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RE: Go North East

(07/11/2012 16:36)citaro5284 Wrote:  

(07/11/2012 16:22)tom.robinson206 Wrote:  

(07/11/2012 15:05)cbma06 Wrote:  PB0002400/294 - GO NORTHERN LTD T/A GO NORTH EAST, 117 QUEEN STREET, GATESHEAD, NE8 2UA
Variation Accepted by SN: Operating between Sunderland Park Lane Interchange and Durham University Hospital Of North Durham given service number 20/20A/RM1/X20 effective from 28-Nov-2012. To amend Route and Timetable.
PB0002400/405 - GO NORTHERN LTD T/A GO NORTH EAST, 117 QUEEN STREET, GATESHEAD, NE8 2UA

Does anyone know what the RM1 is for? It ran last year and the year before at around Christmas time with a really odd timetable.

It a special service to get the temp workers to the Royal Mail sorting office.

As the ex manager for Royal Mail at Doxford I am prob best to answer this question. Firstly, there is no sorting office at Doxford International, but correctly it is a service for christmas temp workers at the call centre. We have with go north easts assistance over the past few years provided this service RM1 and RM2 to coincide with specific shift times, so that the usual bus services into the business park have not suffered with not enough capacity for their everyday passengers. In the couple of years before RM1/RM2 were numbered we operated them as short distance duplicates using local numbers 20, 39 and x35.

Ironically, we have only used go north east for the past 4 years I believe, as prior to that the christmas services were operated by Stagecoach as their service X1.

For reference RM1 usually operates direct from Park Lane via Durham Road and service RM2 operates similar route to 39 via Grangetown and Ryhope.

Hope this information helps you all