And pretell what routes would the OmniCitys been allocated to instead of the X26/X27 and X66/X67 (and now X75/X76)? They are useless on town work, the routes they used to be allocated to have either been upgraded to Sapphire or MAX and/or converted to double deckers or worked by newer vehicles. The fact remains, they were the only suitable opinion for the Darlington MAX routes then and still are now. The only reason Stockton's X66/X67 turns are worked by Pulsars is because the Engineering Management at Doxford want the Omnis centered on one depot, so I wouldn't be at all surprised if 4653/9 don't eventually end up there as well as spares instead of 1406/16 (maybe with new deckers for X14 now it seems 1579-81 are the preferred allocation for the 418s on Sundays).