(12 Aug 2018, 3:57 pm)S830OFT wrote Some questions regarding Arriva Teeside:
1: What buses are allocated to the peak X17s?
2: How long do the DAF Cadets have left in service?
3: What will replace the DAF Cadets?

I'm just curious as having travelled on 1920 on the 17 to Yarm, it felt like a trip back in time.

To be honest my suggestion would be to refurbish all standard Pulsars at Belmont to Sapphire put them on 22/23/24. Release 1595 - 1601 to Stockton and put them on 7s then the Pulsars off the 7 go onto the 17.

The peak X17 journeys run using Pulsars which work off Middlesbrough local services.

The cadets are due to go, likely to be replaced by Pulsars, although no fixed timescale. They were originally planned to go earlier this year, but a contract win at Yorkshire Tiger required the Solos from Stockton, resulting in the Pulsars that were cascaded in from Darlington, running on Service 7 instead, as they are next stop announcement fitted - something Service 7 needed to retain.

Pulsars at Belmont are already planned to be refurbished into sapphire, as the 22/23/24 will interwork later this year - all sapphire specification, so they are not available.