The only part of the above I find surprising is that they actually bothered to provide a replacement bus for the 15, mind my fear is with it being a Wednesday, one van is likely to be on A1 and the other on the M1 at the same time, so I wonder if the 15 was ran at the cost of not running one of the other two services?
In my last post when the Solo broke down in Alnwick, 15 driver got on the phone and a short time later, the 470 Versa and driver turned up, 470 driver got in the Solo and basically concluded it was not going anywhere, jumped back in the Versa and went back to wherever he was hiding, leaving frustrated (originally intending) passengers
Don't know what they have in terms of spare buses now but it doesn't seem like it's many, the Darts and ex First Solo don't appear to be in use anymore and the Excel was recently spotted in Morpeth, I fear that the Excel is now the only spare, except on Tuesdays where it's required on the 885.
The Solo which regularly runs on the 15 often seems to be breaking down and is crap even when it does 'work', should send the thing back to Dawson's as it's garbage.
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