(04 Aug 2016, 9:34 pm)V514DFT wrote Werent they new for the X1/X41,im sure there was an X41 back then,cus i remember coming back from my holidays and seeing those and the new ones for SNE's 100 in the same day,and i turned to my grandad and said 'oooo looks like we've got new buses',wow i was 12 then,such an easily amused kid

Don't think they were new for the X41, I only remember really seeing old double deckers like Leyland Olympian's and MCW Metrobus' on there although the X41 was an infrequent service from what I remember and I only really saw what Durham services used when heading to/from school in Durham (I was 11 back in 2005) meaning I never saw the X41, so I had to go off photos . No idea but could there possibly have been a few spare examples to allocate anywhere? Remember seeing one sat outside Sedgefield Cricket Club on the X27 to Newcastle the MetroCentre one Saturday (I will have been on the 213 to Sunderland).