(21 Jun 2014, 9:46 pm)John_R wrote 2836 has now been repainted and is back in service at Darlington.

(21 Jun 2014, 10:56 pm)V514DFT wrote Does anyone know if 4510 is getting repainted,its the only one left in the 45 series to carry original features or are they due to be scrapped,i know 4511 is basically rotting apart and has a severe smell of damp,i dread getting on it and 4510 is going the same way,but 4512-15 dont smell at all presumably due to its interior refurbishments,4517/18 are starting to smell too ive noticed a few times its leaking windows

(20 Jun 2014, 4:43 pm)Jimmi wrote Sadly this is a normal occurrence.
Often services using stand J will often arrive early and another bus is on that stand, so they pull onto stand K which often results in Service 7 using stand L which means services 20/20A/40 pull in next to the stand.

Could drivers also turn up early for there shift instead of turning up one minute before the bus is due out which means the bus leaves late and buses have to pull onto the wrong stands.

(20 Jun 2014, 7:18 pm)Jimmi wrote It usually not too bad when I've been there, drivers are often wondering around but that's because of layover time between journeys on Services 1/5/5A.

Does anyone know how driver changeovers are done for Service 87.

(21 Jun 2014, 11:09 am)tyresmoke wrote Some good news that has come to light in the past few weeks is that an additional order has been gained which sees 9x 8.8m Streetlites on order for Darlington services 13a/13b, bringing the total new vehicles to 61 for 2014 for the North East. These will help to displace the rest of the older Mini Darts, with 5 05-plate MPDs due to move to Blyth to replace their remaining non DDA Darts.

(22 Jun 2014, 7:47 am)upt50k wrote Is the 8.8m the door forward type? These will be welcomed as at the moment a number of old darts feature on here which is a come down from the Solos that were normally on this service until Darlington started to loose its Solos.These buses plus the possible 5 11.5 Streetlites due next year for Darlo X1 are a further investment

(22 Jun 2014, 7:47 am)upt50k wrote Is the 8.8m the door forward type? These will be welcomed as at the moment a number of old darts feature on here which is a come down from the Solos that were normally on this service until Darlington started to loose its Solos.These buses plus the possible 5 11.5 Streetlites due next year for Darlo X1 are a further investment

(22 Jun 2014, 8:59 am)buznut wrote Will the order for Darlo X1 be in max livery or standard?

(22 Jun 2014, 8:06 pm)JoshP wrote When the SPD's and other darts/MPD's are withdrawn from Darlington, what are their replacements to be (except the MAX omnicities and Streetlite's)? The numbers don't seem to add up. Cascades from somewhere?

(22 Jun 2014, 8:14 pm)tyresmoke wrote Yes they are due the 5 Solo's from Durham (replaced off service 23) and 4 Darts from Redcar (1305-1308), plus of course their 8 Streetlites and 5 Max Scanias from Redcar

(22 Jun 2014, 8:21 pm)mb134 wrote Will all of the B10BLE'S from Ashington and Jesmond be moving south this year or will they keep some of them?

(22 Jun 2014, 8:21 pm)JoshP wrote Ahh thanks for that, will the Solos be repainted into Interurban livery? (I'm assuming they're still in the old livery)

(20 Jun 2014, 7:23 pm)VolvoMarkII wrote If they can make it pay by carrying next to nothing, they are doing well.

Its the same as the H66, A66, Sunday 77 and the extra 45's. Judging by the peak time loads i've witnessed, they are definitely not 'paying'. 2 passengers on a peak trip is woeful.

Its only a matter of time before Mr Proctor withdraws his chequebook and Leven Valley curl back into their shell again.

(23 Jun 2014, 5:14 pm)Roland Pratt wrote Well I've seen decent loads on the Teesside Parks. It might help the 45 if Middlesbrough Council pulled their finger out and put the new times up in the bus station, which should have been done two months ago next week.

(22 Jun 2014, 6:39 pm)tyresmoke wrote As posted in the Scarlet Band thread - they have indeed won the contract to operate the Durham Park & Ride services, with new vehicles required.
The fall out from this will mean that the 10 Solo's in the Arriva fleet that currently operate it will be no longer required after service on 26th October. I am told that 2852-2861 are leased though, and therefore they will simply return to the leasing company (whoever that may be, I have a feeling it may be Mistral) and will not be available for cascade elsewhere.

(25 Jun 2014, 12:11 pm)mb134 wrote Nexus liveried 2802 on the 2, has this moved to Blyth or is it just a temporary thing?

(25 Jun 2014, 11:58 am)Jimmi wrote 4645 is currently on service X66 with a broken front LED screen.

(25 Jun 2014, 7:03 pm)JoshP wrote When the Darlo darts vanish and the Streetlite's/omnicities enter does this mean that (except the 1s/2/5s/7/13s/x26/x27/x66 [pulsar/Omni/streetlite/Ecocity]) all the services will be exclusively solos and the ex London darts?