I wish they still had Openline. Did the Caetano's suffer mechanically? I can't imagine they are anymore unreliable than the Waggonway DAF's (which suffered another 2 failures today)
I was trying to work out the vehicle history of the 28 group back to the mid 90s when I started using the service more (including 728/09/33) and came up with (I might have missed some)
Leyland National Mk2 - Bristol VR - Handybus - Olympian - Metrobus - Spectra - Delta - Omnicity (for about 2 months before they went to Swift) - Caetano - SPD - DAF
RE: Go North East