(09 Dec 2014, 12:34 pm)Andreos1 wrote Covering for missing purple Solars?
Yes, Darts were often on the 20 unfortunately.

The circumstances have not really changed: service 20 had no branded spare vehicles when SPDs were in operation within the fleet and it still doesn't now.

Very few of Go North East's services within the region do have branded spare vehicles - it is more common for a depot to have spare vehicles of the same type in GNE's corporate livery. At least now the quality of service is usually retained when a Solar on service 20 is missing, because the depots should allocate a red Solar as the first point of call.

I highly doubt anything will change with the changes either - the PVR will rise and there still won't be any branded spare vehicles. It just means that red Solars will become even more frequent on there.