(12 Jul 2015, 8:25 am)cbma06 wrote yep, service 24 was operated by all double deckers yesterday, only single decker i saw was the 23 branded streetlite working service 24 passing Peterlee at 07:45 to Hartlepool, as this does service 23 all day.Think double deckers are often allocated to the 24 on Durham Miners Gala, possibly because the 24 route follows a lot of the places where the miners used to live then you have all the people going there for an excuse to get drunk with the bus being the cheapest option getting there for getting drunk and then you have all the regular 24 passengers as well and the 24 is a fairly busy route.
Think the 24 was double deckers last year. Don't hold me to this but I think the VDL Gemini's were allocated to the 24 instead of the X1/X2 that day. There was definitely 7618 allocated on that day last year as Dan got a photo of it in Sunderland https://flic.kr/p/fbF6XQ