Here is my review from yesterday.

0847 7 Newton Aycliffe - Durham (ANE 1514)
After leaving the house a bit late I had to walk quite quickly to the bus stop for this bus. This journey starts at Aycliffe Town Centre at 0847 and turned up bang on time. Not really an eventful journey was carrying a few passengers however was slightly annoyed that someone sat in-front of me with headphones in but I could only hear his terrible music.

Got a few photos in Durham whilst waiting for the X22 although most of them didn't turn out well because of where the sun was. Got on the X22 just before it looks left the bus station.

0944 X22 Durham - MetroCentre (GNE 4935)
Didn't enjoy this bus much as it was making an annoying squeeky noise and I am so sick of doing Durham - Birtley services as I just find it rather boring and time just drags especially when the speed limit drops to 20mph in Birtley. After this boring journey I eventually arrived at the MetroCentre around 1030.

Headed straight over the bridge to the rally site. When I arrived at the site I could see some of the buses and I think I saw Fozz when I got there. Made my way down the site taking photos of the buses on the way down towards the bottom where the Go North East were.

At one point I was down the bottom getting photos and I heard someone ask if I was Jimmi so I turned round and said I was and he introduced himself as Adrian and introduced the rest of the NEB members who were around at this point (Adam M, Adam Y, Marcus, Sean - think that was everyone, sorry if I missed anyone). Had a walk around the site down to the other end getting photos of the buses. Whilst we were down this end Dan turned up and we headed back down so he could get his photos.

After getting photos of the StreetLite's parked together we left Dan and Adam M and sat on the Sapphire Enviro 400. Then went for a ride on 3818. Then got some lunch from Greggs. Then went to the rail station for a photo of some train - I don't know anything about this. See Marcus' post for more about what happened in this time.

Me and Adrian then went on the preserved Northumbria Optare Delta up to Tanfield Railway and back. Love Deltas.

Got back to the site and saw Sean again just before he left and Adam Y too, got a few more photos before Adam Y left then me and Adrian headed back towards the interchange. I left Adrian then I went to the bog before heading for the X22 back to Durham, although I got a photo of it first.

1635 X22 MetroCentre - Durham (GNE 5409)
I'm not going to go too much into the issues experienced here but we ended up leaving 10 minutes late. I didn't enjoy this journey at all as because of the late departure I was fearful I was going to miss my connecting service 7 and don't forget that it was Sunday timetable yesterday so had I missed this I'd have been stuck in Durham for upto an hour waiting for the next bus so some of you can imagine why I was so angry about the issues on the X22.

1731 7 Durham - Newton Aycliffe (ANE 1515)
After jumping off the X22 and sprinting across the road like Usain Bolt I just and I mean JUST managed to catch this home. I thought Enviro 400's should really have been out on the 7 yesterday and I thought this because I had to stand all the way to Ferryhill along with a number of other passengers. Nothing else to say about this journey although it was more enjoyable than spending an hour in Durham with nothing to do probably would have been.

Was a great day out yesterday and was also nice to get to meet some of the members of NEB in person.

Hope you enjoyed reading this review.