Stagecoach North East

[kuyoyo]

RE: Stagecoach North East
Today saw the closure of Stockton High Street ahead of the 25th Stockton International Riverside Festival starting on Thursday. As a result, services are operating from slightly different stands and some along slightly different routes this week:

Service 13: Normal Stand at the North End of the High Street towards Middlesbrough, Stand 16 towards Salters Lane, operating via Prince Regent Street
Service 35: No change to stand
Service 36/37/38: Normal Stand at the North End of the High Street towards Hartlepool/North Tees Hospital/Norton Glebe, Stand 21 towards Park End/James Cook Hospital, operating via Prince Regent Street, also serving Yarm Road
Service 52: Normal Stand at the North End of the High Street
Service 58: Normal Stand at the North End of the High Street
Service 59: Normal Stand at the North End of the High Street
Service 61: Stand 16 towards Elton Park
59/61 both coming in on 61s and also going out on 61s to avoid the outgoing 61s to have to run down to the Riverside Roundabout to turn round to head back towards Elton Park

Next Saturday will operate as followed between 12 and 1 (Festival Parade):

Service 13 (towards Salters Lane): Southbound stop on Prince Regent Street
Service 13 (towards Middlesbrough): Northbound stop on Prince Regent Street
Service 35: Northbound stop on Prince Regent Street
Service 36/37/38 (towards Norton): From Thornaby Station, will operate via Teesdale, Church Road to Bishopton Lane serving all stop and using the stop opposite Argos on Bishopton Lane as its main town stop (was supposed to happen like this last year but they ended up all running via Prince Regent Street)
Service 36/37/38 (towards Park End): Will call at the stop outside Argos then via Church Road and Teesdale to Thornaby Station
Service 52: Bizarrely, the 52 is supposed to head to Billingham from the stop opposite Argos on Bishopton Lane (despite it coming in from Hardwick as a 58 along Bishopton Lane to the stop outside Argos
Service 58: Even more bizarrely than the 52, the 58 is supposed to use the stop outside Argos on Bishopton Lane, despite heading out of town in the other direction
Service 59: Northbound stop on Prince Regent Street
Service 61: Southbound stop on Prince Regent Street