(27 Jan 2021, 12:59 am)omnicity4659 wrote This never happened though?

The only time I remember Jesmond providing a bus for an Ashington route, outside of the examples below, was for a StreetLite on the X15 one evening. 

They'd only step in if there's significant disruption (such as ADL deciding to do rectification work on all the E400s in one day a few years back) or if the last bus failed to turn up. That was what I was told a few years ago, so the arrangements may not be in place anymore. Even then they manage to provide something better than 2 buses out of their whole fleet.

There's been a few occasions in recent years Jesmond have provided a bus for an emergency allocation, 306 Pulsars have been on the X15 at least twice and I once had 4517 on the X20 from Alnwick to Newcastle (replaced by 7416 upon arrival).