(27 Feb 2022, 11:44 pm)Storx wrote Ikarus Citybus (LF) were the ones up here. Started life at Loftus I believe then eventually found their way upto Blyth and were crap as others said. There's basic interior then there's those. One of them was the first bus in the North East to get the Arriva interior though I believe, possibly even further afield (the rest of the batch had something else).

IIRC it was 4079 T83AUA that had the Arrvia interior (and possibly tinted windows). The others had what seemed to me, a generic dealer stock interior (and didn't have the British Bus Smarties seat covers from new). An extra factoid would be that 4079 did the final 17:15 X36 journey from Newcastle.