(26 Jan 2016, 5:57 pm)cbma06 wrote spare sapphire pulsar on service 23 today.
x12 max double decker on service 57A, at least 2 deckers on 57A today, before arriva changed the route it seemed that it was always solo operated before.
23 was probably mostly Solo operated as Belmont have a fair few of them, non of which are branded. Now we have branded StreetLite's on the 23 but no spare, so pretty much any single decker seems to end up on the 23 now, 7609 even made an appearance recently.
57A has been mixed Solo and double deck operation for a while now, it used to be because the 57A used to run to Durham Johnston School at school times so double deckers were needed on those runs. Although the 57A doesn't run to Durham Johnston School anymore it still seems to be allocated double deckers plus Pulsars and Enviro 200s seem to regularly appear to.