11157 is now out in service in what appears to be as delivered paint scheme with no branding and thus as per the photo in Carlisle depot. Day 1 was Monday this week and the bus is doing the 3 round trips per day starting with the second departure from Carlisle so as to pass through Hexham around 15.40 (scholls out time) on a Newcastle to Carlisle working.

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(25 Dec 2018, 10:07 am)Ianthegoon wrote Not a good reputation .... West have some, and are trying to pick up more pure ADL ones to replace them, together with major re-engineering on the survivors to improve their reliability.

MANviro reputatiion.  Any age of MANviro in particular? And what goes wrong?  I did hear of some new to Swindon that were put on the Oxford-Swindon route but suffered over heating due to rear end underfloor air flow causing countryside road side debris from the gutter blocking the radiators and so were moved to a 'cleaner' route.  And which age/reg are the ones at Morecambe - only seen the same age as at Carlisle.  Carlisle have a good number of 08/59/09/59 - some PX/PY reg (so presumably new to Cumbria), at least one OU (new to Oxford) and a few SP (from Dumfries or was it Fife?)