No it'll be around half converted to deckers I understand, but the Pulsars displaced by them will go to service 6 along with a number of new single/double decks.

Shame, was hoping for full double decker operation as during the daytime some runs can have lots of standees' the next day it can be a ghost town. The main problem area is Darlington Town Centre to Harrowgate Hill as it often has standees' throughout the daytime and is especially bad on an afternoon when colleges are coming out and other passengers are all wanting the bus, the other problem is the current allocation of MPDs to service 8 and Solos to service 21 as soon as you have to sit on the outside seat next to someone you don't know people will not get on the 8/21 and will just wait for the 7 to come also some people will only get the 7 from Darlington to Newton Aycliffe because it is the quickest I often see people let the 5/5A/8/21 go straight past even though by letting these buses go past they are actually getting to their destination later. The run I'm currently on has about 8 standees'