DSCF2846 Go North East 8317 (NK10 GOP) in Newcastle - 2 Jun 2018

Saturday 2 June 2018 (1133) – Go North East 8317 (NK10 GOP), an Optare Versa new in August 2010 seen outside Newcastle-upon-Tyne Central Station. It is allocated to Riverside garage in Gateshead and had arrived on ‘Quaylink’ service Q1 from Gateshead. Buses from Gateshead run as service Q1 and buses towards Gateshead run as service Q2.

I had just arrived on this bus having taken the short ride from the Theatre Royal where, whilst waiting for our respective buses, I was talking with an elderly lady waiting for the Q3 service. She had decided to forsake a trip to Sunderland today and go to a shop she knew in Gosforth where she could by a whistling kettle.