(21 Oct 2015, 7:55 pm)Greg in Weardale wrote I've always thought the Solars on X84/85 were specifically express buses as they were on X20/X50 Sunderland - Durham - South Shields, later OK1 then TynedaleXpress. Would be wasted on 57, which is predicted to be mid blue Citaros off Diamond???
I would say that that is nothing but a coincidence. Look at the Diamond citaros for example, they have remained on normal service work (not expresses) all their lives. Does that mean that they were bought specifically for that kind of work and should only operate on routes of that nature?