' branding (light blue)
27175 (SN64 OKA): 'The Zone - O-Zone' branding (Green)
27176 (SN64 OKB): 'The Zone - Comfort Zone' branding (Purple)
27177 (SN64 OKC): 'The Zone - O-Zone' branding (Green)
27178 (SN64 OKD): 'The Zone - O-Zone' branding (Green)
27179 (SN64 OKE): 'The Zone - Comfort Zone' branding (Purple)
27180 (SN64 OKF): 'The Zone - Comfort Zone' branding (Purple)
27181 (SN64 OKG): 'The Zone - Comfort Zone' branding (Purple)

1 of each colour brand will be on display in Stockton High Street (on the new car park outside the Shambles at the Southern End) on Friday 7th November 2014 from 10am until 2pm. At the event, the new December 2014 network changes will formerly been announced to the public.

Full details of the new network are as followed (thanks to this updated map and the Traveline North East Journey Planner:

Service 11: Middlesbrough-Lingfield Park will see an increase to every 15 minutes. The 11 however is reduced to every 30 minutes via Acklam Road. It is joined by new service 10 which operates from the Cleveland Centre (Grange Road) via Borough Road, Longlands, Marton Road and Ladgate Lane to Acklam's Blue Bell Hotel to rejoin the 11 route to Lingfield Park.

Service 12: Retimed to operate 2 minutes earlier during the day. Sunday daytime frequency is increased to every 20 minutes, evenings remains every 30 minutes. Interworking with 14s and 34s dropped for interworking with new service 39.

Service 13: The early morning Middlesbrough-Stockton journeys via Portrack Lane, which presently operate as 39s, are renumbered 13

Service 14: No revealed details yet, however background changes see all 14s interworking with 34s (see below) rather than 1 an hour interworking with 34 and 2 with 12s.

Service 34: Increased to every 20 minutes (bring Middlesbrough-Billingham back to the frequency of just over 10 years ago). Re-routed in Billingham via High Grange to the Owington Farm, returning via Low Grange. As such, the last 3 journeys will now terminate at Billingham Town Centre after the High Grange and Low Grange loop. New later journey to Middlesbrough as a result (present last journey is 1703 from the Owington Farm, new last journey is 1748)

Service 35: Revised to once again serve both ends of Stockton High Street. To achieve this, 1 journey an hour interworks with 52s, the other interworking with 58s

Service 36/37/38 - Core Section: The section between Park End and Middlesbrough Bus Station is split off from the Middlesbrough-Norton routes into new service 39 running every 10 minutes during the Monday to Saturday daytime. Middlesbrough to Norton frequency remains 8 buses an hour during the Monday to Saturday daytime however evening and Sunday frequency is increased from 3 buses an hour to every 15 minutes

Service 36A: As a result of the above, this 2-a-day weekday and 1 a day Saturday extension of a 36 to James Cook Hospital is withdrawn

Service 37: The withdrawal of the Park End-Middlesbrough section also sees the withdrawal of the James Cook Hospital extension of the 37. The last journey from Middlesbrough to Stockton is now the 2323 (currently 2320) Mon-Sat journey to Norton Green (the present last journey is the 2332 to Stockton that starts at James Cook at 2310). On Sundays, the 2323 37 terminates in Stockton (presently runs as a 36).

Service 38: Service is re-routed between Norton Green and the Glebe to operate via the A1027 Ring Road direct to the Estate, returning via present route. Evening and Sunday service reinstated. A result of the new route means 1 peaktime journey and the final journey from Middlesbrough (2308) will terminate at Norton Green after the Glebe/Junction Road Loop.

NEW service 39: The new Park End service. Runs every 10 minutes Monday to Saturday daytimes, 20 minutes Sunday Daytimes and every half hour on evenings. Daytime journeys interwork with the 12

Service 52: Behind the scene change result in journeys now interworking with 35s - seemingly resulting in the end of peak time interworking with 58s. Sunday daytimes will see the service interwork with the 58 and 61 (see below)

Service 58: Daytime journeys retimed to run 4 minutes later than present to enable interworking with 35s. Evening and Sunday journeys re-instated every 30 minutes

Service 59: Evening and Sunday extension round Hardwick is withdrawn with the re-introduction of the 58. Between 10 and 5 on Sundays, journeys will instead be extended to Summerville Tesco. Evening journeys will no longer serve the South End of the High Street (last journeys will be the 1820 on Sunday and 1832 on weekdays).

Service 61: Evening and Sunday journeys re-introduced every hour evenings and every half hour during the day on Sundays. Evening journeys will interwork with 59s while Sunday daytimes it will interwork with 52s and 58s

Services 610/611: These presently funded services are taken on commercially. Terminal point is changed from Hemlington to Lingfield Park. The Marton Road half of the services will now operate as service 10A and operate out of Middlesbrough via Albert Road, Grange Road, Linthorpe Road and Borough Road to Marton Road, inbound operating direct via Borough Road. The Acklam Road half of the services will operate as the 11A.

[N391OTY]

RE: Stagecoach North East
Oddity in Newcastle today on the X34 service to SS was Olympian 16833, possibly a duplicate working as 19196 was following about 5 minutes behind.

[kuyoyo]

RE: Stagecoach North East

(15/11/2014 23:40)N391OTY Wrote:  Oddity in Newcastle today on the X34 service to SS was Olympian 16833, possibly a duplicate working as 19196 was following about 5 minutes behind.

At South Shields as a lost-mileage cover vehicle while there's roadworks along the route.

The majority of Stockton's 'The Zone' branded Enviro300s are now in service - at last note, the only examples yet to enter service are 27169/71/4/80. As such, the following MAN ALX300s are now withdrawn:

22451/2/5 (all in reserve)
22473/4/7/81/7 (disposal)
22656/7/65 (disposal)
22667/70 (disposal)

22455/73/4/7/87/667/70 are all presently stored at Hartlepool depot.

And while 22667/70 are for disposal, sisters 22666/73 are now in the training fleet as 'route learning vehicles' - 22666 at Sunderland and 22673 at Walkergate.

[kuyoyo]

RE: Stagecoach North East
The full extent of the withdrawn MAN ALX300s as a result of the entry into service of 27157-81 is now known:

22451/2/4/5 are all in reserve, 22451/2/4 at Stockton 455 at Hartlepool
22208 is in disposal from reserve
22467 is now in Busways Reserve based out of Slatyford, who have also been enjoying the use of 22735 recently as well
22466 is now in reserve at Stockton, sister 22465 has been towed away since the end of Period 8
22476/86/9/93 have joined sisters 22470/2/3/4/7/81/7/8 in disposal - 22470/88 have both also been removed from stock
22663/8/9 are also now for disposal, leaving just 22671/4 as officially active V-reg MANs (22675 remains in service from reserve at Slatyford), 22661 has been towed away for scrap
22733 is in reserve, however remains in service at Stockton

[kuyoyo]

RE: Stagecoach North East
MAN ALX300s 22465/70/2/9/82/3/8/92 and 22660/1 have all departed for scrap at A.H. Hardwick. Similar 22467/672 are now for disposal while 22668 has moved out of disposal into the reserve pool and 22206 has re-entered service at Stockton after engine repairs.