Just thought I'd start a thread to appreciate these which have been part of the North East bus scene for over 30 year which are near extint with the big 3 now after the latest Arriva reductions for Covid. We've certainly had plenty of them across all 3 operators in all form of bodies, some generally alright like the MPD to the damn right ugly Wright Handybus and Marshall Capital. Never really appreciated by many, and by god some of them we're awful, but they've always just been there and have been little workhorses.

Believe there's only 5 left now Arriva's: 1767, 1768, 1791 and Stagecoach's: 34605, 34611 (Arriva's 1800 is in 7510 for those looking at tracking). Can't imagine the Arriva trio have long left once school duplicates are gone, unsure on Stagecoach's 2.

RIP the Dennis Dart