(16 Sep 2015, 4:31 pm)Jimmi wrote Not surprised to hear this given that I have very rarely seen a Darlington driver on the 7 in the usual Arriva uniform and one of the few times I have seen this happen the 7's were running extremely late due to roadworks in Darlington one day, so it wouldn't have surprised me if this was a different driver getting shoved out due to delays.
Belmont are terrible for it, I can pretty much guarantee that if you go to Durham will see a driver on their services 6, 22 or 24 wearing the normal uniform. Often see Redcar drivers on the X3/X3A/X4 in the normal uniform as well.
The main reason for the lack of uniform is because Durham now have almost 100 lines on the Sapphire rota, so the amount of spare drivers needed has increased too (most of which don't have Sapphire uniform)