Arriva North East
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Arriva North-East is a division of Arriva. It operates bus services around North East England and is made up of many previous bus operators. It is a major operator around Tyneside and the Tees Valley and runs buses as far north as Berwick-upon-Tweed and as far south as Thirsk in North Yorkshire. It operates over 400 buses, and is now considered to have merged with Arriva Northumbria and Arriva Scotland West.
Previous names
The company was renamed from North East Bus on 2 April 1998, with United Automobile Services becoming Arriva Durham County, Teesside Motor Services (TMS) becoming Arriva Teesside, and Tees & District Transport Company Ltd becoming Arriva Tees & District. However Arriva livery had begun to replace the former colours by December 1997 when Lynx 5005 and new Darts 1601-9 gained the turquoise livery.Depots
The primary North East company consists of three operators and a total of eight depots. Arriva Durham County Ltd has depots at Bishop Auckland, Durham, Peterlee and Darlington with an outstation at Barnard Castle. Arriva Teesside is based at a depot in Stockton-on-Tees and Arriva Tees & District at Dormanstown (considered Redcar depot) and Loftus with an outstation at Whitby.Richmond
Until March 2006 a depot was also operated at Richmond however this was closed with the only remaining Arriva service through Richmond (the X26/X27/28 from Darlington to Catterick Garrison) operated from the Darlington depot. At this time most of the council supported services previously run by Arriva were taken on by Dales & District to the same timetables and staffed by many of the drivers from the former-Richmond depot.
The Eden
The Eden had been acquired by United in 1995 and operated in Bishop Auckland. This continued under Arriva ownership (although no vehicles remained in Eden livery and were mostly in United red and white) and the company was closed by January 2000, with operations taken over by Bishop Auckland depot.Major locations served
- Alnwick
- Barnard Castle
- Berwick-upon-Tweed
- Bishop Auckland
- Catterick Garrison
- Chester-le-Street
- Cramlington
- Darlington
- Durham
- Durham Tees Valley Airport
- Gateshead
- Guisborough
- Hartlepool
- Hexham
- Loftus
- Middlesbrough
- Morpeth
- Newcastle-upon-Tyne
- Newton Aycliffe
- Peterlee
- Redcar
- Richmond
- Scarborough
- Stockton-On-Tees
- Stokesley
- Sunderland
- Thirsk
- Tynemouth
- Whitby
- Whitley Bay
Fleet
Bishop Auckland
- Leyland Olympian/ECW: 7211-4/23 (C102CHM, D198, 223/03FYM)
- *7211 in Arriva London livery, 7214 dual door
- Leyland Olympian/Alexander RH: 7272/5/7/8 (L272/5FVN, J353/4BSH)
- *7277/8 in Leaside Travel livery
- Leyland Olympian/Northern Counties Palatine: 7285 (G762UYT)
- DAF DB250/Northern Counties Palatine: 7450 (R207CKO)
- *7450 dual door
- MCW Metrobus: 604 (KYV646X)
- *604 in School Bus livery
- MAN 11.190/Optare Vecta: 1517/35/40/1/5/7-50 (K517BHN, L535/40/1FHN, L545/7-50GHN)
- *1541/5/7/9 Cummins engine
- Dennis Dart/Plaxton Pointer: 1616-8/21/5/6/35/85-8 (S616-8/21/5/6/35KHN, J220/1HGY, J468OKP)
- Dennis Dart/Northern Counties Paladin: 1685 (L141YVK)
- Mercedes-Benz O405/Optare Prisma: 3018/9 (N518/9XVN)
- Volvo B6/Plaxton Pointer: 4531-8 (L201/10/6/9/20/32/5/44TKA)
- DAF SB220/Plaxton Prestige: 4028/9/31-4/47/9 (R428/9/31-4RPY, S347/9KHN)
- Leyland Lynx: 5009/11-3/6-20 (H253PAJ, J651-3/6-8UHN, H338TYG, H338UWT)
- Dennis MiniDart (MPD)/Plaxton Pointer: 1711-5 (V711-5DNL)
- Optare MetroRider: 886/90, 900/10/1/6/20, 2610/23/44/5/739 (N886/90RTN, P59XTN, R910, 251, 916/20JNL, P610/23/44/5FHN, N802BKN)
- Optare Alero: 2502
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