(23 Jul 2017, 12:34 pm)Simmy wrote I personally, with OCD..... hate the fact that we now have 17 regs in a new livery with white destination screens running alongside 14 regs liveried buses with orange destys...... For me it's a case of get the full set of buses or don't try at all.

I *think* that only 12 were ordered as this covers the PVR of the 43/44/45. I'd hope they give the 14 plates white destinations and the new livery soon.

(23 Jul 2017, 12:35 pm)Jimmi wrote From my limited experience of them, the only one's that seemed to struggle were the ones that got killed on the X93, whichever 57 plate I had on the X21 yesterday certainly wasn't struggling.

At first, none of them were brilliant, especially in terms of reliability. Ashington seemed to work hard to get the best out of them. 7501-4 still aren't great, however I agree that the other ones are now in pretty good health. Certainly, the journeys I had on 7505/8/9 in the weeks before 7541-52 came were very enjoyable.