(13 Jun 2015, 7:25 pm)Davie wrote Is it just me that thinks Arriva North East shouldn't be aloud branded vehicles due to their recent history of them constantly going off route? I don't know know Stockton depot is like for allocations, but from what I've been reading, Belmont seem to get their Max and Sapphire services mixed up, Ashington and Blyth aren't the best and I think we all know what Jesmond are like...

I'm fed up with Belmont and them allocating MAX and Sapphire spares to whatever they please.

I have made some excuses for them appearing on other routes but I have had enough, this really angered me tonight...
Arriva North East: 1323 / YX10 EBN by Jimmi's Bus Photos, on Flickr

Where was the two spares? 1595 was on the 61/62 and lord knows where 1417 was

This is the fifth recorded non Sapphire working on the 7 in the last fortnight on this forum, four of them seem to have been to Darlington being unable to allocate all the Sapphire buses to the 7 for whatever reason. Also why does every other depot get two Sapphire spares whilst Darlington have to make do with one spare and Darlington have a PVR of 8 on the 7.

Although this bus has charging points and e-leather seating (which is not very comfortable) I don't believe they have WiFi (unless they have been fitted since I last rode one) and there is no announcements either. Also looks pretty busy too due to this being a smaller bus.

Don't get me started on 1415... although I haven't seen any odd workings on the X12 in the last week or so, this may mean Belmont have had all 6 Gemini's on the X12 so 1415 hasn't been required on there.