(12 Jul 2014, 4:36 pm)G-CPTN wrote A Stagecoach short midibus (Solo?) seen @ 2pm-ish leaving Brampton for Carlisle showing service 685.

I don't know whether it ran through from Hexham/Haydon Bridge or 'started' from Brampton.

Would they schedule a small midibus on the whole of the route? (Carlisle to Newcastle to Carlisle)

Maybe it was a replacement for a breakdown?

Stagecoach run 'short' 685 journeys between Carlisle and Brampton. Their new Solo SR (47921) is for use on there. That is the reason Stagecoach's 685s are split into 3 sections rather than the 2 Arriva split theirs into.