(25 Jan 2022, 3:36 pm)RMF1254 wrote As an enthusiast I look forward seeing such events and possibly get rides on interesting vehicles. It seems to me that nobody can do anything these days without some sort of negative comments. Good luck to those people running running these buses.

I agree, GNE get critiqued for pretty much everything they do, by me too. 

However it seems Arriva/SC don't get much, might be because quite a lot of GNE staff are on here, and they are the 'prominent' bus company in the NE and all their purchases etc.