(06 Sep 2015, 6:05 pm)S813 FVK wrote Is there not a destination reading 'Durham for Newcastle' (with the express via stuff) anymore? I'd assume (if its ok to do so) its just a case of the driver displaying the wrong destination in the photo below:
Go North East: 6069 / NK62 CZA by Marcus (Green), on Flickr
I believe there is, yes.
The trouble is, there's at least ten different variations of the '21' destination, and about seven variations of the 'X21' destination, so it's quite common for drivers to use the wrong one.
Someone complained about a driver on the 2 using a 'City Centre' display with via points from Washington rather than Silksworth the other week - that's simply because some drivers see 'City Centre' and don't bother reading the second line of the driver message which would inform the driver which destination to use. We're looking at something to alleviate this problem by introducing a ticket machine link from the ETM to the destination controller, which would mean that the driver would type in their journey number and it would automatically select the correct destination. This is quite a long way off yet though.